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The design of a home can truly represent the people
living in it. Everyone of you has different ideas in your mind that how
your home sweet home should look like. Depending on your choice it can
be big or small, dark or bright, wild and bizarre, because everyone
perceives differently about comfort and functionality of the home. Some
people want to give strange and weird look to their homes to stand out
from others. Today we are going to introduced some of those people and
their homes which can surely be considered the most awkward, strangest
and also the most interesting homes on earth. Hopefully this collection
will give you inspiration for your next home.
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Railroad Resort with a personal railway system!
Railroad Resort is a 5,000 square feet four bedroom house that comprises
of a professional landscaping, a garden, a barn, a shop, a pool room and
most of all a fabulous world-class personal railway system with real
steam-engine trains. It is in the suburb of Sherwood, just outside of
Portland, Oregon.The trains and tracks spread across the 20-acre
property with both outdoor and indoor working railways. The owner of
18055, Todd Miller, has built handmade steam locomotives (rail engine),
11,000ft of track, a 30ft railroad supporting framework and a 400ft-long
tunnel. It took him eight years to build some of the locomotives. There
are both goods trains and passenger trains that can pull 30 to 40 people
at a time. There is also a completely computer-controlled miniature
train museum which is made like an old train station from the 1930s or
40s with all the locomotives made of brass and all the cards made of
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Hobbit-style eco-friendly house built from scratch for just £150
This is the amazing Hobbit-style house an eco-friendly farmer built from
scratch – for just £150. Resourceful Michael Buck, 59, created the “cob”
home at the bottom of his garden using an ancient building technique. He
now lets it out to a woman who works on a neighbouring dairy farm. And
in keeping with his green philosophy he lets her pay her rent in MILK.
Cob houses – made of earth, clay and straw – date back to prehistoric
times. Ex-art teacher Michael, a smallholder near Oxford, used only
natural or recycled materials… and not a single power tool. The
floorboards were rescued from a skip and the windows came from an old
lorry windscreen. Dad-of-three Michael also carried huge bundles of
reeds on his back to avoid leaving a carbon footprint and taught himself
how to thatch. Although it has no electricity the mushroom-shaped
cottage has running water from a nearby spring and walls painted with
chalk and plant resin. |
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Chinese Millionaire Builds Six European-Style Castles in China, Plans to
Make it 100
59-year-old Liu Chonghua is the latest to join a string of wealthy
Chinese businessmen with eccentric hobbies. Liu is spending millions of
dollars building fake European castles in the megacity of Chongqing. And
get this – he copies the designs out of a book of castle pictures he
keeps in his office. One of the castles Liu built is a gray stone
structure resembling Britain’s Windsor Castle. The only difference – the
Chinese version is surrounded by lush green paddy fields. Another one is
a red brick fairytale structure with soaring spires, inspired by the
Disney movie, Aladdin. He also has a white castle with candy-colored
towers, similar to 19th century Bavarian ‘Mad’ King Ludwig’s hilltop
fantasy – Neuschwanstein. Recreating foreign designs on Chinese soil
might involve architectural challenges, but Liu’s team has dismissed
them. Ma Wenneng, former soldier and now a construction worker, says,
“Actually, European castles are really easy to build.” |
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Bus Converted Into A Home In Sharon, Israel Will Totally Change Your
Mind About Mobile Living
When you picture living in a mobile home, thoughts of "roughing it" in
tiny cramped quarters come to mind, right? Well, our friends at Decoist
shared this awesome bus converted in a home and totally changed our
minds about living on-the-go. Owners Tally Saul and Hagit Morevski
picked up the old bus from a scrapyard near their home in Sharon, Israel
and with a little help from Ward Design, they totally transformed it
into a chic place to live with modern luxuries. From the bright orange
booth seating to the sleek white storage with polished wood tops to the
quirky art and accessories, you'd never guess this home's very humble
beginnings. But, we especially like how they left some of the original
interior details, like the rubber flooring and overhead aisle lighting. |
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An Illegal Mountain Constructed Atop a 26-Story Residential Building in
Beijing
While most property and homeowners might be lucky to erect a small
fence, add a new wall, or plant a few trees without applying for a
permit or checking local zoning laws, things in Bejing are apparently
quite different. For the last six years an eccentric doctor built a
sprawling mountain villa on the roof above his top-floor flat in this
26-story residential building, all without asking permission of
residents or local authorities. The enormous addition covers the entire
1000-square-metre roof and was built using artificial rocks but with
real trees and grass. It only took six years of complaints from
neighbors who suffered from the noise and vibrations of heavy
construction machinery, water leaks, and other disturbances to finally
get the attention of authorities who recently gave the man 15 days to
remove the mountain or else it will face forcible removal.
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Star Trek Themed House Designed and Built By Steve Nighteagle
Steve Nighteagle is currently in the process of renovating his home to
create his own Star Trek themed living space. Thus far Nighteagle has
finished his Federation Room, and said in an interview with Jesse
DeStasio that has plans to continue redesigning the other four rooms in
his house. Previously, we wrote about 24th century interior designer
Tony Alleyne who created an apartment designed after the Star Trek: The
Next Generation Transporter Control Console.
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