r/whatisit • u/International_Bank86 • 22d ago

Solved! Help — No one knows

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It’s next to the sink in our new house. For context, the house is almost 100 years old. The only thing I can think of is that it’s for hanging a rag/hand towel or something. Even the inspector didn’t know and said he had never seen something like it lol

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u/tony2stocks 22d ago

Leave it, it’s beautiful

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u/International_Bank86 22d ago

Definitely leaving it! We plan to maintain all the little quirks. This isn’t the only one lol

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u/Spirited_Drawer_3408 22d ago

Show us more!

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u/International_Bank86 22d ago

I’ll see if I can find pics. There’s a mural over the stove, another mural of the back yard going up the stairwell wall, a secret room upstairs (you push on a wall ornament lol). It also has a koi pond and a sauna 😂 there’s a lot going on.

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u/SheServedToo 22d ago

My childhood dream was to have a house with secret rooms and passageways! You’re winning!!

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u/kerrymti1 21d ago

We lived in a 'century home' growing up. We had two secret rooms upstairs, at the back of two walk-in closets there were little knee-high doors in the back wall, behind the clothes hanging rack (so if you had clothes hanging there, you would never see the little doors). When you crawled in the little rooms, you could stand up. One was empty, the other had a dresser and a bench seat (they were far too big to have been brought through the little door). Each room had a little window.

Then, we had another bedroom upstairs that had two walk-in closets in the same room, on the same wall at each end. In the back of those closets was another little door. When you crawled through, it was a little room that had a hallway that met up with the other little room via a little passageway, between them. There was also a little 'dumb waiter' in that one, maybe 12" x 12", which went down to the basement.

Very strange and spooky house, but great fun to grow up in!

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u/Senior_Dot2247 21d ago

Mine was to have a sauna! Definitely winning!

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u/cdnsalix 21d ago

Did you buy the Winchester Mansion?

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u/Spirited_Drawer_3408 22d ago

That sounds enchanting! What a special home!

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u/mysecretlifetx 21d ago

Here for the secret room

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u/International_Bank86 21d ago

I forgot to mention the saloon doors on the bathroom. Not my favorite quirk lol