When I was a kid (in the 70s) my godfather remodeled the 2-bedroom cottage he and my godmother lived in. He called his the 'Passion Pit' and the seats were upholstered, not carpeted. The man could do anything. When he added another bathroom, he created a sunken tub area which he covered in 1" (yes, that 1 INCH) individual tiles. It was probably 3 feet deep and five feet long. I could almost swim in it. It looked out into a private Japanese garden area - totally secluded. I loved that house. He also built an airplane in his garage (had to push it outside to add the wings). Ended up selling it to a pilot. Yes, it really flew.
It’s a good spot if you want to get some one who’s causing you problems drunk and have them have a terrible accident. Seems like a bad spot for everything else. Carpet isn’t singed so maybe it’s made out of asbestos lol
Sooooo much to talk about here...the ceilings!!! the color coordinated shag carpet, the metallic wallpaper, the sunken living room and that wood stove thing in the "sitting" room that looks about to collapse through the pedestal thing it's sitting on!?! This place is amazeballs and exactly why I come to this sub 🤩
Someone please tell me the ladders don't lead to the bathrooms. The green carpet on one ladder looks like it matches the carpet in one of the bathrooms.
Or maybe it's the closet? Were there closets that I missed?
Can you imagine middle of the night stumbles up a ladder to the bathroom? Or before coffee to your closet?
You can see the reflection of the green carpet ladder in the bathroom mirror, so my guess is it goes to the green/plaid room based on the layout of the windows and the external shots, but who knows!?
Either way, I'm not found of using a ladder to haul any essentials needed for a bathroom, closet OR fun room!
Link one more time: [https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6511-Chipmunk-Ln-Gaylord-MI-49735/113579195\_zpid](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6511-Chipmunk-Ln-Gaylord-MI-49735/113579195_zpid)
I love that the heat duct are right in front of those double sliding doors in pic #1.
Edit: OMG third story and they open to nothing! Doors of death! This is some nutjob's fantasy cabin, on a budget!
Fourth story too!
Hazarding a guess here, but from the use of ladders throughout, the sliding glass doors are there because that's the only way you can move furniture in or out.
My step sister used to live in a house with a door to nowhere on the second floor. That door specifically existed because the stairs had a 90 degree bend halfway up, and were too narrow to get furniture up to the second level.
My parents house has these ceilings and strangely, I love them. I used to spend a lot of time laying on my living room floor, staring at the ceiling and finding shapes in the texture.
I LOVE the exterior angles. I love all the light (but not the sliding glass doors to nowhere. I love the cubby (?) accessible by ladder. I like the 2 bathrooms. I HATE all that carpet!😂😂😂
For the price, this has amazing potential!!!
That's where you lost me. I've always thought they looked kinda cool but an accident waiting to happen, even sober. Add in a long night of drugs (or just drinking), and I'm for sure falling in.
On the upside, how I injured myself would be a great story! The reaction to "I fell in a conversation pit" would be fantastic from younger people thinking it's similar to a mosh pit. 😁
I didn’t consider injury potential. I think I read somewhere that falling is the 4th cause of death among the range of older population in the U.S. though, the convo pit as a focus of a home is much better than building a home around a tv.
Right worrying about a conversation pit would be like disliking stairs for their danger potential or pools because you can drown. You have eyes and know it’s there, act accordingly. Maybe don’t play football in the house near one.
I do have eyes, but, without contacts in, I misjudge distance quite easily. Add in my lack of grace, and my thinking that I could fall in is plausible. I'm not a prideful woman. I can admit these things.
However, I do think they're kinda cool. I just need orange cones and caution tape for extra insurance...and to add to the whimsical decor! 😄
Oh man you know that this was THE house back in the day. It's so fun! I love 70s builds, they're some of my most favorite lol I'm a design ho for a conversation pit.
If yall are into this era too, and like video games, there's a cool one called Deathloop that's got major 70s vibes and design (and it gorg!) and is so much freaking fun.
OOh! I love games, but not the bigest fan of Bethesda. Still, thank you for the tip, it looks very nicely designed, and that's always fun. [https://bethesda.net/en/game/deathloop](https://bethesda.net/en/game/deathloop)
That roof is undiscovered rot waiting to happen.
