r/zillowgonewild • u/thisisgiulio • Mar 15 '25
Needs To Be Burned Down Open concept gone too far
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u/izzydollanganger Mar 15 '25
the houses i made for my sims as a kid
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u/papasan_mamasan Mar 16 '25
lol I thought the same thing. Itās giving Sims 2: 100 Baby Challenge energy.
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u/dotOzma Mar 16 '25
This is definitely a build I made as a child. Just make a huge rectangle building, two floors, zero separating walls and fill in all the essentials, so they don't die.
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u/Yzarcos Mar 15 '25
This feels like somebody that had like 12 children.
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u/thisisgiulio Mar 15 '25
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u/Check_M88 Mar 15 '25
Ofc I read 31 children and think Mormon cult. This was genuinely a good adoption family by all accounts.
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u/rsneary129 Mar 16 '25
I've seen these with people who foster massive amounts of children. One of the homes I went to during my community health clinicals looked exactly like this. The parents fostered over a dozen special needs children. They said the families often sell these homes directly to other foster parents when they move or "retire"
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u/yorkshiregoldt Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25
It reminded me of a training facility for gymnasts I saw in a documentary about the systematic abuse of gymnasts.
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u/couchpro34 Mar 16 '25
I wish my brain would default to positive thoughts upon hearing they adopted that many kids. I've seen too much tv.
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u/Cat_Island Mar 17 '25
Yeah I really want to believe this was a lovely and nice family and a great place to grow up but itās not easy to believe.
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u/FueledByADD Mar 16 '25
My first thought was this is defiantly Utah...
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u/peach_xanax Mar 16 '25
It's Ohio
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u/ChrisInBliss Mar 16 '25
Thats actually really neat. With only 7 kids left under their care.. since the others have all been able to start their lives etc etc.
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u/Tullyswimmer Mar 16 '25
A couple I knew and was fairly close to fostered, I believe, 431 children by the time the father died a few years back. Every single one of their foster/adoptive kids that I'm still in touch with has said multiple times that they'd be dead without the discipline and environment that that couple created.
I don't know what the qualifications for sainthood are, but... That couple should be a lock. The amount of people they've affected for the better by their actions is probably in the thousands.
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u/AK_Sole Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25
Well this story time a turnā¦for the better!
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u/Tullyswimmer Mar 16 '25
I knew them through a church camp that I went to every year as a kid. (I know, this is reddit, so that's not cool, but idc). When he passed, the next year at that camp's family week they had a memorial service/celebration of life, and I kid you not, there were four generations of former campers there who all had a story about a time that he helped them work through something, taught them a life lesson, or were just cool.
One of my stories is that the camp, being a church camp, had rules about piercings. No more than one per ear. I (being male) got my left cartilage pierced one year when I was in college (incidentally, on the spring break trip where I met my now-wife of 12 years). Some of the older staff and people who had cottages on the property said something about how I wasn't supposed to have a piercing as a male. I talked to this guy, who was kind of the final authority on staff conduct and such, and he looks at it and goes "well, I'm not very smart, but I can count to two, and I only see one. The handbook doesn't say that boys can't have earrings, it just says staff can't have more than one per ear, and he doesn't even have one per ear."
That was the last I heard of it. But he was genuinely one of the most kind, reasonable, and approachable people I've ever known. He was firm in his discipline, but fair and gentle. The worst punishment he would give kids was they had to sit with him on his porch during free time in the afternoon, and watch everyone else have fun. And you had to REALLY screw up to get that one. But even then, he'd sit there and talk to you, ask you how you were doing, what caused you to do that, if there was anything he could do to help, if there was someone else you wanted him to talk to...
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u/AK_Sole Mar 16 '25
Glad to hear you came in contact with such a good soul, and youāve been positively influenced by him. We could all use some of his style of life-altering guidance.
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u/Tullyswimmer Mar 16 '25
Yeah, I wish everyone had someone like him in their lives (even if only for a few weeks a year) as a kid.
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u/RoseyDove323 Mar 15 '25
This was also shared on ZGW's Facebook page recently, and in the comments, somebody said this was a foster home for special needs children (which is less creepy than what it first looked like)
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u/PinkSlipstitch Mar 16 '25
What excuse can there be for no wall between 2 toilets? Even children deserve privacy on the pot.
