This post is dedicated to actually created houses around the world that look absolutely fabulous both outside and inside. Usually, the fabulousness of houses is given by the desire for rondism, that is, roundness in architecture, there is even a term: houses of spring architecture.
The photographs collected in this post show real places, not gingerbread houses, and although the houses look absolutely fabulous, they all exist in the same reality as us!
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These include rounded, usually cone-shaped roofs and rounded openings indoors; this design is not only more durable and can be built simply stone-on-stone without a fastening solution, but psychologically, rondine housing is more aesthetically pleasing and comfortable.
Ronda old buildings can be found in Germany, France, England, North Ossetia and beyond.
DThe village, which was inhabited by fairy-tale creatures - hobbits from Tolkien's trilogy, can imagine almost everything, but this is what the trullo look like, which actually exist and live in them real people, not everyone knows.
In the Italian region of Puglia, right on the “heel of the boot,” there is a strange town, on the site of which in the 15th century there were wild forests where “arboris belli” grew - translated from Latin as “war trees”, and in the interpretation of romantic Italians “albero bello”, what does " beautiful tree“That’s how the city was later named Alberobello.
The story goes that the ruler of the Kingdom of Naples imposed a ban on construction in this area. Then the local prince resorted to a trick and ordered the houses to be rebuilt, but in such a way that in case of an unexpected inspection they could be quickly destroyed into a pile of stones. This is how trulli were invented. These quaint little houses with a cone-shaped roof are made using the dry masonry method - stone on stone without cement or putty.
Due to the thick stonework it was difficult to do doorways and windows, so a traditional trullo most often has one front door and one, maximum two small windows, which naturally prevents the penetration of light, but this technology allows you to keep the room warm in winter and cool in summer.
At the top of the trullo there is a “key”, if you pull it out, the house will collapse. The "keys" are carved stone symbols - Business Cards masters This feature indicates that initially the trulli were laid out in a cone directly on the ground and only then were walls added. A sacred sign is often painted on the dome of the trullo, which is designed to protect the home.
The most common were single-domed trulli. They only fit one bed and small furniture. Previously, trullo residents slept directly in wall niches, separated by a curtain from the main room, or used them as hidden storage rooms.
Also found useful wooden beams, located at the base of the roof, from which various things were hung or a wooden floor was laid on top and the trullo became two-story. It was possible to climb to the second floor using a ladder, which later became an indispensable piece of trullo furniture.
The construction of new trulli in the historical zone of the city is prohibited by law, since in 1996 the Apulian trulli were included in the list world heritage UNESCO.
The buyers of trullo are most often businessmen who convert them into hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops. Prices in such trullo are, to put it mildly, “biting”, but this does not in the least hinder the influx of tourists who are partial to the exotic.
Inspired by the historic center of Alberobello, local hotel magnates are building trullo hotels. Of course, during the construction of such complexes they use modern materials, and fashion designers are working on the interior of a trullo, and only a distant external resemblance makes them similar to a real traditional trullo.
Today trullo in Alberobello are full-fledged dwellings with all amenities, from modern cottage they are distinguished only by appearance and the uniqueness of the construction method
Locals carefully monitor the condition of their precious homes. There has long been no need for collapsible houses, but modern builders are partially trying to adhere to tradition. When repairing trullo, the same limestone rocks are used, but, however, now the stones are held together with mortar to avoid new damage.
It's hard to imagine, but in all these cozy houses real people actually live. It's even harder to imagine that they everyday life full of the same problems and worries as those who live in a boring block high-rise building.
Designer Yuri Gaidukov is known throughout Russia for his very unusual and even very strange projects. 
To be honest, sometimes you really really want to go there, it becomes somehow cozy even just by looking at these fairy-tale houses. And, of course, incredibly curious: “What’s inside?” Here we go h Let's take a look at the next amazing house that one created married couple from Minsk. total area this house is 180 sq. meters, and it includes five rooms. Interesting project unusual people.
