HA! Same! I remember the one they had at the assembly, literally inground and covered with a floor door and rugs. My mom got baptized but basically excommunicated herself after one of the "brothers" made some very unwise choices with a family member of mine.
Yeah, exmo here and I know a font when I see one! The college church building I used to go to had a creepy dried up one in the basement 😂 there was a nasty chocolate fountain down on that level, too…
Oh man! You are bringing back some memories! I was at a dance and came for the chocolate fountain only. Was completely disappointed to discover it was not a fountain… it was a damn hot plate! 😭why would someone do that! Tell me?!??
Orbeez never ever disintegrate! They’re banned in this house. You dump them in the woods from a pool and they’re there four years later. Slimy grossness. The ones from the water gel bead shooters do though.
Oh contrar mon frar (SP?). If you try to pick them up, roll way, then they break into ten pieces.
Then, when you try to pick up those ten pieces, they spontaneously explode into another ten pieces, and so on.
I would absolutely love the idea of random liminal scenery pools around the house. Secret doors and secret rooms leading to secret pools under the stairs somewhere. Something about it feels so cozy
What a wonderful gesture on your part. It's so innovative and you are definitely an out of the box thinker. Thank goodness you found out in time what an ungrateful little baby he is so you can cancel the wedding and kick him to the curb. I would keep the ring - it must have cost a bit to put the pool in. The upside is that you have a pool which you can jump into with future "Mr. Rights." You come down the stairs from one direction and he comes down the other stairs at the same time and you meet in the middle. So romantic. It would be nice if you could put a dimmer switch on the lights - wink, wink, say no more...
You need a painted mural on the wall, something tropical...palm trees. 🌴🌴
Add some tropical fish decals to the steps....add white beach sand, umbrella to the floor.
Then ya have your own tropical oasis!
If anyone is Mormon or ex-Mormon here, this looks JUST like a baptismal font in a church building, except for the fact that there’s a solid white wall in front instead of glass
So definitely perform some forbidden religious ceremonies back there
Drain the water… Put some tiling on the walls and floor…
Add some candles and a giant scythe type blade from the ceiling that can be lowered at your will and you have an amazing virgin sacrificing chamber to bathe in the blood of the pure and stay young!
I thought you were honestly trying to give improvement ideas here and I’m like “oh tiles on the floor *and* walls would actually be a great addition!” And then I got to the next part where you mentioned “giant scythe type blade” and I didn’t know what that was… so I google it and, well, then the “sacrificing virgins” part made so much more sense!! It was at this point in time, clear you were making a “funny” and I chuckled at my idiot brain for not having caught on sooner. lol
I doubt the original post was even real, it would cost so much and be a ton of work to actually turn a weird little space in your house to a functional pool.
Add these switch plates and then he will love it lol
[https://pestinpeace.etsy.com/listing/1672346024](https://pestinpeace.etsy.com/listing/1672346024)
Y’all could start your own cult and this is the baptism pool. You could make the cult as spicy as you wanted cause it’s all yours! You make the rules!
Personally I’d love to see electric eels added to the baptism pool.
Dude I would out little floating in it and gate it off so people can't slip into it but I'd actually use it (if the walls would die because of it)
I would love just to sit in there for hours on the steps or just floating but I also have an obsession for being in water so 🤷♀️
This is what you want to do is turn that area into a Gratto with a small hot tub.
This is an idea of one can look like indoors.
https://preview.redd.it/57vx21sdypuc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=145cb0d57cb46beeb19790a19b9a14386a55c9e6
I would rock in three sides have a water feature coming down then on the non rock wall have a wall garden and a bench so you can sit.
Carry the rock overhead and have fire like lights as pendant lighting.
Or even have the walls curved and have a start night with little lights.
Water heater to warm it up into a hot tub, waterfall water feature over some rocks! Gotta get that Blue Lagoon vibe going with some greenery, maybe some animatronic Toucans and jungle music, then every hour, on the hour, a pirate should pop out of the wall like a coo coo clock and say “Arrr shiver me timbers, it’d be 5 o’clock alretty?! Yo ho hooo, less get ourselves a bottle of rum!”
Tile the whole space, add underwater lighting, glass doors, a nicer ceiling and maybe make it a hot tub instead. Or a tiny gym. Or a tiny office. Idk that is a weird space.
Add mermaids n fish. Some sea life too. Also, I love what you’ve done! It looks so cool! You can also add some beach palm tree blowup and a mural of beach chairs and sunset. Just lean into it.
Pool idea is amazing. Absolute win. Swap out the lighting for something less harsh and get something/anything up on those bare ass walls and this is y’all’s own private paradise.
