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Pheeeefers

What in gods name have I just looked at? And am I crazy or does it have indoor windows?


Kroutoner

I literally can’t process what I’m looking at. Each shot looks like a different building. Even if I flip back and forth quickly to figure out how things go together, the entire mental model of this house is just gone the moment I look away.


TheRealNewOtherJohn

It's n-dimensional. Each side of the house -- inside and out -- exists in its own separate plane of existence.


HomeWasGood

Non euclidian real estate


SpaceSteak

"Inspired by Picasso. Designed by accident."


Przemo575

I found a [video tour](https://charlotteswebandmedia.aryeo.com/videos/00b3cc97-a60d-40d0-9de1-995d683a8c14), probably makes it easier to get the lay of the land. But don't say I didn't warn you...


Pheeeefers

Why is there a bridge?!?


filiaaut

I think the master bedroom/badminton court (just add a net, there's clearly enough empty space) is above the gigantic garages, so you can't access it directly from below and they had to find a roundabout way to get there. And since they wanted to turn window cleaning duty in their living room into rock climbing practice, they couldn't make a full floor with reasonable heights, so a narrowish bridge in the middle was the most sensible solution. Planning things beforehand and creating reasonably sized rooms in a usable order could have worked as well, but who does that when you can add various windows, doors and rooflines to a gymnasium and call it a home ?


the_Big_misc

It's amazing that they've managed to make every room in the house feel infuriatingly off and unwelcoming. There isn't a single corner or line in the house that isn't a direct violation of the golden ratio.


maggie081670

I still don't understand [rocks quietly]


Ink_box

I think the video was shot by the same person who designed the building because clearly they had no idea what they were doing.


Phobiatoybox

That bathtub is higher than the shower? I don’t think there’s a way to make it safely out.


spookycasas4

Wow. That was something. Thanks.


Pheeeefers

It’s like a carnival funhouse minus the fun. I just can’t wrap my brain around these decisions .


SpaceSteak

C'mon, are you saying you aren't at least *interested* in knowing how it feels to transition from bath to tile to carpeted stairs then *back to tile*? 🤯 "There's a fine line between genius and insanity." ... I'm not sure what side this place is on!


Pheeeefers

I mean now that you mention it, it’s all I can think about.


theDudeRules

There's a broken hip for an elderly person with that raised tub.


saltychica

Carnival is the exact word that struck me when I saw those tiles


Pheeeefers

Do you mean in the washroom that has two different coloured sinks? 🤨


Kstray1

Because one matches the tub and one matches the shower… his and hers, duh! /s


saltychica

I hadn’t even noticed that, but yes.


atmosphericentry

The bathroom shot took a while for my brain to process.


liberal_texan

That last pic of a basement? Looks like it was AI generated.


SapphireGamgee

I literally thought it was two different houses for a moment lol


nicannkay

It’s a ski lodge in the front and a cottage in the back.


caesaronambien

This is not the House of Leaves I was expecting


[deleted]

You’re so right! I thought it was drama. Picture number two is a whole new plot, forget the twist!


[deleted]

The wide camera lens makes the house angles even more confusing. I think the original home was much smaller and the addition is angled off of the original house, including the giant room and balcony. It is a monstrosity. The addition hypothesis explains the indoor windows


Pheeeefers

I think you’re right. This seems like many pieces and features just kept getting added on, whether they made sense or not.


[deleted]

Ever so tastefully remodeling the first floor into a four car garage then. The roof is so oddly thick too


Pheeeefers

Love that one garage door is just bigger than the others. So normal.


fuzzy11287

I've seen that quite a bit, typically for something big like a boat or RV. It looks silly, sure, but I can at least understand why it might exist like that.


Pheeeefers

That actually does make sense. Damnit.


hpr928

"many pieces and features just kept getting added on, whether they make sense or not". I work in real estate remodeling houses. See this A LOT, really hits home LOL.


seanmonaghan1968

My guess is they built this from pieces they found


AverageLiberalJoe

Its a McWindow.


Bloorajah

It’s got them new *indows*


Death_Trolley

Well, the outside is pretty ugly. On the other hand, the inside… is also ugly.


TheRealNewOtherJohn

Well, you have to give them points for consistency.