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And this amazing house was built by a married couple of doctors in the city of Zell on the Moselle River in Germany. They approached the creation of the house with imagination! Stone tiles, sandstone and other natural materials were used for the construction and the result was a real house from a fairy tale. Only very kind people could build such a house...
The following is a story about: Houses of the town of Carmel, built by citizens who dedicated their lives to work related to the aesthetic arts. Located on the Monterey Peninsula, California, USA, the city, founded in 1902, is famous for its natural landscapes and rich artistic history.
Carmel-by-the-Sea is located on the Pacific coast, approximately 330 miles north of Los Angeles, and 120 miles south of San Francisco. In 1924, Hugh Comstock came to Carmel to visit his sister Catherine and her husband George Seideneck, artists, members of the Carmel Art Association
In Carmel, Hugh met Mayotta Brown, a saleswoman and maker of rag dolls called "Otsy-Totsys". Hugh and Mayotta married that same year. Buyers from large cities placed many orders for the dolls, which soon filled their house to capacity. Hugh's wife asked him to build a summer house for use as a showroom.
Hugh was neither a builder nor an architect, but he loved to draw.
He designed and built with Mayotta a whimsical cottage inspired by the watercolor illustrations of British children's books by illustrator Arthur Rackham
The locals loved Hugh's intriguing creation and wanted him to design and build their cottages and shops.
His houses have served as inspiration to other builders over the years. 
Who builds these gingerbread houses and hobbit holes? According to psychologists, these are people who seek to escape from real life. But this is probably not surprising: having matured, impressionable dreamers do not at all want to accept the harsh, and sometimes cruel, reality happening outside the windows of their “house”.
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I wish you to build your own cozy dream home, not like everyone else’s!
Fairytale style is often associated with a small cottage, an English Tudor cottage, a Norman castle or a French provincial house. Fairy-tale style house designs are rarely higher. The asymmetrical façade with a complex steep roof distinguishes it from a fairy-tale style.
The roof of a fairytale house is covered with a composite covering that imitates a thatched roof, giving rounded edges to the roof overhangs, or imitates a tiled roof, in which case the rafters are extended with fillets, giving the ends of the slopes a flatter appearance. Roof overhangs are usually not hemmed, but carved and left open; also on the gables, the ridge beam and purlin beams decorated with wooden lintels are left visible,
Turrets, dormers, many bay windows and ledges and niches in the walls are characteristic features of a fairy-tale house. Tall, narrow, often arched windows are arranged in several units side by side. They are often made with a mesh binding or decorated with decorative latticework to highlight the fairytale style. Doors also do not go unnoticed. They can be made to look like massive ones made from artificially aged boards, connected by massive forged plates of black metal, with small round or rectangular windows. If the windows are arched, then the doors should be arched.
If the design of a fairy-tale house should resemble a Russian fairy tale, then the facade is finished with a gun carriage. If the house design is based on a French fairy tale, for example, “Puss in Boots” or “Cinderella,” then most often the walls are plastered, and some parts of the house are finished with crushed or untreated stone, for example, the base, porch and ducts of stove and ventilation pipes, if the pipes will be metal. Also, very often the gables of the walls are finished with wood chips or siding imitating chips. The project of a fairy-tale house based on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm can be built using half-timbered technology, or using any other technology with the façade finished with boards, in the form of half-timbered timber. A fairy-tale house based on English fairy tales can be decorated in the same way, but it can be lined with decorative facing bricks of dark red color.
Inside the fairytale house, the wooden beams and rafters are left exposed. The rooms in a fairy house are usually small in size and are furnished with antique or simple wooden furniture, either painted in pastel colors or stained to give an aged look. Fairytale style house designs come from European style houses, so take a look. If you need a small house up to 100 sq.m., then you will find a house project in.
