I’m cheating again! This house is not for sale, as the homeowners love it. And who can blame them? Man, that’s one gorgeous cave. I live in a temperate rainforest, myself (albeit one with highways and tire stores and not so much with the trees), so my first thought is how frikkin’ damp it must be. But I don’t care! If it were available, I would just move my family in and start buying desiccant in barrels from Costco.
At least I think that’s a cave. I didn’t actually bother to read the article (which was found by Mr. Zarquon). Maybe it’s actually marshmallow fluff all over the ceiling. Mmmm. Fluffy... I’ll still take it! It can’t be any worse to live with than my popcorn ceilings are, after all. Man, that stuff tastes nasty, no matter how much butter I put on it.
Loveliest comment, by Laura: My house is a mess, Son dropped a bag of flour in the kitchen, pigeons drop guano down the chimney but I am counting my blessings – at least I don’t have sand falling from the ceiling…
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It appears that their kitchen has a lobby. It seems to be more and more popular to put lobbies in strange houses.
What a fantastic house.
Humidity can’t be worse than living in a swamp (eg, anywhere in FL, LA). Even inside, it’s always wet.
This house is in Missouri, nestled cozily between St. Louis and the New Madrid Seizmic Zone. : ) Beautiful area.
Whoops. I thought it was in California. Will fix.
My house is a mess, Son dropped a bag of flour in the kitchen, pigeons drop guano down the chimney but I am counting my blessings – at least I don’t have sand falling from the ceiling…
Sorry, I am not getting the reference in the title. If it’s supposed to be a tune, I’m not hearing it in my head.
Unless it’s supposed to be the “Batman” theme… to the Bat Cave!
Exactly!
I think that’s spelled “nee-ner-nee-ner-nee-ner-nee-ner, nee-ner-nee-ner-nee-ner-nee-ner—BATMAN!”
Wowwww . . . even better than a missile silo house. And think of the murals you could paint.
Reminds me of this B&B I found a while back…
http://www.bbonline.com/nm/kokopelli/
Wow, that is an awesome link! Too bad the hike in/out sounds like a killer…
It’s a hobbit hole!! That’s awesome.
Isn’t it a giant ant that is trying to get in by squeezing through a pipe or something in the upper right corner of the picture?
To quote bender (of futurama fame): “We’re totally sealed in. Nothing can get in or out. Except millions of snakes”
Way cool that they were able to refi and keep the place. It was up for sale in Feb.
http://www.Caveland.US
I’m sorry, but I don’t get why people think this house is so cool. For one thing, I bet most of it gets very little, if any, natural light. And those glass box bedrooms are ugly. And a house where you have sand falling on you all the time? Personally, I’ll leave the cave-living to the bears.
There are legal allowances for size as well as light and air requirements for bedrooms, which from looking at the photos on the website, none of the bedrooms seem to have. The front elevation is a DISASTER… it looks like they bought the windows out of home depot’s dumpster. THIS is what happens when people don’t hire architects to design their homes. You’re either left with a toll brothers cookie-cutter mcmansion or something that looks like it was cobbled together from bits left lying around. I’m honestly surprised that any building official would let this be built and be inhabited by people as a home.
The falling sand, the dripping! I actually grew up a few blocks from the cave (which used to be a skating rink) and it is in a nasty area, and is kinda ramshackly put together. We used to sneak over there as kids and the place is CREEPY.
I was reading the article and flipping through the pictures small boys practicing the French horn in sunlit rooms and thinking what a surprisingly cheerful house it was, and then I stumbled across picture 9, where one of the children is crouched on the couch, clutching at a cat and staring at the floor with haunted eyes. Kind of a mood-killer. Maybe living in a cave takes a steeper toll than we thought.
That house really appeals to my desire for dark little spaces. Well, not quite “little” in this case. But turn off the lights and it’ll be plenty dark enough.
But what to do with the bats?
Actually, I found the house is for sale, it’s on sale at Ebay, and they want $300,000 for it, but it IS for sale.