Real Estate Investing

Concept houses can be really interesting.   We have tiny houses, storage buildings converted to houses, cave houses, tree houses, and now…. now we may be getting airplane houses.  The idea was conceived by an entrepreneur right here in my own community - an airplane converted to a house.  But not just any airplane house, according to World Net Daily - one that can withstand hurricane force winds.

Simply put, Bennington is looking to plant a Boeing 727 on a fixed bearing 15 feet above the ground, allowing the plane to rotate 360-degrees into the direction of the wind. The 1,200-square feet of interior space would be decorated with any luxurious furnishings according to the taste of the owner. 

In addition to living quarters (once stripped of all the seats and overhead storage bins, there could be lots of room), the plane could serve as a radar station during questionable weather.  Tom Bennington, the inventor who has a patent on the design, said,

…the first aircraft/residence/weather vane would gain massive media attention, and news and weather crews could even broadcast from there during hurricane season.

I hope it does get massive media attention because I’d love to see the plan(e) in action.

Photo from World Net Daily.

Today we’re going for something completely different on banks.com … some coolio decorating ideas for your house!  Maybe my taste is just plain eclectic, but I’d *love* to have this floor tiled with pennies in my house.  How many do you suppose it took?  It’s like guessing the jelly beans in a jar at a birthday party…

See more photos from NotCot.com.

Some more furniture finds at NotCot …

Only the COOLEST lamp ever.  Go to Kristin Birna Bjarnadottir to see more under Illuminant tab.  The lampshade and threads are made of a reflective material and hangs from the ceiling with fishing line, resembling a jellyfish. I wish I could figure out how to order one… if you do please comment and let me know! Also follow through the other links to see the amazing designs by Kristin.

And finally a way to fit a pool table in your house.

I’ve always dreamed of having a hidden room after reading The Diary of Anne Frank and The Underground Railroad as a child.  My imagination took me to weird places sometimes - I’d scare myself into thinking, “What if a robber broke in? Where would I hide?” and I always ended up in an enchanted attic space through an opening in the top of the linen closet (told you … weird places!)

An Indiana man recently found a *real* hidden room as he was renovating his 1890’s home in Terre Haute.

A friend of Carl Thoms was working recently on plumbing in the 1890 home’s basement when he noticed that he could see around those pipes into a hidden room covered in tiles.

He also spotted a staircase — a discovery that led Thoms to a bedroom off of the home’s kitchen, where he pried up some floorboards and accessed those stairs.

At the bottom of the stairs, Thoms found himself in a walled-off 10-foot-square room covered in tiles that at first made him think the room might have once been a tiled sauna.

Further in the article, the home owner speculates it could’ve been a bootlegging room built during prohibition.

A friend of mine bought a home last year and although she hasn’t found any hidden rooms, it did have some mysterious outbuildings.  One was a workshop that took me back to my grandpa’s old machine shop… I just wanted to stand in it all day and live in the past.  Another was a run-down greenhouse* about 100 feet back from another mysterious building that took us some time to figure out.  Her Daddy said it was a pump house, but  I like to think of it now as the house where the ghost of her backyard resides.

Another friend had a her home built.  What should have been a door to the upstairs unfinished bonus room was changed in the plans to a bookcase… the bookcase quietly slides open to reveal an amazing storage space (or place to escape).

I want a hidden room.