TOP 15 SILLY Looking Houses

our homes are our safe havens while most people avoid doing anything too ridiculous to how they look from the outside there are some owners who go all out from insane paint jobs to elements that have no place on a house get ready to be thankful for the neighbors you have here are the top 15 most silly looking houses number fifteen upside down house tresson height of germany if you drive through the german seaside town of tresendhaita the chances are you'll pass a house that looks like no other designed by two polish architects as part of a project called the world upside down the upside down house has been completely built the wrong way up on the outside of the house you'll see a bench a wheelbarrow and a bicycle attached upside down to the ground the only thing that's not in keeping is the step that leads up to the attic door which in this case serves as the main entrance things get even more surreal once you go inside though because everything in the rooms is upside down too the chairs paintings and even the plants are inverted and you'll find yourself walking along the ceilings it was the first upside down house to be built in germany although several more have been open since it won't surprise you to learn that no one actually lives there instead it's used as a tourist attraction to encourage visitors to the town usually guests can only spend a few minutes in the house at a time before feeling nauseous and needing to return to the outside world where everything's the right way up number 14 bat casa san miguel mexico we may have all dreamt about having our own bat cave or man cave but one homeowner in san miguel mexico has taken this to a whole different level inspired by a spanish architect called gaudi this house has been completely redeveloped with the dark knight in mind the thing that catches your eye to begin with is the batman motif on the entrance gates once you get further into the property you see how bizarre the place is rather than being a technology laden retreat it's far more like an actual cave that's home to a swarm of bats known as the bat casa it's actually split into two different apartments in the living rooms there are ribs that emerge from the central column the staircase to the upper level is made from imitation vertebra and on the lower floors the 12 foot tall ceilings have unusual curves and tree vines weaving throughout the external walls have been sculpted to look like natural formations there's even a curved bridge that circles around a huge kidney-shaped jacuzzi quite what the neighbors think is anyone's guess because this house hardly fits in with its surroundings it has however become an attraction in its own right and is so popular it can be hired out for weekends number 13 shark attack oxford england you wouldn't usually expect to see too many sharks in the waters around the uk but surprisingly there's one that made it to more than a hundred miles inland in what looks like the result of an actual sharknado the headington shark is a notorious art installation in the city of oxford it was first commissioned in 1986 by the homeowner who was a radio dj and took three months to complete it's 25 feet long weighs 440 pounds and is made from painted fiberglass the work intended to highlight the helplessness that people face from nuclear war or accidents represents the feeling of impotence anger and desperation unsurprisingly however the appearance of the house didn't go down with the neighbors or local authorities and it proved to be extremely controversial efforts were made to force the owners to take it down but with increasing support from the local community the majority of whom didn't actually live on the same street the decision was made to allow it to remain it's now become a well-known site in the city one that you won't see anywhere else on earth number 12 fusterlandia havana cuba jose fuster is a cuban artist who became renowned for his naive and childlike works and while exhibiting around the world he was inspired by other artists who would put their own stamp on their local neighborhoods he came from an impoverished part of havana and felt that it could do with a new lick of paint with some vibrant colors and the result is now known as fusterlandia he began by covering his artist studio in 1975 with mosaics and encouraged his neighbors to join in over the next 10 years more and more properties became a part of the project and soon there were doctors offices bus stops fountains gateways and virtually anything else you can think of covered in his colorful designs what was once a poor neighborhood has now as a result of his work become a popular destination for tourists in the city which has helped to bring new wealth to the area as well as attracting and inspiring new cuban artists to work alongside him the rainbow colored kingdom continues to grow to this day but while it's great that it exists would you really want something like this down the street from where you live number 11. beer can house houston texas humans have historically built dwellings for a wide range of materials from mud rocks to wood and concrete glass and steel but you could in theory build a house from anything you want and john milkovich from houston texas has shown the extent to which this is true he began adapting his house in 1968 after becoming bored with mowing his lawn so he started setting marbles pieces of rock brass figures and pieces of metal into concrete and use these creations to make patios fences and the entire yard not content with doing just that he wanted the house itself to have a metallic feel to it so we proceeded to cover the entire structure with beer cans bottle caps bottles and any other beer paraphernalia he could get his hands on it's believed that the house is now covered with at least 50 000 cans which adorned the main property as well as the attached shed he instantly became notorious around the city and the house is now owned by a non-profit organization that's dedicated to preserving unusual works of art it's definitely a unique home and one that's kept true to its theme throughout but no matter the artistic creativity and ability on display it's still at its core still just a house covered in empty beer cans number 10 giant seashell house mexico unless you're a hermit crab seashells aren't exactly the first place you'd think of setting up a home but a family from mexico city enlisted the help of javier sinosian an architectural artist to make their dream a reality the result was the nautilus shell house that's heralded as a form of bioarchitecture and aims to make inhabitants feels as if they're living inside a snail shell made from locally sourced materials and colored glass it's held up by a