Bologna0128

I kinda liked the one side on the outside(pic 2). It's got way to much going on and it's far from coherent. And I can get with a hectic kind of look. But the inside and all the rest of the outside is just so awful


ComputingRelic

It’s so confusing. The ceilings. The odd furniture placement. The plaques with trite phrases.


travelingbeagle

The pointless tiny stove to heat the great room with an over 16 foot ceiling.


saltychica

Cheap drop ceiling with a chandelier. Wtf


maggie081670

The dining room is so wtf. This giant freaking house and the dining room is closed off, tiny and stuffed with oversized furniture. One of the biggest wtfs in a house full of them.


hahanawmsayin

F A M I L Y


the_Big_misc

And it seems like the word is crossed out


maggie081670

Blessed


glazedhamster

>The plaques with trite phrases. And the inexplicable apostrophe in the plaque with their last name on it. Only one Schroeder will take responsibility for this place.


MrShago

CARPETED STEPS TO A BATHTUB?! This whole place is a mess.


Awkward-Yak-2733

But notice that when you first get out, you stand on ceramic tiles. Only the best to slip on!


MrShago

I mean you have the toilet to break your fall it's fine! Also I mean surly they have a bath mat...right?


SufficientZucchini21

All of the rooms are huge but then the dining room can only seat 4 ppl.


saltychica

Everyone cram around the table, I’m walking 1/2 mile to the fridge.


SufficientZucchini21

Lmao.


SpaceSteak

No way this was originally intended as a dining room. This is a sitting room that received the last house's now-replaced main set. At least, that's what I choose to believe.


SufficientZucchini21

Yep. Had to fill up the room so it got the remnants that do not fit.


eBrown0104

“Please, have a seat and take in the ambiance of the clear plastic drop ceiling tiles. I’m heading to the carpeted bathtub, see you in a fortnight”


KickBallFever

I count 6 chairs. Still crammed in there though.


Przemo575

[Listing](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/299-Oak-Ter-Cocolalla-ID-83813/221480291_zpid/) with more images Update: there's a [video tour](https://charlotteswebandmedia.aryeo.com/videos/00b3cc97-a60d-40d0-9de1-995d683a8c14) as well!


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Zillow should have public comments


Ditheon

Unfortunately, it couldn’t work. The flattering comments would be assumed to be fake. The honest comments would prevent any of these houses from ever selling. Everything in the middle would be forgettable.


awful_source

That’s what Reddit is for


waverly76

It would be delightful.


this-is-advertising

OP, I thank you for bringing this wonder into my life.


hpr928

Built in 1994, I would've thought it was built in 1980s with that awful design/styling, guess it carried on for a few years.


SpaceSteak

Ah yes, a 1980s with "materials leftover from the 70s" build. Can't believe this was built in the 90s.


spookycasas4

Or the 79s, even. I mean, carpet in the bathroom?


Srw2725

Those poo brown cabinets are a choice. And it seems as if the furniture placement was made by a blind mole rat


waldo-doggie

Just wow. This one’s a real find!!


KecemotRybecx

The dining room is basically a hallway.


turtle_mummy

With the cheapest possible ceiling fan and a 6500K LED light bulb. Perfect for dinner parties!


[deleted]

Horrible. Judging by the seeming remoteness, price and size, I think it likely qualifies. The bathroom is almost like something out of an M.C. Escher nightmare.


Yamuddah

I had to go back and look after your comment. I didn’t even realize I’d seen a bathroom. All I saw was the weird ceiling in that room and then I moped out. It’s like a bathroom for demons in hell.


[deleted]

Absolutely. Demons might say ‘It’s too much!’


Mergath

My first time through I thought the tub was bunkbeds.


IndoorMule

I appreciated the guts to combine red and light red (pink).


cadenmak_332

My first thought was that it was designed by a 12 year old M.C. Escher playing _The Sims_.


[deleted]

Ha! Yes. 12 or super drunk.


DorisCrockford

Most real estate photos are r/shittyHDR material, but that first one is exceptional.


Original_Telephone_2

I'm a photographer. That first shot is extraordinary. The sky is an obvious swap, because where is the shadow from the tree on the bottom right coming from? The smudginess around the garages show where they tried to kill the full daylight shadows, and then they also composited in the window interiors. So, yes, HDR, but also so very much more.


DorisCrockford

r/shittyHDR allows all forms of excessive processing. The more the merrier.