Ecology of life. Have you been dreaming of your own home for a long time? Or maybe there is enough space on your site for a small extension in which you would be happy
Have you been dreaming of your own home for a long time? Or maybe there is enough space on your site for a small extension in which you would happily engage in your favorite hobby or just relax alone from the everyday hustle and bustle? It is not at all necessary to take out loans or save every ruble from your salary; there are many people who have built their dream home without having significant funds. As you know, the main thing is desire!
1. Hobbit's house
Simon Dale from Great Britain has always dreamed of having his own home. But with modern real estate prices I couldn’t afford it. He did not take out a mortgage, but built a summer residence for his wife and two children with his own hands on a small plot of land in Wales.
Simon had no previous experience in construction. He was helped by relatives and friends, the whole process took 4 months. It was decided to build the house on the slope of a hill. For this purpose, a pit was dug at the site; the soil and stone extracted from it were used for the foundation and supporting walls.
Both wood waste and wood from the nearby forest were used. The roof, floor and walls were covered with thatch, which provided thermal insulation, after which the walls were covered with lime plaster, allowing the house to “breathe”.
Insulation was also placed on the roof, with turf and grass on top. The original roof design with a hatch at the top provided natural light during the day.
The house is heated by a fireplace; the chimney passes through a stone, which retains heat for a long time.
The frame was made of oak; During construction, the simplest tools were used. As Simon himself says, they found some materials (for example, windows, plumbing, sockets, wires) in landfills. The house uses solar energy and uses a cellar instead of a refrigerator.
Such a house is not only simple, cheap and environmentally friendly - it is a reflection of individuality, the opportunity to live in harmony with nature, freedom from the cliches of the modern construction industry.
Simon claims that he did not intentionally build the home to look like a “hobbit house.” The family uses it as a summer residence, and Simon has since received many orders for similar buildings. Here, for example, is another house he built:
2. Eco-house made from earth
Yes, you heard right! From the most ordinary land, which, as you know, is free. Or, more precisely, from bags of earth.
As experts say, it is better to use clay-containing soil - it will harden after molding, which will give the structure additional strength. A foundation for such a house is not needed, it can be built directly on the ground, you just need to level the site.
The geometry of the building can be arbitrary - from a small house with a dome in a fairytale style to a full-fledged large building of any shape, even the most bizarre.
Bags of earth are stacked on top of each other; For molding, it is convenient to use a plate that is placed under the bag: the soil in the bag is compacted, and then the plate is removed. For additional binding, wire, mesh or boards are laid through the rows of bags.
Dome-shaped structures eliminate the need to make ceilings. You can use regular film as insulation.
An interesting element is the bags themselves. They are very cheap; They can be found in landfills or in stores, where they remain after packaging of goods. If a large construction project is planned, it is convenient to use rolls of sack fabric - this will allow you to build the house as a single ring.
The material of the bags is quite durable, it allows you to form more stable blocks: lime mortar is poured into the bags, after which they are placed in molds to obtain ready-made building elements. Blocks can also be formed from clay and straw.
The walls made of sacks are plastered, whitewashed and painted.
3. Bottles for home
When constructing walls, bottles are also used - these can be either plastic or glass containers. The thermal resistance of a wall made of one layer of glass bottles is equal to a brick wall 0.55 m thick! At the same time, it is 2.5-3.5 lighter and thinner.
For one square meter of such a wall you will need about 200 bottles and approximately 150 liters of solution (depending on the width of the seam).
Such a structure will not only be cheap, warm and durable, but also environmentally friendly - collecting bottles in the area will help clean up the area and help the environment.
A house made from plastic bottles is also easy to build, but you will need patience: each bottle will need to be filled with sand or soil.
After the bottles are laid in a cement-sand mortar, the walls are reinforced with a chain-link mesh (you can simply wrap the necks with rope) and then plastered. The finished structure is practically no different in appearance from a house built from familiar materials:
Bottles can also be used to create a floating house. And the very first building in the world made of such material was erected in 1902 and looked like this:
Well, what to do if all of the above for some reason does not suit you, and you are limited in funds?..
