What's the weirdest thing you've seen in a house?

An elderly relative had one installed in the bedroom when she started to struggle getting in and out of the bath. There was no room for a shower cubicle in the bathroom as it was tiny with a sloping roof. She had a lovely corner one installed in the bedroom backing on to the bathroom. It made her life so much easier.

the baby bump cast was also pretty common. I never saw one as my patients were all past childbearing but it was a thing. You could buy kits

My granny’s house had this. It didn’t have an inside toilet, so my Granda installed one in the wardrobe.

You think people were murdered?? 😱

A house where it looked like the man had taken every item he had and every bit of paper and just thrown it up in the air and left it where it landed. There wasnt one inch of surface visible. Only paper and things. And a tree in the garden that he chopped chunks out of and carved into shapes. And no actual door between the kitchen and garden.

No I dont think it's dodgy stuff. More clueless and tasteless. I think there was a sort of photographic fashion for this at one time. Ive seen it before. Photographic studios do gimmicks dont they. In the early 1900s it was people standing raised up on some steps in front of a bit of wall , presumably to make it look like you were standing by your country house or castle or whatever. In 2000s it's naked people.

ooohhhh!!!! but they'd probably argue we have a living room where a swimming pool should be. I wonder who is right!

His condom stash probably filled a wardrobe!

Was it Keith off Pottery Throw Down? He has an old mortuary slab as his kitchen island

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/watch-throw-downs-keith-brymer-093600090.html

Haha! I feel bad I didn't make it that far! 😭 He was ridiculously tall as well. Like about 7 ft?! So him plus all these multiple products and his mum. Gawd...🫠

A framed photo of a gravestone

shudder

Years ago we visited old friends of dh. They had turned one entire wall of their house (small house btw) into an indoor aviary. They had used floor to ceiling wire netting and behind that were all these birds, with bits of foliage strategically placed all around. The noise, the smell...and it was so amateurishly done. We had to sit in the living room all evening with all these birds....I still shudder at the thought of it!

Moved into a victorian terraced house in 1990. Used to look outside and the old lady opposite coming out every morning emptying her chamber pot into the outside toilet. She still didn't have an inside bathroom or toilet. She didn't want one.

a 2 bed bungalow with a toilet in the conservatory

A house with magpies hopping & flapping about everywhere & the house was covered in magpie poo. The owners were asleep on the couch possibly drunk.
A probate house someone had died in and there were piles and piles of porn mags stacked everywhere from what looked like the 70s or 80s. They looked like specialist fetish magazines. Also flagons of liquid that I don't think were cider or homebrew. House reeked of pee. Estate agent said the guys doing the house clearance still had stuff to clear. There were only outside photos of the house in the advert.

Lord so many memories coming back.

One of my chidlhood friends (we were both born in the 1970s). It was the days of dinner parties. We used to collect the coats and wash the dishes for a bit of pocket money. My friends dad and stepmum had naked photos of themselves everywhere where we had to pay the coats on their bed. Stepmum had legs akimbo. I remember thinking of her dad that I didn't know penises even came that small. I'd never seen one in real life, but recall thinking why on earth were men so proud of such silly little things.

A gimp cage in the kitchen, the oven and the hob in different rooms at opposite sides of the house, and a shower cubicle in each bedroom.

I swear this used to be a thing in the 80s.y parents had a shower and a sink in their bedroom. No privacy screen or anything. Weird.

Yes incredibly distasteful.

Another house I visitied in my NHS job had been built in the centre of a wood by the owner. Lovely house. He and his wife loved wild birds and they had some windows which were left open all year but cleverly designed so that rain or snow could not blow in. Those rooms were heated by calor fires. The birds used to fly in and out and were totally unafraid of humans provided that we moved and spoke quietly. I know its sounds weird but it was genuinely one of the most magical places I have ever been.

another NHS story. Old bloke lived in a house with no plumbing at all. One sink and one cold tap that ran into a soakaway. Apparently the house had belonged to his late wife's father and when he got married he moved in. He was a "solver" so when he found out about the setup, He went and got a book from the library about about human waste composting and set up his own 3 bay system. I met him when he was in his 70's and as he had lived in the house for so long, he had a dispensation from the council to continue living as he did for as long as he lived in the house. Normally in such circumstances, if care was needed then a chemical camping type toilet would be put in and it would be emptied into the existing toilet but it would have affected the composting system so the carers came in more often and emptied it into the composting system. That would have been the early 90's. I won't say there were loads of houses around here with no sewage system but it wasn't amazing to find one. Mostly though they did have mains drainage for the fresh water, it was only that they had a composting toilet (shed over a deep hole).

In a house we viewed, most of the kitchen cabinets had been removed and replaced with an aviary - or a massive homemade budgie cage, call it what you will - with about 10 budgies in it.

There was bird poo all over the remaining work surfaces.

We didn't buy it.

A cludgie in the closet!!

Was it chris packham's house😁

Me and my DM went to view the weirdest house once. It was a big old property that needed completely gutting and starting again, but it was like a horror film/hoarders’ house, and the people still lived in it. All the downstairs was clad in 70s wood paneling, all the rooms were piled high with crap. The stairs had a corner and on the shelf half way up there was something distilling in glass containers, and it made a loud ‘glug’ as we passed it. Tried to stifle our giggles, on to more rooms with more crap in them, the estate agent trying to put a positive spin on them but failing badly. Then we noticed back downstairs that there was a large lump of what looked like molten rock on the floor in front of the fireplace. “What’s that?” I asked? “Oh that…that’s a lump of…stuff” came the EA’s reply. At that point we completely lost it and were holding each other up, laughing so much we had tears rolling down our cheeks. Did not buy.