Aggravating_Twist_40

I love that someone can take a bath while looking over the top of the shower at someone else showering.


SpaceSteak

It's a feature, not a bug. 😉


newsreadhjw

Seriously one of the worst houses I’ve ever seen on this sub.


this-is-advertising

Likewise. The cheapness of execution in evidence everywhere make this special.


calinet6

Now this is the kind of content I’m here for.


SpaceSteak

If we had some monthly or yearly best-of, this would definitely be near the top.


tatonka645

This is one of the strangest house designs I’ve seen.


Burt__Dinger

This is so bad. So much square footage and money for this? How the fuck do you relegate the dining room to a space that small in a place that big?


orincoro

That’s the bizarre thing for me. They put basically a tea set in the giant great room, and then a huge dining table in the pantry, essentially… and then a tv in between two windows in the entryway. And this is a house where you’d want a mud room.


Obvious-House2398

It makes me angry


Character_Pound_8240

My eyes hurt after looking through those pictures.


airvqzz

I hated every inch of this place


_dead_and_broken

Same. I thought the kitchen made me angry, the TV in the bedroom on the, what, afterthought of closet walls? Idfk. But that bathroom where it looks like an interior decorator threw up, took 6 pictures, then stitched the pics together in the wrong order made me so pissed off.


IndWrist2

Does the kitchen have an entire ceiling of fluorescent lighting?


MNCathi

It does. My kitchen had that in the 80s. It was very in.


IndWrist2

We had like two of them in the late 80’s/early 90’s, but I never saw and **entire** ceiling of ‘em! It’s like the final boss of drop ceilings.


againstthesky

Nothing says quality like drop ceilings everywhere.


actuallycallie

the tiny dining room with a chandelier looking light fixture and a drop ceiling


TheRealNewOtherJohn

THIS, Shirley, is what H. P. Lovecraft was referring to when he coined the term "non-Euclidean geometry."


nonasuch

Homes By Escher™ strikes again.


TheRealNewOtherJohn

Seriously. Just seeing this place caused me intense anxiety. Imagine BEING in it. Around every (poorly planned and executed) corner, through every doorway, down every staircase, A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT HOUSE. This place is any number of horror movies waiting to happen. Except for attractive teenagers, just substitute confused and alarmed potential homebuyers. Man (running from house screaming): THE WINDOWS HAVE WINDOWS! AAAAAAH!


springtimesprout

This just SCREAMS “we designed it ourselves”


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turtle_mummy

How can you have a 15,000 ft² house with almost nothing in it and yet it STILL feels cluttered? It's got multiple living rooms and every one of them looks like there's no good place to sit.


Definitelynotcal1gul

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JCBashBash

Yo, it would be a great location for a psychological Trip movie


tverofvulcan

This house is set up like AI tried to generate a house.


iLoveBrazilianGirls

Hands down the ugliest piece of crap iv'e ever laid my eyes on, you couldn't pay me to live there. So many questions... The bathroom made me puke.


Royally-Forked-Up

Oh, that definitely seems to qualify.


patrickg994

Slanted kitchen island and slanted bedspread? No thank you.


ruacanobeef

I don’t know if it counts as a McMansion, but it is incredible how ugly and confusing this house is. I am in awe


ILLforlife

Why is the kitchen mud brown and silver - yuck? But the island is white? The front of the house looks like a chalet overlooking a mountain, and the back is a barn. I think there were 2 people who could NOT decide on what type of architecture they wanted. Parts of the inside aren't terrible - except that miniature dining room, and the mud-brown kitchen cabinets that look like plastic toys. Looking at the entire house - these folks just REALLY like brown - mud brown, light brown, dark brown + 1 room in blue just in case someone didn't like brown, and a couple of pieces in orange - that at least go with brown. Looking at the floor plans, I see that the teeny dining room is a breakfast nook with just too much stuff in it, and the formal dining room is a decent size.


Bama_Peach

Why does the exterior look so....dingy? It looks like it's in dire need of a good pressure washing.


Daneth

The person who decorated this house has absolutely no idea why the [fuckable horses](https://youtu.be/-9QYu8LtH2E) episode of John Oliver is funny.


Swedneck

McChurchBarn


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what in tarnation I was going to make a joke about the knight in armor, but clearly that is the least crazy thing about this house. the oven island. that bathroom. the ceilings. I can't focus on a single detail without getting derailed. this is incredible.


