11 REAL HOUSES Inspired by Cartoons | LIST KING | 10 real houses inspired by cartoons

[Music] have you ever wondered what it would actually feel like to live in a pineapple under the sea or to wake up every day in the flintstones house believe it or not people have actually made their childhood dreams come true by creating real-life homes out of their favorite childhood cartoon houses so we take a look at 11 real houses inspired by cartoons number 11 The Simpsons house 742 Evergreen Terrace is where you can find the home of Marge Homer Bart Lisa and Maggie Simpson in a project called The Simpsons house giveaway companies like Fox Pepsi and Kaufman and brought home construction teamed up to actually make a 2,200 square foot replica of the home in Henderson Nevada in 1997 to make sure their real-life design was as close to the animated version as possible architects Manny Gonzalez and Mike Woodley watched over a hundred episodes of The Simpsons it took them just 49 days to complete and was then stuffed with 1,500 Simpsons themed props they even included a replica of Bart's tree house and a backyard BBQ about 15 million people entered the sweepstakes which was ultimately won by a retired factory worker from Kentucky rather than take the house valued at a hundred and twenty thousand dollars the winner chose a seventy-five thousand dollar payout the house was then remodeled and all the Simpsons theme stuff was removed and ultimately was sold in 2001 number 10 Flintstone house in 1976 architect William Nicholson designed this series of domes as an experiment in new building materials it's a free-form single-family residence overlooking the Eugene a door and Memorial Bridge on Interstate 280 in Hillsborough California they built it by creating steel rebar and wire mesh frames over inflated balloons and then spring shotcrete over it it has three bedrooms and two bathrooms in addition to its popular name the Flintstone house it's also been called the barbapapa house named after a character and series of books by a net Tyson and Tallis Taylor from the 1970s number nine Barbie house many little girls dreamed of living out there girlish fantasies in Barbie's sprawling Malibu beach house well a 10,000 square-foot pink plastic paradise called Barbie the Dream House experience is open in Sunrise Florida it's a life-sized replica of Barbie's Malibu beach house and was a joint venture between Barbies manufacturer Mattel and EMS entertainment the dream house took less than a year to build and use more than a hundred gallons of pink paint and 20 pounds of glitter number eight Minnie Mouse house if having an entire place packed from wall to wall with squealing little girls as your idea of paradise this house is for you it's cute pink and lavender appearance on the outside might be misleading but it's fully equipped on the inside while you're there you can check the answering machine where you'll likely listen to messages from goofy and Mickey and they'll be popcorn popping in the microwave and a cake baking in the oven if you want to visit Minnie Mouse's house you'll have to go to Mickey's Toontown in Disneyland in Anaheim California or Mickey's Toontown fair in Orlando Florida number 7 up house from the weather vane at the top of the house all the way down to the floorboards bangerter builders in Herriman Utah painstakingly designed this 1950s style home to resemble Carl and Ellie's home from Disney's up they accounted for every detail light switch and mantel decoration they did add a few things that you may not see in the movie for example a spacious finished basement in order to get permission from the Walt Disney Company to actually build the house bangerter builders had to satisfy one condition they could only build one of the homes private buyers purchased the house in 2012 and have actually kept much of the decor the same as when the construction was completed number 6 Adams family mansion the Adams family house was built in 1888 located at 21 chester place for as popular as the show itself actually was you can only actually see the house in the first episode of the first season otherwise it's only visible during the show's intro real in the show The Addams mansion had a third floor and a gothic tower but the real house only had two floors so the show's production crew had to take a photo of the house and actually paint in missing details the real-life home at a most unfortunate fate after several ownership changes it eventually wound up in the hands of Mount Saint Mary's College and has since been demolished to make room for a track number five Hobbit house it's no secret that home values can be quite pricey these days so one man who was fed up with the high prices in the countryside decided to build his own eco-friendly hobbit house freelance photographer Simon Dale built his hillside home in Wales in less than four months and for only three thousand pounds he used little more than a hammer a chisel and a chainsaw the home is designed to be ecologically sustainable it uses a wood-burning stove for heat and solar panels to collect electricity there's a nearby spring to collect water and a composting toilet Simon is quoted as saying this kind of building is accessible to anyone my main relevant skills were being able bodied having self belief in perseverance and a mate or two to give a lift now and again oh and the house also looks a lot like those of the hobbits from tokens much love books The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings number four Hello Kitty house the Hello Kitty house can actually be your house temporarily for the right price that's right there is an actual Hello Kitty house in you guessed it Shanghai China with bright pink colors and the Hello Kitty theme everywhere it's a dream home for any Hello Kitty fan it is quite expensive though coming in at two thousand four hundred eighty nine point six eight Chinese yuan a day on average for those who have no idea how much Chinese yuan are worth that would equate to about 400 US dollars per day number three Spongebob Squarepants house so now that you see it you can tell this is neither an actual pineapple nor is it at the bottom of the ocean since the homeowners would likely drown located in Australia this giant structure is one of many big things that can be seen covering the countryside some other similar large objects include the big boxing crocodile the big UGG boots the big bunch of bananas and the big oyster one that you can't see though is the Big Mango this 33 foot tall structure was actually stolen number two the Jetsons house for as futuristic as the Jetsons home seemed it was actually inspired by architecture of the early 1960s why might you ask well in the 1960s many architects were trying to mimic what they thought people's houses would look like in the future in this case Los Angeles is famous Kimo sphere was a big part of the inspiration for the Jetsons apartment it looks strangely similar to a UFO with central heating perched on a giant concrete pedestal 30 feet high this home can survive torrential storms earthquakes and possibly in alien invasion number one Star Wars house due to the huge popularity of the Star Wars franchise you can imagine that this futuristic mansion will be quite a force on the property market designed to look just like the Millennium Falcon this home has four bedrooms and is located in the Daintree rainforest near cape tribulation in queensland australia both its shape and its battleship gray color give it a stark resemblance to the legendary Millennium Falcon piloted by Han Solo Melbourne designer Charles Wright drew up the plans for this in 2006 and it was built in 2009 in 2014 it received an architecture award in Queensland currently owned by a 68 year old man named rod Perry who insists that the design is the work of a quote genius

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Length: 8min 57sec (537 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 26 2016