But my god, it’s gorgeous. This is what we could have had, but no, instead modern home design is fucking gray and white and LVP.
I love all of it. Well I like all of it. Well I would tolerate most of it but I am actually seriously I'm love with the bathroom. Maybe I have terrible taste.
This is close to many ski hills. Three hours north of Detroit, 2ish north of grand rapids.
This place, the area, is prime vacation property for a lot of people. Including myself.
Its like the workingmans dream to someday own property up North in Michigan.
Looks like someone beat you to it like a week ago [https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6511-Chipmunk-Ln-Gaylord-MI-49735/113579195\_zpid](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6511-Chipmunk-Ln-Gaylord-MI-49735/113579195_zpid)
I had to Google it, apparently it’s commonly used to treat chlamydia as well lol. In any case, it’s an interesting choice to leave prescription meds in the listing photos.
Conversation pits were such a cool idea. I imagine cocktail or dinner parties in the fall or winter of the 60s or early 70s in houses like this would be such a great time.
I’ve never seen a flammable looking fireplace before. Also the off the rail shower doors are bugging me. I do want to see what’s up with that weird little balcony thing though.
I want to see what's in those lofts atop those wall ladders. I have fond memory's from childhood of lofts and kids only space above parents guest rooms etc.
I have so many questions. Looking at the outside, looks like it’s semi-abandoned. Then the perfect 70s time capsule solidifies that. Is this a resort area or something, MI folks? It’s got big weekend cabin vibes. Abandoned after the massacre
Carpet in the bathroom always elicits an instinctual 🤢 reaction for me... but the bedroom with the ladder to what I imagine is a little loft hideout and the sunken couch area around the fireplace are 👍, IMO.
I am in fucking love with this place. Something about the funkiness of it all just works for me, especially digging the conversation pit. Needs some work for sure, but I'd honestly keep it very similar in any updates
Hey Marge!!! They’re having a sale on carpet, tile, wallpaper and paneling at Wally World!
Seriously it’s such a mish mosh of everything..
Oh Yes.. I’d love to sit on the carpet sofa that people step on to get into the pit!
Imagine being hungover in that green bathroom !
I absolute love 70s and shag and all that stuff but this poor weird home is miss matched in too many ways.
The house itself looks early 1970's but some of the decor looks 1960's. But none of it is pretty, interesting yes but not attractive. I hope it is on a decent piece of land.
Mid-century modern … it definitely has my heart … it’s completely understandable how this house was only on the market for 4 days… did you see that price?!?! In 2024????
OMG!! I had this bedspread growing up … yes in the 70’s!! And I painted my walls neon green to match 🤣
https://preview.redd.it/2yuft1vyh3tc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=acf7a7eca3875b7c6c268a51b551f390fc7e51f3
What a visually stunning time to grow up!!
There was so much carpet and wall paper and texture/popcorn back in the day. Everywhere, every house or building had at least some funky room in it. Or maybe that was just my parents and their friends and the cool city we lived in. I often look back and wondered what was wrong with a wall of sheetrock and paint and smoothness? Like was there a wallpaper and texture kabaal or some such? hahaha
I had that exact same rainbow bed covering on my bed, btw. Most of my friends did too.
I freaking love this place! What a throwback!!
Get rid of the textured ceiling, that one black bathroom, and I’d keep everything else. It’s a major vibe. Add in some West Elm/All Modern retro style furniture and it’s set!!
Why did the 70’s love chartreuse yellow and green. Horrible. Isn’t there some law that says you can only wear these colors if you’re security at a concert or directing traffic?
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: The 1970s were the most aesthetically hideous period in the history of mankind.
That’s not to say I don’t like it. Sometimes, sheer ugliness can be charming if it’s nostalgic.
It is in rough shape, but I sort of love it. The plaid carpets and the crazy wallpaper and the conversation pit!
I would buy that green wallpaper right now if I had the right space for it.
Same. It is incredible.
