Weird EstateToday 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.
Today's theme is clearly "cursed stairs".
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Lou Madeleine Cerise 🧁@weirdestate do you know about unteriors on tumblr
@kouett I do not! I'll have a look, thanks.
PrinceParadox 
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
XCondE@weirdestate They’re fixer-UPPERS.
get it?
dull_green_creature.avi@weirdestate kinda love both tbh
Erik@weirdestate i dont like these stairs. But i like em better than the neotroglodyte we flight of certain death
Dr Alice Violett@weirdestate 'where's your toilet, please?'
'Upstairs, then turn right.'
'You know what, I think I'll just hold it til I get home.'
'Upstairs, then turn right.'
'You know what, I think I'll just hold it til I get home.'
F4GRX Sébastien@weirdestate yet these are beautiful stairs worthy of careful restoration.
Arthur CopelandNo, no. Well-designed stairs make you complacent. I appreciate stairs that are clear in their hostile intentions.
Karl Auerbach@weirdestate That's not a spiral staircase, it is a vertical auger.
Cluster Fcku@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
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@weirdestate what sort of semi-humanoid being were those stairs intended for?
Sylvhem@weirdestate Spiral staircase aside, it’s a gorgeous house. I would live there in a heartbeat.
Daniel (Not A Lawyer)@Sylvhem @weirdestate That's a broken neck waiting to happen.
merzbow and chill@Sylvhem @weirdestate a bargain at *checks notes* half a million euros
mhoye@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.
Jargoggles
Lyn@weirdestate Ah, I would simply die on the day I moved in. Which would save unpacking I suppose.
ibk@weirdestate It's ok: the bovine art object will break your fall
Ben Buchanan@weirdestate "bovine themed death trap"
spiegelmama@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.
Gilly Gunson@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)
SuperMoosie@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.
@weirdestate The staircase looks like the time I went to Strawbery Banke on an elementary school field trip and attempted to make a candle.
Fritz Adalis@weirdestate
So was the place last week a fully troglodyte house?
So was the place last week a fully troglodyte house?
Satsuma@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
Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈@weirdestate that looks Very Safe
traecer@weirdestate that's a stripper pole with extra steps.
(I'll see myself out.)
Extinction the SixthThat's a Jacob's Ladder.
Ben Zanin@weirdestate that
is just a shitty ladder, twisted
Solarbird 
@weirdestate definite "bond villain on a budget, but effectively used" vibes
SnoopJ@weirdestate @jalefkowit I believe that style is called "code violation"
Dale Price@weirdestate I would have thought semi-troglodyte was the term for what you’re left with after a troglodyte tries to use those stairs
Ducky Fella@dale_price @weirdestate I’d like to speak with the troglodyte who thought those stairs were a good idea 😭
j-r conlinHidden 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.
The Psychotic Network Ferret@weirdestate I think that is called an "OSHA violation," or more colloquially, a "death trap."
Ben Thompson 🐕@weirdestate this is exactly what Bilbo Baggin's house would been if Tolkien had been French.
The staircase is clearly a gift from Galadriel.
europlus 
@weirdestate “The Widow-Maker”
Jay@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.
Gonzalo@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.
Oregon Wine Woman@weirdestate that thing is one bracket up from rope ladder
Z8TH
Tats 🇬🇧🫖@weirdestate @haalan death stairs
Alexis Bushnell@weirdestate there's an old troglodyte village you can visit in France that's super cool.
No terrifying staircases in those!
No terrifying staircases in those!
Sarah W
The Secretbatcave@weirdestate I love how it has skateboard tape to counteract the stupidity of polished aluminium
Vicente ⁂@weirdestate it is spiraling the other way around
Marc@weirdestate can't see the staircase, who wants a cow shaped chest in their living room 😱
benoitdd@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
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
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