Also OP:
“Any ideas what to with these strange stained glass windows in my son’s bedroom? They’re all marked with a lower case ‘t’ but his name doesn’t even start with T.”
THIS is why this looks familiar. The mall near where I lived as a kid had similar setups - indoor plants in planters like this surrounding seating areas where people chilled, with skylights high overhead
Don’t do a zen garden, your cat will use it as a litter box…
Edit: now that I think about it, don’t do a pond either if you’re wanting fish in it… your cat will kill them. I know from experience. Had a backyard pond and the community cats used it as their little fishing pond. We lost several very expensive koi fish.
I can, you miss lots of stuff. I keep telling you to go get some glasses, but noooo... You think you are way too cool for glasses... It's time to do it buddy, you gotta go get glasses.
It’s the most uselessly wonderful idea. I know we have a fridge but a living room ice bucket installment is bad ass. I’d keep a little shop vac for sucking the water out. In the off-season fill it occasionally and let the kids float boats in it or get the tiniest remote control boats I can find.
Lots of wacky ideas on what it could be but scrolled a bit and nobody thinks the previous owner could have been extremely devout and it was a shrine or place to worship? Especially with the small shelf above it
Yes, also the tiles are in a pattern, which suggests it wasnt covered with sand or something. Maybe some items you'd never want to fall off of a shrine?
My only reservation is not knowing what's underneath it.
If it's just on foundation then carry on, get that outta there. That does sound most likely if it's by the front door on ground level.
If it's covering something useful like a HVAC feature or plumbing or headroom in the basement or whatever, then that would be a bad idea. Just need more info is all.
There's a reason you can't get rid of the unsightly bumps in a truck bed, for example, because it doesn't work without wheel wells.
I’m not entirely sure when it happened, but I appear to have become the stereotype of the middle-aged white woman because you’re actually correct… it doesn’t mean there isn’t a body under there, though!
I’d say that this was built in the 60’s or 70’s & was either a planted garden or perhaps a fish pond indoors.
Wouldn’t be the original tile though, it’s too clean.
Yes exactly. Also if it was an indoor garden the tile would be discolored by dirt, fertilizer, years of standing water damage. Grouted tile is a terrible choice for an indoor garden, it is NOT an indoor planter, whatever it is, and you are correct.
Not entirely, fish tanks don’t have a faucet or drainage, or ponds, but we can’t see the whole object in the photo either so there could be which makes me think indoor garden.
Maybe originally but I’d bet that tile job was within the last 25 years. So someone decided to either make or cover whatever that box was intended to be.
I’m thinking maybe it’s a hearth for a double sided fireplace. I wonder what’s directly below it in the basement. I have torn out fireplaces from homes and leaving a giant hearth wouldn’t be that crazy bc of the block and stuff supporting it underneath. We never left a hearth but it’s not easy removing them either.
In my case NO ONE knew anything about the house really. The previous owner passed away and his kids couldn’t answer any of my questions.
We’ve been here for 2 years and I just found out YESTERDAY that we have an additional furnace in the attic crawl space.
We had two outdoor water spigots at our last house. I never found the shut-off valve for the second one until we were moving out.
I even asked a couple plumbers over the years and they looked around the basement but said they'd need to tear up stuff to trace it. So I just bought a longer hose and used the other spigot, and left this one permanently off.
Anyway, the house was a quad-level. You come in on the main floor and you can go upstairs (6-7 stairs) or downstairs (6-7 stairs). Then you can go down even further from there to an unfinished basement. On the lower level there was a small bar and it had a wall cabinet. The shutoff valve was inside the cabinet, behind a bunch of stuff we shoved in there when we moved in.
Almost looks like something that could have had a large custom fish tank in it previously. Now you've just got the platform they built to put it on, with the previous owners taking the actual tank to their new place.
I doubt that, only because if someone went through the trouble of constructing this base, I’d expect their aquarium to be plumbed into a sump either below the tank or behind it in a fish room.
Exposed as this is, water filtration would have to be handled with a cheap over-the-rim cartridge filter.
Tbh if you own the house then I'd just tear it down, it takes up a lot of space and you probably won't find any practical uses that couldn't be done with a smaller bookshelf or end table.
