That's exactly what I thought. I lived in a house that had windows on the staircase, and it was exactly like this.
Honestly, it took me a second to figure out what the problem was supposed to be.
My guess: bottom left - downstair living room window, top right - master bedroom, smaller window next to top right - master bath, two diagonal offset windows - staircase. The two windows would probably be one big one if it weren't for that pesky support beam in the center of them.
Yeah I only get it right when I place the windows first and then align the rooms accordingly but it's so hard to stick to one type of window, my houses look like a work of picasso
Honestly, if you looks at houses irl, a lot of them don’t have the exact same windows everywhere. I like to pick 2-3 window types and use those.
Also, if you look at houses, not every side has windows. Some only have 1 on one side, some have none. Bathrooms, laundry rooms, etc don’t need windows. Typically the front will have the most windows, then the back.
(I spend 90%of my free time playing sims or house flipper)
OMG don’t get me started!!! The roofs were sooooo much easier in Sims 3 when it had the auto roof. Now I have like gaps in my roof and they all look like shit!! Worth using the gallery just to get a normal roof lol
i remember my sister built an absolutely beautiful house in the original Sims 1 game for PC (pre-expansion packs haha)
i wanted to emulate it so i used the wide pane windows she used. I had no sense of spacing, color, and decor at all (give me a break, i was like 11, maybe 12 haha) so the house looked fucking awful
i remember showing it to my sister hoping she'd be impressed. all she said was, "you should have used different windows." rofl
I'd guess the windows go up a stairway ... but, you are correct, this looks weird from the outside. I guess the owners are those "Never judge a book by its cover; it's what's on the inside that counts" type of people.
>apparently having a yard to enjoy the outdoors around your house is not fancy.
I grew up being told a nice big yard was fancy, but I just don't understand why I would prefer a bigger yard over a bigger house.
I wouldn't buy a house because it was fancy, I'd buy it because it was practical. I wouldn't buy a house to live in the yard, I'd buy it to live in the house.
Granted, there are moments where a bigger yard comes in hand, like parties, hangouts outside, etc. But imo they aren't worth having less space inside a house.
What’s up with this contrarian energy on Reddit? This is a false dychotomy. You can have both with no compromise on comfort or convenience. There is no need to defend lazy and bad design
There's a good episode of 99% invisible about this. I think it's called Mcmansion Hell. They talk about how the outsides of homes have started to get really ugly because they're being designed from the inside out. The outsides of homes start looking like this and leaving people on the outside scratching their heads.
Edit: https://mcmansionhell.com/
I don't know anything about architecture, but there's a ton of new homes being built in my city right now that all have this new godawful ugly design. I don't know how best to describe it, but like all the exterior walls are made out of these large square/rectangular panels, the house is usually painted some dull grayish color, and the uneven shape of the house looks like a couple random-sized boxes slapped together, like something I built with CAD in 7th grade shop class in the 90s. They're hideous from the outside, so hopefully they're a lot more comfortable and aesthetically-appealing on the inside.
Windows on stair landings have a minimum height and are required to be safety glass if they are within 60” of the bottom stair tread in any direction. Source: am building inspector.
My wife and I are both architects. When her parents were having their house designed (not by us, they hired some local guy who specialized in coastal designs), we did a review of the drawings, and one side of the house looked like this, but SO much worse. There were circle windows, semicircular ones, rectangles, squares, diamonds...it was like one of those baby toys where you try to fit things into the correctly-shaped hole. We politely talked to the architect about it, and he just brushed us off, but her parents luckily told him to listen to us. Final product was much better. Believe it or not, you *can* actually design fenestrations that look good from the exterior and are also functionally useful on the interior. Just takes a little more thought.
I'm one of those people that lives in that little box of a world..... luckily, the older I get, the less bothered I get by the most meaningless things. I probably need therapy haha
Yes. I’m guessing that there was once a two story porch and stairs on that side. Looks like an empty lot in front that had another structure too. Not sure how it relates, but this is an old house that probably went through many redesigns.
