- Things I have had in basements of various house I’ve lived in:
- a woodshop
- a motorcycle
- an enormous tank of heating oil
- a man building guitar amps out of coffee cans
- a recording studio
- a magazine’s office
- a washer and dryer (booo, boring, booo)
- a flood
- Things I had not previously considered having:
- a chapel
(Found by Erin.)
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I want to lie down on all that blue carpet and pretend to swim!
No…..they're all gonna laugh at you!
Are those … boxes of tissues under the chairs? Not only is it a chapel in a basement, but one prepared for a room full of weeping attendees.
Don't drink the Kool-Ade, guys! Don't drink it!
I wonder how many people from the church would just keep showing up at your house all the time! So weird
This is in the same category as the one with the stage and pole in the basement. I'm not sure what category that is. I should make that clear.
Roidy
so they have 2 master bathrooms (I'm impressed!) and I think they changed their chapel into a "recreational room" in the later photos…
Bizarrely, this is just not that unusual in Colorado. Really.
At my husband's company they had to fire the head of HR years ago, because he had formed a church in his basement, and was having the head of charitable endeavors regularly cut checks to his church without mentioning that it was the Church of This Dude's Basement.
Also, since he was the head of HR, he'd managed to have all of his deacons hired as in management positions.
And that? Is not even his house.
Cute house, really, except for how there's a cult in the basement.
That's funny, Karasu… all the tissues! Maybe it's a funeral home.
My parents are thinking about retiring, and are planning to build their own mini-movie theater in their house. I joked that they could charge admission, but I think this basement church might be an even better idea.
The pastor must be very short to be able to make his grand entrance through that door…
A tithe a day keeps our creditors away.
Also, I was trying to devise an acronym using the words Colorado, Home, Underground, Ministry, and Program but it just didn't seem to gel into a pronounceable word…
It seems as though there are 4 separate bathrooms??
I would never have considered a chapel in the basement but it seems like a good way to generate income.
Come, Parishioners, one and all … (my bills are due)
Must be hard to get the goat's blood out of blue carpeting.
I actually really dig this house, even if I'd feel slightly guilty for turning what appears to be an AA meeting room into a bar.
Okay…for some reason I keep thinking of the Baby Savers from Citizen Ruth…
I wonder if there are any tax breaks for that?
I love how not only do we get to see the basement as a chapel but then we see it set up as a normal family room. Makes me wonder if they switch the basement every Sunday then switch it back again.
This, it should be noted, is Colorado. They're usually busy in that secret underground lair, uh, rec room devising new ways to Focus on Your Family, and that can't wait for Sunday!
if you look at all the pictures, they have the chapel revamped into a "Recreation Room" its the same room only redone, so they staged it to your liking…
I can't get last night's episode of True Blood out of my head.
This basement isn't helping any.
This may seem funny to some, but I was unfortunate enough to have grown up in a household where my dad turned the basement into a worship service room.
During my last year of high school, dad had it out with some of the other members at the church we attended. Being a disagreeable sort who always had to have his way, he turned our formerly kick ass library room into a sunday worship room, complete with homemade pulpit. Dad sat on a highchair behind the pulpit so he could look down at the family and bark his version of the Bible text at the family.
Seems funny, doesn't it? Try living it. It was hell.
As soon as I graduated high school, I enlisted into the slightly less insane USAF. At least there I had the freedom of religion.
Well I think it's hardly Christian presenting the basement and the 'Recreation Room' as if they are two different rooms!
Unless there's some excellent revolving-wall type setup where one turns into the other:
"No, officer, no worship going on here, we were merely recreating…"
or alternately,
"No officeer, no recreation going on here, we were merely worshipping…"
When I first saw it, especially considering the fact that there’s a picture of the Immaculate Heart of Mary over the altar, is that it’s the home of a group of Sisters, since they often have a place of worship in the home for when a priest comes to offer Mass for them. But then there’s the nursery, and the fact that there aren’t any crucifixes on the walls. So that’s highly doubtful. And considering not very many if any non-Catholic Christian religions have any belief in the Immaculate Heart (or any attachment to the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which I believe is the other picture), then it’s a pretty good guess that it’s cult-ish o.o;
Actually, I know people who go to a town to start a church and since they are just starting they can’t afford a building or anything. At that point, the best thing to do is make the church in your home.. I’ve never heard of it causing any problems or anything. The early church met in each others homes often anyway.. not really that abnormal.
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I had already planned to say, “I’m not surprised it’s Colorado,” then I saw Land of Shimp’s comment. I’m not alone!
There’s nothing “Focus on the Family” about this chapel, though. Those guys are PROTESTANTS. Those “in the know” will observe that this is a bare-bones Catholic altar suitable for the traditional Latin Mass. You know, the one your grandma’s generation had, prior to the 1960s. The plush carpet may be there to make up for the lack of kneelers, ’cause there’s even more kneeling in a Latin Mass than in a modern Mass. Judging by the nursery, I’m assuming this home belongs to a family who invites a priest over regularly.
What’s odd is the total lack of religious imagery in any of the other photos. But I found one exception. I guess they thought non-believers would be put off by obvious things like crucifixes and statues of the Virgin Mary, but observe: above the bed in the master bedroom is a CROWN OF THORNS. Lent must be coming up.