Nobody wants to haunt a McMansion
5h 20m ago by lemmy.world/u/The_Picard_Maneuver in memes
All I am seeing here, is the insane yearly cost of recurring maintenance on an old wooden house...*shudders*
Shutters
It's really not that bad except the paint job every 10-20 years which costs as much as a new car, but back in the day they had oil paint which didn't peel like latex does. Still, imo, worth it to live in an historic, unique, drag queen of a home.
I suppose if you can afford a house like this you can afford a really nice new car every so often. A really nice car. Because a full scraping, sanding, and repair plus 2-3 color paint can cost over $100,000.
Or ... you just develop a hobby of house painting...
You could start a small business just to paint and maintain your own estate.
Your own personal golden gate bridge
The looks you get when you tell your contractor you want plaster, not drywall.
They had to find a guy who still knew how to do plaster walls when we redid our bathroom. He was well past retirement age.
As someone with an old wooden house, it's actually not bad. They're built so damn well that they just.. stay there.
The expensive part is if you need to do any renovations. Updating electrical, plumbing, and HVAC sucks.
I put in about 40hrs a year on scraping and painting and the total building envelope is only 160m2, and is much less detailed.
If we go by the logic in some media where the ghosts are bound to the house/property, they probably don't want to be stuck somewhere that will eventually just dissolve in the rain.
We figured out how to install gas lines appropriately. Many "ghosts" were gas inhalation induced hallucinations.
And 'juvenile delinquency' stopped after they took lead out of gasoline.
You didn't see anything!
The lights have always been this way.
Turn out haunting a house also cost some ghost buck and inflation makes haunting unaffordable.
I wonder if older houses seem more "hauntable" simply because they were built to facilitate air flow within them. Before air conditioning, homes had to be built to allow air to naturally circulate. Thought was placed into room, door, and window layouts to encourage air flow throughout the home, windows were designed to fully open, and transom windows allowed air flow even when doors were closed.
The point is that old homes were built to allow air flow. This means that there's more opportunity for doors to randomly close and other things to be disturbed by the wind. Older homes also weren't as sealed and insulated as well. They were designed assuming that some of the structure would get wet and then dry out. Older buildings were designed to undergo constant moisture cycling, while newer buildings try to seal out moisture all together. More dramatic changes in lumber moisture content means more creaks, groans, and other ghostly noises.
Simply because of how buildings science has evolved, it's possible that older homes just more readily produce "haunting" sounds than modern ones.
Fucking ghosts better chip in paying for the upkeep, property taxes, and everything else. No one gets to haunt for free.
Posting a notice on my bedroom wall that I'm going to call an exorcist to evict my ghosts unless they pay their overdue rent.
Don't forget to collect on the security deposit for superficial damages.
superficial damages
*supernatural damages
There’s nowhere close to the demand for artisanship anymore. Rich people display their wealth through expensive disposable items, not carefully made things.
That's a cruel backhanded swipe at Ferrari
Also, they want something they can remodel every few years.
The truth is autocad.
Curves and pillars are hard to represent architectures in computer software. What's easy is nice boxy boxes.
The real truth is cheapass construction goals. Straight lines and few details are easy enough for less skilled labor to complete and it is easier to hide imperfections when there are fewer details.
The real truth is cost. To be able to afford to have this built, would cost a lot more than it did back then. Cost of living has become so high and you have to pay construction workers a living wage.
The real truth is ghosts. Ghosts have gotten lazy and don't like haunting places with complicated floor plans.
The real truth is ghosts caused 911 because jet fuel can’t melt steel beams with help from a ghost
Yea a lot of people that sit in cubicles 9-5 would’ve been craftsman in the past
Some of them, maybe. A lot more would be farm hands
If you think curves and pillars are hard to represent in software, you'll be aghast how hard they are to represent with hand drawings.
Your typical architect or engineer of the era would need a kit of dozens of French curves to achieve proper specs in the drawing.
I think auto cad's role in minimizing residential craftsmanship pales in comparison to pre-fab techniques, fewer craftspeople, high volume assemblies, necessity for faster builds, less old-growth timber availability, and a philosophical shift in the economics of home building that now lean more towards speed and mass production.
Also bauhaus influence
Huh? There are zero problems with any curve you can imagine. The issue is that each one is unique instead of mass produced. Most do not spend the $$$ on top.
That house is a nightmare for any craftsman working on it too. You can pretty much forget about most external DIY stuff. Straight lines make for easy projects. Even crooked lines that are supposed to be straight are better than the curves and twists on this thing.
I have a relative with a haunted McMansion. They're rich, they bought a slot in a brand new subdivision, had the house built for them. We joke that it's on an Indian burial ground. Everyone's had some kind of experience there, voices in another room when you're there alone, electronics turn themselves on and off, they're spouse interacted with a demon child thing and it left marks, rooms losing electric like the power went out but other rooms on the same circuit breakers are fine, I've personally heard a bloodcurdling scream come from upstairs while I was housesitting for them...
That place is the reason I'm agnostic, and not fully atheist.
Or more likely inhaled a lot of black mold spores
they're spouse interacted with a demon child thing and it left marks
lmao
Poor guy...
That house looks like it's $3.2 million dollars.
Eureka, CA has a ton of houses like this. It was the west coast lumber capital for a while, making a lot of millionaires who wanted extravagant wood houses
"My house is haunted."
"You live in a ranch in the suburbs built in 1983. What kind of white bread ghost stuck around that mess?"
Literally the plot of some Phasmophobia maps lol
ranch in the suburbs
I thought that was what they call eating out in Iowa?
I’ve tried/succeeded kinda to make this house in The Sims before lol (DaisyMarie86 - I have lots of Victorians and I’m a good builder 😋) and I can tell you why! it’s really hard and REALLY expensive!
They died cuz of the asbestos
/j
Probably cuz all the lumber is gone lol.
We don't build houses like that anymore because it would cost a fortune. That's a lot of man-hours of intricate, custom woodworking right there, and that don't come cheap.
A new Mansion in which multiple deaths have occurred is a truly haunted thing.
Is nobody gonna acknowledge this thing: 
Yes, I know it's a reflection. But since when is KKK haunting houses?
I'm seeing a traumatized dog, lol
You have to own the house to have it be haunted. So boomers are kinda the least generation of people to be haunted.
Or maybe we can't afford the houses where they live now?
ai gen or ai upscale, either way gtfo
It's real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamwell_House
the house is real, image is upscale then...