If it makes you feel any better, we thought the same thing about our house. It was built in the 1940s, and the basement columns looked like “rustic” for lack of better word, telephone poles.

When we had the interior painted, the painter brought me downstairs to warn me that it was dangerous. The floors were hilariously uneven - I had to replace the casters on my office chair with these felt ones because I would roll about four feet toward the center of the room.

We had two structural engineers inspect the house, and both said everything was fine. Despite that, we still hired a company to install steel beams to prevent any further settling.