Falling up the stairs

September 4, 2008 4:56 PM

In a world turned upside down, what more appropriate abode than an upside down house? All it needs now is, say, a nice statue in the front yard.
posted by flapjax at midnite (29 comments total)

Me: These people built an upside down house.
Mrs U: Like Mrs Piggle Wiggle!?!
Me: Well, let's look inside.

...

Mrs U: So wait...you can't live in it? You can't just stick a toilet on the ceiling and call it an upside down house. You can't live in it! This is no good.

And I concur.
posted by DU at 5:01 PM on September 4, 2008 [2 favorites]

Man I'd hate to have to hang the drywall in that house.
posted by nola at 5:02 PM on September 4, 2008

Do they have an upside down swimming pool in the basement?
posted by blue_beetle at 5:10 PM on September 4, 2008

further evidence that the housing market has bottomed out.
posted by subgear at 5:11 PM on September 4, 2008

Keitel : Was he all pissed off?
Penn : How would you feel, if everytime you went to take a leak, you had to do a handstand?
posted by mannequito at 5:13 PM on September 4, 2008

Nah mate, you've got it all wrong... that's an upside-down garden.
posted by pompomtom at 5:16 PM on September 4, 2008

I know a newscaster whose son would love this...
posted by recoveringsophist at 5:23 PM on September 4, 2008 [3 favorites]

Those zany Germans!
posted by ZenMasterThis at 5:24 PM on September 4, 2008

At least it's not a sideways house...
posted by infinitewindow at 5:26 PM on September 4, 2008 [1 favorite]

Pikers.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 5:40 PM on September 4, 2008 [1 favorite]

Those zany Germans!

Actually it appears to have been commissioned by a Polish businessman.

Those zany Poles!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:41 PM on September 4, 2008

This is the resident of the house.
posted by netbros at 5:47 PM on September 4, 2008

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is rotating in her upside-down grave.
posted by scody at 6:12 PM on September 4, 2008

In a world turned upside down, what more appropriate abode than an upside down house?

Needs to be spoken by Don LaFontaine.
posted by crapmatic at 6:13 PM on September 4, 2008

WANT WORKING UPSIDE-DOWN HOUSE. WANT.
posted by LobsterMitten at 6:42 PM on September 4, 2008

Every little upside-down village needs a church....
posted by Rumple at 7:00 PM on September 4, 2008

"Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down." It seems the War On Christmas dates back to at least 1643!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:19 PM on September 4, 2008

Wonder Works Museum
posted by Dave Faris at 7:27 PM on September 4, 2008

This one took even more work.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 7:37 PM on September 4, 2008

My basement? It's 93 billion light years - and expanding.
posted by Smedleyman at 7:59 PM on September 4, 2008

Still more practical than a Frank Gehry building.
posted by stavrogin at 8:04 PM on September 4, 2008 [3 favorites]

One earlier than all these.
posted by bonefish at 8:40 PM on September 4, 2008

and this is where they all go to church
posted by seawallrunner at 8:46 PM on September 4, 2008

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posted by tellurian at 10:12 PM on September 4, 2008 [4 favorites]

mix it with a variant of this effect and you could leave some of the taps running in the bathroom too. You'd just need to get the flow right so it appears to be moving without giving any real clue as to which direction...
posted by twine42 at 12:56 AM on September 5, 2008

Pff. All the houses are like that in Australia.
posted by rusty at 8:02 AM on September 5, 2008 [2 favorites]

"Mrs U: So wait...you can't live in it? You can't just stick a toilet on the ceiling and call it an upside down house. You can't live in it! This is no good."

This. Exactly this.
posted by majick at 9:05 AM on September 5, 2008

I thought of Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, too - it's not an upside down house until you have a chandelier fireplace.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 9:13 AM on September 5, 2008

Damn this sideways house!
posted by Navelgazer at 6:12 PM on September 5, 2008