“At the back, attached to the Spaceship, there is a large conservatory which may be used as an office or day room.”
I give up. There’s nothing I can add to that beautiful, beautiful sentence.
Found By: Joe R
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Wow. I’d be afraid of waking up and finding myself on a strange planet, surrounded by aliens, without my office/day room.
Strange?
Isnt this world strange enough?
But how cool would it be to live in a Spaceship?
A Spaceship up on blocks!
Does that make it a Spaceship Trailer?
Oooh! Trailer trash on Jupiter.
How cool would it be to use one?
Oh, I love this! It’s a Futuro house, late-60s prefab Finnish-designed dwelling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futuro
Would love to rent this place… at least, for a week or so…
It will probably be hard to sell, since 8 year olds are usually unable to get a mortgage loan.
This is where I wanted to live when I was seven.
Wow! I don’t know which I prefer now – Chemosphere house in LA. or this spaceship.
I’m up for relocating!!!
The blocks keeping it up are really what make this prime real estate. However, you would never have trouble giving directions to your friends.
CAREFUL tenants? what does that mean? that they not move about too much, or use the actual house, or..? i think this was a python skit about bldg a block of apts… they were looking for quiet residents, because the bldg was unsafe…. this might be similar.
or this could be a great house for stoners.
I love this house SO MUCH – what’s not to love about a spaceship with floral curtains? But it looks like it’s pitched at about a 20 degree angle, which would make life a little difficult.
Also, what a strange square toilet.
OMG! That’s a steal to spend a week in a Futuro home. Wow. It might even be worth the airfare to NZ. Thanks for posting this one!
There’s one of these down around Frisco/Buxton, North Carolina… I love seeing it every year when I go down that way! LM, interesting article! I had no idea they were so rare!
Ha. So the Robinson’s weren’t Lost In Space all those years. They were in New Zealand. Warning, Will Robinson!
Looks like something out of Woody Allen’s movie Sleeper, and, in fact, I’m wondering whether it wasn’t in the movie.
This is obviously an unabashed setup for a Bad Taste-style ending. Where is the green soup, I ask?
Call me crazy, but I loooooovvvve it. And at $150/week? Well I know where I’ll be going on vacation this year.
I think this is the Jetsons’ retirement home.
Let’s call Judy and find out.
Okay, I can’t resist …
“Beam me up, Scotty!”
I used to drive by a spaceship house every time my family went to the beach.
My partner’s parents were married on a farm quite close to this property so I’ve seen it a few times over the years as we’ve passed by. It’s in a beautiful location with great beaches and fantastic fishing nearby. A few miles away is a home shaped like a spiral seashell as well… and a Cafe on a wharf over the harbour where customers would feed scraps to six-foot long sharks waiting under the wharf untill people pointed out that a popular swimming bech was only half a mile away and the free food was attracting more and more sharks to the area!
There is a little house in the woods near me, that is like that. It hasn’t been touched in ages, weeds are grown up all around it.
See, now THIS is a New Zealand house. Sure, it’s too small and situated in a bitterly cold, remote region that’s just a little too far from civilisation for convenience, but wouldn’t living there be so cool?
Actually my brother has been working on a similar design, but his is much larger and would rotate slowly. He’s having some issues with the plumbing and wiring designs for a revolving house though.
Bitterly cold??? Mate, it’s north of Kaitaia! You can grow bananas, pawpaws and guavas there with no fear of frosts for pete’s sake!
KiwiBloke – My apologies for I am a moron! There is an identical home North of Kaitaia and I assumed that this was is without checking the location… sorry again!
My folks come from Waitati and as a transplant to Australia i’d say “bitterly cold” would sum it up to me. And remote. But mostly beautiful.
And a spaceship to live in? unspeakably cool. OK I’m a geek.
No worries about that, mate – I have to agree!! I’d love to live there! XD
“careful tenants only please” ??? What in the world does that mean? Are they afraid that clumsy tenants would just roll around the unit like a ball bearing? :->
Oh my god, you’ve finally outdone yourself. This is, bar none, the weirdest house I’ve ever seen. Even weirder than the marshmallow-mushroom/Falcor house! The builder is to be congratulated.
Klaatu barata nikto!
(Which means, ewww, just imagine the billions of dust mites living in that bed and couch since nothing has been changed since 1970 or so!)
Darn! It’s a rental!
I’m pretty damned sure these came into NZ after the Kobe world fair…
I almost leased this house. It really is cool looking at it in person. It’s in Pensacola, FL out on the tip of the island beach…IT ROCKS!!! It has survived many Hurricanes because of it’s design. So the owner must not have been that much of loon. Spacey maybe, but not Looney. :~D
“I almost leased this house.”
Liar.
“It’s in Pensacola, FL out on the tip of the island beach…”
Wrong.
Clearly it’s not “this” house, as this one is in New Zealand, but they’re NOT lying. There is one in P’cola.
I love this house and I want to move there immediately. But I’ll supply my own mattress, thanks!
From what I understand there were 24 of these built in New Zealand, some of which were part of the QEII village at the Christchurch 1974 Commonwealth Games.
I’m a smoker, I have a dog and I’m not careful. Triple fail.
Not moving.
>.<
Failure at living?
(no offence)
“Open the Pod Bay Toilet, HAL …”
That’s it! I’m packing up and moving to New Zealand!
Oh… I want!!! And such at such a bargain rent! And it’s available now! Pity I already have a house. And a life at the other end of the country. Sigh.
Maybe there’s something about this that appeals to the Kiwi taste – I’m noticing a few Kiwi’s here that think it’s the coolest thing ever. Hmmmm…
“Sure, it’s too small and situated in a bitterly cold, remote region that’s just a little too far from civilisation for convenience” Aren’t all the best places to live in NZ situated in bitterly cold, remote regions too far from anywhere for convenience?
I think I just found my summer home. My kid’s friends would be jealous.
“Where are you going for summer vacation?”
“I’m going to Wildwood. Where are you going?”
“We’re going to our spaceship.”
“… Lucky.”
I know I’ve seen this one before, in Wired magazine or a similar publication. Or maybe it was an episode of This Old Monstrosity (Now Steve will show us how to safely replace a Matter/Antimatter reactor, while Norm remains secure at our construction trailer 300 km away).
DUDE – I saw the prototype of this house in the Ford Museum in Detroit, MI, USA!!!! It’s SERIOUSLY a suspension house – and just walking through it made me queasy and motion sick! It was “the house of the future” after WW1…..which sold like, 3 of them! LOL!
Oh my god, my ex-husbands friend’s parents owned this house in the 70′s and 80′s. For a while in the 80′s my ex-husband and said friend lived just round the road from this house, and I actually remember visiting it with them once. It’s so long ago that I don’t remember much, except that I was very excited to be going to what was known locally as The Spaceship House, and I remember that inside it was SO 70′s, and the ceilings felt very very low!
Wait, no, really?
Wiki tells us:
“Futuro or Futuro House, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen (a Finnish architect), about 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The distinctive flying saucer like shape and airplane hatch entrance has made the houses popular among collectors. The Futuro is composed of polyester plastic and fiberglass, measuring about 3 meters high and 8 meters in diameter.”
A 100 is quite many and there’s even some of those here in Finland left.
Not for sale, of course. They weren’t exactly cheap houses when new so most of them were sold around the world.
It may look like another “show-off” house…But, it has TRUE style…and something else…That makes it less of a show-off…kinda
Decorating? No, that’s taken care of .It includes BUILT IN LOUNGE FURNITURE. It gets cooler by the minute.
“Lounge” lounge furniture or “Enterprise bridge captain’s-throne-I-mean-chair” lounge furniture?