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I'm amazed it it survived long enough to be photographed
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That would be pretty cool if it was safe.
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I'm imagining how it got built. Like, did they support the stairs while they positioned and screwed in the shelf brackets? Or did they assemble it lying on its side and then try to lift it into place, somehow without it bending and warping and falling apart? What will fail first, the screws holding the shelf brackets to the plywood, or the load-bearing handrail?
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Mar 14, 2023 06:45
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kid sinister posted:Decorate your bathroom with Chinet! 
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Leperflesh posted:I'm imagining how it got built. Like, did they support the stairs while they positioned and screwed in the shelf brackets? Or did they assemble it lying on its side and then try to lift it into place, somehow without it bending and warping and falling apart? It's cantilevered from the wall
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I'm digging the door under the stairs, but not sure about the dick-mirror. Seems a bit low hanging. Also wondering what the small brown thing that you can see in the mirror is. Could be central vacuum outlet maybe?
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Mar 14, 2023 09:48
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GotLag posted:It's cantilevered from the wall ... with drywall anchors, likely
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Leperflesh posted:I'm imagining how it got built. Like, did they support the stairs while they positioned and screwed in the shelf brackets? Or did they assemble it lying on its side and then try to lift it into place, somehow without it bending and warping and falling apart? The likely explanation is this is a stage set for a play and no one is meant to use them.
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Mar 15, 2023 18:16
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:The likely explanation is this is a stage set for a play and no one is meant to use them. That's a fun idea but no way they went to the trouble of putting in an outlet and lighting the stairs as from a window and using two kinds of overlapping trim around the edges of the hardwood floor, for a stage setup, especially one where apparently nobody's going to go up those stairs.
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Mar 15, 2023 20:24
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Maybe they're steel planks embedded and anchored into the wall, and an engineer just clad them like that as a joke
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Sentient Data posted:Maybe they're steel planks embedded and anchored into the wall, and an engineer just clad them like that as a joke So there's no mirror in the stairwell; that's a pass- through for good dogges?
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They look like usable stairs, and even in this configuration, they would support some weight. Just not as much as they should. My guess would be someone's vanity project, pictures taken after construction. Then they tried living with it, and quickly realized the mistake. Probably reinforced or torn down by now.
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Mar 15, 2023 21:36
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:The likely explanation is this is a stage set for a play and no one is meant to use them. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8515-Frederick-Rd-Ellicott-City-MD-21043/37022350_zpid/
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That is quite the flip, full of little questionable choices. Like a bare porcelain light socket in the bathroom, with an absolutely blinding garage LED bulb. I'm a big fan of the door in the attic room with not one, not two, but THREE bolts on it. What exactly are you keeping inside that room?
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Shalhavet posted:https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8515-Frederick-Rd-Ellicott-City-MD-21043/37022350_zpid/ Life's just a play, man.
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FISHMANPET posted:That is quite the flip, full of little questionable choices. Like a bare porcelain light socket in the bathroom, with an absolutely blinding garage LED bulb. I'm a big fan of the door in the attic room with not one, not two, but THREE bolts on it. What exactly are you keeping inside that room? Saw that, thought the same.
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FISHMANPET posted:That is quite the flip, full of little questionable choices. Like a bare porcelain light socket in the bathroom, with an absolutely blinding garage LED bulb. I'm a big fan of the door in the attic room with not one, not two, but THREE bolts on it. What exactly are you keeping inside that room? Oh that's actually the sauna. The cabinets is where they keep the sauning supplies. From that zillow link as well....  God why did I think that grey tile was some sort of open air shower? It's the entryway, obviously.  This is the fanciest out house I e'er done seen. Look at those stairs! And a window to gaze out yonder for when you're making GBS threads real good? Some real Vanderbilt poo poo right there.
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Shalhavet posted:https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8515-Frederick-Rd-Ellicott-City-MD-21043/37022350_zpid/ Oh it’s in Ellicott City, how structurally sound the stairs are doesn’t matter since it’s just going to get washed away in the next “once in a century” storm that seems to happen with more regularity now.
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There's a different, much better looking staircase in later photos. I can't tell if there's three stories above the ground or if the other staircase goes down from the first floor.
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Platystemon posted:That cannot be the fanciest, because two-story shithouses exist. Those are tricky to rate since the second story is fancier but the first is much, much worse.
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Freaquency posted:Oh it’s in Ellicott City, how structurally sound the stairs are doesn’t matter since it’s just going to get washed away in the next “once in a century” storm that seems to happen with more regularity now. "Luckily," it seems to be above the convergence point where the flooding happens.