frame of steel reinforced chicken wire that's covered in a layer of cement and is said to be stronger than bricks and can withstand earthquakes by using this construction method the curves and swirls were much easier to form it means the house almost looks as if it's emerging from the ground the glass is used to allow as much natural light into the house as possible this creates a colorful environment during the day at night the effect is reversed and artificial light beams out through the windows and can be seen for miles around the architect purposefully tried to give the sensation that you're a mollusk moving between the different chambers of the shell and wanted it to become a statement piece that would have the neighborhood talking when it comes down to it this house is surely more style than substance number nine reversible destiny lofts mitaka japan built in 2005 in the western suburbs of tokyo the reversible destiny lofts are a series of apartments that were according to the designers intended to simulate the body in order to bring it to its full potential they consist of nine units that are made up of stacked cubes spheres and tubes each apartment has a circular room with a kitchen at the center and a variety of other shaped rooms depending on its overall size the floors are made from a compacted material that's uneven so to help residents move around there's a series of vertical poles and ceiling hooks that hold lights and furniture in place external walkways and stairs are used to get between the apartments but the most unusual thing about the block is the color scheme in fact they are painted with 14 different colors both inside and outside and architects were simply used whichever color felt right at the moment they were decorating it the entire structure is made from a steel frame that's surrounded by reinforced concrete which is supposedly resistant to earthquakes but if you're one of the neighbors to this place you might well wish they weren't so sturdily constructed we are constantly adding more people to the top fives production team to bring you all the best content be sure to subscribe with notifications on and hit the like button number eight hobbit house atomic scotland the lord of the rings movies were so popular that there's bound to have been some fans who wanted to live in a hobbit house of their own very few have actually gone through with it and made this dream a reality stuart grant from tomek in scotland actually started building his house in 1984 long before the movies were released but the structure looks almost identical to what you'd expect to see in hobbiton the house was once a cow shed at the bottom of his garden but the retired woodcutter began converting it into his dream home at five foot and three inches tall he didn't need as much headroom as most of us so he was able to make design choices that would be completely impractical anywhere else most of the materials he used were forged from local forests and took him around a decade to complete it was only in 2017 when two lord of the rings fans knocked on his door that he realized the similarity even the way that his door had been made from the same type of wood with stained glass on both sides he's also begun living like a hobbit going everywhere barefoot and spending his time crafting rocking chairs but no matter how you look at it this surely is a house that only has a place on a film set number the host house del mar france this unusual house can be found in the grounds of the synagogue de del may in the town of del may in france and has been somewhat controversial ever since it opened known as the gerhost house it was created when a nearby art center was looking for a unique proposal during its redevelopment it was the brainchild of two french artists christophe bedelgar and marie perju they focused on this one building that had previously been a prison a school a funeral home and believed it was haunted by ghosts so deserved a rather spooky exterior to give it its strange looks they covered the structure and polystyrene blocks then sprayed two coats of polyurethane resin over this formed a waterproof and tough skin which was then painted white and done in a way that made it appear as if it was dripping into the ground it's not however used as somewhere to live probably because it would be too weird and is instead an exhibition center and gallery according to the designers the intent was that the center of art is the host visitors to the place are the guests and both come together in the ge host house which is why it's been given a name that's equally as strange as the way it looks number six the carrot house poland how much space do you think you actually need to live in if you're someone who spends a lot of time indoors then you probably need several rooms to avoid feeling claustrophobic but if you're always going out then perhaps all you really need is somewhere to sleep the carrot house in warsaw poland is definitely only for someone who's going to spend very little time there because it holds the record as being the narrowest home in the world built in the gap between a house that had been there since before the second world war and a new apartment block the kenneth house is just under five feet wide at its widest and a little more than three feet wide at its thinnest it's made from iron and has two floors which amazingly have a bathroom a bedroom a living area and a kitchen there are two windows although they don't open and the electricity comes from the neighboring building a retractable staircase is used to enter the building which when closed becomes the living area since there's no room for an actual staircase a ladder is needed to climb to the second floor as it's so small it isn't connected to the city's water or sewage supply and instead has customized systems that deal with all of this independently the house is named after etger carret who's a writer and filmmaker and was its first tenant and even though it's used as a permanent residence it's technically classified as an art installation because it doesn't adhere to polish building codes number five dick clark's flintstones house usa you've probably seen a tv show or cartoon where there's a house you wished you lived in but it's unlikely very many people saw the house in the flintstones and wanted to recreate it in real life that's how dick clark's home in malibu ended up looking though and while it wasn't his original intent he certainly went with it once he decided upon the theme he had a 23 acre site next to the santa monica mountains national recreational area and after finding out that he wouldn't be able to get permission to build a more traditional structure he set work to find out what he could