Love sunken living rooms!!! Why is this even a shitpost ??
Most people couldn’t afford that. But everyone had a living room and people would come over. Everyone had a grill and people would come over. Most people had kids and kids would come over.
Life was much more real life social.
Top left has a pretty big gap between those couches. What does your social night look like, the batman table?
Honestly, the Lotion Pit is better interior decorating than modern “is it a home or the surface of the sun oh my god everything is so bland and white” interior design.
I’m old enough to remember 70s design still being normal and life just felt way cooler.
Yeah, I can’t stand modern shades of gray. Everyone decorates their house like they’re about to list it for sale. Give me colors! Give me silly pictures, and plants, and nonsense. It’s your home, it doesn’t need to be sterile.
Against the advice of literally every person we talked to (with the main argument being ‘resellability’) our new home is being built with one!
Fuck it man if you’re staying there for 30+ years who gives a shit about resale value. Do what you want.
I love this. For the past few years I’ve fully embraced the whole “our house is for us, not the next buyer” mentality and not making good choices for the next owners is great.
I don’t give a shit if other people don’t like my paint colors, it isn’t their wall!
Could you not just preemptively have a plan in place to cover it up? Like “okay if we are going to sell we just drop in a floor on top and pretend it wasn’t there”?
Just fill it with water. People love indoor pools.
If I get old and have to move out, it’s their problem - I think by then it will have come full circle and be in vogue again.
I feel like I remember somebody saying they tend to cause flooding or water damage? Like I guess the foundation can separate and water seeps in? I could be completely misremembering that though.
I hope you don’t plan on living there when you’re older and need mobility aids!
But genuinely, I’m sure it’s gonna look cool AF.
couldn’t a ramp be installed?
That would make it a conversation halfpipe.
I’m in.
Usually a conversation pit is avoidable, as seen in the pictures. Shouldn’t be enough to render the whole house unusable
The plan is def a forever home! If I can’t make a step or two the whole house will be a wash, lmao
I had a house with something like the first one, although it had a railing installed.
At first I hated the railing and considered removing it. Then I slipped on the hardwood steps on my way down into the pit. A whole 20 inches doesn’t seem like a lot, but let me tell you that hitting my ass halfway down was enough to make me re-think all of it.
Aesthetically, conversation pits are amazing. That said, they are absolutely built to fuck up someone’s day the very moment they’re not being careful.
Yeah, that’s my first thought. Kinda cool, but I could see stepping off an edge and going down hard on a table or something. I wouldn’t even care if it was me, I fall down all the time, but I’d be concerned about others, like my wife, or my mom, or my son.
or my son.
I kid you not, when the realtor showed the house they brought their rambunctious 7-year-old with them. Kiddo wasted zero time and did a running full-gainer into the conversation pit, tucked into a roll on landing, and sprawled out flat to stop in the middle of the room. Realtor/mom was NOT amused. Frankly, I was impressed but also relieved that there was no staged furniture in that particular room.
I hosted a few house-parties over the years and always had to keep a watchful eye on guest’s alcohol intake and all the steps and railings. It was kind of exhausting.
I know it’s a shitpost, but…
As cool as they might look, imagine trying to keep those things clean. Just constant vacuuming.
This is why all the materials should be waterproof and a drain should be placed in the center of the pit. Then you can just pressure wash the whole thing
I, too, have tried to convince my partner to make it an orgy pit.
it puts the wood paneling on its walls or else it gets the economic recession again
I fucking love late 60s to mid 70s architecture. Not so much the colors, tho. Rust orange, brown, and vomit green aren’t very cool.
I can definitely see why people dislike the colors but there’s something about the 70s (I prefer to think of it as avocado) green paired with wooden mid century mod decor. It just gives me cozy vibes for some reason
