I went to see a first floor flat in a house conversion and it had a sunken bath. I couldn't figure it out why it wasn't sticking out into of the ceiling of the ground floor flat until my friend, a building services engineer, pointed out it must be in the old stairwell. And that there are quite stringent regulations for capping off a stairwell that don't include "put a bath in it". And that the access to the underside, in case of leaks, would likely involve demolishing the bricked up bottom of the stairs, in someone else's flat. It went on and off the market a few times (presumably going back on when the survey dropped and the prospective buyer ran a mile) over a year but someone has now bought it.

And all that before we get onto the question of the weird marks on the floor in front of the fire in photo 9 or what looks like some kind of entombed car. Did they just build their house around a smaller house and will, one day, someone build a larger one around this? Creating some kind of onion-layered monument to baffle future archaeologists like some of the Mesoamerican pyramids.

“This home has a pending offer.”
Oof.

Why do the last pictures show another kitchen? And in those what's in that bathroom's sink? It's like an entire ass exploded.

Are we sure that isn’t a trough?

I actually really like the dead tree staircase space.

It's the too-large bedroom with wooden floor that feels wonkiest to me.

That is such ugly decorating, but 8,500 sq feet? Who the fuck needs a house that big? Is it a hotel? The high price doesn't even seem crazy for that much house and land but can't imagine there are jobs to pay for a mortgage on it in Des Plains. If it was here someone would buy it, tear everything down and put a bunch of houses on the property, that's what happens here with any chunk of land like that for sale.

How big is this house tho

Is photoshopping bathtubs into kitchens the new thing nowadays? I don’t get this.

There are dead trees in the vast majority of houses.