I am in alot of peoples homes with my job and have noticed some weird things.
ex: one client has a sink in her bedroom. just a sink. nothing else. the bathroom is down the hall
another client has a room that used to be a bedroom but they turned it into a bathroom/laundry room. the tub is sitting in the middle of the floor in front of the washer and dryer. you can sit in the tub and open the dryer door,
another one dont have a cook stove. she dont cook but in the microwave. the area where the stove used to be has a huge trash can.
anything different about you home???

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Other than that green mold/algae on the north side of my house on my clay siding? DH has time for everything everyone else needs but hasn't made time to scrub that off for ME! I can't reach it or I would - and I'd probably fall off the ladder anyway. I'll just keep reminding him.

My mom has a sink in her bedroom too!! It is a NICE marble top sink with a mirror and vanity. The bathroom with the SAME sink is next to her room...

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When we lived in Brooklyn, my sister and I had a sink in our room (great when you have a family of 5 and only 1 bathroom, we loved it) plus the ladder to go up on the roof, lol.

When my brother and SIL had their first apartment, the kitchen sink was in the bathroom and the shower was in the kitchen (the rooms were next to each other).

My friend started to remodel and then never finished and so when her mom came to live with her, she had a toilet in one corner of the room!

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I have an attached garage, but there's not door leading directly into the house. You have to go outside and down a sidewalk to get in the house. I also have a *mens roon* that only has a urinal and sink.

I think the sink in the bedroom is popular in European countries. Honestly, it's not a bad idea.

Also, when we were house shopping there was a house that had a toilet in the dining room...no wall or divider at all. Needless to say, we didn't buy that house. There were two houses that had toilets on the landing to the basement.

When my sister and brother-in-law lived in Detroit Their house had a full bathroom in the basement..thing is there were no water pipes or drain system. It was a fake bathroom, like you would see on the set of a play or in a home improvement store.

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Our problem is more annoying than odd.
Our front door is right in front of the stairs to the second floor.
When you enter from the outside, you have to go into the dining room and then shut the door and then you can go into the living room or wherever.
If you open the door for someone to enter, you have to step on the bottom step to open the door and be out of the other person's way!

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My Uncle's house had a sink in a bedroom, it was intended when the house was built to be a nursery

I would love to have a urinal in one of my baths ! I have 2 sons and a dh. HHHmm..I guess what is weird about our house...some of our vent pipes vent into the attic and not out on the roof. Sometimes it smells .

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The sink in my kitchen is not under the window, but across the room from it. Also, there is no wash basin in the basement.

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Well it only has one bedroom and that is very rare even for an older house and for where we live it's practically non existent.

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I've lived with it for so long I actually forgot....
the weird thing about my house right now is that there is a double sided fireplace facing the kitchen and the other side opens also to the living room.
Nice, right?
but the chimney goes up through the middle of the home and enters my dd's bedroom right smack dab in the center. So in the center of her room is a rectangle brick structure that you have to walk around either way to get to the bed.
We have a LEVITT house and there were several styles, but thousands of homes in this area have that same weird chimney brick center thing! When we got wall-to-wall carpet in that room, the installer just groaned!

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My brother has a house built in 1829 - there are ajoining livingrooms - they were actually called "his and hers parlours" with a fireplace in each room - but both rooms open to each other (set front to back in the house) and you can wave from the parlours at each other as you sit in your individual livingrooms at your individual fireplaces.

Some of those old houses are so kooky! But I'm entirely jealous - it is a really unbelieveable house!

There's 2 weird things in my home (built in 1984) 1st the stairs to the 2nd floor are very steep & narrow, there's 13 stairs & my size 9 foot wont fit on them all the way. My daughter is a size 7.5 & they fit perfect. When we 1st moved in 6 years ago, I lost my footing & fell down like 6 stairs & thought I broke my butt bone,,,,,OUCH it hurt for weeks. The other odd thing is the only bathroom thats downstairs is in the garage..no access from the house, which also means no a.c in that tiny bathroom. It's so small the sink is in your face as you sit down..lol perfect for placing your reading material on the sink as you go hubby says...LMAO.

