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Curbed:Cowboy Boot House in Texas rents for $1,200 a month
On the spectrum of totally bizarre U.S. homes, Huntsville, Texass Cowboy Boot House falls somewhere between whimsically cute and completely bonkers. The shoe-shaped house is 711 square feet, including the more conventionally shaped annex off the back. Its got two extremely odd bedrooms featuring materials as diverse as marble tile, raw wood shelves, mis-matched shiplap, and a ceiling paneled with album covers.
Corrugated metal siding lines the interior of the kitchen and double-height bootleg. A bright red spiral staircase leads up to a roof deck at the neck of the boot. The home is being rented out for $1,200 a month.
Unlike most novelty buildings, which seem to have peaked in the U.S. in the 1920s, the Cowboy Boot House was finished just in January. It was designed and built by local artist Dan Phillips, whose organization, Phoenix Commotion, uses recycled materials and apprentice labor to construct and renovate creative abodeslike this bone-themed house and a reno inspired by the Budweiser beer can.
While Huntsvilles enormous boot wont become one of a pair, Phillips is already working on a cowboy-hat-shaped building for the lot next door.
On the spectrum of totally bizarre U.S. homes, Huntsville, Texass Cowboy Boot House falls somewhere between whimsically cute and completely bonkers. The shoe-shaped house is 711 square feet, including the more conventionally shaped annex off the back. Its got two extremely odd bedrooms featuring materials as diverse as marble tile, raw wood shelves, mis-matched shiplap, and a ceiling paneled with album covers.
Corrugated metal siding lines the interior of the kitchen and double-height bootleg. A bright red spiral staircase leads up to a roof deck at the neck of the boot. The home is being rented out for $1,200 a month.
Unlike most novelty buildings, which seem to have peaked in the U.S. in the 1920s, the Cowboy Boot House was finished just in January. It was designed and built by local artist Dan Phillips, whose organization, Phoenix Commotion, uses recycled materials and apprentice labor to construct and renovate creative abodeslike this bone-themed house and a reno inspired by the Budweiser beer can.
While Huntsvilles enormous boot wont become one of a pair, Phillips is already working on a cowboy-hat-shaped building for the lot next door.
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"There was an old woman who live in a shoe..." (Original Post)
brooklynite
Apr 2017
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. Get yerself an outfit and be a cowboy, too.
(Third cut):
Wolf Frankula
(3,600 posts)2. I've often wondered whether we
should allow an old woman,
to raise a lot of children,
under conditions that can only be described as leathery.
O. Nash
Wolf
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,425 posts)3. One nice thing: with the rent at $1,200 a month,
you don't have to be well-heeled to live there.
Full disclosure: I'm wearing a pair of Noconas.
What's a "Nocona"?
Nocona looks to revive Justin Leather Goods building
Nocona Boots
Skittles
(153,159 posts)4. you don't think $1200 rent is a lot?
is is to a great portion of the population
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,425 posts)5. Okay, then you do have to be well-heeled to live there.
Thanks for spurring me to reconsider my position.