Enough snark! Let’s do a spell of awesomeness. Above, please see exhibit A. That is, A for “awesome.”I was going to go out and find a place in my backyard for a tree swing, but then I saw this and got a whole bunch of better ideas. Do you think I could copy this? I’m pretty certain the zoning laws in my American suburb are just about the same as those in Da Lat, Vietnam. I’ll just print these photos off and take them down to Home Depot, get some advice from one of the orange aprons, and I’ll be on my way.
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Loveliest comment, by Stuart: If you get really, really stoned, it starts to look like a tract house.
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Wow — I would do some pretty unethical things for even just a third of that place.
“Who was that at the door, honey?”
“Just the HOA, dear. They said that they have already placed the demolition charges and are giving us 35 seconds to get out before the whole thing comes down.”
People with that much disposable income don’t have an HOA, they own HOA’s.
This is not merely awesome. It is AWE.SOME. Gimme gimme gimme!
except for the first picture, which might give me nightmares, this house is a hobbit’s dream. and who wouldn’t want to live in a house officially called a “crazy house”?
I was enjoying this post up until the point that the Gain detergent bottles came out of their top and right side-bar positions and blocked my view of the house.
I’ve documented this experience at:
http://blogwrecks.blogspot.com/2010/03/lovely-listings-gain-is-our-loss.html
The LOLcat overlords have been notified. When this happened last time, did it ever get resolved?
Yes. It get’s resolved. Thanks, Sara.
Poor OxiClean. I noticed that the Gain bottles come and go. Meanwhile, OxiClean is behaving itself while the Gain bottles spread their noxious green cloud over your content. It’s funny watching the advertising battle it out. With the Gain bottles taking up the top and right ad space, OxiClean is outnumbered 2-to-1, and they’re the ones behaving themselves.
I put the link to the OxiClean site on my post so people can buy them over Gain.
Gain just did that to me, too. I clicked the “Close” button and it went away in a puff of light.
Gah. Sorry about this. It’s temporary, not a mistake, and out of my hands.
Seriously. “Irritate the potential customers” has never seemed like a good business plan to me, yet it seems to be the main thought when it comes to advertising online.
Seriously. When I see something in a store that’s been previously advertised to me in a particularly irritating way, my instinctive reaction is revulsion. And I reflexively avoid it, and (if it was something I needed) look for a different brand.
But when their advertising backfires, they probably just blame it on ad-blockers.
so sad that this isnt reeeeally a house, just part of an amusement park like place.
http://izismile.com/2010/03/18/dalat_crazy_house_in_vietnam_51_pics.html (orig post)
One photo clearly shows a ticket counter =(
But… but… no…
Aw, I should have known it was too good to be true. Either there’s some brilliant engineering behind that structure or it’s amazing that it stands up. Either way, I’d love to live in it – or even next to it!
“We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious!
How Gollumtastic!
Eeep. No thank you…a little too Dali-Does-Neverland for me, there.
When several members of the Home Depot staff are standing around chatting, it’s called a “pumpkin patch,” and is frowned upon my administration.
The first picture scares me a little. What is this thing made out of, fiberglass?
I’d call this the “Movie Set House”. Every picture reminds me of a different movie: Lion King, Hook, Goonies, Swiss Family Robinson, Labyrinth…
It’s an interesting, er, house, but I could never live there. I would keep expecting to see Robin Williams fencing with Rafik or Chunk to go riding by on a zebra.
Apparently there are no ADA restrictions for building in Viet Nam.
“Oh look, there’s Marlon Brando!”
This makes me think more of Disney Park Attraction then living quarters. The kangaroo kind of scares me. I think he comes alive when you sleep and hungers for human blood.
First response (and I quote myself): “What the fuzzy-fuzz?”
OMG, I love it! Even the mattresses don’t have straight lines. It’s probably totally impractical to live there, but I would love to be a guest.
I’m afraid I’d be trying to scrub that mold-like substance off the dining room walls!
No WONDER we lost the war in Viet Nam! Those dudes have some industrial strength LSD over there, and apparently, they’re not afraid to use it1
Pretty sure this is Tim Burton’s condo
If you get really, really stoned, it starts to look like a tract house.
Clicked in the site and looked at ALL the pics. Why? Why did I do that?? I will never sleep peacefully again.
I drink way too much for this to ever be awesome. Coming home to this would be…. ugghkgjlgalkjg*shudder*
Holy muffins, I want that house.
From reading this blog since, forever, I know that I live in the same suburb you do. I can almost guarantee the zoning board would allow this, based on some of the fantastic things I have seen. I love our suburb.
The bull mural? Are you familiar with the bull mural?
If I lived there, I’d keep looking for the Gnomes. I just know they’re there somewhere.
You folks in neighborhoods with the HOA people looking shifty at you may not be able to recreate this, but I am a proud resident of The Middle of Flipping Nowhere and I intend to build this as a playhouse for the children. Wait, what? No I don’t know the number for Child Protective Service, why do you ask?
So is this like what Antoni Gaudí made when he dropped acid in ‘Nam? Because that’s so astoundingly awesome.
I would live here.
My girlfriend, myself and a few friends were in Da lat last May. It’s s a beautiful escape from the repressive heat of the Vietnam lowlands. We visited this house, and yes while it is now as much tourist attraction as anything, you can stay there for few night is the suites. The house was started by an eccentric old lady years ago and s also known as The Spider House. Also, it is still being worked on and isn’t completed yet.
Awwwwwsome! Did Roger Dean have a hand in iit? It looks straight out of a Yes album cover.
I think I could live quite happily in that house for a long time.
I was at this place a little over a decade ago. At that time, you could rent the variously-themed dwellings/treehouses for overnight stays. One of my roommates was Vietnamese, and he chatted up our tour guide. The story we got from her was that the woman who was responsible for all this was the daughter of someone very high up in the Communist Party, and that was why she’d been allowed to be this crazy. Our guide said that the owner was a really mean kind of crazy – stereotypical Northern Vietnamese tyrant.
The buildings were fascinating but grubby, and there were very sad bushbabies and monkeys in tiny cages. The weird dribbly concrete makes the buildings look less as if they’d been built than as if they’d been excreted. It’s worth a visit if you go to Đà Lạt – it’s in many guidebooks.
I’ve been here! it’s awesome, there are rotating walls and coffee tables so you can steal a sip of other people’s drinks!! MmMm
I’ve always wanted to live in Disneyland.
That is insane, it’s like something out of Shadow Of The Beast!
My God… it’s like the builders were all driven mad by the works of H.P. Lovecraft…