r/Zillowgonewild | kitchen tree has seen it all. 

“What is your wisdom, kitchen tree?” I have never in my life wanted to ask something so badly

I am so upset that even if I manage to get an apartment of my own I would never be able to collect enough funds to make my home look half as whack as these ones. God, I want a kitchen tree so badly..

I didn't know this subreddit existed but it is automatically a new favorite. I love looking at zillow and other sites to find weird houses.

Thank you, Robin. Currently house hunting and my heart just can't handle the struggle right now. Glad to hear you have the same thoughts.

I imagine the boulder room could be used as a part of a large reptile containment area. Just throw a big light and do a little bit of work around it. Perfect space for a Yellow-Spotted Monitor Lizard.

Don't worry, Robin. You're definitely gonna make it. We were always in the same position with housing until we managed to get a house last year. It seemed unlikely as shit to ever happen for us, but we finally got a decent forever home. Don't let the bastards grind you down. Peace and love always!❤

Bow down to the Kitchen Tree!

00:15 You called it. It's a consummation room. Where the families can ensure the marriage is consummated on the wedding night.

I have rehabbed a hoarder house before. My mom inherited a house from her aunt that was in a touristy beach town in California. 17 dumpster loads, 90 bags of clothes to Goodwill, hundreds of yard sales, and 7 years later, my parents sold it and moved to Oregon for some god awful reason. I miss that house.

i’m quite excited for Emkay to do more of r/Zillowgonewild

4:51 Hoarder homes usually end up with structural damage, so not something I'd even consider.

9:04 Kids playroom. You bet I would have wanted a rock in my playroom as a kid just climbing up and down is all the entertainment I needed as a child

I had to go apartment hunting (renting instead of buying for me, but still), and I came across some very... INTERESTING... apartments. My "favorite" was probably one with a pink leopard pattern toilet, and a huge patch on the wall where I couldn't make out if it was missing tape or if it was random gross dirt, and the balcony was covered in cigarette butts. The only "selling point" for the landlord was that the apartment was close to a train station. I have later heard about several break-ins and even manslaughter (rest in peace poor innocent mailwoman 😟) in exactly that neighborhood. I *really* dodged a bullet there.

The “Boulder Room” could be modified as a Large fish tank or reptile habitat. I saw them do something similar on an episode of “Tanked” on Animal Planet.

Glad that Robin is at least feeling better. Also some of these places remind me of either The Sims or Minecraft houses that I see online.

I unironically love the aesthetic of kitchen tree

To anyone now feeling bad after the rant from Robin, including him. Just know, we're all in this. We all have the same issue so don't be ashamed, don't feel as if you should do better, because many of us can't, simply because prices are rising. It's already enough, when you have a roof over your head, that keeps you warm and comfy.

3:00 heart me out: Beauty and the Beat library scene if Belle was REALLY into the culinary arts instead of books. One cupboard has a KitchenAid, the other has the antique cast iron pans, drawers of perfectly sharp knives, and let's just throw in a meat locker for good measure.

The myth busters busted that toilet myth ages ago. You get just as much crap air coming out with the lid on unless it suctions on, it's just directed to the sides instead of up.

2:19 They took sensory overload and thought "Mm yes I want this in my house"

Robin may not sound 100% back to usual, but his energy levels make up for it.

I was able to help get our family a house with my credit score and our’s was a little bit bigger than the “fixer-upper” and was not a hoarders house and cost around $200,000 in Cali. It was a lot of hard work saving up for a good down payment and adding everyone to my credit cards so their credit scores would be good. I was barely 20 at the time so instead of getting myself a house I thought it would be better to get a place for my parents and siblings. The only thing that kinda irked me was that the names on the deed are my parents and my older brother because they were afraid adding a house to my credit score would hurt it. I normally wouldn’t mind it but my brother constantly goes around saying that technically it’s not my house even though I did most of the work getting it. I feel like I gave a little too much info but the housing rant really got me because I think this will be the closest to “owning” a house I’ll ever get to and it sucks.

Okay so for anyone who doesn't know the drooping fan is in a home that was flooded... to the ceiling. The house should have been condemned and torn down. Instead it was sold as a fixer upper, flipped with new paint and sold for half a three quarters of a million dollars.

Well, this is a strange new subreddit. I love how emkay is now reacting to oddly weird and specific subreddits now.

The kitchen-tree can be used as a decor piece. If the kitchen was positioned and decorated _just_ right. Maybe small brigade around the tree or a cloth sill of they have a cute? Cute!

I'd definitely buy the kitchen tree house.

I feel like one of the only reasons a couple of people watch this channel for is just to watch Robin have an existential crisis 5:44

5:21 I was holding a Pokéball whilst watching this (quick ball if anyone wants to know), and I said "ROBIN! I choose you!"

I know the use for the boulder! Heat storage! In the cold harsh winter, that stone probably stores and radiates the heat from the fireplace for a good few days

3:31 I have to say; this was so beautiful, I love the voice you have, while also just looking out for new generations looking for homes, just subbed, and keep up the great work! 🥰

I got way too excited to see this subreddit. I’ve been following this sub on Reddit for about a year now (because I can’t afford to ever look for one myself) and it’s crazy how many people older than me were able to remodel their homes into the wildest shit.