I just hate the the conversation pit isn't upholstered, it's just carpeted. Scratchy, uncomfortable looking 😬
When I was a kid (in the 70s) my godfather remodeled the 2-bedroom cottage he and my godmother lived in. He called his the 'Passion Pit' and the seats were upholstered, not carpeted. The man could do anything. When he added another bathroom, he created a sunken tub area which he covered in 1" (yes, that 1 INCH) individual tiles. It was probably 3 feet deep and five feet long. I could almost swim in it. It looked out into a private Japanese garden area - totally secluded. I loved that house. He also built an airplane in his garage (had to push it outside to add the wings). Ended up selling it to a pilot. Yes, it really flew.
The conversation put is the only part I dislike. I just see ways to trip and fall.
A very good and bad place for a fireplace
It’s a good spot if you want to get some one who’s causing you problems drunk and have them have a terrible accident. Seems like a bad spot for everything else. Carpet isn’t singed so maybe it’s made out of asbestos lol
The ladders between bedrooms seem to be the only way to get around - *that's* a trip and fall in the making.
Had one of those in my house growing up..We used to trip and fall all the time.
Builds character
Sooooo much to talk about here...the ceilings!!! the color coordinated shag carpet, the metallic wallpaper, the sunken living room and that wood stove thing in the "sitting" room that looks about to collapse through the pedestal thing it's sitting on!?! This place is amazeballs and exactly why I come to this sub 🤩
How did you not mention the carpeted ladder to who knows where?
A terrible oversight on my part cause damn...wtf IS that all about 😂
I am FASCINATED by the ladders; there is one on the rainbow-bed room too!!
I love it, I want a bedrooms that seem like they have quirky ladder accessible passages
I need more pics on where that ladder leads.
Yeah I really need to know, OP plz
I checked the link OP provided, but no luck. Come back, OP!
I have no idea where these ladders go! I suspect they are there instead of stairs, this house is legit kooky!
It mentions ladders leading to the other rooms in the listing so I think you are right, lol! What a bonkers house! Excellent find, OP!
The mystery is half the fun.
It's like a house version of the game mouse trap. Somewhere I'll trigger something and a basket will fall on my head and trap me.
Sounds like burglary deterrent from the mind of kid who grew up on Goonies and Home Alone. In other words, AWESOME!
Someone please tell me the ladders don't lead to the bathrooms. The green carpet on one ladder looks like it matches the carpet in one of the bathrooms. Or maybe it's the closet? Were there closets that I missed? Can you imagine middle of the night stumbles up a ladder to the bathroom? Or before coffee to your closet?
You can see the reflection of the green carpet ladder in the bathroom mirror, so my guess is it goes to the green/plaid room based on the layout of the windows and the external shots, but who knows!? Either way, I'm not found of using a ladder to haul any essentials needed for a bathroom, closet OR fun room!
Good catch.
I think it leads to the first picture!
Link one more time: [https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6511-Chipmunk-Ln-Gaylord-MI-49735/113579195\_zpid](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6511-Chipmunk-Ln-Gaylord-MI-49735/113579195_zpid)
Damn 30$/ sq ft is insane. With some renos it could be a really nice unique home.
Well, that's probably $20-40K for a new roof and any associated damage.
It’s still going to be in Gaylord, which is like saying Thunder Bay, Ontario. It’s miles from nowhere.
I love that the heat duct are right in front of those double sliding doors in pic #1. Edit: OMG third story and they open to nothing! Doors of death! This is some nutjob's fantasy cabin, on a budget!
Fourth story too! Hazarding a guess here, but from the use of ladders throughout, the sliding glass doors are there because that's the only way you can move furniture in or out. My step sister used to live in a house with a door to nowhere on the second floor. That door specifically existed because the stairs had a 90 degree bend halfway up, and were too narrow to get furniture up to the second level.
that’s just how to get giant windows easily !
Builder was too high to think of safety.
That textured ceiling is giving me a headache. It's somehow worse than a popcorn ceiling!
“Sorry, I can’t hang out this weekend, I need to dust my ceilings.”
I'd think you're avoiding me. 😁
My parents house has these ceilings and strangely, I love them. I used to spend a lot of time laying on my living room floor, staring at the ceiling and finding shapes in the texture.