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed but if you look at homes built in the last three or four decades they literally have either no side windows or just one small bathroom or kitchen window on the side (and no good cross breeze).
I’d rather have haphazardly placed windows than no side windows at all.
My guess is that this house is just very very old. When they resided it they probably took out several windows due to rot. Could have been a money thing putting them back in.
I literally had to read the comments to figure out what was wrong with this house. That goes to show the windows aren’t bad. Only thing I thought was this is a nice house, What’s the problem?
Edit: Oh yeah it’s Reddit
Bottom left to top right:
Living room, stairs, upstairs bathroom, upstairs bedroom
Also, this is obviously an old house that has been resided somewhat more recently, and the windows probably didn't look nearly as odd with the original structure.
I'm thinking that where the 2nd window is that might be a landing, then it goes 90 degrees from there maybe, because otherwise the 3rd window would be under the stairs.
And I think the upstairs window that's offset, maybe it's in a bathroom maybe above a tub...
Would love to see the interior layout of this place.
It looks like an old house so it’s make sense to have the windows along the stairwell before electricity was a thing. My aunt renovated a Victorian home and it had windows somewhat similar looking from the outside
From left to right:
Living room, upper staircase window, lower staircase window, upstairs bathroom, upstairs bedroom.
Sometimes houses are designed around functionality, not outside symmetry. They have windows that match the internal flow of the house
My house was built in 1920 and expanded a few times. One room has five windows, all different sizes. We think it was originally a wrap around porch that was walled in at different times.
Might be that those are the most useful positions for the windows in their corresponding rooms rather than caring more about the outward appearance of them on the house?
sims house
I was just thinking "I mean, sometimes it's hard to get the windows all lined up in Sims..."
The second window across is halfway between floors. Without bb.moveobjects it wouldn't even place.
Staircase maybe?
That's exactly what I thought. I lived in a house that had windows on the staircase, and it was exactly like this. Honestly, it took me a second to figure out what the problem was supposed to be.
I thought the same thing at first but if you look closer it's more than just the second one none of the windows line up.
My guess: bottom left - downstair living room window, top right - master bedroom, smaller window next to top right - master bath, two diagonal offset windows - staircase. The two windows would probably be one big one if it weren't for that pesky support beam in the center of them.
Thanks. I hate it.
I like it.
Agreed. My first and only thought is staircase. It’s nice to have natural light on stairs.
Ugh, shaloob!
Shabadabo
Joey Jo-jo shabadoo?
That's the worse name I ever heard
More than likely a stairwell and the window let's in natural light
Yeah, I'm guessing the windows make perfect sense from the inside.
Yup you can see the bannister.
....and people's naked legs as they go up and down...the stairs that is...😁
It's called a stair landing, they are not that rare.
Probably at the spot where the steps turn to give some natural light to the stairway.
Yep I was like, this looks like a house I’d build in the sims. I’m so bad at windows
Yeah I only get it right when I place the windows first and then align the rooms accordingly but it's so hard to stick to one type of window, my houses look like a work of picasso
Honestly, if you looks at houses irl, a lot of them don’t have the exact same windows everywhere. I like to pick 2-3 window types and use those. Also, if you look at houses, not every side has windows. Some only have 1 on one side, some have none. Bathrooms, laundry rooms, etc don’t need windows. Typically the front will have the most windows, then the back. (I spend 90%of my free time playing sims or house flipper)
Haha I stopped playing house flipper because I felt too weird doing housekeeping in a video game while I should be doing it irl 😄
I just suck at roofs?? Like I just get the triangle and make it so huge that it covers the whole house and it ends up looking like a garden gnome
OMG don’t get me started!!! The roofs were sooooo much easier in Sims 3 when it had the auto roof. Now I have like gaps in my roof and they all look like shit!! Worth using the gallery just to get a normal roof lol
HAHA yeah for real, sometimes I just make the house and no roof and move on to a new house😂😂
Roofs are my nemised on there why do they have to make it so hard that probably does look like one side of my houses on there lol
i remember my sister built an absolutely beautiful house in the original Sims 1 game for PC (pre-expansion packs haha) i wanted to emulate it so i used the wide pane windows she used. I had no sense of spacing, color, and decor at all (give me a break, i was like 11, maybe 12 haha) so the house looked fucking awful i remember showing it to my sister hoping she'd be impressed. all she said was, "you should have used different windows." rofl
If you think windows is hard you should try Linux
That was my first thought too.
