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In reply to the discussion: What's the strangest thing you ever saw in someone's house? [View all]hunter
(39,191 posts)... we saw one with carpeted walls in the living room, the same shag carpet that covered the floor. It was a very quiet room and sort of cozy but we wondered what structural problems the carpet might be covering up.
The house I grew up in was full of strange things and strange people. My parents were artists with day jobs with very eclectic tastes in art and some very eccentric friends. Some of the neighborhood children had been forbidden by their parents from visiting our house, probably not so much for any nude photography they'd see, but because they might meet a gay person.
My dad's parents also had an interesting house. My grandfather was an aerospace engineer by day and a mad scientist nights and weekends. My grandmother constantly struggled to keep his experiments confined to his front room "den" or the garage. At one time I remember a heavy cable snaking out from some machine he was building in his den, through the house, out the milk box in the kitchen, to another machine in the garage.