Weird Estate

Today I learned the term "semi-troglodyte house" which means a house partially built into a cave.

What I did not learn is a term for the worst spiral staircase I've ever seen in my life.

https://www.patrice-besse.co.uk/ads/character-houses-for-sale-touraine-region-in-france-30-minutes-from-tours--pb644576

May 31 at 12:41amWeb
Show threadWeird EstateMay 31
Today's theme is clearly "cursed stairs".

https://www.patrice-besse.co.uk/ads/farms-for-sale-in-france-in-the-Perigord-Blanc-area-near-to-Saint-Astier--pb189568
Show threadLou Madeleine Cerise 🧁May 31
@weirdestate do you know about unteriors on tumblr
Show threadWeird EstateMay 31
@kouett I do not! I'll have a look, thanks.
Show threadPrinceParadox     May 31
First, I like looking at architecture fails so I appreciate the [accidental] Tumblr blog recommendation. And, on that same line I recommend @/hometoursandotherstuff, ‘other stuff’ is sometimes nightmarish stairs and a little more rarely architecture fails
Show threadXCondEMay 31

@weirdestate They’re fixer-UPPERS.

get it?

Show thread dull_green_creature.aviMay 31
@weirdestate kinda love both tbh
Show threadErikMay 31
@weirdestate i dont like these stairs. But i like em better than the neotroglodyte we flight of certain death
Show threadDr Alice ViolettMay 31
@weirdestate 'where's your toilet, please?'
'Upstairs, then turn right.'
'You know what, I think I'll just hold it til I get home.'
Show threadF4GRX SébastienMay 31
@weirdestate yet these are beautiful stairs worthy of careful restoration.
Show threadArthur CopelandMay 31

@weirdestate

No, no. Well-designed stairs make you complacent. I appreciate stairs that are clear in their hostile intentions.

Show threadKarl AuerbachMay 31
@weirdestate That's not a spiral staircase, it is a vertical auger.
Show threadCluster FckuMay 31
@weirdestate the blunt & rounded treads ensure that the staircase itself is not the cause of death, deferring life altering injuries to the floor or sharp cornered bench underneath
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈May 31
@weirdestate what sort of semi-humanoid being were those stairs intended for?
Show threadSylvhemMay 31
@weirdestate Spiral staircase aside, it’s a gorgeous house. I would live there in a heartbeat.
Show threadDaniel (Not A Lawyer)May 31
@Sylvhem @weirdestate That's a broken neck waiting to happen.
Show threadmerzbow and chillMay 31
@Sylvhem @weirdestate a bargain at *checks notes* half a million euros
Show threadmhoyeMay 31
@weirdestate I like the fact that if you fail that staircase in just the right way you’re going to get gored by a liquor cabinet.
Show threadJargogglesMay 31
@mhoye @weirdestate
Just like the fortune teller predicted...
Show threadLynMay 31
@weirdestate Ah, I would simply die on the day I moved in. Which would save unpacking I suppose.
Show threadibkMay 31
@weirdestate It's ok: the bovine art object will break your fall
Show threadBen BuchananMay 31
@weirdestate "bovine themed death trap"
Show threadspiegelmamaMay 31

@weirdestate I'd replace that terrible staircase with a fireman's pole and just use the back stairs if I needed to go up. The house is completely glorious otherwise.

For that house, I'd learn French.

Show threadGilly GunsonMay 31

@spiegelmama @weirdestate if you need more space, just start digging into the back

(Apparently how they did it in medieval Newcastle, according to a tour I went on)

Show threadspiegelmamaMay 31
@giflian @weirdestate 🤩🤩🤩
Show threadSuperMoosieMay 31

@giflian
They do that in Cooper Pedy.

"Just adding another room and building a big deep swimming pool"

Ohh look some opal. Pity there is a ban on mining in the town.

@spiegelmama @weirdestate

Show threadspiegelmamaMay 31
@weirdestate The staircase looks like the time I went to Strawbery Banke on an elementary school field trip and attempted to make a candle.
Show threadFritz AdalisMay 31
@weirdestate
So was the place last week a fully troglodyte house?
Show threadSatsumaMay 31
@weirdestate okay besides the staircase, which ontop of being glaringly unsafe is also weirdly organic, like when you pour wax down an anthill? this house is actually super cool! hope it goes to someone who appreciates its character
Show threadCeleste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️‍🌈May 31
@weirdestate that looks Very Safe
Show threadtraecerMay 31

@weirdestate that's a stripper pole with extra steps.

(I'll see myself out.)

Show threadExtinction StudiesMay 31

@weirdestate

That's a Jacob's Ladder.

Show threadBen ZaninMay 31

@weirdestate that

is just a shitty ladder, twisted

Show threadSolarbird May 31
@weirdestate definite "bond villain on a budget, but effectively used" vibes
Show threadSnoopJMay 31
@weirdestate @jalefkowit I believe that style is called "code violation"
Show threadDale PriceMay 31
@weirdestate I would have thought semi-troglodyte was the term for what you’re left with after a troglodyte tries to use those stairs
Show threadDucky FellaMay 31
@dale_price @weirdestate I’d like to speak with the troglodyte who thought those stairs were a good idea 😭
Show threadBodega Cat No Touchy Toe BeansMay 31

@weirdestate

*This segment of the House on the Rock tour has been closed to the public due to safety concerns.*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_on_the_Rock

House on the Rock - Wikipedia

Show threadBomkattMay 31
@jovikowi @weirdestate the House on the Rock is still plenty weird without it. That place defies easy description
Show threadj-r conlinMay 31

@weirdestate

Hidden fact: The staircase is motorized.

When it's up to the full 600RPM, it really cools the place down, and you get used to the sound, eventually.

Show threadThe Psychotic Network FerretMay 31
@weirdestate I think that is called an "OSHA violation," or more colloquially, a "death trap."
Show threadBen Thompson 🐕May 31

@weirdestate this is exactly what Bilbo Baggin's house would been if Tolkien had been French.

The staircase is clearly a gift from Galadriel.

Show threadeuroplus May 31
@weirdestate “The Widow-Maker”
Show threadJayMay 31

@weirdestate My first assumption with troglodyte associations was it’d be made out of the ribcage of a large animal, likely a whale, arranged at an angle.

Zooming in on the picture, I think the ribcage would be safer.

Show threadGonzaloMay 31
@weirdestate there hundreds of cave houses in Spain and its islands. If you go to Granada, check them out. They are fresh places in Summer and cozy in Winter.
Show threadohesoMay 31
@weirdestate UGH
Show threadOregon Wine WomanMay 31
@weirdestate
YIKES!
Show threadErikMay 31
@weirdestate that thing is one bracket up from rope ladder
Show threadZ8THMay 31
@weirdestate
@architektradim
Show threadTats 🇬🇧🫖May 31
@weirdestate @haalan death stairs
Show threadAlexis BushnellMay 31
@weirdestate there's an old troglodyte village you can visit in France that's super cool.
No terrifying staircases in those!
Show threadSarah WMay 31
@weirdestate
Looks like a serious damp problem on the outside wall.
Where is this? Could be France?
Show threadThe SecretbatcaveMay 31
@weirdestate I love how it has skateboard tape to counteract the stupidity of polished aluminium
Show threadVicente ⁂May 31
@weirdestate it is spiraling the other way around
Show threadMarcJun 1
@weirdestate can't see the staircase, who wants a cow shaped chest in their living room 😱
Show threadbenoitddJun 1
@weirdestate
The stair is called M400, by the designer Roger Tallon (he also worked on the high-speed train TGV) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Tallon
Roger Tallon - Wikipedia

Show threadboghana2d ago
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