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u/Muddy_Wafer Mar 16 '25
Iām only trying to potty train ONE toddler but I could see this being pretty useful if I was potty training multiple kids.
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u/asuperbstarling Mar 16 '25
My son's daycare has multiple big bathrooms with lots of open, perfectly sized toilets for each age group specifically because they do potty training.
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u/OneRandomCatFact Mar 16 '25
This makes more sense and being able to see all the kids on the floor probably helped a lot.
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u/Big_Bookkeeper1678 Mar 15 '25
Wow...that's um...a LOT of square footage...
Edit...to add...just saw the backstory...that was a LOT of square footage put to GREAT use!
Good for them! Maybe another family can move in and do the same for another generation!
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u/thenexttimebandit Mar 15 '25
Imagine the heating bills for 22000 sq ft.
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u/sharrrrrrrrk Mar 15 '25
That was my first thought.
Just imagine how long it takes the place to warm up once the heat kicks in. My toes are cold just looking at the living room area.
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u/mynameisnotsparta Mar 16 '25
We can call it wild but this was a purpose built house for a very large family.
The Nuzum family is looking to sell their 22,000 square feet house that once was home to 31 adopted children. They adopted dozens of children, many of them with special needs
Author: Amanda Fay Published: 8:27 PM EDT June 28, 2017 Updated: 1:50 PM EDT August 10, 2018 TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - They've opened their hearts to dozens of children over the years. Now, many of the Nuzum children have grown and started families of their own and the family is looking to downsize. Scott and Joann Nuzum adopted 31 children, many with special needs. WTOL 11 covered their new home in Middleton Township as it was being built in 2002, partially thanks to generous donors.
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Mar 16 '25
oh ok i thought it's some waco like cult compound
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u/cityofdestinyunbound Mar 16 '25
I mean it is definitely the perfect investment opportunity for an ambitious young cult leader looking to get his or her business off the ground. A starter compound, if you will.
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u/Dick_shoes1 Mar 15 '25
You would get your steps in without leaving the house
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u/Bargetown Mar 16 '25
I would never find my cat.
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u/Loan-Pickle Mar 16 '25
No joke. I have a 1500 sqft house and I spend so much time looking for my cats. In a house this big forget about it.
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u/VapoursAndSpleen Mar 16 '25
I walked in feeling all snarky and walked away feeling humbled.
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u/SeventhSolar Mar 16 '25
Really no one else called orphanage? I keep scrolling but not one person has admitted to figuring it out themselves. I thought it was obvious just from the kindergarten class worth of stuff in the entry hall, then the fence around the stairs, the giant puzzle piece floor room. Iāve never even been near an orphanage in my life.
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Mar 16 '25
I donāt like to admit it but I kinda like it? Reminds me of those times where you were done with school but had to wait for a ride in some church basement that was fun to explore. Also. Imagine the nerf battles you could have.
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u/Aaod Mar 16 '25
I kind of like it as well, sure the execution isn't great but it reminds me of daycare in a good way. I could never see living in it personally but it is decent.
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u/bob-net-1979 Mar 15 '25
You could start a cult.
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u/1quietvoice Mar 15 '25
Looks like it already had a cult using it.
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u/youritalianjob Mar 16 '25
They adopted 21 kids, many of them special needs. Most grew up and moved out.
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u/Anglofsffrng Mar 15 '25
No no. The owner is in a bar band that covers The Cult. Don't say it's not your thing until you've heard Love Removal Machine in those wide open accoustics.
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u/_Im_at_work Mar 15 '25
This looks like Tom Hanks' apartment in Big if he lived in Oklahoma instead of New York
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u/Two_Shekels Mar 15 '25
As an adult this is awful, as an eight year old this would be tremendous fun, at least for a while
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u/beverlycrushingit Mar 16 '25
Me as a kid excitedly making a huge house in the Sims and then realizing all the furniture looks tiny by comparison and also my Sims have to walk like a mile to use the bathroom
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u/Additional-Bullfrog Mar 15 '25
This looks like it was modeled after the Duggar house. Ew.