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My house is OLD and has had several additions.The kitchen and the bathroom are in the middle,neither have windows.The bathroom is so small you can sit on the commode,turn on the tub with your left hand,the sink with your right hand and if you really need to you can take your foot and open the closet.LOL. Gee I'd love to have a new home.

What's odd about our house? THE PEOPLE IN IT!!!!!!!

Our house was built in 1930, the master bedroom and bath are an add on. You cannot go into the master bedroom without going through another room, you can go through DD's bedroom or through the laundry room. The other odd thing about the master bedroom is that there is a door to the outside, which leads me to believe they first had it as a den, then later changed to a master bedroom. We only have one kid left at home now and when that one is gone we will make it a den and we will take her room. We already turned the other extra bedroom into a library.

Oh, I forgot, the other odd thing is there is a false (hidden) closet in the back of a regular closet, about 3' X 3' , you would not even know it was there unless you actually got in the closet and looked around, we found it when we were moving in.

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I was going to say "the people in my house are odd" but it was already taken LOL

My house is 2.5 years old (we bought it new) and there is a door to my master closet that goes to the laundry room. The closet also has a door into my master bathroom. People say "wow...that is so cool" but I don't like it. My DH always leaves the door to the closet open to the laundry room and so if you walk down the entry wall to the front door (or guest bath), you get a birds eye view of my closet it also limits what I an can do in my closet. If we ever have extra money, we want to do a closet makeover and maybe drywall that door in so we can use all of the closet instead of 50% of it

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We have a closet with a window in it.

jujubee2..read Stephen Kings Secret Window Secret Garden for a good creep out (and the forward)

I live in a bi-level that was converted into up/down apartments. We turned it back into one house, however I have a washer and dryer hookup in my bedroom. Nicely hidden by our dresser. I do have to say that before we got everything back to the original house plan, putting my laundry away was very easy!

I guess the strangest thing about my house is that I don't have a heat/air vent in the kitchen. I really don't get why there is no vent in there-gets really hot in the summer with no AC blowing in there.

my great aunts house had the living area downstairs and bedrooms upstairs, but the downstairs area isnt level with the ground, it's hard to explain. later they converted it around so you park and walk straight into the house instead of walking around and entering the now basement area.



the place we rent was a single story they changed into a two story, the stairway is tiny and you can not fit a queen box springs up the stairs, luckily there was a guy giving away a ikea bed on freecycle and I got it, uses the mattress and not the box springs we like it better than our normal bed <my dog does too she's go crazy if she couldnt be near me all the time>

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well my basement has a toilet & sink right in the middle of it I have always wanted it closed in but dh would never do it GRR recently after 10yrs of living like this I am actually thinking of closing in it myself I have learned to drywall since we been together so who knows maybe I could

But the thing odd about any home that sticks out to me is my grandmother who passed away had a tunnel under her house my dad & grandpa & uncle built it as a bomb shelter in the 50's

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My electrical switches are on the far side of the rooms so you have to walk thru the dark rooms to turn the lights on

Not the house I live in now but a house that we owned for about ten years had been a small hospital and doctor's office. The second owner of the house was a doctor. He added on two long rooms to the front of the house. The right side and upstairs of the house was for his family. The left side of the downstairs was his office, waiting room and a room where he would keep up to 4 patients. That was from the 1920's to the 1950's. When he died, they turned the downstairs area into a apartment. In the 1970's, two rooms were reclaimed as part of the original house (the livingroom with a fireplace and a bedroom) and the apartment was made into two rooms. It only had one bathroom in the original house which was upstairs with the bedrooms. Each bedroom upstairs had a walk in closet that were huge. I put a dresser in my bedroom closet. It was a huge house.

