In honor of Labor Day, I let you do the work.
Found by: Steve
This house, in Washington State, is yours for $154,900.
Loveliest comment, by Pablo, for being the first to point out my careless omission: I’m thinking ball pit.
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First!
Can’t find a house like that in Seattle for $154,000. Hell, ya can’t find a 1 bedroom/studio CONDO for that around here…
Because it is in Vancouver, and possibly a bit on the outskirts of Vancouver. A lovely bedroom community of Portland, OR!
I’m thinking ball pit.
This. And kids not allowed, either.
This was my thought as well. But without the urine.
I guess great minds all think alike, because I instantly thought ball pit (without Chuckie-Cheese’s e-coli and rotavirus.)
Why isn’t ball pit one of the answers, come on! XD
Agreed.
Both with the question, and the idea of filling the conversation pit with hollow plastic balls.
+1
Same here!
That was my first thought.
Or maybe a net over the top and just leave the kids in there…
Sign me up for the ball pit
(Maybe naked jello wrestling on Saturday nights?)
Really? Jelly wrestling in what appears to be a flocked pit? Possibly carpeted, but looks flocked to me. Anyhow, nothing that will smell good after it has been wet/jellified. And the horror of what lurks at the bottom of a ball-pit makes me queazy. It would be like the bottom of a swimming pool BUT WORSE because you can’t see it to clean it, and it is almost entirely used by small children. I think I need to shower now, just thinking about the horror of it all.
But if it’s your own ball pit, you can control who uses it, and clean it as often if you want.
Of course I was going to remove the carpet before putting in the jello, do you think I’m mad?
Or maybe just use a tarp or something…
I agree.
Yes, colorful plastic balls.
Ball pit, definitely.
Very this. XKCD, anyone?
agreed.
Yep, that was my first thought as well.
Ballpool too
*Pops head up from under brightly-colored plastic balls*
Ba-Zinga!
*dives back under*
Another vote for ball pit- with a slide on the side.
definitely vote ball pit. http://xkcd.com/150/
Argh! You stole my very original idea!
Ah, the above-ground sunken living room. So popular in the early 80s. They would have caught on but people also realized that mullets were popular too, and God™ forbid we make that mistake again.
Definitely crocodiles. Door-to-door salesmen and political campaigners are no longer a problem.
It’s such an uncouth shape. Normally that sort of pit holds a ridiculously large-screen tv and comfy couches, but with that big angle of wall jutting into it, I can’t picture a setup that would work.
I think I used to live in a house by that architect!
I would put my drum kit there. I bet the acoustics would be most excellent!
=D
I would fill it with plastic blow-up furniture and fish themed decor!
My first response was kind of ,meh!, and then I thought no, it has possibilities, so…
I’d fill it with comfortable yet stylish furniture and art / decorative objects that would enhance the decor and create a welcoming ambiance for humans as well as kitties (and doggies if I had any). I’d also landscape the yard in such a way that it would present a lovely view all year round.
Grown up size ball pit. Definitely a ball pit.
I could convert it into a giant litter box! Then I could adopt SO many more kitties! There’s NEVER enough kitties!!
You don’t need cats to have a huge litter box. You may need a bigger scooper though. Your entire house will smell like spring flowers and poo.
Hmmm…the garage roof seems to have sprouted blue tarp shingles during the photo shoot. That can’t be good…
Inflatable anyone? Like bounce houses and what not? Either that or a pit that ya can jump in for defense for nerf gun wars.
I keep thinking of the trip hazard. Someone walking and talking, and boom! Shin hits the outcropping and then head first into the pit.
(I actually saw someone do that at a museum last week, he was talking and looking at the exhibits and nailed the upholstered bench… fortunately he was not too hurt, and his companions had a good laugh)
The trip hazard is the first thing I thought of, too. Where I grew up, building codes say you have to have a rail around an outside deck if it’s more than one step up from ground level. So much for cool “open” designs, but it does cut down on accidents/injuries. If any situation ever called for using common sense in design – i.e., putting in a railing – this living room is it. Otherwise, it’s just… the pits. And a real headache, too.
I thought of that, then imagined sitting in a comfy couch in the sunken area, watching TV, when BLAP! my cat, going 100 mph, leaps off the outcropping and onto my unsuspecting head.
The bloodstains would never come out of the carpet.
The trip hazard came to my mind too, but that’s why you turn it into a giant ball pit, so you have something fun to land on!
I’d fill it to the brim with tons of really skwarshy pillows. And maybe some whipped cream. And the Chippendales. Definitely the Chipendales…
On second thought… Keep the Chippendales and whipped cream but ditch the pillows and go with butterscotch pudding instead. Yeah, I know, a mess. But I’d be replacing the carpet anyway so I thought, what the heck, go with the *real* fantasy!
