Steve's Weird House - A Collection of Amazing Proportion

[Toy Ranch]

I used to sell stuff to this guy when I lived in Seattle.  Looks like he had some dusting done for the photos   Steve's a weird guy but a good dude, just like most of us.

http://www.bohonus.com/galleries/personal-projects/steves-weird-house/

[typhooforme]

I feel much MUCH better about my own house now!

[charp13]

Thank you soooooo much Toy Ranch! I will be looking at this for a very long time    This is such a commitment to living with what you love, although I wouldn't be able to love that much stuff, personally-teehee.  But I also feel better about my own house too, typhooforme. It really does make me realize how many awesome people are out here walking amongst us. Very cool!

[monsterphile]

I feel much MUCH better about my own house now!

Are you sure about that?   

[CreepysFan]

 Toy Ranch, your friends home is beyond amazing, I'll never be able to collect in his league. But next time the wife says my stuff clutters the house, I'll keep showing her these pictures. 

[Monster Bob]

That made me dizzy

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

Oh. My. God.

This guy must be certifiably insane.

But I want to move in for a weekend! I'll stay in the treehouse!

Where does anyone get the time and/or money to collect on this level? The house alone is amazing.

[Gillfan]

Wow.
The breadth and depth of that collection is amazing ... but it is beyond what I could handle.
I strive to have, for lack of a better term, a museum I can live in.
I don't see how he lives within that.

It is amazing though and I am envious.

[poseablemonster]

Wow, too much.  WAY too much.

[Toy Ranch]

It looks like they spent a lot of time cleaning and setting things up just perfectly for the photos.  This has been up for a few years now, not sure exactly when it was done, but there isn't room for anything else when these were taken, and I'm betting that since those were done, it hasn't been cleaned again, and that he's bought a LOT more stuff.  And although there is a lot of it, most of it is not particularly collectible or valuable. 

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

I think it might be physically impossible to keep that place dusted and organized. I'm sure that organized wouldn't look a lot different than disorganized. It's weird looking through the "bathroom" trying to find the toilet or the shower or the "bedroom" trying to figure out where the heck he sleeps. How is "the kitchen" in anyway different than "the living room"?

[Monster Bob]

It looks like they spent a lot of time cleaning and setting things up just perfectly for the photos.  This has been up for a few years now, not sure exactly when it was done, but there isn't room for anything else when these were taken, and I'm betting that since those were done, it hasn't been cleaned again, and that he's bought a LOT more stuff.  And although there is a lot of it, most of it is not particularly collectible or valuable.

I thought the same thing. This guy is a major league dumpster diver/Good Willer/garage saler/hoarder, with an eye for the unusual. Some cool stuff, but gobs of quantity does not necessarily a good 'museum' make. An eccentric, nutty, scavenger-hoarder-collector. That's OK I guess. 

[Toy Ranch]

I knew another guy in Seattle who had tons of seriously great stuff.  But it was stacked up all over his house and he had little paths.  His bed was covered with stuff by day, and at night it all moved to the kitchen table, then it all moved back in the morning.  He finally got another house and started working on that one.  His taste in stuff was far better, but he didn't have it set up for display like Steve.  His was all character stuff through the 50's.  Hake's can have a whole auction of his collection.

[Toy Ranch]

When I said "through the 50's" I meant Yellow Kid through Roy Rogers with lots of Buck, Flash, Capt Video,  etc.

[Gillfan]

C'mon, there is no shame in dumper diving, scavenging, good willing, whatever.

I've found some great stuff in unlikely places.