The house we currently own is normal. But a previous house we owned, had a basement and the only way you could access the basement was from the garage......when we first bought the house there wasn't even a door leading from the garage to the house even though the garage was attached. You would have to go on the back deck, walk down the stairs, go through the back door of the garage and then down the stairs to reach the fully finished basement. It was an extremely odd set up. It only lasted about 6 weeks before we had an access door put in the laundry room that lead to the garage. We wanted to figure out a way to have access from the house directly to the basement, but all the estimates we received were over $40,000, so lived with it.

Maybe the oddest thing was, when we sold the house that feature was why the owners bought it. The husband was making the basement into a "man's room" and the wife was elated it wasn't going to be "apart" of her house.

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I think it is odd we have 54 light switches in my house. Way too many to keep track of. Been here almost 2 yrs and still cannot keep them apart.

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OMG!! That is exactly what I was going to post about! We have the exact same thing. It drives me nuts! I told dh that I wanted to knock out the wall where the door is, and extend it onto the porch. He laughed at me. lol

BUT the oddest thing about our house, is we have a ghost that has lived here. I have been able to trace the hauntings back to the second owners. But they told me that the first owners left messages on the back of mirror in one of the bathrooms with written dates and a one line detail of the "sightings". Weird!

Our house was built in the 1970's...no one has died here (that we know of) and none of us can figure out who this old fellow is. I have never personally seen him, but there have been eyewitness accounts from three different people..and all had the same description of him!! (One of which was the second owner's daughter who had NO contact at all with the other two that saw him!!!) That made a believer out of me. Up until that time, I thought my oldest ds and best friend were just being silly.

When we bought this house in 1998, the previous (third) owners left a tiny wooden cross and a penny in the window sill. I thought it was for good luck, lol....On second thought, maybe it was!

Oh yeah, and the guy has a fascination with a cigar box, that he keeps digging for in the closets in my basement.

Even FREAKIER, about 5 years after the first sighting of him digging in the closets and coming out with this cigar box and trying to give it to my son, my dh was digging the garage in the rafters gettiing out some items for a halloween party that we were having. He came in the house, his face white as a ghost, and in his hands he carried a dusty old cigar box. He said "Kathy, I have dug in that area MANY times over the years, putting things in and taking things out.. I have NEVER seen this box there".

We took it downstairs and set it up on one of our cabinets and there it still sits over a year later. It seems to be much quieter in the basement now.

As I started to read this, I was thinking that is just like the levitt house I used to live in when we lived in Wantagh. It is weird. What I hated about living in the original levitt house was walking into the kitchen to get to the rest of the house.

Judi

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we lived in a place a few years ago that the kitchen was on the second floor the larger dining area was on the main floor along with 2 bedrooms the living room was on the second floor and another bedroom the third floor was the masterbedroom
i guess the second floor was actually the ground flloor from the front of the house but if you enterd in back you were on the 1st floor and had to go upstairs to get to the kitchen which really sucked bringing in bags but if you entered around front you entered the living/family room and then walked into the breakfast area/ kitchen.we moved cause i didnt like being that far away form my kids at night they started sleeping in the living room instead of thier bedrooms so we moved.and since i had the family dinners at our house it meant toting down food after food aftre food to the lower floor we started using the laundry pully.lol

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Yikes! I'm not sure I want to. His books creep me out even when I don't have anything in common with them.

I'll have to count mine, maybe that's why I always get the wrong one!

We have 43 windows! Boy I hate washing them!

The weirdest thing is our foyer, it is the most awkward area, it is open to the dining room almost like it's one huge room, only there's a door to the bathroom to one side. I can not figure out what to do with the space.

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What was in the box???

Nothing really freaky about our house except the light switch that doesn't operate anything at all. The previous owners of our house, who had lived here over 20 years (we're at almost 15 years ourselves...) had NO idea what the switch was for either...I guess a little mystery is good now and then. Our neighbors across the street, however, when they were remodeling their basement, found a false wall. When they ripped it down they found a room full of grow lights, irrigation hoses, and dozens of dead marijuana plants! Yikes!

