Halfway Inside-Out: Fantasy

The manor was turned halfway inside-out when the architect died, and so it stayed afterwards, since nobody could figure out what the architect had done or persuade the manor to obey any other spells. This suited the patriarch of the family at the time just fine, since he had hired the architect specifically to create something unusual, and this certainly qualified! At that time, too, the family's finances were more in order and they could afford the extra servants to properly get things done between the two halves and the hazard pay that sometimes became necessary if a servant walked through the wrong door in the wrong phase of time. They posted signs as soon as such things happened, and so the house proliferated with warning labels, but over time this approach was able to reduce the incidence of a disappearance down to one perhaps every ten years, and that was easy enough to blame on a parlormaid running away or footman stealing a piece of jewelry from a guest. The signs stayed up, though, because if it went back to the way it had been it would be much more difficult to--


Inspiration: Today's Google Doodle in honor of Antoni Gaudi.
Story potential: High.
Notes: I like this. It feels whimsically charming. Rather Chrestomanci-esque.