The quirks of your home

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Every place I've lived has had its odd features, the interesting things that make it different from everywhere else. Our last apartment had the little compartment in the wall, about the size of a shoebox, which apparently used to house the doorbell, but was empty when we moved in. We put some random stuff in there.

Number-one quirk of our new apartment is that we have 2 shower heads and 2 faucets (both with seperate hot/cold knobs), one above the other, in the bathtub. Only one shower head and one faucet are actually functional. I'm guessing they wanted to install new fixtures, but were too lazy to take the old ones out.

What weird features does your home have?

― NA (Nick A.), Saturday, 3 January 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

The hot and cold taps are back-to-front; the toilet is outside; there is a little granny flat out the back.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 3 January 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

Several of the light switches work the wrong way round. The flat has 20 doors in it. The first part, inside the front door, clearly was once exterior - it has one of the exterior walkway lights on the ceiling, not running from my power. This part includes a 'storage room', now a spacious library with a dozen full-size bookcases in it. No power points or windows, but it's great for this purpose.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 3 January 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

My dad.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago) link

In any place where more than one light switch resides behind one plate, they always control things the wrong way round, i.e. the one farthest from the door is the one that controls the outside light. After eight months I am becoming accustomed to it, though.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago) link

No, I mean where there is just one switch to control a light or sometimes pair of lights, in some cases down is off and up is on.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

The walls are at strange angles.

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago) link

I think mookie meant their own home, Martin.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link

none of the wood floors are level--but it's old.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:54 (twenty years ago) link

Many apartments in SF have a little recessed area where a phone goes/used to go; mine also has right under this a little door which you pull open and it becomes a chair. A phone chair!

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago) link

The doorbell to my apartment is on the INSIDE of the building. And no, there's not a foyer or anything. There's just an outside door that LOCKS, so if you're a friend of mine and you want to stop by my place unannounced, you're outta luck.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:47 (twenty years ago) link

our apartment has sanitary protection stickers stuck everywhere, the ones they put in the crotch of swimwear. It used to house a sweat shop. We have rid the floor and windows of most of them but the odd one turns up here and there.

― jeska, Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

We live in a 1920s bungalow that has a few odd original features, among them a clawfoot tub, and an actual "icebox" - basically a cupboard with a vent that leads outside, a recessed area for ice, and several wire shelves above it to house chilled goods. We also have a closet that used to house one of those fold-away bed things, but they seem pretty common around here.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:03 (twenty years ago) link

my friend used to live in the old (circa 1930s) mtl office of the gov't's immigration department, it was in old montreal and so great, it still had two bathrooms, one for hommes and one for dames, and though it was an apartment it still had a '30s office feel to it. i wonder if it still exists or if it's been condoized into shit.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:13 (twenty years ago) link

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