Wait a fucking moment here…
And the ability for average incomes to buy, build, and furnish a home, sure.
They look like a good idea until you have to vacuum.
Why do you think Bill was always sending down all that lotion?
I can’t imagine people on Lemmy of all places having enthusiasm for socializing and conversations.
You like the novelty of it, but you would sit there alone and imagine having friends and then you would imagine you know how to actually listen to other people instead of just waiting for an opportunity to talk about linux or indie steam games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_listening
Really helps both the person talking and the person listening stay engaged. You’re encouraging the speaker to focus on the parts of the conversation you find interesting. They’re receiving feedback, so they know what they’re saying is being valued and encouraged.
Love sunken living rooms!!! Why is this even a shitpost ??
It puts the lotion on the skin or it gets the hose.
Again?
Because of the second image?
Top left has a pretty big gap between those couches. What does your social night look like, the batman table?
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.
When I was living in apartments, the nicer spots would have big community fire pits in between blocks. They were great for mixing and mingling with other apartment residents, especially during the holidays or weekends with good weather.
One of the more annoying parts of being a home owner right now is getting people over to your place and finding places for all their cars. So much easier when everyone just kinda lives in the same two or three blocks and can walk over to catch a show or BBQ or play board games.
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.
A friend of mine did every weird thing he could think of when decorating his apartment. Imitation brick wall, colorful shelves, decorative ceiling, built-in plant pots and so on. Now he says he regrets it because it’s hard to maintain (led lights brake, fixing even small damage is really difficult, repainting is impossible) and when you get bored of it and want to change something it’s a huge effort. With cleaner, simpler esthetics you can easily move things around, repaint, add/remove decorations and so on. You can constantly change decorations without things clashing with you colorful walls.
OK, Biff Tanner
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 i’m in the stage of life we gotta think about hoyer lifts and i am not getting one of those down and then up outta a conversation pit
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.
“It puts the lotion on its skin”
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
Then you get conversation drain flies
Not if you don’t have dirty stagnant water.
Even copious amounts of (definitely not human) blood?
I, too, have tried to convince my partner to make it an orgy pit.
I like to think of more as a containment zone.
Sooooo, you’re saying shag carpeting all over?
The oval table looks like a gamepad
The concept behind this design is really fascinating and actually harkens back to very very old house design, like 1500s, where people would have a little cubby with benches next to a fire.
Read about Frank Lloyd Wright and his first few house designs (i think the Fallingwater house is a key one) to get the bigger picture on this. He (in ~1910 i think) literally brought back an element of domestic architecture we’d left behind. Comfort pits from the 70s are downstream of this, in my opinion.
Fallingwater is very interesting, visited as a teenager, with no concept of anything, especially fluid dynamics, but I had seen how heavy snowfall led to heavy river rise that flooded my home and fucked up my life. And i had a vague idea that we all understand, which is that water always wins. So when I saw the interior of Fallingwater, I was like, this shit is not a place humans could live.
Tl:dr fallingwater is leaky and damp
I also saw Falling Water as a teen. I was in awe … of the fact that an artist could actually have the name “Lipchitz”.
You can make the niche without the pit. Unless you have some reason at all to use the different level, it’s completely unnecessary.