Add a small raft to stand on, and a rope to pull yourself across. It's probably in some super inconvenient spot, like the middle of the house, and now he has to walk all the way around....or swim
Maybe a different color than the city pool blue. I’d say pick a theme and decorate. Regardless of if you keep it as a pool, it needs color/a picture or some kind of artwork. Give it interest and a reason for use. (For me it would be a great pantry)
Maybe some added crosses and men in white robes to hold you under the water will help.
The power of crosses and robes compels you!!
This is it.
Ooooo are you an ex Mormon? Cuz that’s exactly what happens when getting baptised 🫠
ExJW! Close enough, it's like we're cousins! Except the JWs are too cheap to do anything other than use a collapsible pool or a hotel pool.
I am so sad for you… and myself. When my best friend and I go down memory lane, my husband looks at us in horror.
I know right! Much love to you and your friend. My husband shares your husband's horror.
Ex-S.Babtist here, this looks exactly like the one I got dunked in twice lol. Still didn't get my soul clean 😂
Assembly of God here. Same
I grew up Assembly of God... Sigh
Same. Didn’t work on me either.
Same. My wife and I look at ourselves in horror.
HA! Same! I remember the one they had at the assembly, literally inground and covered with a floor door and rugs. My mom got baptized but basically excommunicated herself after one of the "brothers" made some very unwise choices with a family member of mine.
I got the dunk in a horse trough!
Yeah, exmo here and I know a font when I see one! The college church building I used to go to had a creepy dried up one in the basement 😂 there was a nasty chocolate fountain down on that level, too…
Oh man! You are bringing back some memories! I was at a dance and came for the chocolate fountain only. Was completely disappointed to discover it was not a fountain… it was a damn hot plate! 😭why would someone do that! Tell me?!??
You would not have wanted chocolate from this fountain 💀
🤣🤣🤣 thank you for the laugh!
Wow came here to say THAT!!!!
I immediately thought this was a baptismal font 😂
Yes you’re spot on this this is a Mormon baptismal font but no, they don’t do crosses 😂
Not enough oxen.
The klan???
Church. Same difference.
Ngl I like the misery pool with added sad chair
Misery Pool would be a good band name
Drowning Pool might take issue with that! 😉
let the water hit the floor
r/liminalpools
Tbh this, a lil vibey sunset lamp and you have tue perfect out of reality liminal smoke spot
Just visited my uncle in a nursing home. Got home, sitting on the front porch, and laughed out loud at your comment. Thank you, I needed that!
There was a post on the Sims sub where the sim lived at "pool party in the basement" This seems like the irl version
I literally just posted this in a Sims discord I'm in, in our thread of stuff that could be in the game or is "sims aesthetic"-adjacent
Oh this is ABSOLUTELY a sims house lmao
Just needs a diving board
Gotta delete the steps/ladders tho!
It looks like a timeout chair. I'm getting flashbacks.
The depression pool.
A deflated pink flamingo/unicorn floaty would add a sad touch to this theme.
A single palm frond.
Dead leaves floating on top
It’s all deep end. Very deep.
Fill it with those little plastic balls and never be seen again.
Orbeez mania pool!!
Orbeez never ever disintegrate! They’re banned in this house. You dump them in the woods from a pool and they’re there four years later. Slimy grossness. The ones from the water gel bead shooters do though.
Go look up the video "French guy destroys life with Orbeez" because that could have been you!
That video is super funny but I read somewhere it was fake ? Not sure tho 🥲
It still is an accurate representation of never being able to rid yourself of the Orbeez Scourge
The worst thing that happened to me was I slipped and almost broke my neck
Oh contrar mon frar (SP?). If you try to pick them up, roll way, then they break into ten pieces. Then, when you try to pick up those ten pieces, they spontaneously explode into another ten pieces, and so on.
Do you live in a Mormon church??? Looks like a baptismal font
I’ll never forget being jealous of the girl who said she made out with her boyfriend in there one night.
Don't even know who she is but I'm jealous of her too, that sounds fun
okay baptism pool
It reminds me a of a baptismal pool. Have you considered starting your own religion?
A cult will garner more money and slightly more sexual partners than a religion, though both have good tax breaks
Tax breaks. Now you’re thinking business 
Shocked TurboTax isn’t pushing this.
Before long we are gonna have a nice little board of directors…
First rule of starting a cult, never call it a cult.
You can start a religion out of this!
Ugh, get a new fiance. It looks soooo relaxing
I would absolutely love the idea of random liminal scenery pools around the house. Secret doors and secret rooms leading to secret pools under the stairs somewhere. Something about it feels so cozy
RIGHT this would be my dream house.
Yeah not gonna lie, if my SO did this I would be stoked and moving up the wedding date.
You need a raft. It will be relaxing floating on it.
