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What is this weird feature? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 hours ago by agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works to c/loadbearingwisdom@sh.itjust.works

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Not actually my house, it was an AirBnB outside Seattle, but it's mysterious and I'm hoping someone here might know the function.

Inside the main closet in the master bedroom is a weird giant staircase leading to a square hole that looks into the area outside the bedroom. Here's the other side:

The inside of that cupboard beneath is just a small empty space, much smaller than the staircase, tiled at the bottom and possibly sized for an electric fireplace or something.

My friends and I could not figure out what it was supposed to be, and it's driving us a bit crazy.

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 points 1 hour ago

Oh cool, Barbarian II coming up nicely.

[–] Pupschism@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is that like a weird lil mattress? Maybe it was a storage room and a cat/dog's room

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Out of frame are various baby things: high chair, toys, disassembled crib. I assume that's just a baby mattress sitting there in storage

[–] fraksken 1 points 17 minutes ago

Looks like a convenient baby storage place to me

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Are we sure the floor inside the cupboard doesn't lift up? Could this be where the sump pump pit is for the house, and the weird stairstep closet is the compromise to use the otherwise unusable space?

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

Positive, it's tile and I checked. Maybe it's a staircase to a basement access that's been sealed? But that doesn't explain the window.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 6 hours ago

That would likely be where I'd keep security camera recording boxes and my home network router/switches/media server if I lived there and ran ethernet outlets to all the rooms.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 7 points 7 hours ago

First shot had me thinking private prayer space, but i dunno about the rest.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It's a weird spot for an electrical outlet to, so I imagine whatever use it it for involves equipment or a device of some kind.

If the room the window leads to like a living room / sitting room? Could it be support for a projector of some kind for watching movies?

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If the room the window leads to like a living room / sitting room?

Nope, in fact to the left of the bedroom door is a washer/dryer and this perplexing little closet:

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

Laundry chute maybe?

[–] Bonus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

Winchester Mystery House

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

I can't point to anything specifically, other than that the cupboard door and frame seems janky and recent, but I suspect an old wood or even coal powered furnace used to be housed there. The window may have been where a pipe may have been.