Keeping stuff in a shed keeps it safe from the elements, right?
For the discerning homebuyer/vampire who hates the idea of natural sunlight!
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1119-E-Puma-Ln-Lincoln-KS-67455/128506191_zpid/
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(looking at pictures) Huh? I don't understand. They're storing their stuff in there, what's so bad ab- ah, there's the, uh, living quarters, I see. Well okay then, it's not my style but I su- oh lawdy lawd a bunch of
crucifixescrosses.Edit: those are "just" crosses.
So they bought this place, but it's lack of natural sunlight kept attracting vampires, so they had to put up crucifixes everywhere to keep them away?
Minus the interior decoration this is like ideal for me.
My dream house is basically a garage with a house attached. But I guess a house inside a garage works too.
It's not terrible. It's definitely not for me, but I don't hate the living space.
There are private small airports with garages and hangers at each house. At least in the US, they are called community airports or air parks. Often grass runways and often self built houses. There’s always some folks that don’t fly but just want the hanger as a shop. Good communities at these places too. Pretty badass when your neighbor has gnarly tool you’d like to use and has built their own airplane
Those look to be just crosses (popular with Protestants), crucifixes generally refer to a cross with ol’ J-dawg on it (popular with Catholics)
Huh. TIL.
(Thinking about it, the remnants of my Latin knowledge from school say that makes sense.)
That wall... Jesus Christ!
"Does it have an attached garage?" "Brother does it ever"
ngl I kinda like the idea of having a house inside my shed lmao. I feel like that one "Race it, Break it, Fix it, Repeat" sign really says who the target market is.
Christ that's a lot of decapitated things.
I'm assuming the inner building has its own air supply or there's just so much volume in the outer part so all the ICEs don't make everybody sleepy.
Sleepy sounds nice
Finally, someone with a good grasp of the proper ratios when comes to house space vs garage/workshop space. Chuck in a few exterior windows and I would be fine with something like this.
I would be checking how much weight above the living space can handle though - I suspect it might not be up to suitable floor loadings for workshop usage.
Yeah, this is amazing. I’d buy it.
Some won’t understand—especially if they live in a matchbox apt in a concrete jungle and have the mechanical aptitude of a liberal arts student with hobbies to match.
you do realize that people don't live in tiny apartments because that's the dream of their life, right?
they live like that because they have to live in the city to find work, and the cities have absurd housing shortages which makes the tiny apartments the least expensive option. They live like that because the alternative is fucking dying of exposure on the streets.
With no egress windows (or windows at all) I’m surprised they are allowed to classify this as livable space..
Around me they have to be suuuuuper careful to not refer to any room lacking egress windows as “bedroom”, because it’s not up to code and thus isn’t living space. I assumed that was everywhere in the US.
The rooms do have windows… that lead to the shed. So checkmate, you northern yank.
It's weird but frankly I'd live here as long as it had high speed internet.
No people and I could probably shoot off my back porch... Living the dream.
What did that porch ever do to you? Certainly there are more efficient was to be rid of it.
I've installed Internet once to a warehouse like this that had a full on house built inside of one corner of it. Like we totally thought it was pretty normal, since we mostly installed for farms and the highest point to install the radios was usually a barn, shed or warehouse like this. But then when we went inside to run the cable, it was like a movie set. They even had a fake lawn.
It probably was a set for video productions. Of a certain kind.
I think it's cool. This would be an outdoorsman's dream
But it's indoors.
Did you not see all the toys?
As an Oregonian, I can't imagine what it's like to be an outdoorsman in Kansas.
Get in your ATV and drive in a straight line forever.
Here I'm just thinking that'd be an amazing place to have my boardgame collection and nerd space.
For real. This would be incredible and it's significantly cheaper than the value of my little 1/8 acre starter home.
You'd never have to finish a game, just set up a new table!
TBH to me this is very appealing. I want a lot of space that is isolated from others and protected from the elements. This picture shows all those things.
I've been sitting here trying to decide whether or not "shouse" was a typo.
I'd live there, get a few more crosses and lazy boys. Maybe some animal heads and more carpeting
Not just a "shouse" but a "stunning shouse."
well i was interested but no way would i live in denmark
Holy shit that crucifix wall on image 32 is insane
I think that's what pushed it from unusual to over the top for me. I knew this community would get a laugh.
They're just crosses, I don't see any Jesuses.
HE ESCAPED
Better hope a cat gets him before he finds another Jesus and they breed. Then you've got an infestation.
The wall of crosses is weird. What is the thing Jesus would least like to see if he returned?
i mean turning blood into wine does feel vampire-adjacent, but he did also rise from the dead so.. both?
Is that a typo or are they pointing out that it's a house inside a shed?
How much would it cost to heat/cool this big, open warehouse!? Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul spoiler:
::: spoiler spoiler It looks like where Mike housed the lab construction crew. :::
Not counting the cost of the HVAC equipment, probably 3-400 per month. Electricity and natural gas are cheap in this area.
You just bother with climate control on the building in a building.
Hmm, I guess. There's something severely depressing about leaving your home and you still can't see any stars because you're not outside!
