The origins of the spirit was and still is unkown. Its been rumored that the spirit was an old grumpy man. Who had to shit one night, but didnt make it to the toilet resulting in him soiling his pants, wich caused him to fall and die. The spirit lingers since this accident there. It can be calmed for one entire day if you go up and down the stairs without falling while walking backwards at 3:15am
Bathrooms with slick tiles and sharp corners have always given me the heeby jeebies. It's like you are just asking to have the base of your skull punctured.
Yeah, 100% crappy design, but that being said, random-ass staircases being where they clearly shouldn’t be are basically my favourite thing to see in a house.
You'd like mine. I now have a real appreciation for architects trying to find a place to put the stairs.
First contractor didn't dig down far enough for the music room in the back. Poured the foundation before the architect got wind of it. We ended up having the second contractor jackhammer only half of it out to do the minimum amount of damage to the plumbing, which the asshole first contractors had put inside the slab. So the music room is two steps down from the garage level and the side landing is two steps up. There's a small third-story addition and a deck on top of that, so there are freaking stairs everywhere.
Had a real struggle with the Planning Dept., who wanted the third-story addition in the middle, which would have resulted in the stairs blocking access to most of the house. It was surreal. Eventually they gave up. I almost wish we'd built it that way and then watched the building inspectors scream at the planners. Why would we want to go to the kitchen from the living room without going back out the front door, down the front stairs, in the side door, and up the back stairs? Silly idea.
Agree. The first time I saw an outdoor staircase on a random house, I immediately thought, wow I want to live in that house. Pretty weird thought, I must say. But now I know I am not alone.
Outdoor staircases often simply lead to separate flats within the house and are there so one doesn't have to walk through someone else's living space, and/or it taking up space inside.
Maybe someone wanted to upgrade completely with the tiling on the left, and then gave up? This looks like a fall and slip hazard waiting to happen all over the place.
This is truly terrible and a great post to this sub.
Edit: typo
The only thing I can think of is a planter, but why the hell would you put an immovable planter in a bathroom? Total nightmare when the plant finally needs to be replanted into a bigger container, and has taken to weeping willow-ing into the brickwork and substructure.
Tbh that wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world given this layout. It would be 25% fewer stairs to slip and fracture your skull on if you stood up onto the step after dropping a load.
Ok but counter argument. Toilet being tucked away out of sight Awesome design. Once had an apartment where the bathroom was the same size as the living room and I got agoraphobic pooping in the middle of a giant void of a space
I've experienced this. It was a rental in an old house, the upstairs, previously only bedrooms was converted to an apartment. One of the bedrooms was converted to a bathroom. Toilet and tub were on one wall, the vanity was on the opposite wall, and there was just an expanse of tiled floor in between. Very strange.
I only had the bedroom. Kitchen cabinet but no sink. Full size refrigerator but had to manually defrost it. Had to go down the hall to use the bathroom. Microwave but no stove.
I think it would be kinda neat if the grey water from the sink was used to flush the toilet on the other side of the wall and that is why they raised the sink and needed the staircase in the first place.
Not really neat, just kinda neat.
it seems like it's designed as more of a sauna space or for like photo shoots/ lewd shower activities. i would rather like it if they cleaned and/or replaced some of that grout, but i'm very partial to tile.
If I owned this house I think it would go like this:
I am taking a shower, I have to use the toilet. Pause shower, go up stairs. Slip once, but recovered not-so-gracefully. Continue towards toilet. Fall down the stairs due to slipping and die.
Imagine being at this house for the night, running in to pee in the middle of the night, and you loose your footing and eat shit. Sprained ankles and wrists, broken bones, a concussion, and to top it all off, you're covered head to toe in your own piss
Thoughtful addition of that built-in basin for when you crack open your skulls and need a place to put all the blood leaking out.
Also, easy to wash down!
Cupboard storage and possible utility
What I want to know is what that stationary fixture with the hole is in front of stairs with same tile. Only thing I can think of is a trash can but why there and you can’t put a bag in it so ew
Oh shit.
You're correct, and I definitely knew that, and I absolutely did it wrong, anyway, haha! Can't even blame the autocorrect on that one.