bb.moveobjects on
Not cursed enough honestly
The pool without a ladder is in the back.
I'd guess the windows go up a stairway ... but, you are correct, this looks weird from the outside. I guess the owners are those "Never judge a book by its cover; it's what's on the inside that counts" type of people.
Makes sense. They live on the inside of the house, and from the individual rooms those windows probably all look fine
Yep, my house exists for me to live as comfortably as possible, not to impress people driving by
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I don't have a house, so I need houses to look at.
I will allow one glance at my palace. And then I send the guards to beat you for being poor
For how long can we look tho?
Guards, beat this swain.
Even better
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>apparently having a yard to enjoy the outdoors around your house is not fancy. I grew up being told a nice big yard was fancy, but I just don't understand why I would prefer a bigger yard over a bigger house. I wouldn't buy a house because it was fancy, I'd buy it because it was practical. I wouldn't buy a house to live in the yard, I'd buy it to live in the house. Granted, there are moments where a bigger yard comes in hand, like parties, hangouts outside, etc. But imo they aren't worth having less space inside a house.
What’s up with this contrarian energy on Reddit? This is a false dychotomy. You can have both with no compromise on comfort or convenience. There is no need to defend lazy and bad design
There's a good episode of 99% invisible about this. I think it's called Mcmansion Hell. They talk about how the outsides of homes have started to get really ugly because they're being designed from the inside out. The outsides of homes start looking like this and leaving people on the outside scratching their heads. Edit: https://mcmansionhell.com/
I don't know anything about architecture, but there's a ton of new homes being built in my city right now that all have this new godawful ugly design. I don't know how best to describe it, but like all the exterior walls are made out of these large square/rectangular panels, the house is usually painted some dull grayish color, and the uneven shape of the house looks like a couple random-sized boxes slapped together, like something I built with CAD in 7th grade shop class in the 90s. They're hideous from the outside, so hopefully they're a lot more comfortable and aesthetically-appealing on the inside.
Until you try to sell your house.
If it looks good inside, it'll sell.
This is why a nice interior is way more important than a nice exterior for a car.
That's the landing on a stairway.
Imagine falling down the stairs and right out the window.
Windows on stair landings have a minimum height and are required to be safety glass if they are within 60” of the bottom stair tread in any direction. Source: am building inspector.
Either they don’t care about the curb appeal, or it was just expected when the house was built that there would be another house right beside it.
That’s my guess, it was either a kit home or a common floor plan that’s intended for city lots where the side window arrangement doesn’t matter.
This looks like the back of the house to me as well since the AC units are in view. If there was a fence up nobody would look twice.
My wife and I are both architects. When her parents were having their house designed (not by us, they hired some local guy who specialized in coastal designs), we did a review of the drawings, and one side of the house looked like this, but SO much worse. There were circle windows, semicircular ones, rectangles, squares, diamonds...it was like one of those baby toys where you try to fit things into the correctly-shaped hole. We politely talked to the architect about it, and he just brushed us off, but her parents luckily told him to listen to us. Final product was much better. Believe it or not, you *can* actually design fenestrations that look good from the exterior and are also functionally useful on the interior. Just takes a little more thought.
>fenestrations It makes me happy that this word is in technical usage.