Well, it's time to remember the classics. Let me introduce...
4. Her Majesty Zemlyanka
This type of housing has been known since Neolithic times; it is one of the oldest and widespread throughout the world. If you are planning a large construction project, the dugout will serve you not only as the first temporary structure on the site, but also as a cellar or additional utility room in the future.
However, its advantages cannot be diminished in the role of the main residence or additional residential building! The main advantages of the dugout are the optimal temperature inside; ease of construction (it can be built very quickly and even alone) and low cost. And also - invisibility: as soon as grass grows on the roof, your house will no longer stand out from the surrounding landscape.
To some, such a project will not seem very attractive - the stereotype about the dugout as a relic of history remains in the minds. In extreme cases, it is perceived as a cellar for storing workpieces. But modern dugouts look no less worthy than traditional houses. Cozy, lined inside and outside with boards, with small round windows - they are pleasing to the eye and are gaining popularity throughout Europe. It’s as if time itself is intertwined in them - past and present, nature and man...
Their newfound popularity sometimes makes it difficult to understand what it is: a dugout or a modern cottage sunk into the ground?
Focus on interior and exterior details that will help you change your friends' perception of the dugout as a dull cellar. Fancy windows, a decorative fence at the entrance - and now you are Snow White in your quiet forest shelter...
It is also worth remembering the bunded house (it is also called a fox hole). Such a house can be slightly recessed, be completely above ground, or combine above-ground and bunded parts.
Such a structure is suitable for any terrain and any relief, adapting to it, repeating its contours. Such houses interact perfectly with the environment, and the earth seems to cover them with a blanket, protecting them from cold and wind.
Unlike a dugout, a bunded house should rather be called an earthen hill (it can even be attached to a hill, which will serve as a natural fence). Actually, it’s logical to consider “the hobbit’s house” a variation on this theme.
A diked house does not take up much space, and the land nearby and on it can be used for planting strawberries, raspberries and flowers, turning your home into a real flowering bed.
Perhaps, with a dugout or a “fox hole” you will not be afraid of an increase in average annual temperatures - in such a house you can forget about the heat and the need to install an air conditioner. It will maintain a positive temperature, which will reduce heating costs in winter. The walls of such a house always breathe; from year to year it becomes stronger due to the fact that the earth is compacted, and its top layer is held together by the roots and rhizomes of grasses. If you do ventilation correctly, you can also forget about dampness.
In fact, there are hundreds of ideas on how to build a small house cheaply and quickly! You just need time and desire to figure it out and choose the appropriate method. And then call your friends and acquaintances and start construction. After all, if you think about it, people used to build their houses without construction companies, loans and catalogs.
The terrain itself suggests what is best to build on the site: contaminated territory - go ahead for bottles; hilly terrain - “hobbit house” or “fox hole”; a lot of clay soil - a house made of earth...
It’s easy to find like-minded people on the Internet; By helping each other build, you will gain experience and make new interesting friends. And don’t forget: you can always transform a planned house or even one already under construction with the help of original ideas. It is not at all necessary to spend millions on construction - sometimes just a few details from projects you like (for example, an unusual shape of windows and doors) can inspire creativity, introduce something new that will change the appearance of the building. published
These include rounded, usually cone-shaped roofs and rounded openings indoors; this design is not only more durable and can be built simply stone-on-stone without a fastening mortar, but psychologically, rounded housing is more aesthetically pleasing and comfortable
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The photographs collected in this post show real places, not gingerbread houses, and although the houses look absolutely fabulous, they all exist in the same reality as us!
Ronda old buildings can be found in Germany, France, England, North Ossetia and beyond. ..
DThe village, which was inhabited by fairy-tale creatures - hobbits from Tolkien's trilogy, can imagine almost everything, but not everyone knows what trulli look like, which actually exist and real people live in them.
