cool house in Holland

[ashling]

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. literally and figuratively. cool.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Reminds me a little of the historic Witch's House in Beverly Hills

but the Dutch one definitely looks cooler.

and the historic Witch's House in Laguna Beach, CA.

[kwassa]

3. Another cool house in Holland

Gerrit Rietveld, architect, built in 1924, an 89-year-old house.

[Demoiselle]

8. Oooh nice. (nt)

[talkingmime]

4. I'd live in something like that, but I don't think the building codes in my township would allow it.

Then again, I'd build a hobbit house if I could. Underground houses (or "earth covered" as they are often called) are amazingly energy efficient.

[ashling]

5. Like this?

[talkingmime]

6. Very much like that. I've seen those pictures somewhere before.

I think the ones from the LOTR movies were a lot closer to the descriptions in the books, specifically Sam's, but that one's pretty neat too. Isn't it a Tolkein museum or something? I forget.

[ashling]

7. You may have seen my earlier post

The "large" man opening the door is the architect. He designed this house for the owner to display his Tolkien stuff - so I guess it is a private museum of sorts. My guess is that the owner lives in the house next door in one of the pictures.

Who is the owner? Where is this? The architect wanted to protect the owner's privacy. However, as I recall the article said it was somewhere in Pennsylvania.

[talkingmime]

9. That rings a bell, but I think it was on Reuters or AP or something, not DU.

[ashling]

10. That's probably where I found it, too

[talkingmime]

11. If I don't bookmark something I can never remember where I saw it. Senility perhaps.

[struggle4progress]

12. I'd dislike Efteling visitors always walking thru the house on the Sprookjesbos path

[talkingmime]

13. Say what?

[struggle4progress]

14. Here's another view of the path thru the "house"