I just asked my dh because I could not remember what was in it, all I do remember was my dh was upset because one of the boys took the contents out of it, and he wanted it left alone..LOL

It says "Rubber bands" on the outside, but I remember there being matchbooks and maybe some rubber bands in there. Not much at all, if anything was in the box.

Freaky though, isn't it??

I actually had contacted some of those paranormal investigators and they had said they would come out here to the house, but DH made me call them back to cancel, because he said that if we prove there is a ghost here, we have to disclose it if we ever try to sell.

That would hurt our value, he said.

Well............depends on who is interested..LOL!!!

We have a small bedroom with a bathroom just off of it that was converted from a walk in closet into a bathroom. We were always finding lots of dead flies and bees on the windowsills of each. Never live ones. We thought that when we got replacement windows for the ones that were falling apart up there that the dead bug thing would cease. It is still going on to this day.

My neighbor has a corner toilet. The tank is triangular and fits right into a corner. Never even heard of anything like that before. It is really cool.

A friend of mine has a house with two bathrooms. One of the bathrooms has a breaker box just above the bathtub. She is afraid to take a bath.

Maybe it operates your neighbors garage door.

This isn't in my house, but some we have looked at - the breaker boxes were on the outside of the house. Maybe I watch too many movies, but I would be paranoid that someone would cut off my power!

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I looked at a house once in Texas that had a jacuzzi tub in the corner of the master bedroom. ???? there wasn't a shower or tub in the master bath. Just a huge linen closet. The story was the original owner bought the tub without measuring how it would fit in the bath, when it didn't, they put it in the bedroom. Obviously, we didn't buy the house. Although my husband kept telling me he wouldn't mind watching me take a bath each night from the comfort of his bed. Silly guy.

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My husband was out taking pictures of the house we're building. They're just at the drywall stage, so they got a lot done.

In looking at the pictures he took, there's a window in the master bedroom closet. I never noticed that on the plans before. Looking at the back of the house, it flows nicely with the rest of the windows, so I'm assuming that's what they were going for, aesthetics...but it sure seems odd to have a big ol' window in the closet!

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We love our house except one really big planning flaw...which we knew about but thought we could live with...

They built a house right behind ours...their front yard is our backyard. (Instead of back to back). Their front lights are kept on all night and go directly into three of our four bedrooms. I think they have the situation worse -as who wants to look out the front of their house and see someone elses, plus they have a super long driveway so no one can find their house...but the lights suck and my dogs can't really be out there much as they just bark their heads off at the neighbors who hang out in the front of their house all the time. Because of zoning we can't fence (we have invisable fence for the dogs) because it would "block their view" which cracks me up - their view of WHAT? Our house?!

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The only odd thing about our house is that it has the setup for a toilet in the garage. I guess it is a drain or sewer setup or something.

Our house currently has only one bathroom, but one of these days, we are going to find the setup in the garage (I have an idea where it is because the last 4 houses on this side of the block are all the same). And perhaps we will put in that second toilet.

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The bathrooms in the middle of the rooms reminds me of that Molly Ringwald movie where she is pregnant and they call it the Jacuzzi and put a tent around the toilet. LOL

43 windows??? Holy cow, I thought 20 some odd windows was a lot. Geez oh peez

My weird house thing is that my house has almost all paneling inside, including the bathrooms. Relatively NO drywall. That will change in about one month when we have major renovation. Will be moving the front door (opens to stairs also) down a little and tearing out a wall so that there is room to navigate when you walk in the door.

My childhood bedroom had a sink it in. My dad put it in when they remodeled the one full bathroom in the house. His thinking was that I could use it to get ready in the morning and not have to be in the bathroom with everyone else <lol>. I really didn't use it very much, however.