I’m not sure a Chippendale would colour co-ordinate terribly well with butterscotch pudding, perhaps they’d be better in strawberry or raspberry with their tendency to be kind of salmon colour rather than people colour.
actually i think it has potential to be a very nice location for a decent sushi dinner with traditional japanese seating. a geisha could bring you sake from the bar, it’s right there but getting up from the floor is such a hassle.
Ball pit (adult only), pillow pit with chipendales or sand + music maker (sound of waves and stuff).
Or instead of pillow something like tribbles, yeah, nice cuddly but no-mess tribble-like furry balls.
Squishables!
Kitteh litter. Gotta fill it with kitteh litter for mah litter kittehs.
another vote for ball pit. The $ I could make babysitting would MORE than pay for regular cleaning.
My adult answer is that if I were forced to live with this redonkulous sunken absurdity, I would rip out the horrific blue carpeting, teak it up, and make the Ikea best of it. My real answer is, I’d drop a room-wide air mattress in there, with lots of big squishy pillows, and make it a diving station!
One more vote for “ball pit”, please!
Make that two. I’m surprised that ball pit wasn’t one of the options.
I would fill it with pillows … large floor pillows and little pillows and all sizes inbetween …
I’m thinking, giant shark sleeping bags (actual product) and other aquatically themed furniture, like the ‘shark bean bag chair’.
And then have a helicopter t-rex suspended over the top, holding up the TV in its winch.
I’d fill it with turtles and tortoises : ) (I think the blue plastic tarp on the roof accounts for the reasonable price…)
inflatable furniture sounds good, and beach balls
Nacho cheese.
Pillows, big fluffy pillows and down blankets.
Rubber duckies
Yet another vote for ball pit!
Brightly colored machine tools! (Oh, wait. Wrong joke.)
Marshmallows.
Creamed corn.
I agree with ball pit. Jello wrestling would be fun, but not with that…covering stuff…
Ball pit, duh.
ball pit. Brightly colored plastic balls.
ANACONDA BALL PIT!! if you don’t know what this is, you suck!
You’re all so silly. Just fill it with water and enjoy your indoor pool and do your laps every day.
*splash*
yea!! POOOOOOL!!
Bubbles and strippers.
Oh, Kitteh luv the pit, so comfy for stretching out full length. Kitteh no-kill shelter rescue house!
I was thinking kitteh beds/toys and the kids could finally have their own room!
Nerf balls, or foam blocks like they have at the YMCA in the pit under the gymnastic equipment.
though Kitteh shelter is such a generous and loving idea, I have to be honest and admit that, like almost everyone else on here, I went giddy with the idea of my own ball pit!!! Make it deeper, and, yes, adults only. Non-peeing-in-pants adults…
Gravy. And also anacondas.
Here’s yet another vote for an adult ball pit. I think I’d put a railing around it though because I’m a klutz and would end up face first in the pit on a midnight snack run.
BALL PIT!
It’s been said before, but I voted in the poll so I shall fulfill my duty:
It’s obviously made for a ball pit!
Wait until the first heavy rain floods the living room; Voila- an indoor pool!
I’m definitely thinking jello. Then any and all disputes would be settled by jello wrestling.
As hideous as that house is, its a great buy in that neighborhood. There are a lot of people out there who really don’t give a s**t about what a house looks like and this is the house for them. If it wasn’t so ugly in that neighborhood in that condition it would be worth 250 grand instead of 150.
A ball pit!!!!!!!!!!
Ball pit, ball pit, ball pit (said ten times fast.)
blueberry jell-o, and love.
in that order.
Chocolate pudding!!!
House boys that is definitely what I would put in there!
those square foam blocks… like a ball pit, only softer..
That would be fun! I didn’t think of that.
BALL PIT!!!!!!
It’s a conversation *ball* pit… Every living room needs a ball pit.
Big fluffy pillows, weed, and Shpongle.
I want this house, only because it would make my life complete to have a ball pit.
I would fill it with something like Glitter or nacho cheese.
yes BALLPIT
I would fill the pit with pillows. Suede, microfiber, velvet pillows. And teddy bears. And little round tables with sunken tealight holders. And faux fur blankies. I would call it fluffy, and it would be mine. And it would be my fluffy.
Poofy pillows and cats- looooots of fluffy cats.
Or in the realm of ball pits, tons and tons of those fluffy ball-shaped pillows- enough to cushion the blow when throwing oneself on the floor – and cats.
Trampoline, my own indoor trampoline….. forget the balls, I’d raise the walls and fill it with packing peanuts, or ooooooo, wall it all in, and make one of those “real-life theateres” with the seats that move and jolt, with tv screens on all sides and surround sound! and things that spray water and smoke. Like that thing at the St. Louis Zoo.
oh, the endless ideas.
You know, I’m thinking I should have read the poll a bit more carefully….
I would put the rubber covered tugboat they used to have in the center of the Tacoma Mall in there. Matter of fact…..it would be the same shade of blue carpet they used to have…..
RUBBER DUCKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOTSA RUBBER DUCKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!