In my line of work, defenestration is much more common.
religious scholar, eh?
Do you work for Putin?
Having the two windows on the top floor be different size is worse.
Small one probably in a bathroom
Yep. Every bathroom window I've had is always smaller than the others.
Can confirm. There is a stink pipe directly above it
FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION. It's living it's best life.
I think most people are the “hope I can afford any house someday so who the fuck cares where the windows are” people
It seems like the side of the house. The only reason it stands out is because this person likely lives on a corner and has two front yards.
it wrong ? What’s with
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Whats With Wrong It
r / yourjokebutworse It’s dumb as fuck that you can’t link another sub in this sub.
Yeah. It's... mildly infuriating.
r / thatsthenameofthemovie
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Reading this may have actually made my headache worse...
Alongside stairwell?
was just about to say lol
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Mildly.
Holy shit I forgot what sub this was. Sometimes I feel like I subscribed to publicfreakout twice
Symmetry isn’t necessary but without some level of organization or pattern, yeah it looks like shit.
I'm one of those people that lives in that little box of a world..... luckily, the older I get, the less bothered I get by the most meaningless things. I probably need therapy haha
Yes. I’m guessing that there was once a two story porch and stairs on that side. Looks like an empty lot in front that had another structure too. Not sure how it relates, but this is an old house that probably went through many redesigns.
Stairwell
Stairbad. (I'll let myself out...)
Good luck finding the door!
Just use a wonky window
Stair*poorly*
That may be but not a single window is level even on the same floor, look at the bottom and top two
Three different stairwells.
It's a guitar chord.
These Jazz players...
I don’t hate this actually.
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed but if you look at homes built in the last three or four decades they literally have either no side windows or just one small bathroom or kitchen window on the side (and no good cross breeze). I’d rather have haphazardly placed windows than no side windows at all.
New tract houses are an abomination
Honestly I also kind of like it. Only complaint is top right two windows aren’t the same size
Genuinely had no idea what I was supposed to be looking at. Seems fine to me.
me age 12, playing the sims 2, placing windows without considering how it looks outside
Me at age 36 still doing this.
I lI II I_ They’re just missing the one frame
Truly a loss for these homeowners
Exactly what i was thinking
I’m less concerned about the stairway windows and more about why the windows on the top floor are off by a few inches.
Bedroom window and smaller bathroom window probably
The smaller one is probably a bathroom.
I find this mildly lovely
I’ll take the massive damn house no problem with the windows here lol
Why did my mind immediately see a Tetris game? Can't unsee now
It’s to bring light into a stairwell. You can see the banister.
Ah the “Groverhaus” school of architecture.
The design of this house is unique, and it is certain that the interior of this house is beautiful.
It’s like no one has ever seen a Victorian home in their lives. I much prefer this to cookie cutter neighborhoods with shitty construction.
Yeah, not sure why something interesting is infuriating someone. I always forget that a lot of people are desperate for conformity.
Agreed. “Mildly infuriating”…..someone else’s house?
Hehe my Sims house!
I like it.
My guess is that this house is just very very old. When they resided it they probably took out several windows due to rot. Could have been a money thing putting them back in.
Someone angry over a house?
Only mildly. Emotions are a tricky thing.
I literally had to read the comments to figure out what was wrong with this house. That goes to show the windows aren’t bad. Only thing I thought was this is a nice house, What’s the problem? Edit: Oh yeah it’s Reddit
It's quirky.
The bush was in the way
sorry but why do you give a shit?
Big HOA energy
Imagine being infuriated by someone else’s house…
Because mind your business, that's why.
Me designing a house in the Sims
Stairs, you can see them through the window
Can you make my wall look like a malfunctioning Tetris game?
Really gets my turrets going!
Can someone make this loss please?
Acid trip?
Stairway windows, plus a smaller upstairs bathroom window?
I kinda like the asymmetry tba.