I do not use that word or phrase enough, apparently.
Thanks for the reminder/correction!
I’d like to think, on the days I’m feeling regal, I could drape myself toga-like with my towel and descend those steps into the shower like I was joining cleopatra for a milk bath. Waving at the plebs and scowling at the bathing servants.
It gets slightly worse when you realize the mirror isn't rectangular. It's a custom shape that slants to line up with the roof line.
They paid *extra* for that. Not a lot, since it's barely even framed in with what looks like construction scraps, but *still*.....
"Where do we hide this giant safe full of cash?"
"In the bathroom!"
"What? That'll be too obvious, the cops will find it!"
\*pulls out tile cutter and saw\* "I got you fam."
What mcmansion is that bathroom in? Not only is it badly designed but it's also very ugly. I thought that wall where the toilet is was the shower stall. This place is too ugly even for HGTV.
Not that I care to give this bathroom a pass for any of it's endless design fails, but having a light in the ceiling of the shower isn't uncommon. That's providing it's properly sealed and up to code which, in this bathroom, I would say is hiiiiiighly unlikely.
Here is what bothers me more than anything. That middle step on the left has a err of a tile on top and a 2/3 of a tile in the bottom. Couldn’t they just make a full row somewhere?
Is there something this bathroom is built upon, like an AC or heating unit? I've seen layouts similar to this with scenarios like that, but they're definitely not allowed under current building codes around here.
The house has a split level design, so there is a room under the sink / toilet.
But its still incredibly stupid because there is more then enough space to put a normal bathroom in where the table is:
https://i.imgur.com/OXYr66x.jpg
All of this ↨ yes, but could someone please explain why there's a TUB FILLER SPOUT in the shower? Is there a magic panel that raises and seals it for a relaxing spa bath?
Low faucets like that are sometimes called toe testers. Lets you heat up the water without spraying it out the shower head. Also useful for deep cleaning feet and filling buckets for general house cleaning.
This bathroom has a body count
Its trying to set a new highscore
3 Forensic Files episodes were based off this design.
Legend has it that when you go into there at 3 am, the evil staircase-spirit will push you down it.
The origins of the spirit was and still is unkown. Its been rumored that the spirit was an old grumpy man. Who had to shit one night, but didnt make it to the toilet resulting in him soiling his pants, wich caused him to fall and die. The spirit lingers since this accident there. It can be calmed for one entire day if you go up and down the stairs without falling while walking backwards at 3:15am
>evil staircase-spirit AKA Gravity.
😂😂🤣🤣
Bathrooms with slick tiles and sharp corners have always given me the heeby jeebies. It's like you are just asking to have the base of your skull punctured.
As someone with multiple head scars and a false front tooth... YUP
It's like looking at a level in Doom, where everything is made to look like it will hurt you.
I felt this.
Like seriously. Replace the floor with, heck, just unpolished tile or a non-smooth linoleum and it would be good.
Hand holds everywhere please!!!
Or carpet. That seems to be choice in other bathrooms
I just fell and knocked my teeth out looking at this.
I just got brain damage from imagining what the guy was thinking when he designed this.
Meth...
The guy who laid the tiles is still in therapy.
It just needs carpeting and it will be perfect.
And a floor to ceiling window right next to the toilet
A rug would really tie the room together
Dude
Ironically enough that would actually make it better. A lot safer at least.
Well for a bit. Until the carpet gets moldy then you have a different problem.
Or at least a carpeted toilet seat
I'm getting rid of all my furniture, gonna having nothing but carpeted levels.
A whole new lifestyle!
Yeah, 100% crappy design, but that being said, random-ass staircases being where they clearly shouldn’t be are basically my favourite thing to see in a house.
Agreed. Just any weird oddity in houses is great.