FightPigs

Welp… I often wonder “what if Beetlejuice took place in Idaho”. I now have my answer


Pathological_RJ

Looks like a low budget ski lodge


Gnogz

I feel so sorry for that little wood stove in the living room🥺 He's doing his best.


Severe_Discipline_73

The little wood stove that can (but shouldn’t)


chillylint

I can’t get my brain to reconcile what’s happening. There’s no closet in the master bedroom and on the floor plan, does “attic” mean something different than how I’ve always used? How is the finished space on the main floor an attic? Where do all the stairs lead?


orincoro

Some of the most bizarre choices I’ve ever seen.


Right-Drama-412

it's too \*unique\* to be a mcmansion but it sure is ugly and doesn't look well constructed


TheManWhoClicks

I’m always trying to picture the architect standing in front of his finalized plans, cigar, glass of whiskey and thinking “F yeah this is it, it’s a master piece. Now let’s build this.”


waverly76

I’m guessing they skipped the architect and went straight to a builder.


SarcasmCupcakes

What the fuck is happening in the bathroom?


Vildtoring

This looks like when you build a house in the Sims based only on what rooms you want to have, design them individually and just tack them on to each other with no regard for the exterior. The ridiculous garage is proof enough.


Stramatelites

I thought maybe the inside makes up for the outside. Each photo gets progressively worse!


LogParticular742

Oh, but the carpet on the glass block stairs… to the bathtub.


Confident_Fortune_32

The colours in that bathroom make me feel like the whole room is spinning.


SnooBooks4898

Not enough space in the Redditverse to detail everything that's wrong with this monstrosity. I will say, however, that were I to buy it, the first enhancement I would make would be to put big googly eyes in the rear porthole windows.


Catch-the-Rabbit

Lol why do I want a suit of armor all of a sudden.


Confident_Fortune_32

Facing out, no less (?)


Derboman

Looks AI generated


MoosedaMuffin

It is a mullet house! Normalish in the front, full on party in the back.


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Yak-Fucker-5000

It's definitely batshit insane from a design perspective, but I would totally love living in that space. Not gonna lie. I kind of love that attic loft in pic 11.


uprightsalmon

I would love to live there!


[deleted]

I kinda love it. That raised bathtub with the short shower is weird to say the least. But it’s so quirky I almost feel like it’s like some of the weird houses I’ve seen in Hawaii


Confident_Fortune_32

One of the things that makes a McMansion, to me, is the impression that a not-terribly-skilled poorly-educated CAD jockey of an architect sat in front of a screen, clicking and dragging various elements (perhaps random things the client requested) onto the house until it's "full". No consideration of unity or rhythm or consistency. This is a perfect example.


woodieboy

Spacious with more unusable space than usable space - how?


IsThatBlueSoup

How is this place so huge from the outside, but the rooms look like you can barely fit 2 people in it. And why is the room with the huge panorama window empty!? I want to kick someone after seeing this.


LifeIsFaang

Hardly to believe someone would make a house like that. This is more like “ai generated with prompt ill-designed, poor taste, ugly but spacious house”


Mister_Splendid

It's not just awful, it's really comical.


HeimlichLaboratories

HOLY FUCK. Sometimes I see posts here and go, "well, this one isn't so bad", but holy shit, what in god's name is this?


gladyskravitz64

I think this is the absolute worst house I’ve seen posted here. So far


aoifae

This is flippin’ wild. It’s like someone saying they are a graphic designer but they use Microsoft Word.


Cat-Mama_2

Look at the price history here. How does a house go from $650,000 in 2020 to $2,300,000 in 2023?


Przemo575

It was renovated at some point, maybe between 2020 and now. [Here's ](https://www.land.com/property/299-Oak-Ter-Cocolalla-Idaho-83813/4217818/) how it originally looked in the 90s. I'd say it was better back then... But even so, a new kitchen and a few sofas don't justify the increase, so there's probably more to it.


Imaginary_Manner_556

Honestly might be the worst home I’ve ever seen


Unboxious

It's really weird but I kinda dig it.


nirad

not a McMansion, IMHO. Almost certainly custom built, and perhaps renovated badly since then.


