Congratulations, you’ve won a free house in a great neighborhood. All of your utilities (except phone/cable/internet) and property taxes are payed for the next 20 years. There’s just one, tiny, little catch. The floorplan changes at random. The square footage remains the same, but the layout of the rooms, number of rooms, number of floors, etc change at random throughout the day. For example you might wake up in your master-bedroom, shower in the master bath, go downstairs to the kitchen, grab breakfast, return to the kitchen only to fine it’s now a living room and the kitchen is where the master bedroom is. You leave for work and come back that evening. You discover you now have seperate dining, living, and family rooms, but only one bedroom and two kitchens. The next morning you have four bedrooms, but the kitchen has merged with the dining and living rooms and the family room is now a garage. Your hallways are gone You also a have a library, but it’s slowly turning into a bathroom. Buy the weekend a solarium has grown, but you loose all but one bathroom and so on. At any given point you will have at least one kitchen, one bathroom, and one bedroom. They may be in any configuration. Would you live there?
I would *love *to live there, provided I get to determine the architectural/decor design. It’d be like getting to explore a whole new house every day, except it would suit my tastes and have all my stuff in it.
(And I have to admit, I’d be a lot more comfortable if it was small enough/predictable enough/open-floor-plan-enough for there to be a bathroom (toilet, door that closes, sink) within easy access and eyesight. Doesn’t happen often, but it can be awful not having quick access to one when you need it. So, no Hogwarts-size houses.)
Wouldn’t you lose all your stuff?
Depends. Is the physical safety of me and mine secure during the room shifting? An unexpected stairwell could ruin my whole day…
I think I’d wait until the layout was just right, then nail down all the rooms to keep them from shifting.
Variety works for me. Where do I sign up?
Doesn’t bother me any, but I have concerns about my car if parked in the garage, and my books on the bookshelves. Provided they just get shuffled about, it’s no biggie. Probably not a good idea to park the car inside, though, if it got put into the living room on a regular basis.
Hell to the no. Haven’t you guys read House of Leaves?
Note to self: Do not go to the bathroom in the dark. Hell, don’t go anywhere in the dark.
Living in such a house would be inconvenient, frustrating, and at times probably dangerous, but I think it would beat not having a house at all.
I’ll take it.
I’ve dreamt about a house just like this, and it was disquieting. In real life, I’d probably take it, but my cat would never forgive me. She sulks for days if I move an armchair.
Depends. Do I also have to be able to factor huge numbers before knowing whether the door I open leads to the den or a face full of acid?
I’d want the realtor to be very sure on that before I sign the papers.
I wouldn’t want a house that changed so often that a trip from living room to kitchen back to living room landed me in a different spot altogether. Perhaps a house that rearranged once a week or month would work.
I’m a predictability kind of girl. No way. Couldn’t handle it.
Are there hardwood floors?
What a strange concept. I kind of love it, and I would trade it for my current Japanese apartment in a heartbeat, but I want to build my dream house soon, and wouldn’t trade it for that.