From Grain Elevator to ‘Wait… What?’: An Epic Home Building Pivot in Minnesota

Last year I learned how to play the game Mahjong. My friends told me it’s a great game for keeping my mental acuity in good shape. So we’ve been playing at least once a week for the past year. The key to playing this game is developing the ability to pivot. 

Mahjong requires you to pick and discard tiles to build specific sets. If you are a card player this will make sense to you. I am not a card player, so at least once a week I look at my friends and declare, “I swear to God if I don’t get the tile I need, I’m going to flip this table!” They laugh at me, not with me.

This gif truly captures the essence of how I play. 

You see, it’s that ability to pivot that I have not mastered. It’s looking at your hand and realizing that the set you originally decided to build is not going to work so you pivot to another set that you think you can build. It requires a lot of thinking, hence the mental acuity staying in shape.

As I was looking at homes this week, I came across the Mahjong of homes. Someone looked at this place and decided to pivot.

That, my friends, is a decommissioned grain elevator that has been converted into a house. That is the pivot of all pivots.

Much like Mahjong, I do not know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t a one-butt kitchen and a very rectangular table with one chair.

A very rectangular shape can also be found in the half bath.

One hard sneeze and you’re cracking your coconut on that sink.

Between you and me, that looks like a chicken warmer or, perhaps, a vent hood for frying said chicken. Either way, as a human, I would not want to sit under that thing.

Okay, so this was a choice. Anyone can have a staircase but a slightly rusty, metal slide well, you bet. Sign me up.

So, from which fast food chain do you think they stole the trash receptacle? I’m getting a Burger King vibe.

The pièce de résistance of this house is the living room.

For the fidgety company that just can’t stay seated, they can climb your couch and then your wall.

Climbing the wall is probably safer than using the staircase of death.

You know, this used to be a grain elevator. You would have thought they would have kept up with the “elevator” part instead of creating this death trap.

Take a good look at those steps. They’re not one solid piece. They have this alternating thing going on that has my heightened mental acuity screaming, “Un momento por favor!”

I have seen enough to know I have seen too much. I think I’ll restrict my pivoting ways to the Mahjong table.

And trust me, my Mahjong friends and I are way cuter than those pups.

Located in Sabin, Minnesota, this 3,000-square-foot home is listed for $325,000.