Its just a really big garage or porch, if you walk into your garage are you still in your house?
Admittedly if that were my place the inside of the barn itself would look way cooler and be much more organised.
I knew of a house like this in another state and I'm guessing this one was done for the same reason. Hiding from the tax man. Buy some land, build a barn, get it on the tax rolls as an uninhabited structure and finally build your fully functional home inside.
I'm guessing this will be a headache of a sale. The taxes on Zillow didn't make much sense.
I never would have guessed, but that makes a lot of sense now. I'm on board with the theory that it's a big tax scam of some sort.
I was curious about how the zoning works on it. (I also have not a clue how planning permission works in the US)
It doesn't look like any external windows, so maybe it's a "this is technically industrial/farm space, but oh look, there is a bed and a kitchen, fancy that!" sort of deal.
The property tax? I checked a couple other listings of traditional homes around $160k in tbe same town and they showed nothing for taxes with assessed values around $10k which doesn't make any sense to me either.
America's obsession with garages has gone too far.
(Also I'm pretty sure that's very illegal.)
From Kansas… we call this a barndominium and they are actually pretty neat. I guarantee they’re getting plenty of sun lol.
Huh. That, uh, headboard has some interesting adornments, there, pardner.
What if your "guest" wants to leave early because they don't take well to the wall of crucifixes, the room of animal heads, the whole house in a barn feel or the fact that the neighbours are too far away to hear the screaming? Can't have them running off into the night missing skin now can we?
God no, that’d be terrible
They'd catch a death of cold.
Had to go back and look. I'm sure those are just assistive.
The horizontal could have easily been covered and I can't imagine it is comfortable to have there, even when not in use.
Hillbilly Hilton
i kno it's evil to say, but when people genuinely have an american flag on their property i immediately assume it's a shidpost or at the very least ironic. but it's not, which makes it fun.
Nope. These days it's an indicator that you're almost certainly dealing with a magat. Occasionally you'll see an American flag with a pride flag or something similar below it and know that it's ironic.
Used to be that mostly only ex military or similar would fly a flag. Some folks would fly a flag from their porch for happy fireworks day or memorial day if they had family that died in a war. You almost never saw anyone with an actual flagpole in their yard. Flagpoles were for schools, government offices and such.
My family had a flag in our front yard for the first 10 years of my life, because my dad’s brother was in Afghanistan for the majority of that time. That said, we certainly wouldn’t put one up now :/ it’s been tarnished without question.
I used to see American flags come out on or during the week of Independence Day or Veteran's Day or something similar where it was not unusual for people to put their national pride on display. That stopped happening when some people took it too far after 9/11 and started making patriotism into their whole identity and used it as a smokescreen for their overt bigotry. Now it's almost seen as a tacky or gaudy thing to do and I get why.
But yeah, if someone has a full-blown flagpole installed on their front lawn, they are 100% virtue signaling. Big MAGA-weirdo vibes.
Yeah, 9-11 was the beginning when I think about it.
Used to be you had a few, mostly paranoid conspiracy theory types, that even conservatives kind of looked down on and felt sympathy for them being mentally unwell.
It has morphed into this crazy fascist religious cultural identity shit that we have now. Fucking pod people. Sucks.
This shit is normal now and crazy conspiracy theory mentally unwell people are a big chunk of the population.
The really crazy thing is that Osama basically won. Him, 9-11, and the far right like Limbaugh infected the national psyche with something that may be terminal.
That's quite interesting, here in sweden at least (but i'm pretty sure the same applies to all the nordics at least) flagpoles are and have been very normal (though not super common), but they basically only ever fly the little triangular version of the flag. Basically a very very big and expensive decoration.
Were you born in a barn!?
This looks like if an alien made a hamster cage for humans. The little plastic 'home' and all
I can see the appeal. I also like sunlight though, so might have to put some windows in.
I don't understand this, but I also don't hate it.
Great economic housing and storage idea. Got the land for cheap I'm sure. Giant steel building probably one of the cheapest options you could go for. Sweat equity just interior walls.
Way to go whoever you are!
You have no idea how hard it is wire, plumb, heat, cool, and add rooms. My one Daughter of mine as a FIL who has been a successful contractor. And they did something similar to that, building a house out of a pole barn and while mostly happy with the results so far, it was not as ideal as first thought in the end. The heating bill is insane with those crazy high ceiling.
Surely you would only heat up the smaller living areas
The garages have taken over.
1990s: If you don't do good in school you're gonna live in a van down by the river!
2020's: I'd you take on six figures of undischargable student loan debt and work 3 jobs, you and two other couples could pitch in and buy a million dollar shed to put your van in.
Best comment of the thread so far 😂
Isn't that in tornado alley? I wouldn't dare. It's like a giant trailer, any tornado will be drawn to that like a magnet.
What the hell did I just watch...
Would be amazing for growing lots of weed, caretakers lives inside the shack.
No joke but aside from the lack of windows, this place is perfect. Well, windows and Kansas..
Love it!!
As someone who lusts after Dirk Pitt's studio apartment over a private hangar, I see absolutely nothing wrong with this.
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