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Another seclusion room on the same ward.
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High mounted door.. Very interesting.

Perhaps to keep people from ramming the door to escape?
Sanitarium
Sat 07-01-2006
You can see from the way the wall is painted that the floor that used to be here is missing. However, it means that whatever was under the floor was short in height. Motts, do you know the story here?
Lynne
Sat 07-01-2006
that is not unusual ... i mean the use of 2 colors in medical or health buildings being the darker color the bottom one at about the height of one's lower chest. at least some parts of my home town hospital are like that also sometimes a wooden kind or rail or aplication is used separating the colors along the halls and even rooms. anyway i think its a window
Jmack
Sat 07-01-2006
It's a window cover like in the previous photo... just a tall room with a dual-color paint job.
Motts
Sat 07-01-2006
Thanks Motts... Maybe I've had enough Early Times tonight!
Sanitarium
Sat 07-01-2006
Well THAT makes a lot more sense!

P.S. Jmack, that's interesting what you said about the bi-color walls in Europe.
Lynne
Sat 07-01-2006
im shure that there is a reason for the use of 2 colors ... since most of the hospitals i visit here in portugal use this . usually dark grey versus light grey . sometimes light grey vs white . and in older hospitals some 70's colors combinations. anyway a little research would be nice.
Jmack
Sat 07-01-2006
I knew it was a window right away, do I get a prize?
.....or should I just shut my cake hole? ;-)
Jude
Sat 07-01-2006
i suspect im under attack again ... :(
Jmack
Sat 07-01-2006
Oh no! For what? We'll take care of you! :-)
Lynne
Sun 07-02-2006
Jmack you just stick with us hon. ;-)

I can see where it would be easy to think this is 2 floors and that is a door, it was the size of the light bulb and the vents in the walls that gave it away for me though.
Jude
Sun 07-02-2006
Me too Jude, recognized it from the last pic :) I want a gold star personally. haha
Mollie
Sun 07-02-2006
All I know is that if I was kept in a room like this for too long, I KNOW I would go crazy!
Nancy
Mon 07-03-2006
I'm just gonna say the picture's upside down - the light in the center is actually a floor lamp.
foxtrot_xray
Mon 07-03-2006
I would imagine that having the walls painted two colors would mean that if it needed repainting, you only had to do half at a time.
jenifersf
Mon 07-03-2006
why were the walls pink? To cheer the people up. Bet it didn't work well
Joe
Tue 07-04-2006
I second the upside down theory.... We all know that Motts has superhuman abilities, maybe hanging from the ceiling is one of them!
Dr Sketch
Tue 07-04-2006
Well someone did mention something about sending out the Bat signal for him...interesting
Kadee
Tue 07-04-2006
I'm suffering some angst. Jmack makes a lot of sense and I definately appreciate it. The problem is that he might be my doppleganger. This is a great photo and I appreciate the talent of capturing the essence of it. So far this place has not moved me . Is it me, or am I missing something.
Johnny Mac
Tue 07-04-2006
I still totally don't get why the floor is lower and all that stuff...Its too late and summer vacation. Maybe thats why.

Cool shot, is making me think. Ugh.
Sam
Wed 07-05-2006
Sam ... its not a door, the floor is not lower . its a window on a division painted in 2 colors
Jmack
Wed 07-05-2006
johnny mac - i know what you mean. this place seems very, um, sterile? motts - did it feel that way to you?
surly girl
Wed 07-05-2006
Okay, I feel *extremly* stupid and blonde, thankyou Jmack. That's a big window.

Arg. Its like 4AM, maybe thats why I cant understand anything right now.

Excuse my general stupidity and blondeness. =D
Sam
Wed 07-05-2006
surly girl, my princess,

Never ask a man in the prime of his virility if he feels "sterile." Just a small hint. ;-)
Lynne
Wed 07-05-2006
i think i was attacked again ...
Jmack
Wed 07-05-2006
Nope, no attacks. Everyone is still loving you, best as I can tell. :-)
Lynne
Wed 07-05-2006
It was very sterile... most of the hospitals in England seem to emit this feeling in my opinion, I suppose I will hear other views in the future galleries and see if you guys agree.

Perhaps it was the renovations, or lack of equipment and objects that drive the feeling of people having lived here that cause this...
Motts
Fri 07-07-2006
kinda crepy but very cool!
Amanda
Wed 07-19-2006
I hope maybe I can be a part of this group. you guys all seem cool and have good opinions on the pictures. plus Motts sounds awesome!!
jam3996
Sat 08-05-2006
what is the difference between this room and a prison cell?
Jason
Tue 08-15-2006
Its looks up side donw. with a floor lamp; you can tell by looking at the bottom of the door
that really is the top of the door.
Cat
Fri 10-13-2006
Standard hospital/prison/asylum paint job .......dark bottom/cream top ...been overpainted to brighten it up and the modern paint is peeling back to the 1904 2 tone
Juicy Fruit
Mon 11-13-2006
it is a nightmare
sarah m
Mon 11-27-2006
even if there used to be floor where it looks as if there is a darker paint job, the door would have been set lower than the floor.
hendrix
Sun 02-04-2007
..hospitals used to paint the lower half of walls darker to cover the color of blood. ..that's why a lot of hospitals are painted green -- green doesn't show "blood" red.. ..and if one is laying on a gurney the blood isn't going to splatter to the ceiling.. ..just about chest high for a standing person..
magicdot
Tue 04-03-2007
..oh. ..and the floor is lower on purpose.. ..it keeps patients from breaking down the door.. ..you can tell there was no floor there by the moulding under the door frame..
magicdot
Tue 04-03-2007
it`s a window with a shutter over it.......D`oh..........Trust me I lived there.....LOL
Juicy Fruit
Fri 07-13-2007
I really wonder if they thought it trough before they built some of these places
dances_w_clouds
Wed 11-07-2007
maybe the bi-color thing is so the part of the wall that gets touched a lot wont show the dirt as much?
PinkBones
Sat 12-01-2007
I think it was done by a Bi-Polar Painter
Juicy fruit
Wed 01-16-2008
Life is not but A joke Gods joke that pic. is emityness and loneyness my curse from God
that pic discrbesed my life Gods Joke Love
is four good-looking and Rich without that your
Shit GODS-JOKE FROM -HELL
shes' artsie
Mon 05-12-2008
so small
Christina
Thu 04-09-2009
Like I said previously I think that ''door'' maybe a window. It seems as though it may be a punishment room of some kind preventing the patient to have any social means by blocking their view or maybe a space where experiments may have took place? Would make anyone go mad!
Bummblebee
Sun 06-21-2009
lol, i'm a painter (not bi-polar though) they call it two-tone, or mono-chromatic. such a fancy name for a room with two colors...
colin
Sun 02-13-2011
If it were not for the light fixture I would say that the pic was taken upside down!

And that is a window shutter,not a door :)
natStarr
Mon 06-25-2012

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