I would be remiss if I did not give a shout-out to my gal pal Brenda Masse, a fellow daltxrealestate.com columnist. She let me know that April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. When we think of distracted driving, we think of the dreaded cell phone.
I am here to tell you that phones are not the only things that cause distracted driving. Allow me to tell you a story about a little house my husband and I bought years ago. It was a three-bedroom, one-bath home. A super cute little bungalow.
The only flaw with the house was that it was seafoam green. To be more exact, the east-facing part of the house was faded seafoam green and the rest was regular seafoam green.
It was something to behold and while having a two-tone house had started to grow on us, reason prevailed and we had it painted. On the day it was being painted, I was at the house doing some work and let me tell you, there were no less than a half dozen near accidents in front of our house.
It was such a stark change from seafoam green that they stopped paying attention to oncoming traffic. All I heard that day was horns honking and screeching from people slamming on their brakes. Talk about distracted driving. Holy smokes.
All this brings me to the point of this week’s column. For your consideration, I give you the five most distracting homes that could cause you to slam on the breaks and distract you from driving.
5. Rainbow House Reigns When It Comes to Fun
Joshua Tree artist Patrick Hasson spent two years meticulously hand-painting every wall of The Rainbow House.
“It is the largest work of livable art in the Mojave Desert … in fact, there’s nothing else like it on planet Earth,” according to Hasson’s website.
If you have ever been to Joshua Tree, then you know that description and The Rainbow House fits in perfectly with its environment.
Read the full story on the home located at 61553 El Reposo St, Joshua Tree, California.
4. Dog Crate House Asks ‘What The Shih Tzu?’
In January 2020 we adopted a rescue dog. He had just turned one. He is half Corgi, half Chihuahua, half shepherd, half Lord knows what else. (No, I didn’t major in math.)
He is a side-sitter. He has a long, tubular body with exceptionally stubby legs. We named him Hazel.
Do I need to say it? Hazel, or Hazelberg as he is known in some circles, is simply not a well-built dog and he never shuts up. But by God, he is our dog and we love him although he does make us work awfully hard to do so sometimes.
You will be glad to know we have reached the whole point of all that prelude. The house featured in this week’s column looks like a dog crate.
Read the full story on the home located at 279 East Klein Road, Ancram, New York.
3. Straight Out of Midsommar, This Oklahoma A-Frame Shows That Chaos is a Ladder
One of our daughter’s favorite indie movies is Midsommar. The movie is about a bad breakup, old people jumping off a cliff, murder and, in the end, this distinctive, yellow A-frame building gets set on fire and this is all during a festival where people, stoned on acid, dance around a maypole with lovely flowers in their hair.
Now, when I saw the house featured in this week’s column, the first thing I thought about was the yellow A-frame house in Midsommar. Mostly because I was just as confused looking at the home as I was after watching Midsommar.
Now, the question I want answered is where do you go once you reach the top of the ladder? Why is there even a ladder there?
Read the full story on the home located at 9244 West Wilshire Blvd, Yukon, Oklahoma.
2. This Jurassic Park Home is Not a Sight For Saur Eyes
I have a funny story to share with you. Shortly after we were married, my husband and I entered a movie marathon hosted by a radio station. We had to watch the same five movies for 24 hours. The rules were that we could not use the restroom, we could not sleep and we had to answer a ”basic” question at the end of each movie.
The prize for the winners was a yearlong movie pass for any movie at any time. When you are newly married, love movies, and are broke, you are more than happy to subject yourself to being in a movie theater for 24 hours. Long story short, we “won” the movie passes but it took a letter to the Better Business Bureau and a phone call with the radio station owner. I digress.
Soooo … I come to the point of this story. Jurassic Park was one of the movies we watched in those 24 hours. Just so we are clear, I am talking about the original Jurassic Park and not any of the sequels. You can only imagine how excited I got when I saw the house featured in this week’s column.
Read the full story on the home located at 61 Joy Lane, Washougal, Washington.
1. Tennessee Realtor Puts Forth Superhero Feat to Sell Charred Colonial
What makes someone a superhero? A cape? Superhuman strength? Extraordinary powers that make the impossible possible? I put it before you, my wonderful readers, that a newly created superhero exists and is a Tennessee Realtor. Move over Batman and Superman, Paula Duvall is in town and her cape is freshly pressed and she is ready to sell.
Our newly minted Tennessee Realtor superhero is the listing agent for this beautiful colonial that sits on almost five acres. What earned her superhero status is that the colonial no longer looks the way pictured above.
Construction crews were making some last-minute renovations when an itsy bitsy explosion happened and the home went up in flames.
To read the full story on the home located at 5603 Winslow Road, Franklin, Tennessee.
Do you know a house that is a head-turner — and not in a good way? Tell us in the comments.
