A weird house is still a home.
Some people like their homes to be in weird places, other people just like weird homes (and we happen to agree with them). A standard cape cod can be nice, but what about a strange house that looks like nothing else in the neighborhood? You probably never have to give people your exact address, you just say, "Look for the weird house. You'll know it when you see it.
What inspires people to live in odd houses? Perhaps it's a dare to be different. Or an architect inspired to build something besides a square house. Or maybe strange houses started out being normal and then, through renovations and additions, changed into something remarkable. Whatever it is, crazy houses can be an inspiration. Like the bend of Leaning Tower of Pisa or the grandeur of the Taj Mahal, strange homes challenge your visual senses.
We're collecting images of weird houses in order to marvel at their oddness and celebrate their ingenuity. So check back often to see the newest odd homes we've found!
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Hankai House – A House Within A House
How do you make an ancient structure modern and livable? Katsuhiro Miyamoto and Associates figured it out with the Hankai House in Akashi City. The original structure has many old pieces – roof parts and walls that date back to anywhere between 90 and 300 years ago. The original structure was a wooden gate house – construction on the modern part of the structure began in 2007 and just... [Read more]
The Treehotel – Invisible Treetop Accommodations
The Swedish are so cool. Seriously. I think Sweden is an awesome place. Now they’ve created a hotel that is unlike any other – the rooms are mirrored cubes that sit high up in the trees. The mirrors make the cubes practically invisible from the outside, so that the natural setting is not disturbed by a built structure. My first concern? Birds. Birds see their reflections in... [Read more]
The Gold Pyramid House of Northern Illinois
If you find yourself driving up the I-94 towards the Illinois-Wisconsin border, you will feel that you have lost your mind and landed straight in the middle of a full-blown mirage around the halfway point. Looking to the right, you will catch sight of an image directly out of the Nile River Valley and the ancient land of pharaohs, and not of the nearby Fox River Valley, or whatever other slow, meandering... [Read more]
You Live Where – Daniel Island, South Carolina
If you have an extra million bucks, and you don’t mind the possibility of hurricane-spawned oil seepage, it might be a good time to consider moving to coastal South Carolina. No, seriously. I suspect that many people in the coastal parts of the Southeastern United States are heading west as BP continues to fail to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But, we don’t talk politics... [Read more]
Another Celebrity You Live Where – Sheryl Crow’s New York Loft
We all love a little celebrity gossip – and on this site we especially love an inside look at celebrity homes. Face it. They’re rich, so they can afford really nice homes and home furnishings, and it’s fun to see how the other half lives. Take, for instance, Sheryl Crow’s fabulous New York loft that she shares with her three-year-old son, Wyatt. A “junker”... [Read more]
A 330-Square Foot, 24-Room Apartment Called The Domestic Transformer
No, you didn’t read the title wrong. 330 square feet hasn’t stopped Hong Kong architect Gary Chang from expanding his tiny apartment into a shocking 24-room space. How is that possible? Are the individual rooms less than 14 square feet each? The strange answer is…sort of. Gary decided to make the most of his space by implementing a sliding panel system that makes his apartment... [Read more]
Le Mont Saint-Michel – A Castle, A Commune, A Saintly You Live Where
For those who like to travel, here we submit a not-to-be-missed historical attraction off the coast of France. In world where modern design and technological advances have led to the construction of some of the most impressive (and unusual) residences, it cannot be forgotten that history has provided us with some unforgettable abodes that will continue to rival their modern descendents long after the... [Read more]
Texas Kettle House
There is surprisingly little information available on the Kettle House in Galveston, Texas. It is a very interesting-looking structure. Rumor has it that it was built in the 1950′s, and that it is the top of a silo turned upside down and roofed. Most of the internet comments out there comment on the fact that it managed to survive Hurricane Ike – a 2009 hurricane classified as a Tropical... [Read more]
You Live Where? In Potosi – A Sunken Town
We usually discuss strange homes on this site, but when there is a re-emerged sunken town to talk about we simply can’t resist. Once upon a time a population of about 1200 people lived in the valley town of Potosi in Venezuela. One day, the president arrived on a helicopter and informed everyone in the little town that they’d have to move – the government was flooding the little... [Read more]
You Live Where? Casa Batllo Apartment House
If there weren’t already enough reasons to visit Barcelona, Spain, now you have another one. Casa Batllo is situated at 43 Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia in Barcelona, and it is open for tours to the lucky traveler. The structure itself was built in 1877, but remodeled and finished in 1906 by Antoni Gaudi and Josep Maria Jujol. Gaudi, who was born in 1852 and died in 1926,... [Read more]
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