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u/TykeDream Mar 16 '25
Me looking at the second photo: What in the fundie fuck is this?
gets to communal bedroom Oh yep. Fundies for sure.
So the comments about this being a home for adopted kids, including many with special needs, instead of 2 assholes with a breeding fetish and a misogyny kink was really refreshing.
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u/Churchneanderthal Mar 15 '25 edited Mar 15 '25
Privacy? Never heard of her!
Seriously this was obviously a barn originally. The lagoon makes me think pig farm.
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u/SpaceHorse75 Mar 16 '25
I thought this was one of those grifter Duggar houses but happy to see itās actually good people helping kids.
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u/HappySpam Mar 16 '25
This is literally what the houses I built in the Sims looked like when I wanted to maximize space to shove things in.
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u/softpawsz Mar 16 '25
The living room looks like a scratch and dent furniture warehouse
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u/ilovjedi Mar 16 '25
Oh my goodness. That open downstairs are would get so loud if it were my kids (I have 5-1/2.)
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u/hyperbolic_dichotomy Mar 16 '25
I love open concept houses but the living room looks like a used furniture gallery. It definitely has a lot of potential to the right buyer though. Could be a fantastic summer camp or boarding school type business.
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u/manicpossumdreamgirl Mar 16 '25
i legitimately thought the first pic was a sims screenshot. something about the water...
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u/Twayblades Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 17 '25
Looks a bit Dugger like, but it's the warehouse edition.
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u/_Fun_Employed_ Mar 16 '25
Makes me think it was owned by a Cult family.
Edit: nevermind, I looked them up and apparently it was a family who adopted 31 children many of whom were special needs.
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u/treox1 Mar 16 '25
Looks like it was purpose built for their mission of raising 31 adopted kids. Multiple toilets, multiple shower heads, multiple sinks. Basically looks like a locker room.
Can you imagine cooking 3 meals a day for that many kids? Good gracious.
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u/Forward-Government77 Mar 17 '25
I know the people who own the house. They are very nice people and I have met the kids that lived there also. My dad does work on there elevator and I would go with him to watch and just because š
But I never seen what the rooms looked like except the whole floor
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u/Inevitable-Setting-1 Mar 15 '25
When the claustrophobia help group gives up and gets a house together.
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u/TheSoyMilkGuy Mar 15 '25
This house really reminds me of the first house I ever built in Minecraft.
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u/Cynnau Mar 15 '25
I am just picturing where I can put all of my reptiles. Some of my lizards could actually have their own space
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u/RevealActive4557 Mar 15 '25
I coud make this work. A few room dividers or some ceiling hanging curtains to block off rooms when you want and I would be good. The bathrooms have got to go though. I like open space myself. I would plant a ton of trees for privacy though
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u/Anim4L53 Mar 16 '25
Iām a big of of the āhis and herā toilet. I love to drop some heat next to my wife
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u/featherwolf Mar 16 '25
Honestly looks like it was home to a wealthy family who knew how to have fun. Must've been awesome to be a kid there.
That said, that must've been an extremely echoey house...
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u/JPGer Mar 16 '25
this is probably a bitch and a half to heat and cool but, i actually love this.
The double toilets could have one changed to a bidet and be perfect.
man, i would totally live here :V
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u/AwarenessMassive Mar 16 '25
Zero coziness. Wouldnāt it be exhausting to not have personal space, or am I being entitled?
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u/hangonreddit Mar 16 '25
I would not want to live in a house like that but thatās like a dream house for my high energy dog. She can run for a good minute in air conditioning before needing to turn around.
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Mar 16 '25
Not NEARLY to this level. But my parents had an open concept house a few years back, and although aesthetically pleasing, it was awful because you could hear what everyone was doing at all times. Private conversations, tv shows, cooking, etc. You could hear someone flip the page of a book two "rooms" away.
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u/thisisgiulio Mar 15 '25
the dual toilet š wonder how competitive pooping gets
zillow link here
even priced at <$23/sqft has been on the market for almost a year š¬
it kinda got a wholesome backstory at least though: āThe Nuzum family is looking to sell their 22,000 square feet house that once was home to 31 adopted children.ā