Okay, fine. I was all, it’s weird to have a slide in your house! What wacky things Alaskans do during their 14 months of winter! But no, it turns out it’s happening in the lower 48, as well. But I think this house used to have a little more character, but the owners slapped up a coat of Sherwin Williams Rental White before putting the house on the market. Let’s see if we can figure out what it used to look like… ah, here we go:
Yeah, it’s kind of weird. But it could be worse. You should see what their neighbors have done with their Hungry Hungry Hippos backyard.
Found by: Jon
Loveliest comment, by Anodean: They carefully omit a picture of the wall facing the bottom of the chute – which though it was also hastily painted white, still bears indelible impressions of the disastrous luge experiment.
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Oh, I’m so having that arrangement when I do my loft conversion. Perhaps not with the snakes and ladders paint work though.
This house makes me happy. The little secret loft nook makes me especially happy. That so would have been my pirate reading cave (do pirates read?) when I was a teenager.
Sweeet! I like the built in cabinets and little nooks here and there!
Arrr arrrr arrrr me ‘arties. But what is that silver stick in the downstairs “nook”? Sure it’s not Long John Silver….?
Sorry.
I had a moment’s hope it was a fireman’s pole, but closer inspection revealed that it was just leaning against the wall.
Cool loft nook aside, I am suspicious of a room to which you can enter, but never, ever leave…
Lol, I was wondering about that, Angel. But after looking at the whole listing, I think you enter (and leave) the room through that door you can see in the back (behind where the kid’s elbow is visible). The slide is the exit for the loft, which you enter by climbing the ladder on the wall. Nifty, eh?
They carefully omit a picture of the wall facing the bottom of the chute – which though it was also hastily painted white, still bears indelible impressions of the disastrous luge experiment.
*nosebeverage*
I think I love you.
This is the best mother-in-law suite ever!
Oops.
When I said that I wanted a wheelchair ramp to the inlaw suite, I didn’t mean for it to be that steep.
Poor mother-in-law is recovering in the hospital …
Did anyone else look at the satellite picture? What the heck is going on in the neighbor’s front yard? Artistic mini crop circle?
I really, reeeeaaallly like this house, even if it *does* have a slide. After the first house-with-slide, I was questioning; “Really? Is that really a slide? Indoors? Really? And not attached to the spiral staircase? Or is it really a wheelchair ramp, photographed from a terrible angle to make it look so steep?”
Nope. Really a slide.
However, the reading nook, built in shelves/cabinets, and nooks are GREAT!!
Those black scuff marks on the “slide” look strangely unsettling…
I thought so too. And I swear there were more of them when I came back and looked at the picture again.
What the heck is that at the bottom of the stairs in your awesome photoshop picture?????
That’s my really bad attempt to put in one of the characters from the board game my kids have, of course.
I could tell what it was
You think a slide like that is not entertaining for kids and adults alike? There is a pizza place in Colorado Springs, CO that has a slide also. It is great and when I go there with my family we have a blast waiting for our food to be ready. I’m not a spring chicken and it was fun for me. Don’t think I would advise a wheelchair ride down one though!
Reminds me of the time I went to play laser tag with a friend in a wheelchair. She did good with it, but pushing her up those ramps was quite the workout, and we had to be careful on the downhills!
Am I the only one that would consider actually painting a snakes and ladders board on that room?
Why didn’t they just install stairs that at the flick of a switch turn into a slide?
BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE TOO AWESOME TO WITNESS AND YOUR HEAD WOULD INSTANTLY EXPLODE!
There are a lot of cars in Portland with bumper stickers that say “Keep Portland Weird.” Apparently these people took it a little too seriously.
Has anyone noticed the creepy man sitting on the floor in the second picture? He’s waiting for you…
I swear this room was in an old sunset book on children’s rooms and play yards. I used to study the playrooms in that book and try to get my parents to warm up to the idea of an indoor slide, or a ladder. Now I have to climb a ladder to get to my bedroom in my apartment, and I am glad they never listened.
That looks fun!