If they don't like the paint, they can repaint. If they don't like the conversation pit, they can remodel... which is gonna be more expensive but I have to imagine if you're buying a house with a conversation pit you're probably pretty well off already.

If I get old and have to move out, it's their problem - I think by then it will have come full circle and be in vogue again.

Just fill it with water. People love indoor pools.

Most placed with conversation pits that I've seen in person did have a false floor panel to cover it when there was no company over. Turned it back into regular floor space.

The plan is def a forever home! If I can't make a step or two the whole house will be a wash, lmao

Usually a conversation pit is avoidable, as seen in the pictures. Shouldn't be enough to render the whole house unusable

couldn't a ramp be installed?

Wer'e on the top of the hill and the foundation is pier and beam, off the ground - we're gucci!

If true, that definitely assumes it’s built on a slab foundation or into a basement.

Where I’m from, where full basements are the norm and slab foundations are mostly for commercial properties, it would be entirely above the foundation (first floor is at least 5 foot above the basement floor) and have no impact whatever on sealing.

We used to put indoor koi ponds in houses too.

From the pit standpoint, you could excavate the whole thing, put a sump in then build it two-level.

There's always a way, it's just not usually cheap.

or my son.

I kid you not, when the realtor showed the house they brought their rambunctious 7-year-old with them. Kiddo wasted zero time and did a running full-gainer into the conversation pit, tucked into a roll on landing, and sprawled out flat to stop in the middle of the room. Realtor/mom was NOT amused. Frankly, I was impressed but also relieved that there was no staged furniture in that particular room.

I hosted a few house-parties over the years and always had to keep a watchful eye on guest's alcohol intake and all the steps and railings. It was kind of exhausting.

I, too, have tried to convince my partner to make it an orgy pit.

Sooooo, you're saying shag carpeting all over?

Then you get conversation drain flies

Even copious amounts of (definitely not human) blood?

Totally agree that there are combinations that jive within that framework.

that's some move the mountain to us top drawer shit right there

A friend of mine did every weird thing he could think of when decorating his apartment. Imitation brick wall, colorful shelves, decorative ceiling, built-in plant pots and so on. Now he says he regrets it because it's hard to maintain (led lights brake, fixing even small damage is really difficult, repainting is impossible) and when you get bored of it and want to change something it's a huge effort. With cleaner, simpler esthetics you can easily move things around, repaint, add/remove decorations and so on. You can constantly change decorations without things clashing with you colorful walls.

Again?

You should not have had to explain this, old timer. Life ain’t fair.

sorry, personally i take residence under a monolithic chunk of stone so i was unable to get this reference

i was also only born within the last two decades

the silence of the lambs is a 1991 american psychological horror thriller film.

missed it by one (and a half, give or take) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