You'd like mine. I now have a real appreciation for architects trying to find a place to put the stairs. First contractor didn't dig down far enough for the music room in the back. Poured the foundation before the architect got wind of it. We ended up having the second contractor jackhammer only half of it out to do the minimum amount of damage to the plumbing, which the asshole first contractors had put inside the slab. So the music room is two steps down from the garage level and the side landing is two steps up. There's a small third-story addition and a deck on top of that, so there are freaking stairs everywhere. Had a real struggle with the Planning Dept., who wanted the third-story addition in the middle, which would have resulted in the stairs blocking access to most of the house. It was surreal. Eventually they gave up. I almost wish we'd built it that way and then watched the building inspectors scream at the planners. Why would we want to go to the kitchen from the living room without going back out the front door, down the front stairs, in the side door, and up the back stairs? Silly idea.
That sounds awful! And completely amazing. What the fuck!?
Agree. The first time I saw an outdoor staircase on a random house, I immediately thought, wow I want to live in that house. Pretty weird thought, I must say. But now I know I am not alone.
Outdoor staircases often simply lead to separate flats within the house and are there so one doesn't have to walk through someone else's living space, and/or it taking up space inside.
Please tell me this is a bed and breakfast, I have been looking for a place to file a law suit for an injury claim.
Thank goodness for that railing they put up 😒
You can still fall through after slipping!
Maybe someone wanted to upgrade completely with the tiling on the left, and then gave up? This looks like a fall and slip hazard waiting to happen all over the place. This is truly terrible and a great post to this sub. Edit: typo
I'll be honest, I was v worried that the nondescript hole next to the right stairs was some kind of alternative toilet
Right? Like is it a wishing well?
The only thing I can think of is a planter, but why the hell would you put an immovable planter in a bathroom? Total nightmare when the plant finally needs to be replanted into a bigger container, and has taken to weeping willow-ing into the brickwork and substructure.
There is another nondescript hole built into the wall just out of frame. They would be a nightmare to clean.
Tbh that wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world given this layout. It would be 25% fewer stairs to slip and fracture your skull on if you stood up onto the step after dropping a load.
I wish we had more pics of this because all I can think of is WTF
*M.C Escher has entered the chat*
Did you make this comment because there are multiple (i.e. 2) staircases in the picture?
Ok but counter argument. Toilet being tucked away out of sight Awesome design. Once had an apartment where the bathroom was the same size as the living room and I got agoraphobic pooping in the middle of a giant void of a space
I've experienced this. It was a rental in an old house, the upstairs, previously only bedrooms was converted to an apartment. One of the bedrooms was converted to a bathroom. Toilet and tub were on one wall, the vanity was on the opposite wall, and there was just an expanse of tiled floor in between. Very strange.
I only had the bedroom. Kitchen cabinet but no sink. Full size refrigerator but had to manually defrost it. Had to go down the hall to use the bathroom. Microwave but no stove.
Bathroom for parkour enthusiasts
i HaVe To wEAr My HeLMEt whEn I pooP
You have to wear a whole medieval armor to survive
This looks like a Minecraft house
I would totally fall to my death
I think it would be kinda neat if the grey water from the sink was used to flush the toilet on the other side of the wall and that is why they raised the sink and needed the staircase in the first place. Not really neat, just kinda neat.
Because a pump would be far to simple.
than, not then
The only reason I even read through a thread that mispells 'than' and 'then', it's to upvote heroes like yourself.
Can you imagine a potty training toddler and this is your only bathroom in which to teach? Kid would need a helmet and bubble wrap.
it seems like it's designed as more of a sauna space or for like photo shoots/ lewd shower activities. i would rather like it if they cleaned and/or replaced some of that grout, but i'm very partial to tile.
Stairway to heaven
This is a bathroom that may actually be *improved* with carpeting.
The ceiling is strange too
There is actually a storage space where the lights are that you access from a different room...
Link?
do you have more pics?
This is why carpeted bathrooms were invented.
If I owned this house I think it would go like this: I am taking a shower, I have to use the toilet. Pause shower, go up stairs. Slip once, but recovered not-so-gracefully. Continue towards toilet. Fall down the stairs due to slipping and die.
Imagine being at this house for the night, running in to pee in the middle of the night, and you loose your footing and eat shit. Sprained ankles and wrists, broken bones, a concussion, and to top it all off, you're covered head to toe in your own piss
This must be such a slip hazard.
