It’s bad from the outside, but the inside is so much worse. And it gets worse the more you look at it. So many details that are just so awful. Living in this “house” is probably miserable.
This is the first time I’ve seen a “it just keeps getting worse” post and actually agreed. I went in n just expecting terrible siding, then the inside of the house, then the chairs, then the lights, then more chairs, the carpet, the exposed wiring, why are there chairs there?, it just kept escalating. Thank you for this.
I concur. Most “it gets worse” style posts have one or two odd things. This one truly delivered.
It’s a 3 bedroom (all queens?), 5 bath house with seating for 20. It’s either some crazy orgies at night in only a few beds, a business call center kind of place, or they had massive family gatherings with alarming regularity. Of course there’s always the cult option, which means it could also be “all of the above”.
There is the wall of family photos on shelves… Maybe family get together center?
What’s up with the industrial scale sewing equipment?
It’s a quilting sewing machine. I saw one once at an art exhibit.
Don’t forget the
mazeporch and the fans and ac units stuck randomly in walls.I think it’s designed to confuse you so you can’t get out.
I like that that the bath and shower have the water valves outside of them.
Wow. Missed that. Why get wet. It’s a convenience.
Looks like it could be easily transformed into a swinger club. And you could power wash the whole facility after the weekends.
And since it’s Arkansas, that’s fun for the whole family!
This guy has a pineapple tat.
Here’s my two shots in the dark to explain this monstrosity:
Retired couple buys one of those workshop/huge garage and apartment combos. They decide to turn the workshop into an event space for weddings.
They add a few conveniences for the wedding party, like a couple extra bedrooms to get ready, and a black and red honeymoon suite. The decor is hideous because retired wife is old af and it looks good to her. Retired husband sucks at DIY, like electrical and room layout, but doesn’t let small things like planning get in his way.
Grandson works at a siding company that mainly does B2B installs and often has leftovers. Sometimes he grabs other overage from the project after talking to other tradies, like a banister here and there. Maybe an orphan cabinet base.
Grandson wants to start his own siding business one day so he is happy to practice installs on the wedding rental building.
Alternative: Fundie church does secret child marriages here and the couple that maintains the property is allowed to live there as well. The ugliness of the property is because they’re purely utilitarian and just need a facade of wedding shit because it’s not really about the wedding as much as it’s about keeping it on the down-low.
neighbors are a church
Is the church still active?
If it’s recently defunct or relocating, I’d bet this is the parsonage, assembled on a shoestring budget from the church offering, and using whatever materials they could source as absolutely cheaply as possible.
I’m guessing that either a member of the congregation or family connection of same is a siding guy and was able to get all of this for free or obscenely cheap from somewhere, or was able to get it donated, and rather than waste it or decline what they couldn’t put on the outside, they decided to save money on drywall and paint and put it inside as well.
Same with the furniture, etc. this just reeks of “super tight budget but with excesses in certain odd specific areas because we got it donated”.
Yes! This reads parsonage to me as well! That explains all the office chairs and more bathrooms than bedrooms. It’s likely a breakout space / small groups meeting area
Is ‘siding’ the stuff the walls are made out of? (Sorry, me being a railway enthusiast, ‘siding’ means something completely different).
What material is that?
You may have heard of PVC (Poly VINYL Chloride I think) cladding - same thing. In the UK it’s predominately used for soffit and fascia (the normally white plastic bits between the top of a house wall and the beginning of the roof tiles where your gutter lives) It’s worth noting that PVC cladding is only to “pretty-up” finished buildings. It has zero construction strength but when fitted properly will stop all water penetration. Give it a wash once a year and it’s as good as new.
Yep! 99% sure the siding here is vinyl. That’s the cheapest option for house exteriors so it’s very popular in the US.
If you have the budget, you can also get siding made from aluminum. It’s all meant to mimic the look of real wood planks.
What does siding mean in railway enthusiast vernacular?
Thanks for the explanation. Vinyl seems like an odd choice of material for exterior cladding, where I live it’s normally timber, brick or sometimes steel sheeting (mainly for sheds and garages).
A railway siding is a piece of rail track that is commonly used for storing, loading or unloading trains away from the track where regular traffic runs.
Somebody got a smoking deal on a ridiculous quantity of siding.
With all those hard surfaces and open spaces, the echoes in this place must be unreal.
That’s why they carpeted the bedroom walls.
The current owner is the only guy in North America to not have a podcast.
But, suspiciously, has 25 people comfortably living with him.
And office chairs!
Terraria ahh house
For the cult on a budget!
Few windows for outsiders to look in. Many, many cheap tables to eat at.
Maybe just polygamy?
See, this was one of my first thoughts, either some kind of cult-like-thing, or it’s one of those weird multigenerational homes where four+ generations of people lived, and the parents rooms are close enough to eachother that they can hear when babies are being made.
When someone dies, everyone “upgrades” to their parents living space, and the normal-ish bedrooms, aka “nice” bedrooms (compared to the other bedrooms in this horror show), are reserved for the oldest family members.
The question I have, aside from… You know, everything, is… How many ceiling fans do you really need? Jesus.
That must be why there’s a hearse in the garage.
“Has your cult outgrown mom’s basement? Do I have the place for you!”
This is a literal fucking nightmare. I’d snap if I was tripping in there
Did anyone notice that the garage interior photos show the misaligned joists about 3/4 of the way back over the truck/jimmy?
I’m not entirely sure they’re actually attached to anything.
Oh, and no code inspector ever saw that wiring.
Edit: oh, and the never ending AC unit chaos. They even vent multiple units into the enclosed garage! That just kind of overheats it and returns the entropy to the house?
Favorite AC unit placement: in the shower with its own little upper tier curtain.
Second favorite cooling feature: the structural box fans in the walls.
“One of a kind”
Thank goodness.
Looks like a novice or idiot did the siding. It appears instead of overlapping each piece of siding and hiding the line by varying the distances they just slapped some j channel on and called it good. I bet that siding leaks like a sieve.
Holy this is a good one thanks OP
This looks like an AI was asked to design a house. All the basic elements are there, but nothing makes any sense.
@OP - This one is truly special. Thank you so much for this gift to we plebes. Wow.
When I first saw it, it was just the picture from the outside. That intrigued me enough to look a the rest of the pictures. I’m glad I did.
We’re ALL glad you did! Amazing find.
The only way it would work is if the inside was a viking longhouse.