I swear I've had nightmares featuring a fireplace very much like the one at 2:25 and I have never seen that photo before today

I'm on Zillow a lot, and there are a lot of houses being sold with squatters in them. They all have really sketchy wording in the descriptions telling you not to approach the house. Why would I buy a house I can't even approach?

I paused to stare at the castle house for a bit, then unpaused to hear "Sorry I'm still looking at it."

I love how Robin is reacting to subreddit which don't provoke anger lol. Mans got to cool down lol.

As a "homeowner" ( I have a rundown shack from my grandmother) I'm still surprised this shit is worth $50,000. Yeah I get a private lake but my house has uneven floors, narrow as fuck doors, is literally a trailer from the 80s with a house frame around it, had mold from top to bottom, i had to place floorboards for most of it, paint all of it, I don't got trim on anything, part of my ceiling is Styrofoam thats yellowed from years of smokers living before me, and my cat find centipedes everywhere. I honestly love it. :)

You know i love everybody at emkay but robin hits me on a whole different level and i get it dude, Shit sucks and we're all stuck in it and im hoping that eventually, we aren't. Love all of you! And wish each and every single one of you the happiness you deserve.

*casually opens build mode in Sims 4 while taking notes* "Tree...in...kitchen..."

9:12 Challemge accepted - this is the mining practice room.

Sometimes you just need to stare at a really big rock. Although at that point just go outside, no one needs a gigantic boulder in their house.

When robin says he’s never been able to own a house, and yet has played a landlord for piemations.

4:00 Oh btw just looked it up. This house has been redone and sold for $550,000 in mid 2022

ALL HAIL THE KITCHEN TREE OF HEAVENLY WISDOM

9:04 geologist workstation

Only thing I could think of with the rock is that you could Possibly turn it into a playroom because kids love climbing on stuff, but it is a bit of a safety hazard if they bonk their head on it.

The boulder room is at least slightly useful! It has a perfectly good outlet right in view!

Bad news Closing the lid does no keep the poo particles out of the air. That mist is still going to be on everything in your house.

Even though it cost me a crazy ex I'm so glad I bought a house during Covid lockdown. No one was allowed to view houses in person for months so listings in my area built up and I happened to start house hunting THE SAME WEEK they allowed visitations again. I viewed 5 houses, bought one and less than a month later all of the other listings were gone INCLUDING an absolutely RIDICULOUS house that I viewed. It was like Alice in Wonderland in that place, and I was so stunned I didn't take any pictures. It was empty but it just kept GOING. You thought you'd seen the whole house but then you found another room that was even more ridiculous than the last.

1:41 same here I really want that house too looks and sounds really awesome

"Oh come downstairs and look at our f*cking boulder." - Robin

4:43 it got worse (money wise) someone bought it, fixed it and sold it for $550,000, the homes value on Zillow is $532,800. Holy ef!

I could go for a kitchen tree but it'd be better with windows so you can see the leaves up there. 😂

So I'm assuming Robin doesn't like a slice of *moist* German chocolate cake? The audacity. 😅

0:03 I have a house in HouseFlipper with a tree through it (it’s a modern “treehouse”) and trying to design around it was too annoying so I just sold the house XD 0:23 Yep! That’s right 4:49 No no, he’s got a point. Seriously, though; I’d only pay $120K for that house out of pity. 100k is a much fairer price, maybe even going down to 95k.

My grandma grew up in a mining town. Rocks in the basement were common.9:00 Water intrusion is a problem when it rains.

That last house and his excitement lmao. He just went instant goblin brain, brillient.

09:52 Instant flashback to a really odiferous bathroom I once had to use in the late 70s/early 80s . . . back in the day, those tubs probably had an ashtray parked right between them. Never seen dual sink-in tubs before, though.

So is this friend that Robin said he lives in their basement Zach? I’ve wondered if Robin actually lived with Zach or was just joking.

You can use the boulder room for like a miniature railway or something along those lines

Tbh I can understand bringing the raised flowerbeds (don't want to lose years of gardening work, and sometimes those are portable) and the valuable appliances with you when you move, but stuff that's solidly embedded in the ground or part of the plumbing? It can't be worth the effort to take those with you...

That castle house is actually awesome.

:44 My family went on an open house thing or something from a realtor and that was the house… you can assume we didn’t buy it-

As someone who regularly goes "man, dwelling is boring" and "why don't I use fake grass for carpet?", this is my new favorite sub

Actually for the $199 USD house I agree with Robin. I would buy it for 10k take it or leave it and raze the whole thing to the ground a d rebuild it from the ground up since everything in it is messed up already from the hoarding. The from scratch reconstruction would cost as much as the house costs in that listing.