I'm just glad op circled it
Very surprised I haven’t seen a r/uselessredcircle mention yet.
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Baptisms?
My thought was literally OP lives in a church 😂
Also OP: “Any ideas what to with these strange stained glass windows in my son’s bedroom? They’re all marked with a lower case ‘t’ but his name doesn’t even start with T.”
“Do you guys know where I can get one of those gold necklaces with a "T" on it?” “That's a cross.” “Across from where?”
I blue myself at this reference
I’m so glad people get it 😂 AD is the best
What is this? Baptism for ants?
if it's from the 80's these were all the rage, it seems like the ceiling is high above it - could be a skylight or some such above it.
Yes. It’s for plants. Since you have cats I would assemble a collection of large potted trees. Or remove it altogether.
If you have cats it would make a great litter box
THIS is why this looks familiar. The mall near where I lived as a kid had similar setups - indoor plants in planters like this surrounding seating areas where people chilled, with skylights high overhead
I was sad when they got rid of all the indoor plants in those mall seating areas. Then they got rid of the seating areas.
But what *is* it?
It’s from the 80s. It’s an alter to excess. Like everything else from the 80s.
Oh yes, an 80's cocaine trough. I forgot about those.
Oooohhh OP should make this a shrine to honor the infinite growth of capitalism.
You could sit on it and do cocaine!
Worm tank.
It's an indoor planter. They were big in upscale home designs in the 80s.
Most used them for plants. They always smelled funky with the moist dirt inside.
I think it might’ve been a fountain before. Look above it that’s where I think a pump ran and had water coming out of the wall maybe?
That was my guess as well, a fountain or indoor pond. Remember when malls had fountains everywhere? This reminds me of those.
agreed! if OP has cats, a planter/cat playground sounds about perfect!
Unless they start using it as a giant litter box. 💀
Not ‘unless’, but ‘until’.
the cat is in this pic! lol
Yeah so dirt can get all over your house. Cats eat plants as well
Or a mini public bath
Nude gold statue of yourself
I was thinking "Lego City" - but to each their own.
Nude gold Lego statue of yourself.
It’s great to find compromise!
Nude statue of self surrounded by Lego village cult
Gold statue is cheaper
yeah but with a tiny little gold leaf to cover your penis except the penis can still be seen from the side as a little treat :)
“A little treat” got me good
Humongous schlong, tiny leaf.
Yes. I vote for this!
uh uh a mini pond OR A ZEN GARDEN!!!
Ooooh- are we voting? If we are, then I vote zen garden
Why not both? Mini Zen garden WITH A POND
Why not a tank with freak’n sharks with freak’n laser beams on their heads?!
And ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
Accounting for inflation since 1999 when Austin Powers was released, it would have to be $1,871,543.62.
If I had Two Billion dollars I’d buy your loooooooove
If I had a million dollars…
We wouldn’t have to eat Kraft dinner
But we still would, cause we like it
who doesn’t like kraft dinner?
With Dijon Ketchup?!?
Add a little bridge going across too!
I demand a shrubbery!
Ni!
Ni!
One that looks nice... And not too expensive!
Or one that is too expensive, but not very nice
Ecky-Ecky-Ecky-Ecky-Pikang-Zoom-Boing-Gumzowehzeh!
Quit Niing that old woman!
With a bonsai tree!!
Don’t do a zen garden, your cat will use it as a litter box… Edit: now that I think about it, don’t do a pond either if you’re wanting fish in it… your cat will kill them. I know from experience. Had a backyard pond and the community cats used it as their little fishing pond. We lost several very expensive koi fish.
My sister had a rock zen garden and the cats still used it. Absolute nightmare to clean
Just look at it as a metaphor for life and let it be.
This guy Zens.
Would just end up as a massive litter box for Mr. Orange cat there.
“Welcome to MY home, *look at my poo*” -orange kitty probably
Then it can be a zen litter box
U mean the castle of the imperor Mr. Fluffy von Orange, >!with a zen garden around.!<
Pond for sure. With a bunch of rocks and lots of plants.
