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Weird and Wonderful Houses that we wouldn’t recommend as property investments

These unusual houses from around the world are interesting but not overly practical.
 

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There’s some truly imaginative houses that have been designed and created all around the world – that are amazing to look at but just not sure if we’d want to live in them. Here’s five that really caught our eye:

1) The Keret House – one of the world’s thinnest houses that is 48 inches wide at its widest and 36 inches at its narrowest. It was built in a small gap between two houses in a street in Poland.

Property investment fail: Limits your market to: models; the very thin and 2D animated cartoon characters.

Narrow house

Link: http://www.archdaily.com/289630/inside-the-keret-house-the-worlds-skinniest-house-by-jakub-szczesny

 

2) Cabin hidden inside a boulder in the Swiss Alps –

This is a wooden cabin cunningly hidden inside a large concrete shell that looks just like a boulder from the outside. It’s otherwise a normal dwelling with a fireplace, bed and tables.

Property investment fail: Too prone to get caught up in avalanches; if you come home from a big night it’s too easy to pass out on the wrong rock.

boulder house

Link: http://www.dezeen.com/2014/12/18/bureau-a-antoine-mountain-hideaway-concrete-boulder-swiss-alps/

 

3) House built like a 380 airbus

This house in Lebanon is an exact replica of a 380 airbus down to the portholes, nose cone and wings and tail fins. It’s a 2 storey house and can be found in the tiny village of Miziara.

Property investment fail: Won’t appeal to renters who get travel sickness; renters may complain of always having to eat food from trays and too easy for luggage to get lost and end up in the jet house next door.

Aeroplane house

Link: http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/22/want-to-live-in-a-house-that-looks-like-a-plane-5210395/

 

4) House on rock in middle of river

This very lonely house is perched on a tiny rock in the middle of a raging river in Serbia. It’s only one room but has great water views.

Property investment fail: Flooding can get annoying; Neighbourhood street parties bound to be disappointing; any sleepwalking renters likely to wake up very wet.

River house

Link: http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/02/house-in-middle-of-drina-river.html

 

5 ) Soccer ball shaped home

This was developed in Japan following the success of their national taem in the World cup. It comes in a large 540 foot size home and a smaller doghouse version. It’s 34 sided and designed to withstand earthquakes (we imagine by being kicked away).

Property investment fail: Prone to being used as practise by local kids; won’t be popular with renters from countries which don’t play soccer well (looking at you New Zealand).

Soccer ball house

Link: http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/barier-the-soccer-ball-shaped-house-from-japan.html

 

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