Against the advice of literally every person we talked to (with the main argument being ‘resellability’) our new home is being built with one!
Could you not just preemptively have a plan in place to cover it up? Like “okay if we are going to sell we just drop in a floor on top and pretend it wasn’t there”?
I hope you don’t plan on living there when you’re older and need mobility aids!
But genuinely, I’m sure it’s gonna look cool AF.
The plan is def a forever home! If I can’t make a step or two the whole house will be a wash, lmao
I feel like I remember somebody saying they tend to cause flooding or water damage? Like I guess the foundation can separate and water seeps in? I could be completely misremembering that though.
Wer’e on the top of the hill and the foundation is pier and beam, off the ground - we’re gucci!
The oval table looks like a gamepad
The concept behind this design is really fascinating and actually harkens back to very very old house design, like 1500s, where people would have a little cubby with benches next to a fire.
Read about Frank Lloyd Wright and his first few house designs (i think the Fallingwater house is a key one) to get the bigger picture on this. He (in ~1910 i think) literally brought back an element of domestic architecture we’d left behind. Comfort pits from the 70s are downstream of this, in my opinion.
Mine would look like the bridge from Star Trek.
I love this idea, but wait which bridge?
Like DS9 where everyone is all over place and shouting to be heard? Like NX01 and TOS where everyone is facing away from each other and have to spin around to make eye contact because the cap likes to look at the backs of people’s heads? Like DISC where everyone is spread so far apart (like they have cooties) and away from the captain that she can’t even remember who’s on duty and everyone but the helms women and the cap have to stand the whole time? Like VOY and TNG where everyone has assigned seats and can actually see the TV (view screen)?
it puts the wood paneling on its walls or else it gets the economic recession again
all of them look like a great way to break your ankle in the dark
You can make the niche without the pit. Unless you have some reason at all to use the different level, it’s completely unnecessary.
“It put’s the lotion on its skin” pit aside, a fair bit of that stepped layout has some correlation with the higher rate of swinger or “key parties” that took place from the late 50’s into the 70’s. A fuck pit, if you will. Bring 2 buckets.
I fucking love late 60s to mid 70s architecture. Not so much the colors, tho. Rust orange, brown, and vomit green aren’t very cool.
I can definitely see why people dislike the colors but there’s something about the 70s (I prefer to think of it as avocado) green paired with wooden mid century mod decor. It just gives me cozy vibes for some reason
Totally agree that there are combinations that jive within that framework.
A place to moisturize
Dawg I don’t think any of us could figure out how to drop a floor on a slab for cheap so we could manage it. Would be hella lit tho
Raise the floor around where you want the pit
that’s some move the mountain to us top drawer shit right there
that top right one genuinely just looks like a pit to hell i don’t think anyone’s gonna have a casual conversation in there
unless you’re potatos and chell, of courseTap for explanation
It’s the pit from Silence of the Lambs…
sorry, personally i take residence under a monolithic chunk of stone so i was unable to get this reference
i was also only born within the last two decades
the silence of the lambs is a 1991 american psychological horror thriller film.
missed it by one (and a half, give or take)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯You should not have had to explain this, old timer. Life ain’t fair.
