When I saw these photos I was all set to get out my excellent Photoshop skills and put on a label saying that tube in the middle photo was a water slide from some other room. But no, I can’t do that. Why not? Because IT ACTUALLY IS. IT’S A WATER SLIDE GOING FROM THE MASTER BEDROOM TO THE POOL.
Why don’t all houses have water slides dumping you straight from your bedroom into your pool? Sure, it sounds fancy and bizarre, but think about it — a century ago if you told people that in the future we’d all be pooping in closets in our houses and liking it… wait. Let me start that over.
Take two: if you time traveled back a century and told people that in the year 2010 we all have indoor plumbing in the developed world, they’d be surprised, right? But it’s gone from being just for the rich to completely standard. (Note: I have done no research and this is all based on faint memories of The Great Brain books.) So why can’t indoor water slides be completely standard, too? And why can’t we not bother waiting until 2110, but get them now?
I have seen the future and it is indoor water slides. I can’t wait.
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First thought on the top photo: “It’s a crop circle!” The oddly painted “tail” of the parking spaces only confirms this impression.
But obviously this house wasn’t built by the “Signs” aliens. They’re allergic to water.
I visited the site where this listing was posted. They offer UK and overseas listings. The listing for the US give you no way to filter the listings except by price and amenities. You can ask for a waterside as opposed to an equestrian property, but you can’t specify that you’d prefer to live in Los Angeles vs. Manhattan.
I used to daydream about having a water slide from my bedroom (2nd floor, overlooking the pool) to the pool. Or just diving out the window, but I didn’t think I could clear the deck and it was the shallow end too.
THIS. IS. AWESOME.
Speaking as a mom, I think you can use your excellent photoshop skills to show the path of drippy footprints that will result as kids use the water slide again, and again, and again….
But this IS amazing.
I thought of that, too. Plus, it would be kind of a pain in the neck if you want to go down again and you have to go back up to your bedroom.. and yes, drip all along the way. But still worth it.. DEFINITELY!
They had something like this in the movie “Blank Check”. He had a waterslide going from his bedroom down into the pool outside. Ever since I saw that movie, I’ve been dreaming of this very thing!!
Nah, not a chance. People who would buy this house either
A) don’t have children
B) have children who are shuttled off to boarding school during the school year and summer camp all summer long. They’re not home long enough to get near the “shute”, esp. w/ the nannies about. 9_9
Besides, there would be several maids w/ the exclusive occupation of mopping the floors.
my first thought was the maids: how would they clean the inside of that waterslide — strap on full-body sponges and wheeeeeee!!!!?
OMFG I loved The Great Brain! *runs to Amazon*
Oh, the humidity!
Indeed! My nose twitches at the thought of chlorine.
Want! Just, not in England
The struggles to get my cat to take a bath are over! Just pop Mr. Tiddles in the hole and cover it with a piece of plywood. Done! (Eventually…)
LOL. that or get a enclosed shower with a showerhead on a hose set up.
Take 3: if you traveled back TWO hundred years… (yes that sounds more reasonable)
Love the closet comment!
I think this house has reached a new level of awesomeness previously unknown! Congratulation!
I agree — this is a Crowning Listing of Awesome.
(Puts on futurist hat, which is a very impressive hat, with lights)…
and sees… that in the year 2110, they will no longer need motorized alarm clocks that run away and hide, or even morning coffee – just an Amaze-o-Tilt-a-Bed. And a standard household water shute, of course, which goes without saying. Oh, brave new world, that has such…
Gack! Get away from me, futuristic peoples! If I live, I shall surely rediscover to you the meaning of “to sleep with the fishes!” (Hurls hat to ground and stamps until it stops arcing.)
The economy will crash before then…So dont bother, just survive
When I was a kid, I designed a round, underground house. But I failed to foresee the bedroom waterslide.
Can I live there?
“if you time traveled back a century and told people that in the year 2010 we all have indoor plumbing in the developed world, they’d be surprised, right? ”
Not in the least. By 1910 almost everyone in the developed world already had indoor plumbing – well over 95% in some countries – and it would have seemed completely plausible, even probable, to anyone at the time that the small percentage who didn’t would have it within twenty years, let alone a century. (If anything, they’d be shocked that we hadn’t colonized the moon by now.)
They didn’t know there was a war or a depression coming. They were living in the age of progress, where things could only get better.
You are a very serious person.
I actually respect that about her.
Hello, Killjoy. Nice to meet you.
I don’t know if you count turn-of-the-20th-century Finland as “the developed world”, but my ex-in-laws’ house from the 1950s had no indoor plumbing or electricity when it was built. They still have an outhouse attached to the outbuilding that houses the wood-burning sauna, and a covered well in the back yard.
Good point. Note to scholars: do not use this website as a resource for the history of plumbing.
I love this house! Now if only the outdoor pool sunk into the living room with glass walls like a big human aquarium…if that’s a pool. I can’t tell from these massively CG photos.
That would be AWESOME!
I’m thinking of my underwater body, cellulite and all, at eye level to the living room guests, and feeling quietly grateful that the walls aren’t glass.
I can’t decide whether to show this listing to my husband or not. He thinks an underground house with an unassuming little shack on top is the pinnacle of architecture design. Such a house also includes slides and fireman poles. I can’t believe he hasn’t thought of adding a water slide to the indoor pool yet.
The slide is awesome. What a wonderful way to make getting to the pool to do laps exciting and fun.
Shack, no. Police Box, YES!
But then I also think they should take the plans of the Starship Enterprise-D saucer section and build it as a giant hotel, partially underground like it had crashed as in Star Trek: Generations. Drive-in parking in the main shuttlebay.