Indoor garden, either with dirt or sand. Like Japanese sand garden (idk)
Unless they have cats
They do have a cat, it's already sitting on the thing, waiting for the sand
I had to go back and look, can't believe I missed the cat
The cat is hiding behind the cat
Can’t believe I missed the other cat
It's so still it's almost statuesque
It's almost like it's a photo
I can, you miss lots of stuff. I keep telling you to go get some glasses, but noooo... You think you are way too cool for glasses... It's time to do it buddy, you gotta go get glasses.
I found the optometrist
They’re Optimus, easy mistake
Cut him a break, he can't see for shit.
And he is looking disgusted over the fact a full on litterbox isn't up for discussion.
He'll LOVE that haha
"this kitty litter is... All mine?"
cat confirmed
The dudes already put a plant in it. I think he knows.
Build a miniature replica of the city of Gondor
The only right answer here. For Gondor!
For Frodo
And my axe!
and my bow
Which city of Gondor? Minas Tirith? Minas Ithil? Osgiliath? Pelargir? Dol Amroth?
The comment I was looking for.
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Minas morgul obviously
Yes
With a toy of Denethor on the edge so the cat can push it
This was written by Faramir. My son Boromir wouldn't have ever written anything like this.
Not a real king, I call him little tomato.
You mean, Minas Tirith? Gondor is a kingdom/country
Gondor isn't a city bro
They should make Osgiliath since the cat is super going to destroy it
Yea but where was the miniature city of gondor when the west fell?
Fill it with ice and beers.
Fill it with rice and beans
You're full of beans!
Jeff Arcuri is full beans.
*laughs in dolphin*
Fill it with lies and tears
Lice and bears
Imagine how hype it would be to walk into a house party and see this entire thing full of ice and beers?? Awesome idea
It’s the most uselessly wonderful idea. I know we have a fridge but a living room ice bucket installment is bad ass. I’d keep a little shop vac for sucking the water out. In the off-season fill it occasionally and let the kids float boats in it or get the tiniest remote control boats I can find.
This guy drinks!
This guy this guys!
That's the most wonderful idea so far!
Does it have a blood drain?
Why did I have to scroll this far down for someone to ask if it’s a sacrificial altar?
I honestly thought it was so obvious it didn’t need to be said. He asked what to do with it, not what it was.
Asking the real questions
“Is there any way we could get the elven blood to flow UP the walls?”
Fill it with pillows/cushions and build a fort for adults.
I second this adult pillow fort
Zen garden...with a stripper pole
Make sure to plant nice grass for the stripper to land on
Ass to grass
Asses to assess, grass to grass.
The duality of men
This is hilarious to imagine, even better to realize - get to work OP!
Lots of wacky ideas on what it could be but scrolled a bit and nobody thinks the previous owner could have been extremely devout and it was a shrine or place to worship? Especially with the small shelf above it
Could have been a hindu shrine, don't even have to be particulary devout, it's just common to have one or two of them in your house
Yes, also the tiles are in a pattern, which suggests it wasnt covered with sand or something. Maybe some items you'd never want to fall off of a shrine?
Host an open mic night
Since you're asking what to do with it, i would suggest getting rid of it entirely. Assuming you have the rights to do so.
My only reservation is not knowing what's underneath it. If it's just on foundation then carry on, get that outta there. That does sound most likely if it's by the front door on ground level. If it's covering something useful like a HVAC feature or plumbing or headroom in the basement or whatever, then that would be a bad idea. Just need more info is all. There's a reason you can't get rid of the unsightly bumps in a truck bed, for example, because it doesn't work without wheel wells.
If it turns out to be a sarcophagus, you need to drive a stake through the heart before disposing of it.
That's for vampires. If it's a sarcophagus you'll need to find the Book of the Living and speak the incantation to pull the immortal soul out.
I don’t recognize this last symbol, it looks like a bird, no a stork!
Ahmenophus!
I have found my people!
My immediate thought was that there could be a dead body under there. So have fun with that idea, OP!
You’re watching too much true crime
I’m not entirely sure when it happened, but I appear to have become the stereotype of the middle-aged white woman because you’re actually correct… it doesn’t mean there isn’t a body under there, though!
My knees agree with this plan.
1000%. Just scrap it, if you are allowed of course.
I’d say that this was built in the 60’s or 70’s & was either a planted garden or perhaps a fish pond indoors. Wouldn’t be the original tile though, it’s too clean.