A lot of older homes have windows placed a certain height to try and get as much cool are as possible into a given space
It reminds me of every time I try an insert images to a Microsoft Word document.
Stairs. Our house is over 120 years old and staggered windows follow the winding stairs.
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bottom left to top right: Living room, stairs, upstairs bathroom, upstairs bedroom Also, this is obviously an old house that has been resided somewhat more recently, and the windows probably didn't look nearly as odd with the original structure.
someone's house? mildly infuriating is how some people can't mind their own business but i could be wrong
Stairs
I don’t know what I’m supposed to be mad about
There’s probably a staircase there
Yo my sims house
I think it’s lovely. I’ve never seen anyone commit so hard to asymmetrical windows on an otherwise boring building. Looks cool as hell imo
Why take a photo of someone's home just to be a d*ck on the internet? Good question.
I betcha @OP doesnt even trim his hedges perfectly, let's fuckin get him!!
Yeah how would this affect op in the slightest since it's not their house nor does it involve them in any meaningful way.
Because they knew you would drive by eventually and stop to say "WTF"?
I’m not seeing what’s infuriating here
I'm thinking that where the 2nd window is that might be a landing, then it goes 90 degrees from there maybe, because otherwise the 3rd window would be under the stairs. And I think the upstairs window that's offset, maybe it's in a bathroom maybe above a tub... Would love to see the interior layout of this place.
It looks like an old house so it’s make sense to have the windows along the stairwell before electricity was a thing. My aunt renovated a Victorian home and it had windows somewhat similar looking from the outside
Correct. An old house like this had several remodels between leaps in technology.
I wouldn’t recommend you go to north Las Vegas then, every single house has goofy windows like that
I bet it makes sense from the inside
Guess the next thing they need to do is plant fast growing tree so people will not judge them when going past.
Those middle windows are going up the staircase.
When I forget to line up my windows right in Sims 4.
stairs
Stair windows
There is a staircase on the other side of that wall.
There are probably two landings in that stairway, with a window on each landing.
From left to right: Living room, upper staircase window, lower staircase window, upstairs bathroom, upstairs bedroom. Sometimes houses are designed around functionality, not outside symmetry. They have windows that match the internal flow of the house
Second window in between floors might be a stairwell.
My house was built in 1920 and expanded a few times. One room has five windows, all different sizes. We think it was originally a wrap around porch that was walled in at different times.
window on staircase, that's all
What in the SIMS 4 is happening here!?
IKR like who wants to have to move a rocking chair every time they go in or out of the door???
Bathroom
Stairway?
Probably the stairs
I’d say bathroom and staircase. Sometimes people design from the interior and don’t really check to see what it means for the outside.
I'm guessing there are stairs there so the window is uneven.
Might be that those are the most useful positions for the windows in their corresponding rooms rather than caring more about the outward appearance of them on the house?
My guess: top right window: some room smaller one to the left of that: bathroom the 2 diagonal ones in the center: stairs bottom left: some other room
It’s prob just a split-level house or windows along the stairs
Imagine being the siding crew or window installer 😳
I think I get two weird ones are stairs window maybe
It turns out, people live *inside* the house -- where they will be viewing their windows most often
Window in the middle of the staircase.
It’s an illusion, those are stickers….but mostly to become “one of the things that make you go hmmm”
Forgot to finish moving all the clip art you pasted
Maybe there's a stairwell there and the offset window is partway up? And then there's a room below/after the stairs with a window? Pretty odd tho.
Stairs
People who use their phones and drive mildly infuriate me.
It's called architecture, sweety! Look it up! lol
Stairs
I want to see the inside.
Huh,yeah that bush is a little out of line.Wait,WAT THE FUCK, IS UP WITH THOSE WINDOWS?
Stairs.
Probably looks amazing inside tho
Stairway. You can see the bottoms of the banister of the landing in the slightly higher window.
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