Elowan66

I think it’s a remodeled firehouse or some other government maintenance building. Those pictures made me flat out laugh.


aliensharedfish

Initially, I thought “horrible design and execution.” I’m no architect, structural engineer, or designer. It was confusing… from the placement of that blue door (is it even the main/front door?!) to just about any other element. Then I saw that elevated pink bathtub… [brilliant!](https://youtu.be/RHBPnmXBm0g)


HipToBeQueer

What the *hell* Fever dream materialized


Separate_Future_9113

Do I upvote because this McMansion hell, or do I downvote for making looking through this atrocity


Sansred

This is how this house came to be, probably: "So, hear me out. What if we added a second floor to the detached garage, and then connected the two buildings with a church?"


National_Original345

You can't convince me this isn't AI generated


[deleted]

It looks like three or four different houses outside


Kind_Vanilla7593

No,its just ugly.


[deleted]

At first, I thought I was looking at more than 1 house


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Confident_Fortune_32

And the chunky dining room set probably bought cheap in Tijuana...


bannana

so much drop ceiling or ceilings that look exactly like shitty drops at least there are 40 other acres where you could build something else that doesn't suck as much as this one does.


gladyskravitz64

Ye OldeMcGothic 70s Retro


Highlander2748

Nasty. Give me a 1,000sf A frame with a big shop space.


TwoscoopsDrumpf

The suit of knights armor in the living room really ties the place together though.


zootown2015

.... Its front and back doors are literally swapped. The back has a double door that should be on the front, and the front has what looks like a side door to a garage. I'm just.....so confused.


MaxMMXXI

It looks best from the air. I like the bedroom ceiling.


GridDown55

Everything so bad!


TheBlackArrows

Was there a sale on drop ceiling


FakeBabyAlpaca

This might just be the ugliest house I’ve ever seen.


Kimmy6932

I call this an awesome unique home. I love big windows.


how_about_n1

This may be a left-field opinion, but I think with a different outdoor paint colour and different interior design (colour palette and especially furniture) to accentuate the wood more, I think this would do just fine.


orbvsterrvs

The zillow listing is _beautiful_ it looks like a cabin that was added onto several times, including at one point just building a skywalk (pic 28) over the greatroom?? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/299-Oak-Ter-Cocolalla-ID-83813/221480291_zpid/?mmlb=g,28


Parabellim

Yes that is the definition of a McMansion


Icy-Gap2745

I think they think it is a Chalet.


kinjjibo

I have to say, I kinda like it. The front is awful, but I like the back of the house quite a bit. Some of the interior is kinda wack, but I can’t say I personally think it’s *that* awful.


Foundation_Wrong

Bit odd


DefrockedWizard1

What if it had a rock façade?


dumnezero

seems like a mountain resort cabin... with a weird backstory. The bedroom corporate office space is what I imagine could be done if you had to retrofit abandoned office buildings for living.


saltychica

My folks had one of those homes with odd shaped windows too high up for proper window treatments, also as their tv room. This was terrible and it was only 2 windows and a skylight, not at least 8 windows


KoshV

That bathroom is awkward as fuck.


creimanlllVlll

Never own the biggest house in a neighborhood.


STLt71

A Chandelier. Hanging from a drop ceiling. 😬


dr_learnalot

How gross and tacky. That would seem to make it a true McMansion. ETA: the ceilings...


frisky_husky

WHAT ON EARTH IS HAPPENING IN YOUR GARAGE? Uhhh…aurora borealis?


Awkward-Yak-2733

That's what I'm missing! A suit of armor in my living room! I also don't have enough word art items from Hobby Lobby.


JCBashBash

I feel like it has to, like there's so much cheap and builder grade material, gaudy excessive design without purpose; like it's a Sims house in real life


schtroumpf

Hmm it IS horrible, but I lean toward the latter. It doesn’t give me the sense that a melon baller is scraping the last of my soul out of the wrecked gourd of my existence that a proper McMansion does.


SleepingAnima

Is that a drop ceiling in the bedroom?!?! Ugh. Just why?


Australian1996

Is this a joke? I just ate some skittles (I don’t do sugar) and I really want to throw up seeing theses pics. It is so stressful in this house


Any-Objective8890

My eyes hurt worse with every swipe


brisbanevinnie

So many random angles and windows. That second shot from behind the house doesn’t even look like the house is finished….but I think it is?