… and the entrepreneur/owner cannot secure decent financing, despite a credit rating of 650 – 710.
St. Louis Post Dispatch Article
It is literally minutes from my current home. Less than a quarter of an hour and I could be standing in the front ‘yard’.
I am sure this is not a home for everyone, but I could definitely see myself stepping out on the balcony in the early morning and watching the sun break through the fog and mist of a cool spring morning.
“Your kindness for weakness I never mistook
I worried you often,yet you understood
That life is so fleeting,these troubles won’t last
Forever”
Is the floor slanted? Looks like it.
That is amazing. Not only is it probably the coolest idea, coolest home, it’s probably really cheap to maintain. I guess you don’t have to replace your roof, when your roof is a bluff….
i betcha its a pain to keep warm in the winter. lol BIGGGG electric bill.
“The temperature remains steady at 62 degrees, meaning Sleeper doesn’t need heat or air conditioning.” -STLtoday.com
lol yer it would be
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Nice I see alot of Bamboon Tampoon there don’t ya think?
I guess this is a very spacey place to live exactly the size I’ve always dreamed about, good to know that there are people who fulfil their dreams
That is so unique, thanks for sharing.
Back to the Caveman! Sweeet. Who lives there? The Geico guys?
These pictures are amazing and I’m sure the house is just as beautiful in person. Thanks for posting!
Great place to live in case of zombies.
This home is up for auction now, I recently found out. The family that owns it is in financial trouble. You want a home like this? Make a bid! Help a family!
It returns to nature. Is internet working there?
Thanks. It would be great to hear more about this home. How is it heated? Does the rock “sweat”? Who sweeps? Was this gap in the rock there to begin with? How much had to be quarried?
I live in S. Minnesota, along the river valley. Lots of this kind of limestone here, too. I wonder if one could repeat this success in this area.
Some remarkable images. I can’t image what it’s like to live somewhere like that.
looks amazing.
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Nicely done!
Nice Photo Shopped BS . . .
I am really not trying to be a dick, and I mean this in the kindest way in hopes you may seek treatment, you ‘Winter The Bear’ are a fucking moron.
After I posted this last night the home was mentioned on Real Time With Bill Maher, there have been numerous articles with press photos taken, it was featured on Good Morning America, in the Wall Street Journal, my local news and to top it all off… IT IS FIFTEEN MINUTES FROM MY HOUSE AND FOR SALE IF YOU WANT BUY IT!
But, you may be right… you might just wind up with a handful of photoshopped pictures for your money.
Again, I mean this in the kindest way, you are a dumbfuck and maybe you shouldn’t let your sphincter do so much of “yer thinkin’”.
This is the kind of house I’ve always wanted. Now I’m jealous!
Bon courage et bonne reussite!
This is absolutely beautiful. Some of the folks on here claim to live right next to it. Ok, ok, so where the hell is it?
It is obviously a labor of love! Just beautiful and wonderfully done!
Thank God some folks still do what turns them on!
I guess it probably not clear, as I suppose I should have cited the location myself, but I did include a link to the owner’s website and to a local newspaper article about the home.
The home is in Festus, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.
All Palaeolithic homes were once like this – until the great Credit Crunch of 20,000 BC ….
The first shot, looking out of the house/cave with the sunrise, reminds me so much of a Maxfield Parrish painting, from the early 1900s. (the original “painter of light” – not that Thomas Kincaide stuff). Beautiful!!!
I too instantly thought of Maxfield Parrish…what a home
There’s a lot more background to this house here:
http://design.spotcoolstuff.com/dwellings/cave-house-ebay
And more photos too.
It is a rather sad story actually. This is a couples dream house that they have to sell because of the bad economy.
I love homes stuck in rock.
Chris
Just think, if you were inside you could be an asshole stuck in a home stuck in rock.
How did he build it without financing?
Looks pretty cool except for the windows on the front – they look like a lame patchwork quilt of clearance seconds at the discount home decorator shop – a large geometric or uninterrupted expanse of glass would have looked much cooler, in my opinion.
definitely an avant-garde kind of house! STELLAR!!!!!!
i wish i lived in it! lol
Actually… not true. A few feet underground and the temperature is pretty stable around 62°F. That means that the furnace would have to work less to maintain a 70°F temp. I would imagine energy bills would be pretty consistent.
I think that house is very cool… but i wonder how hot or cold it gets inside of the place
Awesome pic mannn,…………I wished I had it!
So amazingly different! It would be such an adventure to live in a place like this. I wonder how would this have been built?, But awesome it is!
Thats is amazing, just thinks how much that would cost, HAVE YOU SEEN THE VEIW
Man thats a great few pics!!!!!!!!!
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wow
Je trouve que cette habitation est exelente, fraîche en été, mais en hiver, il faut un gros chauffage à inertie.
Je pense qu’il me serai agréable d’y vivre, plus proche de la nature, au coeur de la nature.
Qu’est ce que je vous envie!
Le retour au source avec des matériaux nobles.
Merci pour la photographie…. elle m’apporte un joli rêve!
Que la vie vous soit douce.
Wow. I want to live there too!
If I would’ve had the money, I would’ve had a home like this 25 years ago when I thought of it. It’s so wild to see I am not the only one with the idea
Sorry that I’m such a jerk.
Putting quotations around a word does not emphasize the word. It implies that the word is being used in a literal or ironic sense. Saying that this is one of the “coolest” homes ever implies to the reader that it is literally cold, not that it is really cool (i.e. awesome). Asterisks would have worked fine in this case.
Yeah, thank you for your ‘input’. The use was actually meant to be literal and ironic at the same time. You see, underground it is actually ‘cool’ with a mean temperature of 62°F.
grammarnazi, I am sorry you are such a jerk too. I am also sorry that you give poor advice.
As the author already noted, the quotation marks are appropriate for the title not to mention the fact that asterisks would have looked retarded.
Wow, this house is just gorgeous!
Just out of curiousity, I wonder how much they paid for the land.. And how the council or whatever decided on a price for the piece of land..
It’s pretty damn awesome!
this is for sale on ebay, at least it was a week ago
This is a beautiful place and you are very close to nature. You must be very lucky.
nice..cool. hope you can send a lot more pictures of beautiful houses/homes.
Awesome content! Love 2 live there:)
Quite an amazing place. I would not mind living there myself. I love the spacious interior. And it would be great for energy efficiency.
Thanks for sharing. There was a home like this around here. It was built in the seventies when many were into energy saving houses. It was built into a mountain with a southern window exposure.
what if the cave collapses?
That is by far the most original house I haver seen. Simply amazing. Although I suppose its more of a dwelling than a house!
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That is a awsum house but i think it would be scary leaving inside a rock, like what happens if it cave in or something when a earthquake hits????
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Wow, that is a seriosuly cool house. Wonder how much it is worth!