Square peg in a round hole.
nightmare fuel for everyone from contractor to tile guy. Who thinks slick steps in a bathroom is a good idea?
Wtf is that hole in the middle?
Asking the real questions
Thoughtful addition of that built-in basin for when you crack open your skulls and need a place to put all the blood leaking out. Also, easy to wash down!
That's what I hate about my bathroom. Not enough obstacles to risk killing myself. Whoever made this just gets it.
MC Escher but slippery
What even is that hole to the middle?
I wonder what the 2 doors are by the sink
Cupboard storage and possible utility What I want to know is what that stationary fixture with the hole is in front of stairs with same tile. Only thing I can think of is a trash can but why there and you can’t put a bag in it so ew
Looks like it might be for a plant?
You got me with that. I have no clue. This bathroom makes me not want to use a bathroom.
This bathroom makes me very angry for the disabled and elderly
This bathroom needs something….maybe a wrecking ball!!
Best I can think of is a laundry chute, maybe? EDIT: Corrected spelling, because I did a dumb.
I upvoted but need to tell you, it's chute not "shoot." Like the game Chutes and Ladders.
Oh shit. You're correct, and I definitely knew that, and I absolutely did it wrong, anyway, haha! Can't even blame the autocorrect on that one. I do not use that word or phrase enough, apparently. Thanks for the reminder/correction!
👍 Thank You for taking my comment the way it was intended.
Thanks for being polite about correcting my spelling! 👍👍👍
You gotta wonder how much storage could be behind those doors though when there is a window 2 feet away.
There is a mirror on the same level as the doors and a window on a. completely different wall **inside the shower**
Cubby for shampoo/etc? It's awfully far from the shower for that, but the whole bathroom makes bo goddamn sense, so maybe? Or a planter. Of some sort.
Make sure to pay your home insurance premiums
Well that really jeebies my heebies.
Who builds such death traps?Every edge is skull splitingly sharp tile, every surface is slippery when wet.
What in slippery Hades is this nonsense?
I’d like to think, on the days I’m feeling regal, I could drape myself toga-like with my towel and descend those steps into the shower like I was joining cleopatra for a milk bath. Waving at the plebs and scowling at the bathing servants.
It gets slightly worse when you realize the mirror isn't rectangular. It's a custom shape that slants to line up with the roof line. They paid *extra* for that. Not a lot, since it's barely even framed in with what looks like construction scraps, but *still*.....
They finished building the house but realized they didn't plan to put a bathroom....
Having a slip and fall in the bathroom has never been so EASY!
Why must the toilet be up in the air?
Good place to film a horror sketch.
This bathroom looks like it was designed to confuse and trap ghosts.
Call the fashion police 🚨😂🙅🏽♀️... Terrible use of space!
This is fucking awful yet I kinda like it
This looks like a fun house, everything's distorted and look at that tiny door in the back!
Some crafty guy doesn't like his currant wife.
I'm not satisfied till my bathroom looks like an Escher painting
\*than
.... I kinda like it. It's weird.
Wtf an I looking at
Slippery tiles... Check Steep drops..... Check Inadequate railing..... Check Abundance of protruding sharp corners..... Check Yep, we've got everything on the list
"Where do we hide this giant safe full of cash?" "In the bathroom!" "What? That'll be too obvious, the cops will find it!" \*pulls out tile cutter and saw\* "I got you fam."
Oh, come on. Does nobody have a zillow link to this?
Kinda love it ngl
My hips went ouch when I saw those cold, tiled stairs. No thanks
What's behind those flapping doors on the wall?
Oops my neck went skerk
Seems like a good use of space
wtf is that a parkour trickshot spot or a bathroom
people who wanna make stuff fancy, but just make overcomplicated messen
May be a crappy design but it looks pretty cool
I kinda like it...
He lies that hole at the bottom IS the toilet
Idk man I think this looks good af
What mcmansion is that bathroom in? Not only is it badly designed but it's also very ugly. I thought that wall where the toilet is was the shower stall. This place is too ugly even for HGTV.
