Posted by Heather -Tx on December 21, 2002 at 11:52:03:
LOL This is too funny !!!
I was in Costa Rica earlier this year, and they had an airplane there that was a bar. Which I thought KEWL!!! But a home ???
I can see this only going maybe to one of the eccentric people with those VERY strange collections 
Talk about some WEIRD houses! - Posted by TCR_Va
Posted by TCR_Va on December 21, 2002 at 10:47:56:
I don’t know if I’d live in it, but who ever thought of an airplane for a house? I just can’t believe ANYONE would want to live in this thing! Has anyone actually seen one of these on any plot of land? I’d hate to try to get zoning for it and couldn’t imagine that the neighbors would allow it either. There goes the neighborhood!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2900856256
or see the house at
Re: Talk about some WEIRD houses! - Posted by Bryan-SactoCA
Posted by Bryan-SactoCA on December 22, 2002 at 13:52:00:
I once saw a World War 2 quonset hut that was being used as a house. The owner was a washed up hippie who wanted to sell, and he got an article in the paper about the house since it’s so unique. So I went down in the slums to where this house was and asked to look inside. He’d made this metal quonset hut into quite a nice comfy living space. He said that the hut was put there after World War 2 by a vet who was related to him somehow. The original owner didn’t want to go through the hassle of building a place from scratch so he bought this old quonset hut as surplus, made it into a home, and moved in.
How about the BUM shelter? - Posted by GL(ON)
Posted by GL(ON) on December 21, 2002 at 21:57:13:
I had an old friend who bought a lot on a lake and built his house in 1929. Later he inherited his parents’ house but kept the house on the lake. He used it as a summer cottage.
This cottage never had plumbing, it had the old fashioned outhouse tucked away in a corner, in some lilac bushes, covered in hollyhocks.
Along in the 50’s other people began buying lots on the lake and building houses. Some of these Johnny-come-latelies objected to my friend’s “primitive facilities”. They even complained to the county and tried to get them to make him tear it down.
So he went to work and looked up all the rules and regulations. He found out there was no law against an outhouse provided it met certain requirements.
He happened to be in the war surplus business (among other enterprises) so he looked over his stock and picked out a likely looking airplane. He cut off about 8 feet of the nose, installed a door and stood it up smack in the middle of the yard, in full view of the highway. He called it the “BUM Shelter” LOL.
As it met every legal requirement there was nothing anyone could do about it, though some of the snootier neighbors were some hot for a while. Everyone else got quite a laugh out of it.
By the way the same guy made a yacht out of a PBY Catalina flying boat. It was quite a memorable sight too.
Re: Talk about some WEIRD houses! - Posted by Eric_Tx
Posted by Eric_Tx on December 21, 2002 at 12:14:22:
well hell lets just go for a converted missle silo for a home check this out
Re: Talk about some WEIRD houses! - Posted by Jasonrei
Posted by Jasonrei on December 21, 2002 at 12:12:14:
I saw a TV story once on a couple of these things. They’re supposed to be very well-insulated and spacious. I think the owners lived in the Carolinas.