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Either these couches are really tiny, or room in this image is really big. It looks like the room is like six times the size of my college dorm. If the rest of the house is similarly sized, it’s probably also insanely fucking expensive. middle school gymnasium ass room
Everyone talking about the pit and I’m just here thinking “housing?”
The dream is still achievable. My brother and I teamed up with our spouses and bought a home. Between the four of us we were able to buy a house. Just the one.
You’d need that space to go somewhere, so the rest of the floor would either need to be a meter thick, you’d need a big protrusion into the lower floor, or you’d have to have it on the ground level with nothing underneath.
You’d also be pretty locked into the floor plan layout, and there would be no place to put a TV screen that’s visible from the whole seating.
Pretty cool looking, but also pretty impractical with modern buildings.
there would be no place to put a TV screen that’s visible from the whole seating
That was kind of the point, it was called a “conversation pit”
Like, people would just sit around, look each other in their stupid faces and talk? Gross. /s
It sounds like a nightmare, but I’m sure the coke helped.
Oh damn i just coke pit commented then read that you’re ahead of me.
This would be absolutely awesome for tabletop games.
The selection of board games at the time wasn’t what we had now, but holy sweet fuck that place would be great to play Acquire
So many new business ideas.
That’s a fun term for “cocaine pit”
And i thought it was orgy pool
Naïve of you to think that this space needs a TV, when any house like this is probably large enough and expensive enough to have a proper home theater room with a proper projector and surround sound system.
You’re probably right for a home with this setup today. Back when these were really popular, probably not.
Home theaters are a fairly recent thing and were not the norm, even for people with these types of setups, outside of maybe the uber rich who could afford a projector and the cost of prints. For a sense of costs, a Super 8 reel of a theatrical film would run anywhere from $600-$1000 (accounting for inflation).
If we are placing this setup in a time where a home theater would be prohibitively expensive, then it is also the time when a TV is a boxy space hoarding big blurb of NTSC/PAL glass. Making the whole TV discussion moot. There was probably a TV room with a more traditional sofa and a large wall embedded CRT TV. Still, in a house with a conversation pit there was no consideration for, nor expectation for a TV to be present in the living room. That is also a post modernist expectation, where screens are ubiquitous, demanded and expected to be present at all times.
Pretty cool looking, but also pretty impractical with modern buildings.
It’s funny because it’s literally the opposite: “modern” buildings (read: of the “modernist” style popular circa 1930s-1970s) are the only kind that do have these things.
It’s buildings that are newer than modern that don’t have them because people realized they’re impractical.
I think this is made for swinging lol.
Everything at the time was made for swinging, coke, or both.
Dont forget the tripping hazard!
Just land on the couch problem solved.
My spouse: I was promised flying cars, and I don’t even get a conversation pit!
The internet IS our conversation pit.
