5 Strange Houses People Actually Live In
The
Bubble House
Have
you ever noticed that weird houses often look like something out of science
fiction, and in particular Star Wars? Well, if you haven’t, we’re about to tell
you they totally do, including The Bubble House, which appears to belong on
Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine. You’d think from looking at this
place that it was built right around the 1970’s, when shag carpet and bizarre
fashion were all the rage and, well, you’d be completely right.
The
Bubble House is
located in Tourettes-sur-Loup, France, and has been designated a historical
monument. It was even once owned by renowned fashion designer Pierre Cardin.
The location of this thing more than makes up for how freaking bizarre it
looks, as it sits above the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and offers panoramic
views, which we suppose the rounded walls and windows lend themselves well to.
It’s a unique and interesting looking home, but if you ever visit, be sure to
watch out for Sand People if you venture out after dark. They’re easily
startled, but will return, and in greater numbers.
The
Mushroom House
The
Mushroom House
sounds like a place you would find in northern California, where the girls are
warm and so, presumably, is the drug climate. We’re just generalizing like
crazy here. Deal with it, why don’t you? Anyway, it’s actually a home found in
New York State and it’s an abode out in the middle of the woods that kind of
looks like a modern take on Ewok Village, which actually sounds pretty awesome
to us. You know, aside from the fact that Ewoks are basically little teddy
bears we’re supposed to believe could help take down an Empire.
The
house was built between 1970 and 1972, and has become so famous over the years
that in 1989 it was actually designated as a landmark for the town of Perinton.
It consists of four “pods” that are each about 80 tons, and each one sits on
reinforced concrete to keep them elevated at around 15 feet above ground. If
you were curious to know how much it would cost to buy your very own adult tree
house like this, it sold this past February for $799,000, despite having an
asking price of over a million. What a bargain!
The
Kettle House
When
you say “Kettle House” the first thing you probably think is that it sounds an
awful lot like some microbrew or small pub somewhere, and you’re not really
wrong, because there are places so named. However, in this instance when we
refer to the Kettle House, we’re talking about a home in Texas that, quite
frankly, is one of the strangest looking houses we could ever even conceive of.
Seriously, it looks like an oversized flowerpot. Or, you know, a kettle.
This
round house with few windows and limited space seems like the kind of cool
clubhouse you would want when you’re just a kid, but to think that someone
actually tries to get by day after day in that thing is more than a little
weird. We get the strange feeling that claustrophobics need not stop by when it
comes to an open house. It isn’t the tiniest house in the world, for sure, but
it sure does look like one of the most confining.
The
Minnesota Foam Home
So
when you hear the name “Minnesota Foam Home” you probably are not really sure
what to expect. It could refer to a house that plays host to those ridiculous
foam parties on a far too regular basis, or it could be a house made out of
those packing peanuts that have far too much static electricity and just stick
to freaking everything when you open up your latest Hannah Montana DVD from Amazon. Or,
it could be neither of those things, and instead it could be a super awesome
house that looks like it’s straight out of freaking Tolkien.
The
Minnesota Foam Home, which boasts more than 4,000 square feet and was built in
1969, was put on the market in 2010 for an asking price of $237,000, which is
pretty freaking reasonable considering the size and historic nature of the
abode. We honestly have no idea if it ever sold or, when and if it did, the
folks who bought it actually fixed it up or tore it down and built a more
standard looking house on the property, but all we can hope is that a hobbit or
two pooled their money and bought this house with a vaulted ceiling and rounded
walls and are sitting in there today, smoking their pipes and hoping like crazy
Gandalf doesn’t come knocking with some foolish new adventure.
The
Monolithic Dome Home
There
isn’t actually one specific Monolithic
Dome Home, and unlike the rest of the houses on this list, its
bizarre design actually serves a very specific and tremendously important
purpose. Monolithic Dome Homes are designed specifically with resisting
dangerous weather, particularly hurricanes, typhoons and the like. Their round
shape and the materials out of which they are constructed allow them to remain
intact through extreme conditions, making them invaluable in coastal communities.
Of course that is not to say that all Monolithic Dome Homes are located on the
Gulf Coast or other similar areas, but you probably stand a better chance of
spotting one there than anywhere else.
You’re
likely to read several stories about how Monolithic Dome Homes are able to
withstand hurricanes, as was the case with one such house located in Pensacola,
Florida which managed to be one of the very few buildings to survive Hurricane
Ivan in 2004. So the next time you’re thinking about building something really
funky looking, just remember this tale and if anyone gives you any crap, tell
them it looks that way for a reason, even if you have to make up exactly what
that reason is.
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