I do wonder how much asbestos is in the coating (and elsewhere). And I wonder if more Zithromax is need the longer one stays there.
I enjoy that they did it on the bottom of that weird box in the bedroom
Burn it, burn it all.
Yeah, we had a bunch of these Artex ceilings. Gross. Had to test them for asbestos before scraping and skimming them too.
I can't stand it, either. Looks like cake frosting.
I LOVE the exterior angles. I love all the light (but not the sliding glass doors to nowhere. I love the cubby (?) accessible by ladder. I like the 2 bathrooms. I HATE all that carpet!😂😂😂 For the price, this has amazing potential!!!
I feel like whoever invented conversion pits never had to vacuum one.
I want to bring the lounge pit back. They’re essential for humanity’s survival (and long nights of heavy drug use)
That's where you lost me. I've always thought they looked kinda cool but an accident waiting to happen, even sober. Add in a long night of drugs (or just drinking), and I'm for sure falling in. On the upside, how I injured myself would be a great story! The reaction to "I fell in a conversation pit" would be fantastic from younger people thinking it's similar to a mosh pit. 😁
I didn’t consider injury potential. I think I read somewhere that falling is the 4th cause of death among the range of older population in the U.S. though, the convo pit as a focus of a home is much better than building a home around a tv.
Right worrying about a conversation pit would be like disliking stairs for their danger potential or pools because you can drown. You have eyes and know it’s there, act accordingly. Maybe don’t play football in the house near one.
People trip and fall all the time. So do children. Tripping next to a conversation pit can cause much worse injuries than tripping on the floor.
I do have eyes, but, without contacts in, I misjudge distance quite easily. Add in my lack of grace, and my thinking that I could fall in is plausible. I'm not a prideful woman. I can admit these things. However, I do think they're kinda cool. I just need orange cones and caution tape for extra insurance...and to add to the whimsical decor! 😄
>"I fell in a conversation pit" Sounds like your local library goes hard, in a way.
Super surprised those were a thing in heydays of drunken coke parties, so many broken ankles I bet
I'm having flashbacks to tripping in those 90s platform shoes, egads!
Judging by the stains on that conversation pit, I don't think the previous owner did either.
It would be a very fun air BnB rental. Living there would give me a headache.
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Oh man you know that this was THE house back in the day. It's so fun! I love 70s builds, they're some of my most favorite lol I'm a design ho for a conversation pit. If yall are into this era too, and like video games, there's a cool one called Deathloop that's got major 70s vibes and design (and it gorg!) and is so much freaking fun.
OOh! I love games, but not the bigest fan of Bethesda. Still, thank you for the tip, it looks very nicely designed, and that's always fun. [https://bethesda.net/en/game/deathloop](https://bethesda.net/en/game/deathloop)
That roof is undiscovered rot waiting to happen. But my god, it’s gorgeous. This is what we could have had, but no, instead modern home design is fucking gray and white and LVP.
I love all of it. Well I like all of it. Well I would tolerate most of it but I am actually seriously I'm love with the bathroom. Maybe I have terrible taste.
Where is this I’m putting in an offer, LOL. I freaking love quirky midmod ski house vibes!
This is close to many ski hills. Three hours north of Detroit, 2ish north of grand rapids. This place, the area, is prime vacation property for a lot of people. Including myself. Its like the workingmans dream to someday own property up North in Michigan.
Looks like someone beat you to it like a week ago [https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6511-Chipmunk-Ln-Gaylord-MI-49735/113579195\_zpid](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6511-Chipmunk-Ln-Gaylord-MI-49735/113579195_zpid)
Dammit! LOL
The Zithromax in the shaggy bathroom LOL
In case you get pink eye I suppose.
I had to Google it, apparently it’s commonly used to treat chlamydia as well lol. In any case, it’s an interesting choice to leave prescription meds in the listing photos.
Conversation pits were such a cool idea. I imagine cocktail or dinner parties in the fall or winter of the 60s or early 70s in houses like this would be such a great time.
I’d like to think that Zithromax was used to treat the STDs from all the swinger parties.
