Outlets! We got outlets! Get your outlets here!
What? Is that not enough? Here, have some more.
A local informant — wait, I’m a local informant — well, a different local informant informs me that the kitchen has 28 outlets. One for the coffee maker, one for the coffee grinder, one for the toaster, and 25 for… for… for the floor polishing machines you and your family can ride around on! Whee!
But wait! What’s that out back? Ohhh… it’s Chair’s own little bit of Eden. Let’s tiptoe away and leave them in peace.
Found by: Dylan
Loveliest comment, by PepperjackCandy: My ex was always putting furniture in front of the outlets. And I was always complaining about it. This looks like they had a similar situation, only the husband had the know-how to say, “You don’t like that desk in front of the outlet? How about an outlet HERE! And HERE! And HERE!”
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I just recently listened to a podcast about how to identify a growhouse, which mentioned jury-rigged and excessive electrical wiring as a typical thing. Didn’t mention backyard fountains and canoodling lawn chairs, though.
LOL! I was just telling DH today that I’ll be glad, when we move to the States, that we’ll have more powerpoints in our rooms (our Australia home greatly lacks powerpoints, with generally one per room).
Even I think this is silly.
BTW, major outlet room also has major lights on the ceiling!
yes, and when you move here, you will need to call them “outlets”, although I admit that “powerpoints” is a better name as far as descriptions go. Unfortunately, in the US, “powerpoint” refers only to the slide show issued from your computer via the Microsoft program of the same name.
and yes, this house is silly. Gotta wonder what they were doing there…can we say “grow lamps”, anybody?
Straight answer: model trains.
Model trains in the kitchen? Awesome! I want one I can load up with my breakfast food and then route it to the upstairs living room. Wouldn’t that be cool?
More importantly, one to take the dirty plates back to the kitchen when you are done with them
Because, as everyone knows, power strips are of the Devil.
If it is model trains, as Sara mentioned in another comment, then power strips are useless. We have a big model train in our basement and if we tried to plug everything into power strips we’d be blowing circuit breakers constantly! Believe it or not we actually have 4 electric panels (circuit breaker boxes) in our regular normal 1800 sq ft house…
the first room looks vaguely like a computer lab setup…which is awesome. Unless I’m seeing it wrong, and it’s not, in which case it’s just weird.
Wow, I am sooo tempted to buy that house, and you would be too if you grew up in this digital age in a house that only has one maybe two outlets per room. Christmas is murder because you can either stretch a long extension cord across the room, or an even longer more expensive cord around the room, or just place your christmas tree in one of two spots…
Oooh, electrical outlets everywhere. I’m jealous. Okay, that is a tad excessive but I live in an older home that has 1 outlet per wall, in the middle of the wall on 3 walls per room and 1 is hooked to the light switch (both holes). Extension cords are my life.
I’m jealous too. I don’t even have an outlet in my bathroom.
Ha! The house’s ultimate “outlet” is that second-story blue door which leads straight into nothing in photo 11. (Even if there is a roof there, it doesn’t look like it has a railing around it.)
It is indeed a very special outlet. It is the portal that leads to Narnia.
Looking at all the photos, my instinct says “Grow Room” and the garage says “Drying Shed”… not that I would ever consider doing such a thing. It would be highly illegal, right?
You know what’s funny? That never would have occurred to me. I mean, it makes perfect sense and all…but honestly, I’d think “Oh, greenhouse? Maybe orchids…” before I’d make the leap to growhouse.
I’ll bet you’re all right, but it was making me laugh, because I got teased mercilessly about being able to identify the not-truffles …and I’m apparently the only one who didn’t make the “Grow much pot there?” connection.
Maybe I killed one too many brain cells back in the day
It’s in an area of the city that I might expect a grow house to be. Yes, they are everywhere, but … this is a key location.
I just hope they have the service for all those outlets. More outlets is nice in the kitchen for such things as crock pots, fryers, griddles, microwave ovens, warmers, mixers, blenders, bread makers, food processors, can openers, etc as well as tangential items such as small TVs or radios. As such, many people keep handyman equipment in or near the kitchen: chargers for electric screwdrivers and drills, battery rechargers, cell phone recharging, etc. The kitchen is a prime place for overloaded circuits to throw breakers.
The only reason for so many outlets in a living area, on the other hand, is that they may have separate switches for lights, especially if they are computer-controlled.
You can never have too many outlets. NEVER.
When it starts to look like anaglypta wallpaper, I think you can
Maybe extension cords are illegal in Washington state.
Nope! I can confirm they are not. I live in Seattle.
But the homes of the 1940s and 1950s can be SO nutty. We live in a home built in 1950. It needed a lot of work to “make sense” after we moved in.
Oh, goody! I love shopping at outlets! Such great bargains! I’ll just grab my purse and …
Oh … THOSE outlets …
… Never mind …
Yuck, that little water feature is just plain creepy. Maybe the Witch of Endor will show and conjure some dead spirits from it, because seriously, doesn’t it look like something foul is a-brewing back there in garden?
My first thought was Model Trains. Then LAN parties. You know how those nerds are, all sitting around, playing Call of Duty online, together, locked in a room with nothing but their computers and Dorito’s, and Red Bull. What the picture doesn’t show is the big deadbolt the wife used to lock her husband and his buddies in there so she didn’t have to deal with them.
