Weird Houses

People have different ways of expressing their creativity. Some people use music, poetry or drama on the other hand some people would prefer to use the art of architecture. There are many unusual homes around the world.

In most ways, this is a normal house. It’s quite big. There’s a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and three bedrooms. But every week hundreds of people come to see this house because it’s upside down! You walk in through a window and the first room you see is the attic. When you go upstairs to the bedrooms, there are more surprises. When you look up and you’ll see beds and wardrobes stuck to the ceiling. When you look down and you’ll see lights that come from the floor. At the top of the house there’s a living room and a kitchen! No body lives in this house it is for the tourists to come and visit. Living in an upside down house would be impossible because you can’t sleep on the ceiling. This house is in Germany and it is called ‘The World Stands on its Head.’

Here’s a more normal house. Firstly, it is not upside down. Secondly, the person who built it really lives there. However, the unusual thing about this house is that it’s made of plastic bottles.

The owner of the house is Maria Ponce. Her house is in a village in El Salvador. She didn’t have enough money, so she collected empty plastic bottles and made a house with them. It took Maria nearly two years to collect the bottles and build her house. She is proud of her house. It’s only got one room, but Maria hopes to build another room one day. Maria Ponce hopes that her house will inspire people around the world to think about the environment. She hopes her house will make people reduce and reuse plastics. She is very happy in her house, but she says that it takes time for people to understand how and why she lives in here.