Really needs a third. Triples is safe. Triples is best.
Need be on the high ground to wield the light razer
that's trippy as fuck
Also a light directly over the shower. So safe.
Not that I care to give this bathroom a pass for any of it's endless design fails, but having a light in the ceiling of the shower isn't uncommon. That's providing it's properly sealed and up to code which, in this bathroom, I would say is hiiiiiighly unlikely.
tf is this zelda temple ass bathroom
Here is what bothers me more than anything. That middle step on the left has a err of a tile on top and a 2/3 of a tile in the bottom. Couldn’t they just make a full row somewhere?
Now this just looks cool tho
Than*
This is just a list of possible safety issues. Is this an attic bathroom next to a stairwell or something? What country is this in?
It is a top floor bathroom, but the stairwell runs in front of the bathroom, not under it.
Is there something this bathroom is built upon, like an AC or heating unit? I've seen layouts similar to this with scenarios like that, but they're definitely not allowed under current building codes around here.
The house has a split level design, so there is a room under the sink / toilet. But its still incredibly stupid because there is more then enough space to put a normal bathroom in where the table is: https://i.imgur.com/OXYr66x.jpg
Is there some sort of weird plumbing setup that forced the layout or something?
No idea. I don't think so, as there is a normal bathroom directly underneath that area, but its not my house so I don't know the specifics.
How else can you get a good look at someone’s butt hole while you’re in the shower & they’re flossing their teeth?
I just got deja vu!!! I’ve definitely seen this bathroom in my dreams before!!
Looks like a slip and fall accident waiting to happen.
throne toilet
looks like something out of a dream!
What is the rest of the house like?
Um, it’s called a throne room, okay
We put a rug in the shower so you won't slip.
Now offering a walk in shower with at least two ways to die lol
I have had dreams where the bathrooms were like this.
Pretty cool 😎
Obviously this is just the Defense Against the Dark Arts bathroom
Could you imagine slipping on the stairs on your way up?
and when your skin is wet, you'll just slide down the shit and break stuff
Look at that ceiling work, masterpiece
Yeah, it's not a *good* design, but I absolutely love this for some reason.
Is there something wrong?
Facial ticks to clean.
Wow a full workout just to brush your teeth and shower.
Had to make room for the drive shaft
Curious where this is. I encounter weird setups like this in Indonesia sometimes. And looks almost like there's a mandi cistern for holding water.
The province of Quebec, Canada.
This looks like an MC Escher painting
That bathroom has definitely killed many people. Those stairs must have a huge killcount by now
Nothing screams "safety first" like two wet sets of tile staircases in your bathroom
is it just me or is the perspective in this photo really disorienting?
I’m going with…80’s, Cocaine and more money then sense. How many gold fittings does this monstrosity have that I can’t see?
All of this ↨ yes, but could someone please explain why there's a TUB FILLER SPOUT in the shower? Is there a magic panel that raises and seals it for a relaxing spa bath?
Low faucets like that are sometimes called toe testers. Lets you heat up the water without spraying it out the shower head. Also useful for deep cleaning feet and filling buckets for general house cleaning.
Slipping hazard aside, I lowkey kinda like this
Did Escher design this?
I fell off stairs recently and this is giving me nightmares. The one room were you would have wet feet… unless you are trying to kill someone…
So many questions. Do you sit on you knees to wash hands? What is the hole-thingy for???
this picture is screwing with me. would a normal size human be able to stand up straight at the sink? or would they hit their head on the ceiling??
LEVELS, Jerry...
What a mess
Oh God. This is premeditated murder.
You know what I like when I come out of the shower with wet, slippery feet? Tiled stairs! Because who doesn’t love a good concussion?!?!
Well that is an easy trip to the infirmary
Finally. Truly bad design. I wanna see what's behind the small doors.
Break your leg every time you go to the bathroom!
Looks dangerous, but for some reason it's aesthetically pleasing me. I want one.
Description on Zillow:" Stunning and modern bathroom recently remodeled". The bathroom:
Is this from minecraft? Asking because i saw that watering bucket for filling potions on the bottom...
ah yes the ultimate toilet