While you wouldn’t be wrong to say that places like TikTok and Reddit provide quite a bit (absolute understatement) of stuff to consume, you’d probably be surprised how much equally entertaining stuff is out there on places like Zillow.
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Houses come in all shapes and sizes. And sayingallis likely not too far off from being accurate. Mathematically speaking, there are anestimated 2.3 billion houseson this planet. There’s bound to be at least that many different shapes and sizes of them. At the very least, there’s quite a bit of variety. Let’s leave it at that.
And it’s not just the number that’s baffling, but also the variety of houses. While everyone agrees on what a house is in essence, every house is still a result of a number of factors, ranging from taste to function to practicality, all falling somewhere on the spectrum ofsubjective to objective…the possibilities for house manifestations are endless at this point.
Houses can be unorthodox for a number of reasons. With older ones, it’s a historical legacy that might define what it is. Likethis one house in Missourilooks like any other ordinary house, save for the fact that it has a very functional jail in it. Apparently, back in the late 1800s, the house was built for the town sheriff and thus was equipped with 9 cells, just like firefighters would live in fire stations.
Some houses are actually castles. Yep, this family-sized castle, dubbed the Helmer castle after violinist Max Helmer, in Michigan was listed for sale and sold for a bit over $500,000 back in 2021. Sure, you might not necessarily be a king or queen (or are you?!) but you can still enjoy a bit of medieval luxury.
With over 10k square feet the home also includes a 1300 sq ft event pavilion that reportedly cost over $1 million with a 22-seat bar, pizza oven, japanese hibachi tables and custom built smoker. There’s also a guest cottage as well as a carriage house $8,599,999
With some choices of homes, it seems like the architect simply hit theGenerate Randomlybutton and called it a day because there isn’t much that you can say if you have a mini golf course, cave interiors, a Marilyn Monroe theme, unconventional elevation, or even a merry-go-round running in your house.
OK, so, historical legacy and maybe having too much money aside, there’s always the reason of taste. Considering there are over 8 billion people out there, each would have something that they’d want in a home. Again, taste doesn’t really explain why there’s amusement park equipment inside your house, but I guess you can’t argue on matters of taste.
Yet, other homes are built to serve a particular function. This does overlap with the idea of having a literal jail inside your basement area, but it’s in general an idea of a house being useful as more than just a home. A portion of your house can be dedicated to a venture (a bakery or store front) or even be designed to be rented as a film set or studio. In fact, there’s an entire profession dedicated toscoping these places out.
Whatever the case is, if you boil it down to the bare bones of the definition, you can practically say a house is just a place to keep your stuff.Well said, George Carlin.So, that is ultimately the function of a house—to keep your stuff. It doesn’thaveto be anything more than that, and that is fine.
Whatever the case is, if you boil it down to the bare bones of the definition, you can practically say a house is just a place to keep your stuff.Well said, George Carlin.
So, that is ultimately the function of a house—to keep your stuff. It doesn’thaveto be anything more than that, and that is fine.
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