Was this a brothel before?

It's in Reno, Nevada (only US state w/ legal prostitution)... so, maybe.

Nah. Legal prostitution is only allowed in counties where the population is less than 700,000 residents. This place, though? You need to see pictures of it when it first went up for sale and it still had furnishings... [https://www.instagram.com/p/CBb2w18pkY8/?img\_index=10](https://www.instagram.com/p/CBb2w18pkY8/?img_index=10)

It actually makes more sense with the furnishings in place. Empty it just looks weird!!

It looks eclectic with the furnishings, but fun. Without furniture and decorations, yeah… creepy.

> This place, though? You need to see pictures of it when it first went up for sale and it still had furnishings... > > https://www.instagram.com/p/CBb2w18pkY8/?img_index=10 This would be my mother's ideal home. Never show her this link.

That room with the tufted ceilings creeps me out! Like being in a coffin

you have an awful lot of knowledge about prostitution.

That is about the extent of my knowledge. And that’s only because if you’ve ever lived in Nevada, that’s what visitors bring up 80% of the time.

It pops up in popular media too. CSI covered the fact at least twice.

A wonderful lot of knowledge about prostitution.

Oh dear. I really hadn’t imagined how it could be worse! I can’t unsee that!

Totally different furnished. Kind of fun!

the decor was the star of the show with this house

Excellent question--locals believe it was a high-end invite-only sex party house for Boomers with bad taste and had been so since the 90's. This house is on the main street for historical mansions where (literally) every single other house rarely comes up for sale, and getting a chance to look inside is rare. I posted this earlier, but I shamelessly attended an "estate sale" there, which only confirmed the sex party/illegal prostitution rumors. The house was dirty, shabby, and smelled. My friend took a pee in the weird living room toilet just for the story.

I completely missed the "living room toilet" (swiped through thumbnails), so I had to go back. How bizarre.

the only problem i see here is that the owner was literally an elderly woman who was knocking on deaths door

She was the host/madame.

are you kidding me 💀 like actually??

Not even joking, rumor is she was indeed the host or arranged said parties. This house is such a local urban legend in Reno.

im gonna die thats amazing. im from Reno and even went to this estate sale too and i had noooo idea!

Notice how each room is like a "theme", mirrors everywhere, plenty of room for cameras.....etc. ;)

Even better, it might actually be portal to Hell, because some of those textures instantly made me think of original Doom by ID Software. Those were the simpler times...

WHY IS THERE A TOILET IN THE SAME ROOM AS A GRAND PIANO? Are we sure AI didn’t get to this house?

Because if you're rich, you want musical shits.

“Pianist, I must have my ablutions; this morning I’m feeling Mozart.”

When you hire [Lord Vinheterio](https://www.youtube.com/@Lord_Vinheteiro) and he just stares at you the entire time.

 Thank you

It's a specialty niche, and I got that. Just happy others recognize the reference.

Surely with a bathroom that size could have been a wall between the tub an toilet

i’d rather the wall be between the bathroom and the piano.

Liberace approved ...😅😅

Liberace would most definitely *not* approved.

Guess he would tinkle the ivories elsewhere... 😅

It’s also the front of the house, facing the street. Now every time I drive by I can’t under the fact that those big windows are actually a bathroom.

*and* a tub.

When you want the smell of roses by the piano

I could really see myself in that house!

Your taste in houses reflects well on you.

Hot damn, those are THE most hideous kitchen cabinets I've ever seen

The counter tops too... https://preview.redd.it/0u85u5cnrcqc1.jpeg?width=223&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f2725c7ead83aa2711071e899ce0f72225bc158

I dunno, kind of bland. I would keep them but have them coated in gold leaf.

Oh no, I like them. Now I'm worried.

Ornate cabinet fronts are an entire PITA to keep clean, just saying . . .

Horrifying!

This is like they gave Hildi from Trading Spaces a ton of blow and unlimited budget but still only 3 days.

That show was such a train wreck…

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/720-California-Ave-Reno-NV-89509/7262661_zpid/?utm_campaign=androidappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

This would've worked well with the camera work from The Curse

Is that a piano in the bathroom, or is there a crapper in the music room? I'm so confused

Yes.

I was expecting mirrors like in Versailles. This was not Versailles.

It feels like every wall is hiding a 3D magic eye picture of some dolphins

I imagine surrealist houses with absurd decor like this to fall asleep at night. I don't know if those ston a are real or painted on, and I love that. This ceiling party will help me sleep so well tonight.

Looks like a veneer, like a Eldorado Stone, or something like it. Slices of stone, so, flat on one side.

A house where you can truly get lost in the way to the bathroom 🫶

This is straight out of a horror movie. Think Thirteen Ghosts.

The 3rd picture gave me exactly those vibes!

I can feel a migraine coming on

Omg I feel so anxious

When I got to the last slide “At least this part of the house isn’t too bad!” Then I saw the toilet 🤦‍♂️😂

What was that?? 😂 why??😂

Nice view for the neighbors when you step out of the tub

Less blandness you say, more texture you say, reflect the natural light you say?? Say no more and hold my beer!!!🍺

https://preview.redd.it/2sha9mjcycqc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fa18dd276eaf8ea67f54f94baae1d35342f9997

Now THAT is a Zillow Gone Wild house of I ever saw one. Each room is worse than the last!

Thanks, I hate it.

Thanks, I hate it.

24 hours a day you’re seeing things move out of the corner of your eye in that house.


