Weird Houses!!

**forHISglory** · 03-09-2009, 11:01 AM

I'm borrowing something I posted on another thread about some of the weird houses that we visited recently while house hunting. I thought we could share some of the weird strange houses that we have seen. You might even have lived in one of these! Or maybe you visited someone who had an odd house.

Here is the list that I posted earlier:

We ran into some interesting things:
1. One house built in the late '50s had a bomb shelter in the basement.
2. One home was owned by heavy smokers and that puts a huge stench in the home. The homeowners were still there when we arrived. The lady greeted us at the door with a cigarette and followed us around chain smoking all the way. She told us she didn't want to sell the house, but had to because of her cancer treatments........
3. One family decided that the living room really looked more like a dining room. So when we walked in the front door, we were greeted by a big table and chair set! For a living room, they just put two recliners in the breakfast nook. They left a note saying that they were sure that we would agree that was the best arrangement.
4. One house had the bottom 12 inches of a bedroom wall cut away, and had finished all the edges of the drywall. We have no idea why....
5. Another home had a 3 car garage with garage doors on both ends of the garage, as if you could drive straight thru. But trees were on the other side......
6. One home advertised an "eat-in" kitchen. They had room for a 12" round table there, and had to stand to eat at it as there was no room for chairs or stools.
7. One home had a beautiful fireplace, but positioned the couch in front of it, with the back of the couch almost touching the fireplace.
8. One home had the original 1940s style of kitchen cabinets, which I found fascinating. They were state of the art back then, and if I lived there, I would leave them in place. Cabinets then had the pop up and out stands for mixers, and other cabinets were little one inch high drawers designed to hold table linens. Really retro!
9. Another family left a note telling us to not be afraid of the big yard as they were leaving a riding mower for the buyer to use!

Now another addition:
I grew up in a house where the foundation was made from train coal cars!

Do you have memories of very very strange houses?

**Judi Dial** · 03-09-2009, 11:40 AM

The months I spent looking before I found this place there were a lot of weird houses. The worst/best one was a Victorian mansion that the kitchen floor had collapsed. You entered,of course, through the kitchen. You had to skirt around the edge of the floor near the wall to get to the doorway into the rest of the house.

Then there was the one where a wall was partly collapsed. The owner said, "Oh don't worry about that, a jack will fix you right up!"

Gee, we didn't buy those; I wonder why?

Judi

**2ndGenGranola** · 03-09-2009, 11:42 AM

We rented a house for a short time. In some ways I wish we had bought it! It was fun to live in but it was unusual. It was like a trip down history. The original house was built in about the 1920's. It received an addition every 20 years. Each section was so obvious the 1940's, the 1960's, the 1980's, some upgrades in the 2000's. Our plain old normal house is no where near as fun!

**YankeeMom** · 03-09-2009, 12:02 PM

When we were house hunting the last time, we went to a house that was very much stuck in the 70s. They even had avocado green appliances...to include the old fashioned trash compactors? Every single wall had that horrible fake wood paneling.

The icing on the cake was one of the bedrooms....carpeting on the walls. Plush, blue, retro shag carpeting

**Jellybeanz** · 03-09-2009, 12:22 PM

I'm enjoying reading these , too funny !!!

Carpeting on the walls.. now there is one I would have never dreamed of. LOL

**ArmyOfFive4God** · 03-09-2009, 12:36 PM

We went into one that the bathroom was "being reno'ed." Um, nothing was placed, no water & walls ripped out, filthy, tools & a mess EVERYWHERE & a plastic spider in the midst of the debris. The stairway to the upstairs was very narrow, dirty & smelly & really, the house was just scary.

**justpeachy92** · 03-09-2009, 12:50 PM

My mother lived in a weird house a few years ago. It was a cute little one bedroom bunglow with a detached garage. The bathroom was out in the garage. She kept a portapotty in her bedroom for middle of the night bathroom trips to avoid having to go outside, especially in the winter.

I can remember when we were looking at houses a few years ago. Painted on the walls in one of the kids bedrooms was every cuss word you could imagine. I can't imagine ever allowing my child to do that, however if one did and I was selling my house those walls would have been repainted really quick.

**Grayce** · 03-09-2009, 02:12 PM

We saw a house that had a boat in the basement. It was a huge wooden boat and they had somehow turned it into a bar. I think they may have built the boat in the basement and then couldn't get it out.

**forHISglory** · 03-09-2009, 02:15 PM

Your stories are every bit as bizarre as mine, maybe more so! Thanks for posting!

**nancycg56** · 03-09-2009, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by Grayce

We saw a house that had a boat in the basement. It was a huge wooden boat and they had somehow turned it into a bar. I think they may have built the boat in the basement and then couldn't get it out.

Hmmmm...a Gibbs fan, maybe?

The weirdest thing we came across was when we looked through one house, the owner said her husband had been in the hospital and when we went to look at the master bedroom, there he was, sound asleep in bed. There was just something wrong about that.

**Thevail** · 03-09-2009, 02:23 PM

When we were looking for a home a few years ago we went to see a cute multi-story 1930's home.

It looked kinda wierd so we decided to do the whole tour.

Upstairs 2 bedrooms..with locks on the OUTSIDE of the doors.

Main floor..HUGE living room...and a kitchen so small that it literally had the fridge in an adjacent hallway.

Downstairs..as you come down the stairs a cute finished room greets you, as you turn..you're looking into a hole someone is digging into the literal dirt under the house..I mean shovels and pails and piles of "spoils".

Even the real estate agent was wierded out.

**ArmyOfFive4God** · 03-09-2009, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by nancycg56

Hmmmm...a Gibbs fan, maybe?

OH YES! *drool* LOL

**staciah** · 03-09-2009, 02:34 PM

When we went house hunting in South Jersey we came across a very strange house.

It was a brick cape cod style.

- They painted the brick some really weird red color
- They redid the kitchen and put the old Kitchen down stairs in the basement. It was really strange because the basement wasn't set up as liveble space and then to put a kitchen there .It was just odd.
- When you walked around up stairs,you could feel the house slanting.
- The master bed room had two door placed about 4 feet apart on the same wall. But the bed was in front of one.The owner said they moved their bed around 2x a year and liked to use the different doors.

**say_tay** · 03-09-2009, 02:36 PM

I once rented a home previously owned by clowns, as in "wear face paint and juggle"

EVERY room was painted like a circus theme. The kitchen was bright green with "consession stand" theme. The living room was Red/Blue stripes. The bathroom had polka dots. Bedroom had a "tarot card" mural on the wall. We were not allowed to repaint.

It was cute at first, but it got very old very quick. We moved out once the lease was up.

**imagine** · 03-09-2009, 02:59 PM

1)One house we looked at had stairs with a small landing halfway up. So that landing was at a story and a half.

The strange part was it had a door that lead outside. You opened the door and it was a straight drop to the ground ( no stairs, no deck nothing)

2)One house was beautiful but right on the other side of the fence was the ice cream store drive thru. We teased you could open a window and order a cone. We need an chocolate cone, Now please.

3) one house we opened the kitchen door ( back door) to look at the back yard. Well, the door hit the neighbor's house. We couldn't even open the door all the way.