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from the outside, the front looks like a regular one-story suburban house
if you go in, you are in a foyer area that is open to and steps down into a living room
the living room isn't that deep, and beyond it, beyond the back doors with many windows embedded in them, you can see a swimming pool
or should i say, the lounge, since there's no separate family/living rooms
but just one common area
anyway, that foyer area, if you go left, you're walking down a "hallway" that's separated from the living room by a waist-high wall and otherwise totally open to it
down that "hallway" are two bedrooms and a bathroom
if instead you go into the lounge and go toward the far left, there's a nice big master bedroom over there, with a master bath that also opens out onto the pool patio
if instead you go into the lounge and go to the right, you pass the built-in TV cabinet in the wall, then the laundry room to the garage, then a den/office (basically a bedroom without a closet) at a corner, then immediately the kitchen and eating area
that eating area also opens out to the pool
the pool -- which actually isn't that large, so probably not great for swimming laps, but good for hanging out in -- is basically the centerpiece of the property, if you ignore the frontyard
(the frontyard is also kinda uninteresting as far as property features go)
and as far as the building itself goes, the centerpiece there is the lounge
this totally feels like you could have like three or four people living in this house and hanging out together in the lounge and pool
Rate this interior.
Dunno why, but I have this feeling that this property has a lot of potential to evolve into something really neat. It's got a lot of possibilities.
it ain't really abandoned unless someone's lost the property recordsThe caption says "each of us was in this room". The joke is that this kind of interior design easily registers as a "grandma's house/apartment look" around here. (Bit more apartment than house, but works for these too.) Posting this as a compare-and-contrast image, I'm wondering what would be you guys' impression. Especially as I've just learned there's such a thing as "coastal grandmother look" that TikTok kids are into these days.
Also, flower prints everywhere.
Another beautiful piece of urban planning. Some quotes:
Generally comments compare it either to Biskupin and Asterix's village, or to Cities:Skylines and SimCity.
Some netizen claims there used to be an 18th Century gunpowder store in that place, thus the unusual shape. Allegedly this is the same plot of land before the construction began:
* concerning noisy farmwork: there's a pretty well-known case of a farmer who kept his plot while his neighbours sold theirs for development. Now his piece of farm is surrounded by apartment blocks full of people who complain about farm noises and smells, which only encouraged him to keep working it. Most recently I've heard the man took the trolling to another level and planted the entire field with (apparently legal) cannabis.
(You can disregard the captions, the idea is how to split an apartment in two.)
Its living areas were organized into suites (i.e. combos of lounge, kitchen, a few bedrooms, and bathroom), and in it there were such features as the following:
* a suite with an L-shaped floorplan that looked like this (see attachment), with a cluster of awkwardly placed doors all next to each other
* two adjacent rooms sharing three windows, leading one to hog two windows including a corner of the room next door
* two hallways with residential suites, at the same level and next to each other, but with no way to go between them except via a fire escape that was accessed by climbing on the window behind a urinal on one side and by climbing through a hallway window on the other side
Re bedrooms: nice use of vertical space.
The third picture is basically how tiny houses do things.
The fourth picture looks structurally sketchy though.
Also, talking about apartments, I finally found that room plan I wanted to show you the last time:
also I just realized how absurdly far away the bathroom is from the bedrooms in the previous floorplan you posted
both of these seem to be "we have space left over; how do we do something with it?" things lol
Also, "how to wring out some cash from marks by selling them some practically unusable space at the same price per square meter as the rest of the apartment".
I also once lived across the hall from that. There was one suite there that had one single-occupancy room that was very long. It had an entry door at one end, and one window at the other end.
It was a big room, but it was dark.
Also, the window looked out roughly ENE, but more importantly, it looked out onto the courtyard of the fraternity house next door, facing a brick wall (though said wall wasn't too close to the window, thankfully).