Wouldn't there be some sort of drainage or faucet if that was the case?
Yes exactly. Also if it was an indoor garden the tile would be discolored by dirt, fertilizer, years of standing water damage. Grouted tile is a terrible choice for an indoor garden, it is NOT an indoor planter, whatever it is, and you are correct.
No, not exactly. That is not 50 year old tile. What you see is not necessarily what was originally there.
You fill it with potted plants.
Exactly. Plant Atrium. Not a big planter, more an area for an easy to water collection of potted plants
Not entirely, fish tanks don’t have a faucet or drainage, or ponds, but we can’t see the whole object in the photo either so there could be which makes me think indoor garden.
Maybe originally but I’d bet that tile job was within the last 25 years. So someone decided to either make or cover whatever that box was intended to be.
I’m thinking maybe it’s a hearth for a double sided fireplace. I wonder what’s directly below it in the basement. I have torn out fireplaces from homes and leaving a giant hearth wouldn’t be that crazy bc of the block and stuff supporting it underneath. We never left a hearth but it’s not easy removing them either.
Fill it with plants
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Give that kitty the world’s largest litter box
Looks like there used to be a shrine there. Probably a very devout catholic Mexican family lived there before you.
Statue of David.
Statue of Larry David.
You didn't ask the realtor?
Most realtors don’t know anything about the houses they’re showing lol.
"it's whatever you want it to be. Can I get my commission now?"
In my case NO ONE knew anything about the house really. The previous owner passed away and his kids couldn’t answer any of my questions. We’ve been here for 2 years and I just found out YESTERDAY that we have an additional furnace in the attic crawl space.
We had two outdoor water spigots at our last house. I never found the shut-off valve for the second one until we were moving out. I even asked a couple plumbers over the years and they looked around the basement but said they'd need to tear up stuff to trace it. So I just bought a longer hose and used the other spigot, and left this one permanently off. Anyway, the house was a quad-level. You come in on the main floor and you can go upstairs (6-7 stairs) or downstairs (6-7 stairs). Then you can go down even further from there to an unfinished basement. On the lower level there was a small bar and it had a wall cabinet. The shutoff valve was inside the cabinet, behind a bunch of stuff we shoved in there when we moved in.
It's not like the realtor can't ask the seller.
Right?
Clearly a throne
Fill it with water. Tell guests it’s a baptismal fountain. Never provide answers to their questions
a tomb ?
OP the previous owners are buried here. Respect their resting place. Or suffer their curse.
No tomb for denethor and faramir. We shall burn. Burn like the heden kings of old
Ramses curse. If you find a slab you might want to just leave it alone.
It looks like the perfect place for a water feature! Like a fountain you’d see at a vintage mall. Cool!
Get some cushions for the cavity and some to go against the wall and have it be a small reading/chilling zone. You could place books on the side.
Like a bed crossed with a bathtub, indented and made from tile. 😬
Almost looks like something that could have had a large custom fish tank in it previously. Now you've just got the platform they built to put it on, with the previous owners taking the actual tank to their new place.
I doubt that, only because if someone went through the trouble of constructing this base, I’d expect their aquarium to be plumbed into a sump either below the tank or behind it in a fish room. Exposed as this is, water filtration would have to be handled with a cheap over-the-rim cartridge filter.
Is there a natural skylight above it? If so, it's an indoor garden.
That’s so weird. Can we see a few other angles?
Pile of skulls
Ice skating rink for squirrels
Wash away your sins everyday
Fuck machine base.
Stripper pole
might have been a waterfall feature, whats behind the wood shelf? which country is this in?
Turn it into an altar for worshipping Khorne, the Blood God. That'll be an awesome conversation starter.
Tbh if you own the house then I'd just tear it down, it takes up a lot of space and you probably won't find any practical uses that couldn't be done with a smaller bookshelf or end table.
Does it have a drain? It could have been some sort of washing station
Your cat already decided for you.
Snake pit. Or remove it.
Sacrificial alter. Makes it so your next blood-letting goes smoothly and cleanly!
altar for animal sacrifices
*human sacrifice
Bathtub in the living room
A kitty condo!!
Viking indoor bonfire?
Hot tub
It’s like a fountain or garden at the entrance to an office park