To be perfectly honest, the first time I looked at the photos of the house featured in this week’s column, I had to do a double-take. I thought I was looking at a home covered in snakeskin. I know, it makes zero sense but my brain tends to slow down when it is so freaking cold outside. I digress.
If you are an arts and crafts person then you are going to love this house. If you are not an arts and crafts person and prefer comfort as opposed to built-in concrete furniture then you are going to give this house a hard pass. Just so we are on the same page, that pun was completely intended.
This alternative rock-and-bottle-constructed home is one of a kind. Thousands of different colored bottles insulate this home along with stones and wood beams. I cannot begin to fathom how so many bottles were collected to make this Arizona bottle house.
This work of art has three bedrooms, one-and-a-half bathrooms, and is located at 1800 North Camino Altar, Tucson, Arizona. The home is 2,700 square feet and sits on a little more than two-and-a-half acres. The owners are asking $432,500.
Inside The Glass House
Your eyes are not playing tricks on you. Embedded in the walls are bottles. Wait until you see the inside.
I just blew your mind. I can sense these things. But wait, it gets better.
Beer bottles, soda bottles, champagne bottles — glass bottles of any kind are inside the walls of this Arizona bottle house. Depending on the pattern, some bottle bottoms are inside the house while the tops of other bottles are outside of the house.
Once you get past the WTF factor, this Arizona bottle house becomes rather mesmerizing. All I can say is that it is a good thing that Beaker from The Muppets was not around when this house was built or else he would have ended up in the walls.
Watch out Beaker. That is how they getcha.
Bottle House Bathroom
The most precarious part of this house is the bathroom. No sudden movements when you are taking your morning constitutional.
OK, just two more pictures. It will be worth it, I promise.
This may be the one house where a figure in a suit of armor not only fits but enhances the aesthetic of the house. The only question left unanswered is how and where did they get so many bottles. Well my peoples, I think I found the answer.
For more photos of the Arizona bottle house, go here.