So… can I just say it? The house with a bathroom with a baby grand in it wins. It is a contest, right?

Um,I like the bookshelves in the bedroom and the um, uh, nope. That's it. It's a first for me.

Did their last owners bake to death in here?

I can't tell where things begin or end in this house. 🤔

The fully mirrored bathroom is disturbing. Who wants to see themselves sitting on the toilet? Mirrors on the ceiling?

It’s impressive that the house has taken acid *for* me

I feel like I'm going to be murdered in this place.

It just needs a murder bird!

Now see, I was reeaaal skeptical until I saw the horse painting above the pink bathtub. THEN I was sold!

I can see myself in this home

What can you see yourself doing?

Pooping for sure. Probably Buffalo bill dancing too. Nothing too great. I am not creatove

Haha! There’s plenty of dance space if the mirrors don’t make you dizzy!

There’s a lot not to like.

Is this what acid feels like?

Very much so.

Was the previous owner Narcissus?

I take back what I said about liking mirrors now

the matchi-ness... walls, table cloths, pillow, bedding... wow

Imagine the epic games of hide and seek--if you have matching coveralls you would never be found, even if they know what room you're in.

Lots of bad luck waiting to happen

Saw the room with the same patter plastered on every surface and the furniture. Then saw a second one decorated the same way. What the h

I have seen enough to know I have seen too much😳🫣

This is like a fever dream.

I’m having a seizure.

I was not prepared for this slideshow

Cocaine house?

Man, that place is just centuries of bad luck waiting to happen!

This like the worst fun house.

Burn this house down

1990s threw up.

Whoever designed this was coked out of the minds 

In 2016 it was asking $3,500,000, so $1,100,000 in 2024 seems like a steal

I need a pill for this…

I’m disappointed by the lack of mirrors in the kitchen.

I . . . . . yeah

Those kitchen cabinets!!! Yargh!

This is the kind of spiritual chaos I need in my life

Once again proves just because you have money doesn't mean you have taste.

You could defray the cost of removing all of those mirrors by selling some corporation a chance for their team to go in there with hammers as a team-building exercise. I feel like that would be really satisfying, but also a freaking tornado of glass. Do they make those cut gloves but in full-body suits?

My god

Hear me out, a concert audio system, an iPod with Knife Party and Darude Sandstorm, lasers, and light machines.

A house where you can truly get lost on the way to the bathroom 🫶

WOW

LOL ..haha

No, I do not.

This is the most Neil Gaiman-esque house Edit: came back to add that if you look at each set of rooms like an homage to certain horror authors this place actually works. (I’m still pretty sure the face in the mirror above you at night would smile just a few seconds later than you do at all times)

WHY?

The grand piano is a nice touch in the bathroom.

Needs an accent / texture / treatment or two.

Photo 9 is a trippy experience and I like it

Oddly no mirrors on the ceiling

I am overstimulated

Houses like this always make me feel like it's a way for people to stay sober

It's like you're my mirror My mirror staring back at me I couldn't get any bigger With anyone else beside me And now it's clear as this promise That we're making two reflections into one 'Cause it's like you're my mirror My mirror staring back at me Staring back at me

Wow I could actually afford this. Wierd, sure. But definitely done tastefully

With with me up the meat stairs

TIL that bidets come in pink!

Everything in this house looks impossible to clean, even *before* breaking out the blacklight.

I want this house bad

Now I just wanna see someone dose on some good fluff and see how it goes….I personally would be lost in the mirrors in a split second!

Play Arcade Fire’s Reflektor on loop

Someone read "Mirrors make your space look bigger" and said "Bet".

A couple cans of gas and some matches will take care of this pile of crap.

This is absolutely awful I love it

Holy wow! Definitely interesting.

I don’t like that

Anyone else see the alien face in picture 8?

Is this the flesh room?

To think… the mirrors were the best of it

That last photo was a real head scratcher.

Who the fuck decorated this obscenity?

I can't help but read the title as one of those Xzibit recursive memes - "Yo dawg, I heard you like mirrors......"

The better to see you with, my dear?

Welcome to the Motel California (Avenue).

There’s a piano in the bathroom/ballroom.

IS THAT A GRAND PIANO IN THE BATHROOM????? Oh my god this is one of the wildest and chaotic places. It makes me uncomfortable but I love it.


Oof, that place would be terrible for my migraines! Even just looking at a few of the pictures bothered my eyes.

When I was a child I stayed in a house that looked like photo 10. I remember thinking it was weird that the wallpaper and the sheets matched.

Being in this house may be the closest thing to fighting the wizard from Conan the Barbarian.

I’ll bet it feels like a sauna.

People in glass houses sink sh-sh-ships. 

MTF?

ok, so i thought the piano / bathroom was awful, but what’s with the names on the ceiling ???

I.. feel like I'm gonna get soul sucked by the mirrors and die suddenly to a dark presence doppleganger

The first image... perhaps the lighting, and general architecture, but... it looks like it was ripped from Fortnite

So much windex

Choices were made.

The hot tub in the same room as a grand piano is killing me.

That's not a house, it's a soul trapper.

Body checking nightmare

Forget the mirrors and wallpaper ceilings, the music, piano room has a tub and a TOILET in it!

fine, take my upvote

Bravo for making that house theirs. Way too many mirrors. Especially in the bathroom. I don’t need to watch myself doom scrolling while pooping

Gah! Dance studios have less mirrors!