I was flipping through my January issue of Real Simple (why is it that they send them out more than a month in advance?) and found this photo:
Now, I thought upside down Christmas trees were bizarre, but how about an upside down house? I tried to do a bit of research on this house, but all I could find is that it's located on Ganghwa Island, just west of Seoul. But of course, it piqued my interest in learning more about these crazy homes. Check out below for a few more examples:
This upside down house was created by Polish businessman and philanthropist, Daniel Czapiewski. Of course, he built it in Poland, in the village of Szymbark. He created the house to be a statement about the "Communist era and the state of the world." Typically, Czapiewki's company can build a home in just three weeks, but because of the strange angles the workers had to adjust to, this crazy house took 114 days (still pretty impressive). The house is open to tourists, and people who visit complain of mild seasickness and dizziness after only a few minutes of being in it -- I get dizzy just looking at it!
This house is also open to the public and was designed for a special exhibition in Trassenheid, Germany. Klaudiusz Golos and Sebastion Mikuciuk built it just because they, "wanted to do something different." Well, they achieved one goal. The house is named "The world stands on its head," and I was able to find an interior shot too. Check out this photo:
Feels like you're in Alice in Wonderland, no?
WonderWorks is “an amusement park for the mind” with two locations: Orlando, Florida, and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. I suppose I shouldn't really count it, since it's an "amusement park" but I still thought it was pretty cool to look at. I like how they even included the foundation.
Here's one in Florida’s Sunrise Golf Village, a replica of the typical home in 1961 designed by Norman Johnson.
This house is in Antalya, Turkey, as part of an effort to attract home buyers to the area. I'm not sure if it would really attract me to purchase a home there -- I'd be afraid they'd accidentally build my house upside down.
Although these homes are cool, I'm not interested in seasickness and dizziness -- I'll stick with right side up, thank you.
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