Purchasing a house is a big deal for any person in the world. After all, it would be our permanent shelter. For some people purchasing a house would be a huge investment. People spend a lot of time and money for finding a perfect house as per their needs, as one cannot buy a house as buying a pair of clothes or shoes, as it is a commitment.
Everyone has different thoughts about buying a house. Some people buy houses just to tear them out and start again, there are some who depends on a particular design and there few who wants simply bizarre. Your personality can be revealed through your houses. So let’s have a look at some of the bizarre houses.
10. Space Ship House, Chattanooga, Tennessee: $119,000
This house has been characterized in many newspapers, magazines and television shows including HGTV. This famous house is hanging on six cement pillars between which you can park your cars. Ample of small, square windows encircling the house give it more of a spacious feel and the front steps looks like a staircase which have been lowered from the ship. This house is located in a scenic spot, exactly beside the Tennessee River. The house is equipped with three bedrooms and two full baths having 2,000 square feet of living place.
Big cities and luxuries are not in everybody’s destiny. If you are the one who enjoys the outdoor and a trouble-free life then maybe it’s time to move off the grid. The term off the grid means the houses which produce their own power and are self-reliant. Families nowadays are thinking to move off the grid which can save thousands of dollars every year. Currently, approximately 7,50,000 households are living off the grid and it is growing every year by 10%. Let’s have a glance at some of the awesome off the grid homes.
10. Three Junipers, Arizona
Taalman Koch Architecture which is an LA-based group dedicated to designing off the grid sustainable houses has built these homes. This ranch style hi-tech home is situated outside the Joshua Tree National Park in a small community known as three Junipers. Every house is build up with solar and photovoltaic thermal technology that controls the home totally making them totally self-reliant. Rainwater is accumulated and filtered in five gallon storage tanks for regular use. And for watering plants grey water is stored outside. Native plants are used for landscaping. In spite of being off the grid this community is only 20 miles away from the nearby city.
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