build his architect suggested that one rock look like a rock formation and after this was greenlit by the park conservancy the flintstone house was born inside there's one bedroom and two bathrooms but the real magic of the place comes from the views across the ocean and the mountains the living room is a giant cave with a floor-to-ceiling window the dining room is a series of porthole windows and all the modern technology you'd expect albeit hidden within faux rock facades the exterior of the property is probably the most surprising thing though with life-size sculptures of prehistoric animals and bright color rocks across the land it's certainly a strange looking place with a range of unusual colors and not something you're likely to see anywhere else on earth number four the toilet house zuwan south korea toilets are a necessary feature of any house but just imagine if the entire building was based on one that's what happened with the appropriately named mr toilet house in suwon south korea and it all came about because of its designer's obsession with the things most of us take for granted sim-jay-dok has actually once been the mayor of the town and was famed for his love of lavatories something that has stemmed from his childhood because he was apparently born in one when he was mayor he led a campaign to clean and properly maintain all of the public conveniences and became known as mr toilet in the process in 2007 he arranged for his home to be demolished and replaced with one that was designed by a local artist to look just like a giant toilet he named it which means a house to satisfy anxiety and live there for the rest of his life following his death there weren't any takers for the home so instead of knocking it down it was donated to the city and converted into a museum dedicated to toilets it's the largest toilet sculpture in south korea and features two floors of exhibits that explain how importance toilets are to a developing and healthy society there's also a great photo opportunity if you visit a giant golden statue of poop number three freedom cove canada it's the dream of many people to live in a place that doesn't rely on being connected to the outside world by being self-reliant you don't have to partake in the rat race of modern life and can spend more time focusing on what you want to do but there are sacrifices that have to be made for this to become a reality in the summer of 1991 two artists wayne adams and catherine king began building their dream home in cypress bay near clairquat sound in british columbia canada and they've continued adding to their project to this day it's essentially an artificial island that's anchored in the bay and is made up of 12 platforms that were built on top of a former fish farm on top of the platforms are a series of greenhouses an art gallery an art studio and even a dance floor which allows them to pursue their interests and sell their products to the local community and tourists the couple are completely self-sufficient their food is grown in greenhouses or caught from the bay and power is generated from solar panels all funds may well have been tight during various stages of developing their private island they always manage to find enough for one particular material bright colored paint they've used it to cover the buildings in a garish shade of purple and turquoise and it's something you simply can't miss if you're passing by number two the transparent house japan different people require different things from a house priorities about location the number of rooms the size of the garden and various other features on offer depends on the needs of who's living there but there are a few things that you would expect to be commonplace between everyone one thing a home normally provides is privacy and the ability to shut yourself off from the outside world but how would you feel if that wasn't the case the transparent house in tokyo japan is one of the most unusual looking houses to look at and must be one of the strangest places you could ever live in built by fujimoto architects it's meant to be like living in a tree according to those behind the design spaces on trees are not hermetically isolated and are instead connected to one another in unique ways birds can for example hop over branches to see their neighbors so why shouldn't humans be the same the 914 square foot house is therefore completely made from transparent materials from the exterior walls to those within the building too the only exception to this is the white pillars that provide the structural integrity and even those have been designed to be as narrow as possible when you're stood outside of the house you can see everything that the residents are doing you can also see all of their belongings what they're cooking in the kitchen and when they're asleep in bed it's equally as bizarre inside with no way to have a private moment to yourself or to get some space from your housemates while it's an interesting concept it's surely never something that's going to become mainstream you can't help but look at it and think how silly it is number one the goose creek tower talkeetna alaska have you ever read a children's book perhaps one by dr seuss and laughed at how ridiculous the buildings are in them they usually bear very little resemblance to reality but there's a building near talkeetna alaska that you'd quite expect to find a cat in a hat living inside the 185 foot tall goose creek tower was designed and built by its owner philip wiegner and wasn't at all what he had planned at first originally it was going to be a two-story cabin but as he was building it he decided to add an extra floor then another then another and ended up with 17. it's so tall that from the highest level you can see more than 300 miles on a clear day it's not the easiest of buildings to navigate with a series of ladders and staircases that lead between the different levels even after 20 years of construction it's still not complete widener is also one of the top lawyers in the country and has to keep working to be able to afford to continue this obsession he says though that one day he believes he'll finally be able to finish it and will sit on the top to watch the northern lights it's not open to visitors but is easily visible from the nearest public road that passes by the house is a great example of how if you set your mind to it you can build just about anything but there's no doubting that no matter how amazing it might be it's also incredibly silly watch our binge watching playlist if you'd like to watch all of our most popular top 15 videos grab a drink grab a snack and get ready to binge

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Published: Fri Jan 08 2021