Either that or a boat owner who just had to have a compass installed where he could open his eyes every morning and look at it!

This is more of an exterior WOW, this 'spite house' for sale in Seattle that is 55" wide at one end, and 15' wide at the other. Asking price is over 500k. See it HERE.

Oh, love to play "can you top this!"

Yeah, that ceiling is pretty awful.

But then again, so was the trend to bring "open concept" to the master suite where the bathroom is completely open to the bedroom...no walls, no doors, no nothing. GF had to remove a tub from her master bedroom.

This spec pie house was just finishing up construction when the pic was taken. It looks much better with the landscaping and life (occupants) in. To me the oddest thing about this house in its older neighborhood is not the wedge shape but the flat roof! The narrow end is probably less than 6', the widest about 20-25'.

Annie, the toilet in the shower is pretty neat, easy to clean up, but what if someone needs it while someone else is in the shower, or right after? Soooo much wrong there.

bpathome, Do you mean the house is Seattle that I posted? It was built in the 1920's. The link above has a story that you can listen to about it. Here's another view.

Oops, my3dogs, I'd forgotten to post my picture, it's up there now. It's not in Seattle, and I'm pretty sure it's not a spite house, just someone who wanted to sell a piece of their lot and a clever builder. It was strange watching the basement foundation go in, could not figure it out: was it going to be a bunker? A pool? Nope, a house.

The 'Spite' House is fascinating. I found another link with some additional photos - some I had to click on the thumbnails to open: Spite house 2013

Isn't it beautiful from that angle and in those pics? I don't know if it didn't sell then back in 2013, but it's newly listed in my link above. The inside is very nice, although that 'loft bedroom?' seems a bit odd. It's only when you see the proximity of the large blue house next door that you realize how odd it really is.

The estately link to the spite house has some great pics. I can't figure out where the stairwell is...looks like it might be a spiral into the upstairs bathroom? I wouldn't want guests to use the master bath, but if they can climb the stairs and be IN the second bath; well, that might work - except how do you shut off the stairs for privacy? Do you think there are no closets except that tiny one in the master bedroom? I could live in this house alone, but can't imagine sharing it. The kitchen would give me claustrophobia if someone else was in there, too.

Spite house photos

Our gardenweb ladies rise to the challenge!

I like a challenge--olychick, the only evidence of stairs I can see in the spite house is on the outside, from the main entrance to the below grade entry, unless there is a ladder that goes through the only closet. Either option would qualify it for a 'things builders do' thread, IMO.

Wow That's Funky!

Hmmm..that IS funky and a mystery! Unless it was designed as a duplex, or an efficiency apt downstairs, with no kitchen, or one that's been removed.

As I look more closely at the pics, and compare them to the ones in gramarows' link, I think maybe this is the plan, with the foyer built out over the lower level. It looks as if there is a curtain on the far end of the small bedroom, so maybe the area under the foyer is open on one side, for storage.

I think the larger downstairs bedroom must have originally been a garage, or at least is was designed to be converted to a garage, with the carriage doors and driveway. Maybe it has gone through several transformations--single home with garage and interior stairs-->duplex with converted garage, and stairs removed-->back to single family home. The box with the X in the larger downstairs bedroom appears to be a stacked laundry, so no cool ladder--I guess there is a closet after all.

I also wonder what the reason for the loft bedroom was. At first, I thought it was on the upper level, and built that way to get more headroom below, but it isn't--it's at the pointy end of the lower level. Then I thought, maybe there's storage underneath, but it doesn't look like it. So what was the issue? Bedrock?

Do you think it's possible that the area under that bed is a cistern for water collection and storage? There's a drain pipe from the roof that runs down to about where that point is in the lower level (my assumption). We once lived in an older home that had a cistern under the back porch.