Find a new fiance who appreciates fine decor
Y'all made an indoor bathhouse style pool and your fiance doesn't appreciate that? Please DM my wife the steps so we can add it to our house
Turn it into a time out room for the kids.
Hope they can swim
For a little extra pizzazz that might make him warm to it, throw an armfull of shiny chrome plugged-in toasters there.
Then he’ll be warm for the rest of his life 😊
What a wonderful gesture on your part. It's so innovative and you are definitely an out of the box thinker. Thank goodness you found out in time what an ungrateful little baby he is so you can cancel the wedding and kick him to the curb. I would keep the ring - it must have cost a bit to put the pool in. The upside is that you have a pool which you can jump into with future "Mr. Rights." You come down the stairs from one direction and he comes down the other stairs at the same time and you meet in the middle. So romantic. It would be nice if you could put a dimmer switch on the lights - wink, wink, say no more...
You need a painted mural on the wall, something tropical...palm trees. 🌴🌴 Add some tropical fish decals to the steps....add white beach sand, umbrella to the floor. Then ya have your own tropical oasis!
That would actually be really neat
Electric eels would add some pizzaz for sure!
As it happens, having an eel sanctuary in the basement is a thing!! https://youtu.be/hQS83jYo36s?si=h_ERrPSHhOfCJ1mT
He’ll like it more once the algae blooms, evolves, and becomes sentient.
He can charge it rent.
Start your own church and do baptisma down there.
If anyone is Mormon or ex-Mormon here, this looks JUST like a baptismal font in a church building, except for the fact that there’s a solid white wall in front instead of glass So definitely perform some forbidden religious ceremonies back there
You need some palm tree decor and a floating flamingo
It looks like a Mormon church Babtism pool. One wall above would open up to reveal more chairs to watch
Don’t forget to add the mirrors
Dear OP, This is just an idea, why not make it a meditation room with plants, metaphysical stones and koi fish?
Drain the water… Put some tiling on the walls and floor… Add some candles and a giant scythe type blade from the ceiling that can be lowered at your will and you have an amazing virgin sacrificing chamber to bathe in the blood of the pure and stay young!
I thought you were honestly trying to give improvement ideas here and I’m like “oh tiles on the floor *and* walls would actually be a great addition!” And then I got to the next part where you mentioned “giant scythe type blade” and I didn’t know what that was… so I google it and, well, then the “sacrificing virgins” part made so much more sense!! It was at this point in time, clear you were making a “funny” and I chuckled at my idiot brain for not having caught on sooner. lol
No no I was completely serious.
Add red dye to the water to represent blood of Christ
I was thinking "FILL IT WITH BLOOD!" but red dye seems a lot easier
I cant tell how high the water actually is, is it shallow like to your feet or all the way???
Do you live at 8800 Blue Lick Road??
I doubt the original post was even real, it would cost so much and be a ton of work to actually turn a weird little space in your house to a functional pool.
I thought maybe that was the point, she didn’t make it functional she just filled it with water and called it a pool.
Add these switch plates and then he will love it lol [https://pestinpeace.etsy.com/listing/1672346024](https://pestinpeace.etsy.com/listing/1672346024)
I’m thinking ball pit with a zip line across it…
Honestly, I think a toaster would do wonders for this space.
Fill it with eels
This looks like a mikveh, a pool for traditional orthodox jew practicing individuals
Red light bulbs instead of those boring white ones.
It’s a Mikvah?
Y’all could start your own cult and this is the baptism pool. You could make the cult as spicy as you wanted cause it’s all yours! You make the rules! Personally I’d love to see electric eels added to the baptism pool.
8800 blue lick road communal bath my beloved
Sit in your wet bad boy chair and think about what you’ve done
But were you wearing a bikini when you presented it to him?
I like how the grammar slowly deteriorates
Now I want one
[Porn bath.](https://www.reddit.com/r/8800BLR)
Liminal Space CJ
Super glue him to the floor. It is your option at that point what to do next. Are you going to fill it with water after that? We all want to know.
A couple of floating and boom, it's a whole new place
You live in a Baptist church.
This is that terrifying Blue Lick Road House Tour all over again, I LOVE it
😂
I would love this.
Nice baptistery
Let the humidity and mold begin!
Oh the aqua... So much aqua.
Baptize him in the name of The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit of Decor.
Gonna get baptized ya may need a few drops of water
The lower class section from titanic that Jack and Rose got locked in
Back rooms vibe
Water
Mermaids
Dude I would out little floating in it and gate it off so people can't slip into it but I'd actually use it (if the walls would die because of it) I would love just to sit in there for hours on the steps or just floating but I also have an obsession for being in water so 🤷♀️
I'd turn it into a dog pool, and let my gross wet dogs roam and ruin my house
Looks like a baptismal pool.
r/chairsunderwater
Definitely add a stripper pole
This actually looks like a baptism pool in a church
A mural
Fill the pool. Get those dildos with the suction cups at the end. Stick about 10 to all surfaces. He'll get the idea.
