My initial thought of the house, in the beginning, was that it was an apartment building which was converted into a single home. The more they explored the more it looks like some sort of community center or lodge/clubhouse. I especially love the that all the window unit ac's exhaust into the garage...
It's refreshing to watch Alex sic something with psychic damage upon Graham for a change, and just like the games G-money makes A-train play, the damage falls upon both parties equally.
Now I am going to be stuck waiting for LRR to stealthily release a horror film that starts with Graham and Alex reviewing terrible houses, and slowly descending into madness as they realize they are steadily being exposed to increasingly non-euclidean geometries. Dangit, I want to see LRR-meets-House of Leaves.
I strongly suspect that this was originally some sort of "home" for poor elderly or disabled people. The communal dining with the changing decorations screams "insitution," as does the atrium, and all the bathing facilities with the outside controls are typical of institutions where the bather doesn't control the water. It's incredibly jury-rigged and sinister, and I hope whoever buys it tears it down.
Of COURSE! That makes perfect sense with the 'external controls' - the nurse or attendant would 'run the bath' for the patient. That also explains the high number of bathrooms per bedroom - each patient would have their own, plus 'common area' bathrooms off the atrium, etc. And given the state of elder care in the western world for - **checks notes** wow - more than the last forty years? We suck - yeah this travesty to every building, plumbing, HVAC & electrical code ever would definitely have been passed by whatever overworked state agency that is supposed to monitor nursing homes.
FYI: There's a third layer to Segata Sanshiro's name, which is that it's also a play on "Sugata Sanshiro", the title character of the first film Akira Kurosawa directed.
Whether or not it's feasible as its own stream, I'd be so down for y'all reviewing abysmal architecture, be it here, or somehow incorporated into another stream.
This is like some kind of mix between the Winchester Mystery House & Groverhaus owned by a sad mountaineer Nosferatu and like, 30 elderly people. It has to smell like sweat, absinthe, denim & aluminum corrosion. It must be, even with fans and air conditioners, 10,000 degrees inside. There's a hearse in there that has more dust than an undiscovered pharaoh's tomb in a garage that somehow didn't get aluminum siding added to it, one of the few indoor places it might had made sense (as some garages are newer extensions off an old sided house), and instead is just open asbestos. It probably itches and is a carcinogen risk to walk through. There has to, *has to* be a dead body in that house somewhere.
The most baffling thing about the House is that thr only way for somrthing like that to happen is someone must have lived there. Everything has the air of solving some small inconvenience, with no thought to geeater repercussions. Like a diy version of the winchester mystery house.
The walls remind me of a Vox video about metal houses. The difference is that those were what you'd expect a house would look like just with metal walls as opposed to this.... shelter? Also where's the TV room? How're the bathtub knobs connected to the faucet? WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OFFICE CHAIRS?
Largely unrelated to the House of Upsetting Textures, but the treadle table reminded me of someone composing dub-step with a hurdy-gurdy using a similar treadle table and a flywheel clutch. It too made very little sense but was fascinating to see.
This feels like someone conned an elderly person because the financing ran short. "Siding is cheap, and if it's good enough for the outside it's fine for the inside". The picture from the "garage" appears to be from the "front" extended garage area. This place just screams shady shenanigans pulled on someone who didn't know better. I would say I feel sorry for the previous owner, but I have the unfortunate feeling that they passed and its why the property is for sale.
I need someone to send that house to JelloApocalypse for the inevitable Are You Ready To Buy 3 And yeah, real weird to see Alex get vengeance on Graham in an episode of W+P
I have so many thoughts about that "HOUSE" and the main one that concerns me is the fact that I am so desperate for a decent living space that I would buy it if it was affordable
the Shed House is 100% utterly *baffling*. I'm surprised y'all missed the fact that the people who vanished into the house from the picture wall had their clothes end up in the attic. not just the clothes they were wearing at the time--ALL THE CLOTHES THEY OWNED. I can tell I'm going to be remembering details and giggling about that for *months*... possibly years. XD
This house actually looks normal compared to one I saw (and it even had a "walkthrough" feature on the listing that I spent about 45 minutes trying to get back out)…well, except the vinyl siding everywhere. It was 4 floors of this type nonsense.