On the LAN party… you just described exactly what happens when my brother invites his friends over, even the food. (Except they’ve usually got some Mountain Dew, too.) If you venture down there about 7am after an all-night session, you will find them all unconscious and sprawled on various semi-padded surfaces amidst the labrynthine tangle of surge protectors, extension cords, LAN cables, and computer equipment. (They each bring their own highly customized and blinged-out desktops, high-res flat-panel monitors, and other accessories with them.) A room like this, properly equipped with tables, chairs, and air mattresses, would be paradise to them.
Nah. Too many windows. The big bright thing in the sky makes it hard to see the screen.
That number of outlets is shocking.
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bwahahahaha!
I want some. Can I just buy the outlets?
Another legit reason: Fish room. Many aquarium hobbyists breed fish, and you need lots of places to plug in lights, filters, air hoses, and heaters. By the look of the decor, the installation of the outlets might very well predate the popularity of the powerstrip.
If that strip down the cetner of the room is actually a drain, there’s a good chance there were a bunch of aquariums in there.
Well, nix that idea. It’s actually an upstairs great room. Fish rooms are usually basement, or 1st floor on concrete slab. From the looks of the backyard, could be amateur botanist.
Yeah…but there’s a slight problem with the “bet they grow plants, perfectly legal plants!” assumption that I also made…they put in all those outlets, but didn’t think to enlarge the windows, or put in a skylight…but they did put in multiple overhead lights.
I mean, maybe…but botanists that were that dedicated to growing stuff indoors would presumably welcome a bit more natural light if they aren’t worried about people glimpsing what’s growing in there.
Actually, one of the guys that I know that has a fish room in his basement also has it set up to grow plants, mainly aftican violets if I remember correctly. It may or may not be legit, but the attempt at landscaping in the backyard does make me want to believe it was a legit hobby… plus it’s probably easier to add outlets than to blow bigger windows into a house. As it is, it looks like that room gets some decent natural light anyways…
Think of all of the things you can plug in when you add power strips to the room!!!!!
Actually, I can’t think of that many things to plug in …
Then you’ve never been to a the studio room (where the students have their drafting tables) in a collidge for architecture…. when I was there, the fire marshall was on our case about the power strips at least once a semester….. You need at least a light, then stuff nice to have is a radio/cd player, an electric pencil sharpener, mini coffee pot, mini fridge, maybe a couple microwaves shared between students…
And this is the electric room …
I agree grow-op definitely comes to mind. the part that gives me pause is that most electrical codes have a limit of 12 items for one 15 amp circuit (the usual for plugs) – so that the most you should have is 6 outlets per circuit.
To try to figure out which breaker to flip to turn off the power in that room would be a nightmare (if it was up to code). I am seeing at least 4 circuits.
On a side note I should probably return my electrical wiring book to the library.
POW-AH to the people
POW-AH to the people, right on!!
Did someone throw a packet of gelatine into the pond?
My ex was always putting furniture in front of the outlets. And I was always complaining about it.
This looks like they had a similar situation, only the husband had the know-how to say, “You don’t like that desk in front of the outlet? How about an outlet HERE! And HERE! And HERE!”
I have seen more than one room like that in the Seattle area, used for a home transcription business (which would take 3-4 outlets per transcriptionist).
I don’t know about the kitchen or the other rooms, but that first picture I immediately thought “Kick-ass sewing room!” My roommate (who owns the house) had our sewing room put on it’s own circuit, and there are if I remember right, 4 outlets per wall- two at roughly waist-level, and two down at the usual ankle-level. And there’s big banks of florescent lighting. Still, when we have a work weekend or classes or other group event, I sometimes wonder. We’ve got a lot of stuff plugged in there.
I think the LAN idea is another valid one. Makes sense to me.
I always said my house doesn’t have enough outlets…. now I know where they all went.
This house verifies anthropogenic climate change — the amount of electricity that must have been used by the previous occupants came from the complete mountaintop removal of half of West Virginia. Or given that this is in Washington, most of the boreal forests in Canada.
Seattle’s mostly hydroelectric, I believe. So it’s powered by squished fish.
grow-op, model trains, fishroom, whatever: I just wanna know what their monthly electric bill cost!
The room is describe as an artist’s studio – each artist would seem to get three power outlets each. For a computer lab or LAN party, you would need outlets in pairs; one for the computer and one for the screen, and it is preferable to have these above desk height. It would seem suitable for an aquarium – each tank would need a heater, a oxygenator and lighting (UV lamp) – these would need to be kept away from each other. I thought maybe a home hairdresser, but each station would need a table and mirror. A model train room might be possible, but they usually have a centralized controller which is wired to all the little signals and junctions.
Maybe it is Ann Summers’s house
All RIGHT! I live in Seattle – I can BUY this place! WOOOOOOOOOOT!
Note the light switch that is half in the shower in the bathroom picture. That’s a big, big no-no. I wonder how many other code violations there are in this place. My guess? Amateur electrician with OCD–just couldn’t stop putting in outlets!
My house was built by a mad electrician, who decided he’d been on enough (commercial) contracting jobs to know how to build his own house. We had a total of 2 spigots on a 7-acre property, but we have OUTLETS EVERY DAMN FOOT IN EVERY ROOM. And it’s thoroughly wired to allow for every one of those to be used.
Of course, he really didn’t know what he was doing aside from the electrical work (and even there, he did some bizarre things–light switches in weird places, and so on). Among other misunderstandings of how construction works, he put so much rebar in the foundation that we can’t get signals inside. Not radio, not TV, not cellular.
Someday my house will be featured on this site. I will probably submit it.
I have toured this house. It was used as an adult care facility, but they weren’t properly licensed. They had probably 8-10 beds up there, as well as a bunch of movable closets that could be placed inbetween beds.