In our current house, we have a light switch in our bathroom that we can't figure out what it goes to. There are 4 switches (one for overhead light, one for lights on the vanity, one for the fan and one mystery switch). We've lived here two years and have never been able to figure it out. Our builder went bankrupt soon after we bought the house (new construction) so we can't even contact him to help us figure it out.

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Sarah.......

this is a great thread!

The only weird thing about our house is the built in evap cooler - in the kitchen, facing the stove and wall! Does that make any sense? It cools off the whole top floor pretty well (our house did not come with a/c...just the evap cooler instead) but we need to shut it off when we're cooking on the stove, it just blows a constant blast of freezing air straight at the oven and stovetop.

When we were looking for a house to buy, there was one I immediately rejected because it had a bathroom on the main floor that had no shower but two very small toilets, one toilet on each side of the sink! I wondered if the people that owned it had twins or something. Those toilets were the smallest I have ever seen LOL and weird to see two of them in the same bathroom.

Re the ghost thing - you only have to disclose it at sale IF the prospective buyers ask. I know, because a. my family owns houses that have ghosts, and b. as a child when we would spend our sunday's looking at open houses I used to love to ask the real estate agents if the home was haunted and watch their expressions.

The house I'm living in has 2 rather odd things in it - (besides the ghost). 1. there's a switch in the middle of what would be the master bedroom. The switch is live, and it controls nothing. We've lived here 12 years and trust me, we've tried everything. The only thing I can think of is possibly the previous owner who built the house (84 lumber kit home and all...) had planned to put in a ceiling light in the room at a later time and never did. Since he built a chimney for an eventual fireplace, put hookups for an eventual garbage disposal, and ran the ductwork for an eventual whole house AC unit - its possible.

2. The light in the pantry closet off the living room is controlled by a switch in the oilroom which is in the basement, and on the opposite side of the house from the closet. You couldn't get any further apart in my house then those two rooms if you tried. To use the light in the closet we have to keep the light switch in the basement turned on and taped down and then use a cord switch light to turn it on and off.

The house we're moving to next year has oodles of odd features. There's a boulder in my furnace room - ie its only partially dug out and then it goes to dirt/boulders. There's a water line run in the hallway closet - we think that was to water plants in the house but we're not sure. It started leaking last week and caused some water damage so we clamped it till we can figure out where the switch is to cut the water to it. And stylistically speaking - there's the powder room .. I'm not sure where to start with it - in fact it deserves its own paragraph.

The powder room in the house I'll be moving into next year is wow, its just.... yeah. It has a window that looks out onto the enclosed front porch - there's a grill over the window but trust me everyone on the front porch can see the bathroom once you turn the light on. For that I've bought a stained glass window to put up. Second the walls are covered in what I believe to be Sears automobile vinyl "faux leather" stuff. Red, cream and black - with gold trim. The sink top, toilet top, and a band around the walls are all tiled in small mosaic tiles in shades of red, black and white with gold mixed in it. If you were to picuture a 1980's bordello, you might get a sense of this room. I plan to enter it in a few ugly bathroom contests once I move in....

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Oh my!! Too funny!!!!

Sounds like something to do on a weekend when there is nothing else to do and one is in need of entertaining..LOL!!!

I didn't know that you didn't have to disclose unless asked. Interesting!

Dh and I were talking about this last night and he said even though he gets funny feelings in the basement, he is not convinced. I just looked at him and laughed. LOL

Nothing odd in our house. One of our bedrooms has a sink in it (not the master)...it's right next to the bathroom which has the toilet and shower/tub, though...and then there's another sink/vanity area on the other side of it for guests/everyone else.

This isn't particularly odd, but actually kind of cool. When we were house shopping we saw one that had the laundry room next to the master bedroom...they had a revolving shelf so you could fold the clothes and then turn it and the clothes would be in the master bedroom to put away. LOL

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DH and I were looking to buy a house, we went into a house that had a running brook through it. The house was built into a cliff and the owners said they just got used to it being there!!

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Our house was built for midgets, we think. All of the light switches were a good foot lower than normal. DH changed them all over.

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