Unusual Homes in the Pacific Northwest

Unusual Homes and Amazing Architecture in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest

Unusual Home for Sale Seattle

Since humans began living in caves, they had the urge to decorate their dwellings. For most people, it’s an understandable wish to beautify and embelish their homes, surroundings and environments. For others, this decorating becomes an obsession. And for some people, it becomes a life quest, a way to articlulate a vision and to validate a life. It’s an attempt to make a dream a reality and to share that dream with the world.

 

 

Beautiful Fairy Tale Home for Sale in Olalla, Washington, a short ferry ride from Seattle

Unusual homes for sale in Seattle

Snow White and the 7 dwarfs retired in Olalla and now are putting their home up for sale. This is the most amazing storybook home you’ll ever find. Words can’t describe the meticulous detail that went into building! There’s not a square or a corner anywhere. Each door was hand built with extensive iron work. Wood beams were hand carved, stained glass windows are everywhere, and the walls are more like a magical cave. Perfect for a B & B and/or wedding business. Come witness the fantasy!  Click here to view more photos of this unusual home!

 

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Fairy Tale House in South Seattle!

Unusual Home for sale in Seattle

Truly unique and charming property! Built in 1941 with many of the original features. Vaulted beamed ceilings, wide paneled oak floors, beautiful handmade stone fireplace, artist studio on top level, and more. 2 separate homes! Main home: 2,370 sq ft, 3 bedroom, 1.75 bath. Separate cottage: 640 sq ft with 1 bedroom and 1 bath (cottage on septic, sewer available). This little house has already sold, but contact us for information on other “Fairy Tale Homes” and Seattle Dream Homes!  MORE PHOTOS HERE!

 

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Artistic Home for Sale in Kirkland

7822 132nd Ave NE, Kirkland 98033.1

 

7822 132nd Ave NE, Kirkland 98033.2

Imagine Living in Your Own Tranquil Paradise! This home is a custom 3 bed 2 bath, Filled with Artistic Details! Lucioni Concrete Counter tops, Custom Stainless Steel, Sub-Zero, Viking Range, Bamboo & Slate floors, Steel & Concrete Atrium, 9ft Ceilings, Open Firebox, Jacuzzi Tub, Office & Attic for Storage. The Huge 12,158 Sq Ft Outdoor Space is filled with Fruit trees, Organic Garden, Waterfall, Pond, Fountain, Night time Custom lights.

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Amazing Mid-Century Home in Burien

Mid-Century Homes for Sale in Seattle

Seattle real estate and unusual odd offbeat home

Artistic and unusual gazebo

Light-filled, custom mid-century home. One owner.. Cozy conversation pit with fireplace. Triangular, clerestory windows/skylight /Sun Room. Flat roof line, architectural wall posts, slate fireplace mantle pristine clear cedar walls. Four bedrooms incl master w/ fireplace, other 4th bed has half bath could be MIL or /home business space. Artistic Gazebo with huge entertaining deck. This cool house just sold, but I’m always watching out for cool and unusual mid-century homes for sale in Seattle.

 

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West Seattle Artist’s Home

Seattle weird unusual artist home for sale

West Seattle Artist home collage

Artist Home for Sale

Creative vision and eclectic whimsy combine in creating a signature home imagined to live within the magnificent and forever views. The residence is engaging and dramatic, enjoying industrial grade structural design with integrated and varied natural finishes. The truly original and open floor plan wows! Privacy and serenity surround this street to street property encouraging artistic pursuits, spontaneity and engaged living. 3 Bedrooms; 3 Bathrooms; Den; Studio/Office; Spacious Deck.  Sold, but we have other artist-owned homes for sale!

Beacon  Hill Artist’s Home

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Artist-designed hideaway once featured on HGTV, tucked away on rapidly appreciating North Beacon Hill. Permitted & maintained as a duplex and zoned LR2, with endless options for further creativity. Mature, whimsical gardens and custom touches throughout. Each unit has 2 bedrooms, full bath, laundry hookups, heated bathroom floors, & gas fireplace. Beacon International School. Sold, but we’ll keep our eyes open for others for you!

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Bellevue French Chateau

Bellevue Castle for Sale Unusual Home

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French Inspired Mini-Chateau – This unique home is a piece of Seattle history, built with salvaged architecture from historical Seattle buildings, including marble fireplace mantles from the old Kinnear mansion. Enjoy views of Lake Samammish from almost every room! This one of a kind home has the whimsical feel of an enchanted cottage.

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Houseboat for Sale on Lake Union

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Life in a Quonset Hut!

Seattle Architecturally interesting case study home UW Case Study

Architect designed quonset style case study home

GetMedia (9)Here’s an amazing home just outside of Seattle near Skyway and Earlington, a 1948 UW Architectural School case study using an old Quonset Hut! The upstairs is a light filled open concept space. Note the cantilevered window surrounded by clear cedar framing Mt Rainier. Downstairs is a large family room, office area, and a large extra room being used as a bedroom. Outside you will find a shop, greenhouse, lots of garden space.  More Photos of this architecturally interesting home here!

 

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Do you want to live in a beautiful, interesting and unusual home?  Contact us and let us help you search for your Seattle Dream Home in the Pacific Northwest!

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Living in a Pyramid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A client approached Jim Castanes to help her design her new apartment — in the top pyramid of the Smith Tower, once Seattle’s tallest building. Since she had a 40-year lease, she wanted the space to suit her needs. The space had once been the caretaker’s suite and the old water tower enclosure at the top of the Smith Tower.
Castanes Architects assisted her in deciding how to live in the space and where to site the basic necessities, and she took it from there. She shares the space with a huge Dale Chihuly sculpture, a gift from the artist, which fills a good portion of the large pyramidal volume that is now the living, dining, and kitchen area of this most unique home. A large and growing collection of artwork and collectibles makes this home a personable definition of its sociable and on-the-go inhabitant. And yes, she rode out the February 2001 earthquake in the space with virtually no damage!

www.Castanes.com

 

 

 

 

Tacoma Art House
Absolutely AMAZING piece of folk art created by Vladimir Deriugin in Tacoma. Threatened wih lawsuits by the city, hes put it on the market for $360,000.
Vladimir calls his home constructivist art and said the structure was intended both as an artistic expression and as an advertisement for his sculpture and film business. Read the entire article in the Tacoma New Tribune.

For more photos from different angles, check out http://www.KevinFreitas.net

Contact Marlow for availability:
Marlow@SeattleDreamHomes.com

 

MLS# 25181463

Funky Georgetown
Janine Duncan’s new listing
in Funkalicious Georgetown.
This is a Georgetown
monument, practically
a landmark, near the
famous Hat ‘n’ Boots
and in the veritable bowels
of Seattle’s industrial district.
Such an opportunity!
And only $269,950.
Cheap at twice the price!
Two bedrooms, one bath,
new plumbing and
electricity, with a huge
garage/studio.
MLS# 25169641

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The K.R Trigger Building in Seattle
Check out the K.R. Trigger Building that’s on the market compliments of Craig Roberts of Prudential NW Real Estate. This classic warehouses is in the heart of the SODO district, completely renovated for office and retail. This building has a complete Movie Theater, full functioning and stocked Bar, offices, warehouse and complete collection of over $200,000 worth of neon signs.

Imagine the parties you could have in this space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cool Renovated Church on Vashon Island

Own a wonderful piece of Vashon Island history. 1917 country church very tastefully decorated as a contemporary home. Includes all furnishings. Additional 3 BR House included with this fine home. Lots of potential in these two beautiful buildings. Sunny 1+ acre. Beach & Marina within walking distance.

Email agent for availability, Marlow@SeattleDreamHomes.com

 

 

 

 

 

The Quarry — Mt. Vernon, Washington

 

 

Located on hill overlooking Skagit Valley, renowned artist Joseph Kinnebrew has taken old an stone quarry on 10+ acres and made it a truly spectacular property with total privacy. The Residence with waterfall entry, master suite with fireplace and sitting room, family area off true gourmet kitchen, formal dining, Office/studio, other buildings for entertaining & guest suite. 2 bdrm guest house w/kit has B & B status, separate 2nd studio & workspace & garage. Fabulous gardens, flowing ponds & grounds back to rock wall, views of the mountains, valley and water.

 

 

 

 

 

This is an incredible property. For more information and photos of this property and the artist, Joesph Kinnebrew, visit his website, www.JosephKinnebrew.com. For price and availability, please email Marlow@SeattleDreamHomes.com
LANDMARK HOUSES

The ‘Landmark Houses’ program was envisioned for Lower Mill Estate, in the Cotswold Water Park in Engand. A number of architects were asked build site-specific homes for England’s landed gentry. Each one is unusual, unique and thoroughly one-of-a-kind. http://www.lmearchitecture.com/houses.htm

 

The toy collector John Rigg began wiring circuits in kindergarten. He was still little when he gave his mom a cardboard robot he built with motors, electric lights, and a little candy-filled drawer. Today, John Rigg displays thousands of metal men in a big barn near Spokane, Washington. A barn he calls “The Robot Hut”.

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The Robot Hut features the largest collection of toy and working robots outside of Tokyo. John Rigg estimates there are over 2500 robots in his hut of over 2000 sq.ft. He not only collects robots, but he builds robots from scratch and also modifies existing robots and kits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John built and programmed this robot to play pre-selected tunes of his choice. It’s called the New Machine Man Band and he built it himself. He’s been collecting and building robots for years. He relocated from Seattle several years ago to a town outside Spokane, Elk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s Steve, Diane and Kelly visiting the Robot Hut.

 

 

On his ranch a few miles off U.S. 2, Rigg built a 2,000-square foot “Robot Hut.” Outside theres a 20-foot tall wooden robot attached to the building. Inside are life-size reproductions of famous robots such as Maria from “Metropolis” and Gort from “The Day The Earth Stood Still.”

There are rows of robot toys, displayed in custom-built glass cases. They range from square-headed Rockem, Sockem robots to Robocops to Terminators to Atomic Robot Man toys built in Japan in the 1940s. There is a replica of the time machine from the 1960 movie “The Time Machine,” with spinning disks and flashing lights.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m standing here by this robot so you can see the scale of some of John Rigg’s large lifesize creations. Rigg, an electrical designer, also makes exact, working copies of famous robots from movies, often using original blueprints. He has sold some of those replicas for hefty fees.

But he can make only a few of the replicas, as a homage to the originals, because he does not have the business rights to mass produce them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The life-size replicas are uncanny. Robot B-9 turns its body, raises its head and shouts “Danger Will Robinson!” Robby the Robot lights up, moves and talks. Gorts visor slides up.

There are talking models of the sniveling C-3PO and a chirping R2-D2 from “Star Wars.”

Rigg built a working replica of the robot car from “Forbidden Planet,” including buttons on the floor that turn the vehicle right and left. The only time Rigg drove the car, he crashed into his mailbox.

Rigg does have one unique robot, which features a lifelike cast of his own face, with moving eyes and Dustbusters for feet. He calls it Robo-Rigg.

Rigg grew up in Spokane and moved to Seattle after high school to pursue a career in music. He worked 18 years there, designing a wide variety of electronic equipment for AEI Music.

Tired of the daily commutes, Rigg decided to move back to the Spokane area and built the Robot Hut.

 

Visit Virtual Robot Hut at: http://www.robothut.robotnut.com/

 

 

Church Building for Sale
Have you dreamed of owning your own Church? How about one that is part residence and part business? Open up an Antique store, Book store or whatever your heart desires (restaurant may pose a problem as property is on septic) Or take over the current owners business of Art Gallery – Gem/Frame Shop. Live upstairs in connected 4 bedrooms or in the 1 bedroom detached home directly behind the shop. No commute to deal with!

The old church is located in Start Up, Washington, on Highway 2, about 8 miles East of Monroe. It’s about 45 minutes from Seattle, if you drive fast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asking Price, $600,000. Email Marlow to check availability. Marlow@SeattleDreamHomes.com

“The Barn” in La Connor

 
Architect Allen Elliott designed this fabulous home on 2.96 acres with views of Mt. Baker & the Skagit Valley. ‘The Barn’ was totally renovated w/conference room, workshop, bath, office w/decks plus kitchen. 2nd level is open style w/living room, dining room, TV area & fabulous kitchen for entertaining, sunroom opens to large deck overlooking the Valley. This property is designed with an Artistic Touch! MSL# 25038399

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact Marlow@SeattleDreamHomes.com for availability.

Castle in Graham, one hour south of Seattle

 

Graham Castle. 4200 sq ft, 1.2 acre, 3+ garage, 4+ bed, 2.5 bath, shed, Mt Rainier and Olympic views from turret and roof. Wow. $470,000

Chehalis Castle (?)

 

But look, only $135,000! Ask about MLS# 25108946

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Steve is a consummate collector extraordinaire.
He lives in South Seattle with a beautiful Southern view,
and delights in his incredible collections.

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Marlow Harris
Windermere Real Estate
1112 19th Ave. E., Seattle WA 98112

206-329-3795
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