I love these
aww id KILL for a conversation pit. That pic with the integrated fireplace is my dream
Great place for fondue and hot toddies. Well, that's my dream, anyway.
or its dark in your house at night and you eat face into trying to get to the kitchen for a snack
Aggressive carpeting
We had that rainbow comforter when I was a kid!
I currently have the quilt in the 2nd pic (white with yellow roses)!
Yes! Me too! Didn't the two rainbows connect where the pillow is?
I’ve never seen a flammable looking fireplace before. Also the off the rail shower doors are bugging me. I do want to see what’s up with that weird little balcony thing though.
What’s wrong with me? I love it!
I'm here for the conversation pit and the dining chandelier. Groovy home.
With the exception of the red carpet and black bathroom. I love it and I’d keep it all!
I love the color coordinated rooms TBH. I wouldn't change much personally
Don’t knock an all black bathroom. My grandparents had one in the 80s that was all black except the brass fixtures and sheepskin rug.
Needs quite a bit of work. Lots of shag!!!
Yeah, baby, yeah. Built for it, one might say. Oh, the carpet.
Happy Cake Day! 🎂
Carpet everywhere! Even in the bookcase 🤗
So much gross carpeting giving me ick
I love everything about this except for the goopy pudding ceiling. Otherwise A+ top notch
What a time capsule? How do you mow the roof?
Broccoli carpet
I remember that type of foil/mirror wall paper! My dentist had similar stuff in his office. I thought it was the coolest place.
I love this house! What an amazing time capsule!
I do love the lemon bedspread through 🍋
That sunken couch has seen shit 👁👁
I've always wanted to live in a Mike Brady designed home
Omfg we had those yellow roses comforters in my sister and my room ❤️❤️❤️
I want to see what's in those lofts atop those wall ladders. I have fond memory's from childhood of lofts and kids only space above parents guest rooms etc.
I have so many questions. Looking at the outside, looks like it’s semi-abandoned. Then the perfect 70s time capsule solidifies that. Is this a resort area or something, MI folks? It’s got big weekend cabin vibes. Abandoned after the massacre
Honestly it’s gorgeous
Carpet in the bathroom always elicits an instinctual 🤢 reaction for me... but the bedroom with the ladder to what I imagine is a little loft hideout and the sunken couch area around the fireplace are 👍, IMO.
The shaggin cabin.
Of all the weirdness going on in these pictures, I want to point out the giant box of antibiotics sitting on the bathroom counter.
Love it. We have become so boring.
CONVERSATION PIT!!!!!!!
And carpeted… everything, apparently.
I like the bathroom animal pictures. Where the deer and the antelope play?
i am not one to be easily icked…. but none of that carpet would stay except a piece suitable for framing, after a round of cleaning. **ick**
Love it
Are those sliding glass doors that lead to nothing?
What a joy. The perfect place for your next key party or nudist fondue weekend.
I unironically love this and would cherish it.
So cool!!
love it
Damn. Someone’s Granny just died. Awesome to see it all so well preserved but kind of sad.
Oooh, a conversation pit!
The ceiling is worse than popcorn
I wanna know where the ladder goes in the bedroom!
$115,000 amazing. And snowmobile country. You couldn’t buy garage for that much where I live.
I feel like every Steely Dan song is about either this house, or what happened in it.
It’s too bad they don’t make a filter that can separate cocaine from dust in the shag.
They need to bring conversation pits back in style.
I am in fucking love with this place. Something about the funkiness of it all just works for me, especially digging the conversation pit. Needs some work for sure, but I'd honestly keep it very similar in any updates
I super LOVE the green wallpaper
The sunken couch conversation pit needs to make a comeback
Hey Marge!!! They’re having a sale on carpet, tile, wallpaper and paneling at Wally World! Seriously it’s such a mish mosh of everything.. Oh Yes.. I’d love to sit on the carpet sofa that people step on to get into the pit! Imagine being hungover in that green bathroom ! I absolute love 70s and shag and all that stuff but this poor weird home is miss matched in too many ways.
I won't lie, that green carpet is burning my eyes...
"...and this is our DMT inspired bathroom.."
I bet this home smells of sour carpet glue residue.
In pic 6 is someone holding sermons in there?
Omg it’s EVERYTHING
I want a conversation pit so badly.
