My parents' house had a floating staircase, because when the home was built in the 40s, it was used as an "experimental home" for a developer to show off new building techniques, and continually refurbished and updated. So, it's technically built in the 40s, but tons of it was updated every 5 years or so. In the 70s, it was sold to a buyer when the developer moved to a further out exurb to fill in the wetlands and build stupid ass mcmansions, so the house was a weird mishmash of the most "out there" design styles of the time. In floor heating decades before it became common, the aforementioned floating staircase, a massive two story great room that the front door opens right into, fully house-length hardwood flooring from when they were still clearcutting old growth forests, pecky cypress that they decided to paint over for some fucking reason.
However, given the weird construction and the fact that the previous owner just did no maintenance for 30 years, everything that made the house interesting and strange to visit also made it impossible to live in. No basement for just no reason, but they built the house into an artificial hill, so half of the first level is exposed, and the other half is underground. The garage didn't actually function as a garage, like you literally couldn't park a car in it or even fully open the garage door, because it had these pillars in the middle of it for no reason, they didn't actually do anything and weren't load bearing. The closets were not deep enough to hold a hanger in them unless you removed the doors. My parents ended up knocking down about 2/3 of the house and just rebuilding an entire house on top of what was left. None of the original rooms like the kitchen, bathrooms, or garage are where they were, because hookups were nonsensically laid out... Just a bizarre house which could have been a piece of odd local history, replaced with a dumb mcmansion. The only room they kept was the two story great room that used to take up about half of the floor space of the house, because of course they did, and they just built a third story on top of it.
My parents' house had a floating staircase, because when the home was built in the 40s, it was used as an "experimental home" for a developer to show off new building techniques, and continually refurbished and updated. So, it's technically built in the 40s, but tons of it was updated every 5 years or so. In the 70s, it was sold to a buyer when the developer moved to a further out exurb to fill in the wetlands and build stupid ass mcmansions, so the house was a weird mishmash of the most "out there" design styles of the time. In floor heating decades before it became common, the aforementioned floating staircase, a massive two story great room that the front door opens right into, fully house-length hardwood flooring from when they were still clearcutting old growth forests, pecky cypress that they decided to paint over for some fucking reason.
However, given the weird construction and the fact that the previous owner just did no maintenance for 30 years, everything that made the house interesting and strange to visit also made it impossible to live in. No basement for just no reason, but they built the house into an artificial hill, so half of the first level is exposed, and the other half is underground. The garage didn't actually function as a garage, like you literally couldn't park a car in it or even fully open the garage door, because it had these pillars in the middle of it for no reason, they didn't actually do anything and weren't load bearing. The closets were not deep enough to hold a hanger in them unless you removed the doors. My parents ended up knocking down about 2/3 of the house and just rebuilding an entire house on top of what was left. None of the original rooms like the kitchen, bathrooms, or garage are where they were, because hookups were nonsensically laid out... Just a bizarre house which could have been a piece of odd local history, replaced with a dumb mcmansion. The only room they kept was the two story great room that used to take up about half of the floor space of the house, because of course they did, and they just built a third story on top of it.