Wait a fucking moment here…

And the ability for average incomes to buy, build, and furnish a home, sure.

Most people couldn’t afford that. But everyone had a living room and people would come over. Everyone had a grill and people would come over. Most people had kids and kids would come over.

Life was much more real life social.

They look like a good idea until you have to vacuum.

Why do you think Bill was always sending down all that lotion?

I can’t imagine people on Lemmy of all places having enthusiasm for socializing and conversations.

You like the novelty of it, but you would sit there alone and imagine having friends and then you would imagine you know how to actually listen to other people instead of just waiting for an opportunity to talk about linux or indie steam games.

Love sunken living rooms!!! Why is this even a shitpost ??

Honestly, the Lotion Pit is better interior decorating than modern “is it a home or the surface of the sun oh my god everything is so bland and white” interior design.

I’m old enough to remember 70s design still being normal and life just felt way cooler.

I had a house with something like the first one, although it had a railing installed.

At first I hated the railing and considered removing it. Then I slipped on the hardwood steps on my way down into the pit. A whole 20 inches doesn’t seem like a lot, but let me tell you that hitting my ass halfway down was enough to make me re-think all of it.

Aesthetically, conversation pits are amazing. That said, they are absolutely built to fuck up someone’s day the very moment they’re not being careful.

The concept behind this design is really fascinating and actually harkens back to very very old house design, like 1500s, where people would have a little cubby with benches next to a fire.

Read about Frank Lloyd Wright and his first few house designs (i think the Fallingwater house is a key one) to get the bigger picture on this. He (in ~1910 i think) literally brought back an element of domestic architecture we’d left behind. Comfort pits from the 70s are downstream of this, in my opinion.

“It puts the lotion on its skin”

The oval table looks like a gamepad

“It put’s the lotion on its skin” pit aside, a fair bit of that stepped layout has some correlation with the higher rate of swinger or “key parties” that took place from the late 50’s into the 70’s. A fuck pit, if you will. Bring 2 buckets.

You can make the niche without the pit. Unless you have some reason at all to use the different level, it’s completely unnecessary.

that top right one genuinely just looks like a pit to hell i don’t think anyone’s gonna have a casual conversation in there

unless you’re potatos and chell, of course