The morning amphetamines haven’t kicked in yet, and I’m having a tough time figuring out what I’m looking at. Is it one of those buildings where firefighters practice with their hoses and ladders?
Even the Chairs are cowering in the corner, uncertain what they’re supposed to be doing about the giant manta ray that swooped down into the missile silo.
And in this room, we have a giant hatbox. Or possibly a six-foot-across wedding cake. Why? What’s going to leap out of it? Will it hurt me?
Wandering over here, we seem to be in a lawyer’s waiting room.
Or maybe not. I’m not saying this is a bordello. I’m just saying… never mind. On advice of the legal counsel I waited for above, I’m not saying anything.
Now we seem to be in an office. Or a movie set. Possibly a furniture showroom.
Noooo… we’re in an airport? In Dubai? In 1978?
Ah hah! It’s a fire station! All is clear.
(Found by Beth, who says that it isn’t even in a residential area but instead is on a service road. That doesn’t really help with the confusion, does it?)
It's a repurposed 1980 firehall located right on the third-busiest highway in the entire nation and downwind of the freaking Dofasco plant, and it's decorated like a Bollywood set designer's impression of a Montreal brothel?
For $999,000? In HAMILTON?!?
By the way, here's the listing page:
http://www.topnegotiator.ca/ezweb/listings.php?lstid=212&bak=y
I love how he spins the great big concrete pad. "40-car parking!"
OMG! I drive by this place all the time and have been confused by it for many years. It fronts right onto a major highway and there are always at least 10 cars parked out front. Now that it's for sale, there's a huge sign out front – like the kind typically used for farmland or commercial buildings. At least now I know it actually IS a house – I've been wondering for some time!
I realize now that you actually tag the country a property is in, but it took me forever to figure out that this property is in Ontario, Canada.
I don't know why that actually makes it seem even odder, but it does, to me.
Odder still? It appears that the two bedrooms with round beds are both kids' bedrooms. I'm not sure what you are encouraging your son and daughter (it would appear they have one of each) to grow up to be in a room like that, but at least it isn't something boring.
You can see other residential properties in the background and outside of the sun room, but yeah, what a surreal joint.
Yes, many opportunities. To have wild parties. The kind where people aren't necessarily clothed.
They are right! They do, "…do the impossible…." All that for less than $1mil.
My eyes are blinded from all that red, and those pink or red couches. It looks like it might have been a commercial building, and evidently someone got the bright idea to turn it into a dwelling. I think if they had used some better decorating, it might be really cool. As it is, it looks like a fancy doctors office.
Pave the world!
I swear I've seen this place in a dream before. I have a very clear memory of seeing the columns on the front while turning around in a car on the driveway. In my dream it was in Pennsylvania though, and it was an inn/hotel.
"Noooo… we're in an airport? In Dubai? In 1978?"
LOL…you are absolutely hilarious. This blog makes my day, every day.
I want it! As long as it comes furnished. My kids need round beds. It keeps the chi flowing. Or something.
Oh wow! We used to have a foam round bed / sofa bed. A bit like those block puzzles. If you folded down the head rest, slotted in the quarter circle segments, replaced the pillows, you ended up with a flat surface that you could conceivably sleep on. But don’t forget which direction you chose to sleep in once you put the lights out. It can get rather disorientating to get up, walk through the door and find you are on the balcony.
Well, it's $1 million Canadian, so that means it's actually only… yeah, I got nothin' now that the Canadian dollar is catching up to the US dollar. I fully expect the Canadian dollar to overtake it soon.
I kinda want it.
Wow.. well it is one of a kind all right.
I wonder if any other of the male readers here have the same suspicions as I do about the original purpose of the "bar" room. I just hope they have cleaned the floor.
Sorry ladies.
Manta ray cokesplort! Can somebody get me a tissue?
Hey baby. Why dontcha come over some time and check out my ladders and poles.
Dear Lovely Lady,
I love you. You bring together the best people, the best photos, and add the best captions.
The world needs more blogs like yours (and cakewrecks).
Thanks for the sunshine from Seattle (oh, and what did you think of that rain yesterday? My kids forgot what rain bouncing on a roof looks like)
The Terracotta roof is a lovely touch!
You buy a fire house and remake it into a home, but take out the pole to slide to the lower level? Where's the fun in that?
That is a pretty cool home, but with ugly decor. Yikes.
Nice post! This blog is really funny.
Being new to the site i thought that they were pictures of different houses, not all the same one! Great find. Great blog.
It's so odd, but curiously…..appealing……the decor is awful, but I think the house itself is pretty cool.
Wait I need to look again without my rose colored glasses on..oh their off ?!?! Oh well
I like the wood paneling but they need to get away from the primary colors.
Wow trippy. Its actaully pretty cool if you look at it with potential. The decorations are so so tacky. Its like eating a lemon when you look at the photos. Bleh… It would be a pretty cool place with the right deco… I like the big staircase. That is indeed pretty. Another really cool find I enjoyed
It's in Canada…what can you expect from those Canuckleheads.
BURN THE FURNISHINGS! SAVE THE COOL BUILDING!
Oh wow now that was hilarious!!!! Great find!!!
Gah! I work down the highway from that place. Always wondered what it looked like inside
Haha! I recognized this one right away. It is not a repurposed fire house. It is a custom built home. Originally, there was a few more acres as part of the original lot and they had a matching “warehouse” that housed an olympic sized swimming pool as their son competed in swimming. The “warehouse” and indoor pool that it contained have since been demolished and the lot severed. However, it has always been an eyesore and not just on the outside I see.
When I saw the first picture I thought it looked familiar but reading the comments confirmed it… We used to drive by this house alot when we were kids and my parents would joke about buying it… After seeing the inside thank god they never did!
uhhh…maybe I’m firmly in the gutter here…but my first thought was that it is a set. As in, a movie set. For Jack and Miri.
I say: Fabuloso! I’m sold! Just wait for a southern breeze, inflate the balloon array that is almost surely contained in those pylons all around the structure, and float that Brick Love Shack on down to the Washington, D.C. ‘burbs, and I’ll gladly live in it. I’ll even wear the appropriate extraterrestrial-massage-parlor-themed spandex jumpsuits weekends to keep up appearances.
Regards,
Bilgey
How many satellite dishes does one house need???
I think it’s the captions that did it for me. It doesn’t help when you’re talking to your boyfriend about really serious stuff and you’re on cam hahaha.
36 comments before me and not one reference to the BACON BATHROOM?! Garish paint and furnishings aside, where does one find tile that looks like slabs of fat marbled meat?
Love the blog, have inflicted my friends.
Didn’t you know?? This is where they film all the porn in the world.
I wonder if all this is a tribute to Stanley Kubrick.
best listing ever
I really dig the five satellite dishes and the aerial. Can they pick up broadcasts from Eastern Europe? With all that red carpet and wood panelling, it could be an embassy.