Actually I think my husband stayed in a hotel like this in Japan. There was a skyscraper on top of it but the rest was as you describe.
At first I thought this was a retrofitted missile silo, but nope: it’s purpose-built. I’m not sure which way would be cooler.
Reminds me of that house that some folks came up for the comic strip character Dilbert.
Wouldn’t having a waterslide right by your headboard be really, really noisy? Or is there a way to turn it off.
And think of the water bill!
So cool – me want : ) Maids & gardeners included, of course!
I find myself wondering what it would be like sleeping in said bedroom … the constant water noise of the slide would have you in and out of the bathroom all night …
Type the address into maps.google.com and do a “street view”.
2 Millfield Court, Victoria Road, Hale, Cheshire, WA159BF
It’s not valid, unless it is super covert.
…that’s the AGENT’s address.
seems over in Great Britain. they do not list the address of the house for sale. but instead the address of the office that has the listing for sale.
rather a pain in the neck i say. not being able to see the location of the house in relation to religious, shopping, and other features near that listing.
What’s with the dot on the driveway, behind the parking spaces? Is it in case your chauffeur can’t figure out how to turn the car around unless the driveway appears to be a rotary? Is it where you’re supposed to put the wheelie bin so it can be properly emptied (and then run over)?
Steven got it right… these aren’t photos at all, they’re CG renderings. I wonder if this house even exists?
Because I can.
i really love it
In the top photo, something is very off. I think it’s already PhotoShopped. Compare all the shadows—trees, hedge, under and around the car—they aren’t in harmony with each other.
Methinks this is a huge hoax. Pretty cool idea, though.
I am 89% sure this is a cgi creation, and not real.
OK, someone here just is going to have to buy it so we can find out.
gee….. (finishes counting out piggybank one more time…..) I seem to be a little short this week: anybody wanna lend me a couple million pounds? pretty-please? I promise, I’m good for it!
Why would anyone CGI a scene from Meet Joe Black onto the (CGI) television?
I JUST THOUGHT OF THE WORST REASON TO HAVE THAT SLIDE!
Drunk parties.
Pass out with your shoes on, and you’re fair game.
Or worse…being hungover (possibly naked) and tripping down the slide (it does start in the bedroom)
Are we sure that’s a pool and not a horizontal StarGate?
It’s a 3d rendering (but it doens’t mean this house doesn’t exist)
wow. i would totally buy that. seriously, i’m in love with that house.
Via the real estate agent’s website I found a website devoted just to this house. There’s video, a news clip. It’s very CGI. …I skimmed through the video on mute, so I don’t know what they said about it.
http://www.perdu-bowdon.co.uk/index.html
What they’re saying is that it hasn’t been built yet – they’re rendered plans.
i will subscribe to any blog that drops a ‘the great brain’ reference. nice work.
Another GREAT movie with a water slide from the bedroom to the pool is “The Legend of Billie Jean” I don’t know how y’all missed that one. It shows itself in this clip around the 1:25 mark. Enjoy!
But where did they stash the pre-cogs?
http://homeinteriordesignthemes.com/2009/11/britains-first-underground-mansion-where-privacy-is-a-priority/
Apparently it just got planning approval late 2009.
HA! I, too, immediately thought of the Great Brain!
Ummm… hate to burst your bubble, but these photos SCREAM Photoshop. Notice the nice lens flare on the lamp that is conspicuously distorted. And don’t even get me started on the fakery that is the water…
There’s an ad in Jan 2010 Cheshire Life for this pad, St Margaret’s Road, Bowden at 2million quid.
http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=WA159BF&countryCode=GB#map=53.38415,-2.36206|16|4&bd=useful_information&loc=GB:53.38401:-2.36213:17|st%20margarets%20rd%20bowden|Saint%20Margaret%27s%20Road,%20Bowdon,%20Altrincham,%20Cheshire,%20England,%20WA14%202
About 12 miles from where I live (and about two million miles from my two bed terrace in Northwich!) it’s a posh road on the border of Alrincham and Hale, they most likely couldn’t get planning permission for an above ground modern building.
Aimed at the loaded football star market, with more money than taste, methinks.
FF
And of course the original listing, so you don’t have to wade through their site to find it: http://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/details/property/429380/for-sale/Bowdon-Cheshire.html
Aside from the fact that pools are more dangerous than guns…
All I can think of (whether real or Photoshopped) when looking at this is Troy McClure’s aqua-house that allows him to indulge his sexual proclivities for marine life .. Selma: “Is this a sham marriage?!” Troy, after short stunned pause: “Sure, baby. Is that a problem?”
It’s Bongo’s Dream House! (link not necessarily approved by Matt Groening)
I don’t want one: it would be a bugger to clean. And besides, why not just visit a real waterpark?
Whoa – does anyone else see the ghost using the water slide?
No?
Me either. Just asking.
I loved this level of Myst!
It seems you’re the only other person who recognized that the photos are 3d. I’d even peg the renderer as 3ds max 6+ and mental ray.
This is the freaking AWESOMEST house ever made. I want it even more than that colorful block apartment dedicated to Hellen keller. I swear by all that is architectural that I will someday will the lottery or make tons of money (doing something, even if it means selling my body or my mom) and I WILL buy this place. Or I will simply have a replica built for me to live in.
Perfect! A James Bond Villain Getaway!!!! Perfect for making plans, ruling the world, petting your cat, and an escape pod in the garden *hidden by the crop circle*
It makes me so happy that you read The Great Brain!
I’m waiting for Goldfinger to release the Sharks. Maybe I could get Bond’s attention first if I let more cleavage out…