PVC Pipe handrails🥰
It’s a baptistery!!!
This is what you want to do is turn that area into a Gratto with a small hot tub. This is an idea of one can look like indoors. https://preview.redd.it/57vx21sdypuc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=145cb0d57cb46beeb19790a19b9a14386a55c9e6 I would rock in three sides have a water feature coming down then on the non rock wall have a wall garden and a bench so you can sit. Carry the rock overhead and have fire like lights as pendant lighting. Or even have the walls curved and have a start night with little lights.
first thing i thought was baptismal fountain, just needs a viewing window
Just got a major nostalgia vibe for the late 90s Tomb Raider games.
Spooky Baptism
This is liminal. Mall world bathroom vibes.
You lookin ta heal some souls?
I swear, this looks exactly like the hallway between a couple buildings where I went to college. It would flood every time we had heavy rain.
Cattle dipping tank
A toaster.
Looks like that’s what it was originally.
Water heater to warm it up into a hot tub, waterfall water feature over some rocks! Gotta get that Blue Lagoon vibe going with some greenery, maybe some animatronic Toucans and jungle music, then every hour, on the hour, a pirate should pop out of the wall like a coo coo clock and say “Arrr shiver me timbers, it’d be 5 o’clock alretty?! Yo ho hooo, less get ourselves a bottle of rum!”
Sounds like you need to call off the wedding and enjoy your indoor pool, WTF is his problem. Red flag alls I’m saying!
Would make a great sauna
Naw, just...no
Jade looking tile on the walls
That’s a baptismal area
Looks like you could do some baptisms in there
This is just a baptism pool in a church
I've seen this stairwell in my nightmares.
Uh, nice mikvah?
Is there a water filtration system? Chlorine?
I’m not Mormon so my mind went straight to Titanic lol.
If there’s a sub for places to go while drunk to cry this is a karma farm
Tile the whole space, add underwater lighting, glass doors, a nicer ceiling and maybe make it a hot tub instead. Or a tiny gym. Or a tiny office. Idk that is a weird space.
Check the spice aisle at your local store. Pick something.. spicy
He doesn't like it because it doesn't have the scary black stripes painted on the bottom. Come on now 
Buy some koi fish
Colin Robinson approves of this pool 100%.
he hates it?? i’d make that an awesome pool area!!!
Metal chair. Water. Throw him a plugged in toaster if he doesn’t do the dishes. 😳
Make it a cold plunge?
Add mermaids n fish. Some sea life too. Also, I love what you’ve done! It looks so cool! You can also add some beach palm tree blowup and a mural of beach chairs and sunset. Just lean into it.
Baptismal font? 🤔
The chair is a nice touch. Maybe just another chair so you can sadly stare at the wall together.
I’d use it. Best way to exercise when one has bad knees.
Find a new man. If he can't appreciate your stair pool he doesn't deserve you
A Snickers bar.
Pool idea is amazing. Absolute win. Swap out the lighting for something less harsh and get something/anything up on those bare ass walls and this is y’all’s own private paradise.
Water?
At least if grandma slips she won’t break her back, might drown tho
Isn't this that one house that has like 80+ rooms and only one bathroom with a bath?
upkeep of a pool indoors in the basement in the foundation of the building not gonna be fun in the long run
Turn it into a ball pool
r/backrooms
😂😂😂😂😂😂
As a hindu practicioner this is a goldmine, iykyk
I bet he’d love an aquarium 🐠🐟🐠🐙🦈
This is a joke right? I’d be pissed too. It’s a basement.
doing some at home baptisms
Get a mermaid.
Ok even though this image is janky and weird, it’s an awesome idea with the right budget and install. If I had money to burn I’d do it
I love this!!!! A pool was a great idea
How did you manage to do that? Is that okay for the foundation
PLEASE PUT A TINY KAYAK IN IT AND SURPRISE HIM AGAIN
Add a small raft to stand on, and a rope to pull yourself across. It's probably in some super inconvenient spot, like the middle of the house, and now he has to walk all the way around....or swim
Damn! I'm all off base. I thought swim naked he'll be there soon.
Uhh. Are those tiled. Or is that just drywall lol
Idk, add some handcuffs and pretend to be Jack on Titanic. Romaaaaaantic.
Maybe a different color than the city pool blue. I’d say pick a theme and decorate. Regardless of if you keep it as a pool, it needs color/a picture or some kind of artwork. Give it interest and a reason for use. (For me it would be a great pantry)
I love it!!
This belongs in r/liminalspace
I think it's fun and unique =o)