A new discovery for me yesterday was the Ames room!
and heres the wiki wiki lo down...
An Ames room is a distorted room that is used to create an optical illusion. It was invented by American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames, Jr. in 1934, and constructed in the following year.
As a result of this optical illusion, a person standing in one corner appears to the observer to be a giant, while a person standing in the other corner appears to be a dwarf. The illusion is convincing enough that a person walking back and forth from the left corner to the right corner appears to grow or shrink....how amazing is that! I may have to make one of my rooms an ames room when I eventually purchase my own house...but would it effect the price of resale??