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

I was at an after party at a house. Above the fireplace there was a b and w image of a very pregnant‘celebrity’ à la Demi Moore but with full nipples on view. Must’ve been at least 6ft high.

I assumed it was that persons home - turned out she’d given the photo on a frame to the godfather of the in utero child. And he’d put it up in his lounge. It was weird but a lovely photo.

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I would have been out of there so fast! Sounds like my worst nightmare!

I used to visit the flat of a couple of guys I met at a show. They had old newspapers piled high all over the front room - most peculiar. I didn’t like to ask why they hoarded them.

No - but Im fascinated to hear theres more than one person with one! It was a very interesting house with loads of quirky stuff!

I live abroad in Europe. The bathroom department of my local DIY store has urinals on display alongside the usual toilets, sinks, showers and baths. I've been in more than one residential bathroom that had a urinal as well as a conventional toilet. In older properties the toilet bowl often includes an inspection shelf, which was common right up until the 1980s.

Straw on the kitchen floor, to make it rustic!

An Egyptian sarcophagus in a bedsit I went to view when I was a teen. It had been left by the previous tenant and the landlord had no idea how they'd got it in there - it was enormous- or how to get it out again.

They were probably into home winemaking. You need to keep the fermenting vessels somewhere warm, so the heat rising up the stairs was probably a good thing.

That is truly crazy! It would be fun if you could remember the address to research the prior occupants.

I stayed a few days in student housing at Oxford with that 30+ years ago. Had never seen it before. Just now remembering and realising that’s what it was. The toilet was in its own closet with small sink, too.

Of the bedsit or of the sarcophagus?!

I’m laughing hysterically. Thank you!

A massive ornately carved type covered wooden swing seat in the open plan lounge, diner, kitchen. It was the only seating available and took up 95% of the space. No room for a table or comfy seats and if you did actually swing in it you would hit the back wall and then the kitchen cabinets.
So fucking weird.
Kind of like this with without the soft bits.

Viewing a house and asked the estate agent if there was any loft access. He said no. 5 mins later my friend who was with me calls me into the spare bedroom and opens up a small cupboard door in the corner of the room to reveal a tiny and very steep set of steps. Squeezing up there revealed a loft space absolutely rammed with junk. Estate agent was just as shocked as we were. House purchased but on the proviso that the loft would be cleared!

Oh that’s taken me back! A childhood friends parents did this. It was around 1982. It looked awful and leaked everywhere. Her dad had set it up and they were so proud of it bless them.

My 19 year-old daughter has been friends for years with someone from a very very rich family. They have this ginormous house overlooking the coast.

What I find really odd is that all of the bathrooms in the bedrooms Don’t have doors, they have like great big arches where you can see into these obviously ludicrously expensive bathrooms, You can see the whole bathroom from the bedroom, including the toilet! I just never understood why they all had to have toilets in their bedrooms With no door!

They built a house, obviously chose it. Also, some of the bedrooms to have a bath in the middle of the room! Like a big copper one.

Maybe a value my privacy too much but it’s all very odd

My mother and I went to a Christmas fayre at an old farmhouse opposite my children's school.Tiles over the Aga depicted an orgy.

Viewing a naice Cotswold house but the master bedroom has a leather bed, handcuffs and a mirrored ceiling. The en-suite sink was two sphinx holding up the bowl. Lots of gold leaf

Quite a few houses I have been asked not to enter certain rooms. No idea why.

My own house has a tiny little door on the outside, which leads to a space in the garage under a set of steps. It’s about the right size for a cat or small dog to go in. From the inside it is enclosed and there is a larger door, but it’s only a few feet high. You could only get in by crawling.

We have never known the purpose. Now I am wondering if it was to allow stray cats a safe warm space in the winter.

There was a house mentioned on here not long ago, that had a functioning toilet on a landing. That was weird.

The strangest thing I've seen was when I went to dinner round a friend's house, best part of 15 years ago, and happened to see inside their fridge. It was literally full of fruit juices. Next to nothing else. I was asked what I wanted to drink, and a reel of about 15 different juices was rattled off. And before anyone asks, I visited there enough to know that there was no second fridge.
Three of them lived in a tiny little terraced house at the time, microscopically small. I remember thinking at the time, "This is why you can't afford anything bigger. You're spending all your money on juice."

Was it a cow flap?!

Unlikely because there are proper windows in the garage that could be opened.

Take some time to read about Ron and then explore his rented flat. His work was only discovered after he died. I love his fireplaces!
https://ronsplace.co.uk/about-ron/

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