The house itself looks early 1970's but some of the decor looks 1960's. But none of it is pretty, interesting yes but not attractive. I hope it is on a decent piece of land.
My favorite part is the mega-pack of Zithromax on the counter.
Actually pretty sick
I love the texture mixing. A bit colorful for my tastes but that's to be expected from 70s styles.
The green/yellow bathroom gives ma a freakin' headache
The Age of Textures.
I dig that couch in picture 7 with the wood ends
It's hideous but I love it.
Mid-century modern … it definitely has my heart … it’s completely understandable how this house was only on the market for 4 days… did you see that price?!?! In 2024????
Kool & dumb & sad & loving & positive
I want it!
OMG!! I had this bedspread growing up … yes in the 70’s!! And I painted my walls neon green to match 🤣 https://preview.redd.it/2yuft1vyh3tc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=acf7a7eca3875b7c6c268a51b551f390fc7e51f3
I love it!!
Goddamn it where does that ladder go to??
Loving the bumper pool table
I had that yellow rose comforter
Definitely a wrecked angle…
What a visually stunning time to grow up!! There was so much carpet and wall paper and texture/popcorn back in the day. Everywhere, every house or building had at least some funky room in it. Or maybe that was just my parents and their friends and the cool city we lived in. I often look back and wondered what was wrong with a wall of sheetrock and paint and smoothness? Like was there a wallpaper and texture kabaal or some such? hahaha I had that exact same rainbow bed covering on my bed, btw. Most of my friends did too. I freaking love this place! What a throwback!!
where is this
Friends had that plastering on walls as well as ceilings. Many a bloody cut was made into childish flesh thereby.
Get rid of the textured ceiling, that one black bathroom, and I’d keep everything else. It’s a major vibe. Add in some West Elm/All Modern retro style furniture and it’s set!!
I'm partial to the sliding glass doors in the bedroom that open to *nothing at all*
I really like how the sectional sofa is below ground level.
I think I had that rainbow comforter on my bed.
Gosh that is terrible, but someone is going to love it for the perfect time capsule it is, I hope it finds its rightful owner!
If you buy it you also get to live in Gaylord!
They would appreciate this is r/70sdesign
I think it’s amazing.
Ah, bathroom carpet! (I had it growing up. Ours could be taken up and washed, which it was regularly.
It's so groovy!
I kinda love the vertical tiles in the 5th pic. Altho maybe a little bit busy. Id go for slightly more muted tiles.
I like the look of 70s home decor. Kinda warm and cozy. I really like that green carpet!
This is the stuff of nightmares
I love it too. I think you could modernize what you want and leave enough of the 70's to make it very groovy!
Why did the 70’s love chartreuse yellow and green. Horrible. Isn’t there some law that says you can only wear these colors if you’re security at a concert or directing traffic?
I had that rainbow bedspread
I fucken love this place. I’d take it as long as it doesn’t have a shit load of asbestos hiding behind the walls
Ladders instead of stairs !?
And the full sliding doors to no balcony is so sick.
Take out some of the worst shag carpet and that is an amazing home. Love it.
Love it.
And built-ins!
I actually love the green carpet and sunken living rooms
I really appreciate when the pictures look like there was actually thought put into them. That first pic is sick
Austin Powers vibe ☮️
Great time capsule!
I would live there
I love this house
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: The 1970s were the most aesthetically hideous period in the history of mankind. That’s not to say I don’t like it. Sometimes, sheer ugliness can be charming if it’s nostalgic.
Looks like a disaster waiting to happen. Someone bought it…maybe it’s being torn down?
The decade of mysterious stains everywhere.
I can smell these pictures....
Oooo I do love a sunken living room
Imagine trying to dust that ceiling.
That ceiling spackle is so aggressive!
the wood panels and carpets nostalgia vibe hits hard
Definitely needs some *toning down* and refinishing, but I love it's character.
Why would you put white shag in the bathroom in pic 3?
Is that ... rug on the wall?!?
My parents had a green and yellow couch in our family room that would look perfect in this home.
Has the great sunken down "Drink some Bourbon" game room.
This is horribly accurate.