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Superrodan posted:There's a different, much better looking staircase in later photos. I can't tell if there's three stories above the ground or if the other staircase goes down from the first floor. It's weird - it looks like a three-story version of a sort of cape cod layout that's common in parts of Maryland, and maybe elsewhere. Whoever did those stairs would have had to rip out better ones to put them in. Or I guess turned a duplex into a single-family home?
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value-brand cereal posted:Oh that's actually the sauna. The cabinets is where they keep the sauning supplies.         
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A bit late to this chat, but a few thoughts on this:Facebook Aunt posted:This isn't exactly crappy, it just struck me as a bit strange. FISHMANPET posted:It's pretty common for design guidelines or boards providing discretionary approval of projects to encourage poo poo like "breaking up the massing" because heaven forbid anyone perceive a large building. Everybody, architects and residents alike, think stuff like this looks like poo poo. I think only a couple hundred people in the US even like it, it just so happens those people are the ones sitting on those boards and commissions approving these projects. Nope, it's very much an architect thing. I've been on a discretionary board like you described for some years now and bargain bin deconstructivism is just the default style* of today. What's deconstructivism, you ask? Wikipedia posted:Deconstructivism is a movement of postmodern architecture which appeared in the 1980s. It gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building, commonly characterised by an absence of obvious harmony, continuity, or symmetry. Like most architectural styles emphasizing individual creativity instead of hard design rules, it looks really unimpressive when done on a budget. I believe the reason why this has become the default style is that most architecture schools havr you do piles and piles of impossibly cool (and expensive) designs. Unfortunately architecture is a lot like the fashion industry in that almost everyone goes into it with dreams of doing bespoke haute couture and 99.9% end up designing print t-shirts for Walmart. When you venture out into the real world and suddenly have to work on a budget, you often end up whittling down your designs until they become Wish.com versions of the stuff you designed in school. * Most architects will rather die than admit to designing to style today, but it's mostly self-delusion, they all follow recognizable stylistic trends anyway.
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Isn't the whole point of an outhouse that you can dig a new hole and move the thing?
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Isn't the whole point of an outhouse that you can dig a new hole and move the thing? Are you serious? Anyway the answer is no, definitely not.
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They got the polarity right because professional have standards.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Are you serious? Calm down, Sparky. That's why I asked, because I have no personal experience with outhouses and I only know what I'd been told by older family members who lived in places with no plumbing back in the day. And that was that they used to dig latrine pits, move the outhouse over them, and when that pit filled up you dug another one in a different part of the back field and moved the structure.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Calm down, Sparky. That's why I asked, because I have no personal experience with outhouses and I only know what I'd been told by older family members who lived in places with no plumbing back in the day. Moving an outhouse is harder than moving the poo.
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Outhouse on wheels.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Calm down, Sparky. That's why I asked, because I have no personal experience with outhouses and I only know what I'd been told by older family members who lived in places with no plumbing back in the day. I'm sure both happened, depending on the location. Removing "night soil" was a serious profession in many cities, where moving the outhouse wasn't an option. I'm sure there were other places with lots of land where they preferred digging a new hole to cleaning out the old one. My dad regaled me with stories of tipping over outhouses as a Halloween prank, so they were neither securely anchored nor particularly heavy in his area.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Moving an outhouse is harder than moving the poo. Maybe on the road, but different equation in a rural setting with a small structure
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Moving an outhouse is harder than moving the poo. You can move past and seal.
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Epitope posted:Maybe on the road, but different equation in a rural setting with a small structure Yeah, I come from Central Texas farmers on one side and Tennessee hillfolk on the other, so they were very much talking about rural life.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Moving an outhouse is harder than moving the poo. Not the kind he's talking about, which just takes, like, a couple of people. Think a porta shitter made from a wood frame with shingles nailed to it. Because we're talking about enormous tracts of mostly-empty land where there's plenty of space for a new hole, but not a lot to do with the poo besides...put it in a different hole.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Calm down, Sparky. That's why I asked, because I have no personal experience with outhouses and I only know what I'd been told by older family members who lived in places with no plumbing back in the day. You're completely correct that in remote primitive camping/cabin type settings it's common practice to move outhouses to a new spot with a new hole when the old one fills up.
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In my old neighborhood, which is very urban, I knew a guy who liked to dig around in local backyards (with permission) looking for former poop holes. Apparently at the turn of the century people used to toss liquor bottles in there (drinkin while poopin i guess, whomst amongst us etc) and these old liquor bottles with raised lettering are worth a lot.
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