whats weird about your apartment?

the way my building is set up the kitchens and bathrooms all face the center of the building and share a common air vent. when you are in the bathroom you can pretty much hear your neighbor breathing if he or she is in their bathroom. there is an exhaust fan that muffles the sound a bit.

i know one thing my neighbor really likes to take baths.

i have the same set up in my building, only there are no air vents to muffle the sounds of the guys peeing below.

the floors are slightly tilted!!

my apartment is like a bowling alley... very long and skinny.

the layout doesn't leave me too many options for furniture arrangement.

However, the good thing is that the 2 bedrooms are at opposite ends of the "alley" so it works out very well for sharing.

Mine still has old-fashioned push button light switches. I wish I had something more exciting to say, but at least there ain't a ghost.

Oh where to start...

The windows have these old electric defroster things taped to the glass: running around the edges of the frames, and ending uselessly in some unrecognized connection that doesn't correspond to any extension cord or wire I've seen. Kind of like a car window defroster. The window frames themselves seem to be made of aged plastic that actually STRETCHES for an inch or so when you push the window open or closed (while the glass lags behind for a second).

The entire place was "renovated" before I moved in with a new layer of plastic "linoleum" in a kitcheny pattern, applied by the super without cleaning the previous layer first. I tried peeling it up to see if there were wood floors underneath. Found many layers of palstic tile, then under that, real linoleum. Gave up at that point. It's a rental.

The toilet in my apartment is like a throne, literally. It sits in its own little cubicle within the bathroom and the floor beneath it is about two inches higher than the rest of the bathroom floor. It also has its own light, directly above it.

There are other quirky things about the place—certain aspects of the layout, odd little features that my landlord has constructed, etc.—but the toilet weirdness is my favorite.

cythren wrote: Oh where to start...

The windows have these old electric defroster things taped to the glass: running around the edges of the frames, and ending uselessly in some unrecognized connection that doesn't correspond to any extension cord or wire I've seen. Kind of like a car window defroster. The window frames themselves seem to be made of aged plastic that actually STRETCHES for an inch or so when you push the window open or closed (while the glass lags behind for a second).

The entire place was "renovated" before I moved in with a new layer of plastic "linoleum" in a kitcheny pattern, applied by the super without cleaning the previous layer first. I tried peeling it up to see if there were wood floors underneath. Found many layers of palstic tile, then under that, real linoleum. Gave up at that point. It's a rental.

Those "old electric defroster things" are part of the alarm system (or an old alarm system that is no longer operable.)

My bf's apt on Prospect has this thing you talk into--it's a hole in the wall set eye level--and it allows you to talk to people on other floors like some sort of victorian-era walkie-talkie.

erikka wrote: My bf's apt on Prospect has this thing you talk into--it's a hole in the wall set eye level--and it allows you to talk to people on other floors like some sort of victorian-era walkie-talkie.

Interesting. Was that the original use or a modified one?

Its original. My folks house in Bed-Stuy had the full system, with pipes in the wall for talking and the bells in the kitchen that allowed people on any floor to ring the kitchen. It was a pretty cool setup that us kids used to try to use to communicate when our parents were coming. Ours never worked though so we always ended up yelling "QUICK, MOM'S COMING!" at the top of our lungs.

JJB wrote: The toilet in my apartment is like a throne, literally. It sits in its own little cubicle within the bathroom and the floor beneath it is about two inches higher than the rest of the bathroom floor. It also has its own light, directly above it.

There are other quirky things about the place—certain aspects of the layout, odd little features that my landlord has constructed, etc.—but the toilet weirdness is my favorite.

Ah, good point - I'm pretty sure my place has the huge original toilet. Insane water pressure, too. You could flush a beach ball down that thing.

My apartment is fine but oddly enough, my building's populace is like a benetton advertisement.

we have 8 pillars. too bad they are covered with a million layers of different colored paint (the top is the industrial glossy white from the last renovation). classy & trashy all in one... i like them, though.

when there is no one home or when its very quiet. the house creaks and makes loud noises.

So many people keep on looking in my window! Wow!

WhyFi wrote: [quote=erikka]My bf's apt on Prospect has this thing you talk into--it's a hole in the wall set eye level--and it allows you to talk to people on other floors like some sort of victorian-era walkie-talkie.

Interesting. Was that the original use or a modified one?

Original. I've never seen anything like it before--be curious to know if anyone else has.

edit--just saw that someone else done. Wonder why they werne't more common?

someone I know was looking to buy a place in PH and said he ran across a lot of places with windows in closets and 30 foot long hallways (that, of course, they counted into the total square footage).

I have a hall closet that is the shape of a pie slice. At it's widest it's 18inches, it's narrowest 4. Luckily, when I open the door the space extends left (where it gets wider) and right instead of back, or else I'd never get anything in there.

No closets at all. Not even a small pantry. Maybe this is common but I have yet to see any other apt in PH,PS,WT, etc without at least soimething built-in.

Sometimes I just hear gluggle-uggle-uggle and I know that means water is backing up in my bathroom sink. It never smells like sewage, but the water sometimes has a dirty sentiment to it. This happens a couple times a week and has been going on since I moved in over a year ago.

Um, should I get that looked at?

morkfrombrooklyn wrote: No closets at all. Not even a small pantry. Maybe this is common but I have yet to see any other apt in PH,PS,WT, etc without at least soimething built-in.

Mine has no closets either! Nothin'. It's a first for me. My mother would be appalled if she knew (she already thinks the rent I pay is "criminal").

Heat source in living room: 1 radiator and pipe
Heat source in bathroom and kitchen: 1 pipe in each
Heat source in the bedroom: ZERO!!!!

:?

Sprinkler pipes on the ceiling in both bedrooms and living room

basketball fan wrote: Sprinkler pipes on the ceiling in both bedrooms and living room

Got that too. Big long pipe running from bedroom to kitchen to living room. I wonder if it works? Hope I never need to find out.

alot of modern buildigns with 4 or more families have to have those stupid sprinkler system.

armchair_warrior wrote: alot of modern buildigns with 4 or more families have to have those stupid sprinkler system.

Well, my building is a 100+ yr old Park Slope b-stone. Many modern building have them concealed in the ceiling. Old ones, that were once one family dwellings, added them when it became code for multi-family dwellings. Its ugly but I can live with it since its for safety.

i have a nipple on my living room wall
it's about six feet off the floor and protrudes out about 1.5"
i've thought about painting it pink...
just a thought so far...

quijibo wrote: i have a nipple on my living room wall
it's about six feet off the floor and protrudes out about 1.5"
i've thought about painting it pink...
just a thought so far...

i had one of those in my old place, on the ceiling. i'd lie in bed and gaze meditatively at the big nipple in the sky....

quijibo wrote: i have a nipple on my living room wall
it's about six feet off the floor and protrudes out about 1.5"
i've thought about painting it pink...
just a thought so far...

I'm dying to see a photo of this.

Our smoke alarm needs new batteries and it's complicated to put them in and our super is sucko and STILL hasn't fixed it since we moved in, so we have a dismantled smoke alarm hanging from the ceiling.

mizmargaux wrote: Our smoke alarm needs new batteries and it's complicated to put them in and our super is sucko and STILL hasn't fixed it since we moved in, so we have a dismantled smoke alarm hanging from the ceiling.

have them hardwire them into the ceilings. thats what i did with mines in the building.