1:30 That castle a few minutes in is in Oakland County, Michigan (suburb of Detroit) and is listed for like 3 million. The inside looks as thematic as the outside. And the basement is 100% a place where i want to host a D&D campaign out of. Its. A. Rec. Room. That. Looks. Like. A. Fantasy. Tavern. Rest of the rooms are similar thematically, too And the most recent attempt to buy it fell through.

6:33 fun fact that stile of stairs is called "witches stairs" because it's said that witches can't walk up them

Legitimate reason to have boulders in your house: great thermal mass. it helps keep the temperature of the house very constant. You can even have them ... for lack of a better phrase, plumbed so you have geothermal water flow through them. It keeps them very constant in temperature through the year, so the air is colder near them during the summer, and warmer near them in the winter. It really works great.

6:45 i am so confused on how those stairs even work, i can figure out how it would be comfortable starting with either foot

8:50 hear me out for a moment : fill it w/ sand and adopt a fennec fox also has anyone else here kinda fell into the rabbit hole that is Japanese home/apartment designs and layouts, like the one where the elevator is in the middle of the room it's almost like looking at a planet core, or like, the one where the bathroom is basically on the balcony or perhaps the community share houses for ppl w/ similar interests or maybe just the apartments designed for cat owners

"come down stairs and look at our fucking boulder" WHY IS THAT SO FUNNY TO ME 😭

The many cupboard kitchen, how to be a Hoarder whilst also having OCD and can't stand the house being cluttered

9:02 hollow out the rock, decorate the inside (and outside) and u got a sick ass playroom. i would've loved that as a kid.

"Why is there a boulder in your house?" "Its not just a boulder - Its a rock!"

8:43 it’s for climbing, painting, and maybe hiding behind it

Make sure to tell your ceiling fan that you love it every single day or else it’ll get sad like this poor fan 3:30

You could possibly make the boulder room into some sort of plant room or bird room.

I feel the same about house prices. I can't justify the cost of 350k for a house here even here in Australia. In the town I live out wages just can't keep up with the housing bubble. We are even being priced out of rentals.

TBH if you closed off the "boulder room" at 9:14 you could create an awesome reptile enclosure

2:00 - 2:18 looks like a place to a detective game and you have to look for certain objects to progress to another level.

6:36 those kind of styled stairs were created to keep witches away! either that is an old house or its for the house to have that "modern" minimalistic look

Worst place I've seen on Zillow said all items left at sale was the responsibility of the new owner. It looked like a horder lived there. Second to that was one that said only the land had value, the house was a hazard, do not enter, just avoid or tear down.

Practical use for boulder room? To rock and roll. Bye now

Omg this video reminds me of this house in my neighborhood as a kid, someone made a mini castle. Little flags with the initials of the owners, stone/brick walls, the tall towers, and a door that made it look like a drawbridge. I think of that house often.

The house at 3:35... I'm willing to pay $200 for it. Not $200k, but a flat $200. Literally someone is saying "come give me money and fix this thing up; it's useless but I'm desparate to make it someone else's problem."

The house rant hurt because of how much it relates to me. I am now angry and depressed but glad to know I am not alone in this!

“I SWEAR I DONT TASTE GOOD I SWEAR I JUST TASTE LIKE DEPRESSION AND OPRESSION” “s e a s o n i n g”

I really really am not the type of person to laugh at media I'm watching alone in my room but the CACKLE I emitted at "this is our ✨boulder✨ viewing room" was worryingly loud

Carpeting the bar around your kitchen is pretty standard actually, though most people tend to go with a frieze (plush-type) carpet instead of berber. Berber is actually rougher than friezes, so they got phased out with the 90s and early 2000s (it still exists, but it's not as popular as it used to be). Source: I'm a flooring installer by trade.

For whatever reason, the way you said "did you say...indoor?" with a slight voice crack reminded me of Bob the Tomato.

9:07 Has no right to be as funny as it is 💀

If i was forced to live in the house with the boulder i would try and paint/decorate the boulder and then try sell it to a museum or anyone dumb enough to own a boulder

3:10 imagine having to steer your kitchen from the ceiling.

I've never seen Robin so triggered.

9:53 Homeowners Associations can be petty enough to not allow treehouses for kids to play in, fine you for having different color paint on parts of your house or forbid an old man to have a bench where he can sit down and watch the sunset. However, NO ONE BANS PEOPLE FROM CREATING THIS SACRILEGE IN ANY BATHROOM?

2:00 it looks like a level out of one of those “find the objects” games

9:02 I think you could use this room to build some sort of nature diorama? Like create a fake mounatin environment and some taxidermied pumas and squirrels and bears? Maybe you could turn it into a waterfall and have some live fish, like a real cool-lookin koi pond.

6:45 i’ve heard those are called witch steps. basically some people think that evil witches can’t climb those

9:01 You could climb the boulder and chill there scrolling through your phone.

9:10 throw some dirt and plastic plants on/in there and put a glass window, repaint the walls, put a round table in there, maybe a glass cabinet, boom you got a dining room, tiny? sure, can you use it? sure.

I'm still gobsmacked that Robin, an American, didn't say "foy-yerr". Thank you. HGTV traumatized me with "foy-yerr" "ruff" and "nitch"