Strange & Unusual Houses

[rosy]

I mean, I can see the idea of keeping the holding cell because it's a former copshop, but just because you can do a thing doesn't mean you should.

[sally maclennane]

I think stuff like that can be really hard to remove. We had an office that had once been a bank and we had to keep the enormous safe because it would have been too expensive to remove it.

[Little My]

Very unusual! Is that the bathroom door off of the cell? Perhaps it would make a good crook book nook.

[Morganna]

It's horrible :lol:

Couldn't they cover the bars with panels or lath and plaster, and make it a walk-in cupboard/library/pantry or something? It's hard to tell from the photos what would work best, but that gives me serial killer vibes.

[Bat Macdui]

I saw that one Twitter. You would just have to make it an actual feature. :lol: Maybe put some fairy lights through the bars? :eek:

[Marth]

Ita horrible. Imagine all the distressed and fucked up people held in that over the years. They could have removed the bars even if they had to keep the frame.

[Rebel Pebble]

That is such a horrible flat. :cry: Even if it didn't have the cell in it! Just those two windows for that massive room? It's going to be so gloomy. And the ubiquitous wall-wall grey palette doesn't help.

[Mountain Goat]

That makes me think of You (the tv series, not...you). That's a dream flat for some twisted bastard isn't it? Ugh.

[Ruby]

I think you're all missing the point that it's definitely some sort of fetish thing. Yes, it used to be a police station, but anyone normal would have removed or clad it or something.

I knew a bloke once who had a bed made out of scaffolding that had pulleys all over it.

[emma_p]

Did you know him well, Ruby?!

[ParisGal]

:lol:

It's the sort of thing that I can see doing well as a novelty AirBnB, but not as a home. Plus yes, they've gone full in on the prison aesthetic!

[Ruby]

Did you know him well, Ruby?!

Yes. But he was gay, if that's what you're asking. :))

[Derek Nimmo]

What IS that in picture 12 - a batman costume? A blow up cat? Enquiring minds need to know

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[ParisGal]

:lol: I guess a totally normal cat statue that's been distorted almost as much as the wardrobe doors in the main bedroom :))

The kitchen looks like a quality rendering from salesroom software!

[Rebel Pebble]

I think it's just a rotund porcelain cat ornament and the perspective/probably wide angle lens shot has done a number on it. :))

[Derek Nimmo]

I guess so - a disappointingly mundane explanation :))

[Little My]

:))

There's also some sort of deathtrap sitting on the stairs, which I find far more bizarre.

[Derek Nimmo]

Swiping through the pictures, so far so normal (if overpriced) and then picture #9! Such appalling use of space. And don't get me started on the dining room ceiling :lol:

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[Duophonic]

I once looked at an upper conversion with a functioning shower cubicle in the corner of the master bedroom. No raised platform just plonked in the corner with the bedroom carpet fitted around it.

[Derek Nimmo]

I once stayed in a B&B in Barrow that had that set up. All I could think of all night was how many people must have pissed in it :shudders: