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IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT HOME

How would you like to live in a castle, a tree house or even underground? This might not be as unusual as you think. It seems that these days more and more people want to live somewhere special and out of the ordinary, and if they can’t buy what they want they are quite prepared to build it from scratch.
For John Mew and his wife Josephine, their home really is their castle. They have built their own English castle in the Sussexcountryside. The building is bright new with all the luxuries you would expect from a house that cost more than £350,000 to build. However, when you first see it from the outside it would be easy to think that you are looking at an ancient monument. The building has a lot of the features of a traditional castle, including a keep, a moat and a drawbridge. “My choice of house is somewhat eccentric and building it was very hard work, but we’ve got the perfect place to live,” Mew says. Although some would say that the building is impractical and may be cold in harsh British winters, he certainly has got a unique and spacious home.
If you don’t look carefully, you might not even see the home that Jonathan Ridley-Jones and Sharon Ridd built at all! That’s because the house is a converted underground water tank. The only thing that can be seen from the surface is the door leading into the hillside. “We’ve never wanted to live in an ordinary house”, Sharonsays. “Living below ground means that our home is quiet and very cosy – none of the usual draughts. It doesn’t damage the local surroundings and has very low fuel bills. Some of our friends find it dark and feel shut in when they first visit, but they soon get used to it!”
If an underground home does not appeal to you, how about living in the tree tops? Dan Garner, a tree surgeon from Gloucestershire, certainly thinks that this is the way to go up in the world.
“When our family became short of space at home our solution was to build a luxury tree house in the garden. The tree house is built into a spruce tree six meters above the ground. It has one main room, a bedroom and a balcony running around two sides.”
Garner is so happy with this practical extension to his home that he thinks he can convince more people of the benefits of living in the trees. He wants to set up his own enterprise making more of the deluxe tree dwellings, saying, “Tree houses are airy, secure and comfortable and the only disadvantage is that they might not be suitable for people who suffer from hay fever or a fear of heights!”
Even people who live in more ordinary settings sometimes can’t resist doing something to make them stand out from the crowd. One extreme example of this is Bill Heiners’ house in Headington, Oxfordshire. Until one morning in 1986, his house looked much like all the others in his street, when suddenly overnight a 7.5 mlong fiberglass shark appeared to have crashed through the roof. The shark was a sculpture by local artist John Buckley. At first some people complained that it might be dangerous or that it spoiled the look of the neighbourhood, but engineers checked that the sculpture was safe and the ‘Headington shark’ has become a well-known and popular landmark. It seems that no matter where you live, you can always do something to make sure your house says something about who you are.

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In search of the perfect home

Nowadays a lot of people want to be “unique”, to stand out from the crowd, and some of them thought to change their living place.

The first example is of John and Josephine Mew, who considered that only a castle could be a proper home for them. The building has the features of a traditional castle: a keep, a moat and a drawbridge. For these people this is the perfect place to live.

Another example is of Jonathan Ridley-Jones and Sharon Ridd who built a house in a converted underground water tank. They consider they have a quiet and very cosy home, without the usual draughts. As the house is underground it doesn’t damage the surrounding and has low fuel bills.

Dar Garner thought to extend the living space of his family building a tree house in their garden. The house was built in a spruce tree, six meters above the ground. It’s quite large, with a bedroom, a main room and a balcony running around two sides. He considers his house comfortable and airy, but he doesn’t recommend it to people who suffer of hay fever or a fear of heights.

Another original person who wanted to change his ordinary living place is Bill Heiner. One day his neighbours noticed that a 7.5 meters long shark crashed through the roof of Bill Heiner’s house. In fact the shark is a fiberglass sculpture made by a local artist and it is not dangerous for the house or for other neighbouring houses.

No matter where people live, they always can do something to make their houses nice and comfy for themselves.