And here we see the house where the US Olympic Limbo Team lives during their intensive training season. The pole to the right is used during their grueling workouts. All doors are half-height, requiring them to limbo any time they enter a room.
Yeah, it’s tough having to literally bend over backwards just to get to your morning bowl Cheerios. But that’s what it takes to be the best. USA! USA! USA!
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Bilbo Baggins would have round doors.
The kitchen looks photoshopped… the perspective is odd, the size is off, and it doesn’t match the style in the foreground at ALL.
A 35 year old house in wine country. Why are the arbors devoid of grape vines?
Very pretty though.
small door must be for ompa lumpa servants.
I think that ‘door’ is actually a mirror leaning against the wall, reflecting the room behind the photographer.
That doesn’t make it any less peculiar a photo to use for a listing… because I need to know that my new home has a dead tree randomly planted in the living (dying?) room floor.
A mirror is what i was thinking, too. But thanks for the heads-up on the tree. I thought that was a stink pipe!
Having read the comments below, the mirror theory doesn’t work either – I was thinking the angle it was leaning on could explain why it’s not reflecting the grotty grey carpet directly in front of it, but now I’m unsure. And bewildered.
That whole room looks more like an Escher print the more I look at it…
I’m thinking that’s a mirror leaning against the wall reflecting the kitchen (?)
It was probably something “creative” to get both room sin the shot.
With this kind of training, perhaps one day the US team will be able to compete against the Jamaicans.
I can’t be the only one who thought of MC Escher – look at those stairs.
Photoshopped? A mirror? Don’t be absurd! There’s a much simpler explanation for why that interior room looks so odd: it’s a holo-deck! Someone just left the “cozy breakfast nook” simulation running, that’s all.
There are three steps leading down to the door/mirror which kinda blend in background to foreground, these would change the actual height of the door. The tree is probably not dead but clipped/pruned to the top where the skylight is.
And if it were a mirror, it would be reflecting gray carpet at the bottom, not wood floor
You know you’re right? I can just see the stairs you mentioned at a right angle to the door, but only now that you’ve mentioned it. That’s some pretty nifty detective work there, polluxdc.
Still wish it was a holo-deck, though.
Yeah? A mirror that magically reflects a different floor?
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Mirrors are not magic.
Well… yeah? I’m glad you got my point, I guess?
That’s a very little trompe l’oeil painting of a kitchen
the wonky pole is probably the drainage system
love it
Yes, its a mirror.
the people who live here have got some kind of pet (possibly some kind of lizardy-thing) that has legs too short to use the stairs. So its got its own “firemans pole” to scoot up and down.
Why doesn’t the site link to the original listing anymore? I’d love to look at the other pics of this house!
The link is there, in the “found by,” but I accidentally had made it look all non-linky. Will attempt to fix… there!
It’s a gorgeous contemporary house that feels warm and inviting, unlike many other contemporaries.
I posted a comment with a link to their video but it isn’t showing up in the comments. : (
Weird. I’ll poke around and see what happened to your comment, Dawn.
The link worked for me. That tree indoors is just wrong and all the lights hanging on it at the top is really funky. Not sure about that tiny door / mirror. The listing has 17 pictures and not ONE is of the kitchen or any of the 4 bathrooms….
I initially thought it was a mirror, too. But, in the listing photos, there’s a pic looking down the stairs, in which you can see the box lights hanging in the tree (fantastic). There doesn’t seem to be a door on the wall opposite the mirror/portal to another universe. And looking closely at the large version of the photo, it really doesn’t seem like a mirror… wait, why am I doing this?
Wow, I just saw the stairs! wow I unofficially dub this house “The Illusion House,” although that still doesn’t rule out the possibility that it was ‘shopped, they could have taken a different picture of the other room and merged them together. I find the contrast interesting, going from an unfurnished, gloomy, gray walls, blue industrial carpetting with in-grown tree to “a magical room full of bright sunshine homey warm tones and country style furnishings”
and the carpeting on the stairs doesn’t match!
in response to the person who first noticed the stairs to the right of the door, thanks! i finally figured out what it is! it IS a door! the stairs that were pointed out lead down to a sub level of the house, if you look closely to the left of the door, you can see more wood flooring (just a tiny bit of it). in the lowest left hand corner of the photo you can just make out the edge of a rug that is laying on the floor of the lower level. due to the angle of the photo, the door has been cut off by the floor of the upper level, which throws everything out of perspective. trippy, ain’t it?
If you look at all of the pictures this site, you’ll see that the open spaces – including doors are all on a large scale. The doorway into the kitchen is a standard height… but it’s wide (by scale, I’m guessing about 5 feet).
You’ll also see that it is not carpeting on the floor; it’s stones. The room is a partially-exposed foyer.
http://www.windermerecommercial.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Listing.photos&listingID=34199251&showagent=1
I’ve actually been inside this house. As it was built in the 1970s, WELL before Walla Walla became “wine country”, there were no vines put on the property. It was originally designed in such a way that each room had a different theme…I believe it was countries of the world or something like that. This house was the childhood hoe of one of my classmates. It’s just the photo that makes the door look short. There are indeed stairs that go down to the kitchen…and everywhere else. There are no more than 2 rooms on any one level in the house. The tree is also alive. It’s a 20-something-foot-tall ficus.
I’ve actually been inside this house. As it was built in the 1970s, WELL before Walla Walla became “wine country”, there were no vines put on the property. It was originally designed in such a way that each room had a different theme…I believe it was countries of the world or something like that. This house was the childhood home of one of my classmates. It’s just the photo that makes the door look short. There are indeed stairs that go down to the kitchen…and everywhere else. There are no more than 2 rooms on any one level in the house. The tree is also alive. It’s a 20-something-foot-tall ficus.