In the Italian region of Puglia, right on the “heel of the boot,” there is a strange town, on the site of which in the 15th century there were wild forests where “arboris belli” grew - translated from Latin as “war trees”, and in the interpretation of romantic Italians “albero bello”, which means “beautiful tree”, this is how the city was later named Alberobello
The story goes that the ruler of the Kingdom of Naples imposed a ban on construction in this area. Then the local prince resorted to a trick and ordered the houses to be rebuilt, but in such a way that in case of an unexpected inspection they could be quickly destroyed into a pile of stones. This is how trulli were invented. These quaint little houses with a cone-shaped roof are made using the dry masonry method - stone on stone without cement or putty.
Due to the thick stonework, it was difficult to make doorways and windows, so a traditional trullo most often has one entrance door and one, maximum two small windows, which naturally interferes with the penetration of light, but this technology allows you to keep the room warm in winter and cool in summer
At the top of the trullo there is a “key”, if you pull it out, the house will collapse. “Keys” are carved stone symbols - business cards of masters. This feature indicates that initially the trulli were laid out in a cone directly on the ground and only then were walls added. A sacred sign is often painted on the dome of the trullo, which is designed to protect the home.
The most common were single-domed trulli. They only fit one bed and small furniture. Previously, trullo residents slept directly in wall niches, separated by a curtain from the main room, or used them as hidden storage rooms.
Also useful were wooden beams located at the base of the roof, from which various things were hung or a wooden floor was laid on top and the trullo became two-story. It was possible to climb to the second floor using a ladder, which later became an indispensable piece of trullo furniture.
The construction of new trulli in the historical zone of the city is prohibited by law, since in 1996 the Apulian trulli were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Buyers of trullo are most often businessmen who convert them into hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops. Prices in such trullo are, to put it mildly, “biting”, but this does not in the least hinder the influx of tourists who are partial to the exotic.
Inspired by the historic center of Alberobello, local hotel magnates are building trullo hotels. Of course, modern materials are used in the construction of such complexes, and fashionable designers work on the interior of the trullo, and only a distant external resemblance makes them similar to a real traditional trullo.
Today trullo in Alberobello are full-fledged dwellings with all amenities; they are distinguished from a modern cottage only by their appearance and the uniqueness of the construction method
Locals carefully monitor the condition of their precious homes. There has long been no need for collapsible houses, but modern builders are partially trying to adhere to tradition. When repairing trullo, the same limestone rocks are used, but, however, now the stones are held together with mortar to avoid new damage.
It’s hard to imagine, but real people actually live in all these cozy houses. It is even more difficult to imagine that their daily life is full of the same problems and worries as those who live in a boring high-rise block building
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To be honest, sometimes you really really want to go there, it becomes somehow cozy even just by looking at these fairy-tale houses. And, of course, incredibly curious: “What’s inside?” Here we go h Let's take a look at the next amazing house that was created by one married couple from Minsk. The total area of this house is 180 sq. m. meters, and it includes five rooms. An interesting project by unusual people.
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all 67 photos on the website http://realt.onliner.by
And this amazing house was built by a married couple of doctors in the city of Zell on the Moselle River in Germany. They approached the creation of the house with imagination! Stone tiles, sandstone and other natural materials were used for the construction and the result was a real house from a fairy tale. Only very kind people could build such a house...
The following is a story about: Houses of the town of Carmel, built by citizens who dedicated their lives to work related to the aesthetic arts. Located on the Monterey Peninsula, California, USA, the city, founded in 1902, is famous for its natural landscapes and rich artistic history.
.Carmel-by-the-Sea is located on the Pacific coast, approximately 330 miles north of Los Angeles, and 120 miles south of San Francisco. In 1924, Hugh Comstock came to Carmel to visit his sister Catherine and her husband George Seideneck, artists, members of the Carmel Art Association
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In Carmel, Hugh met Mayotta Brown, who successfully made and sold rag dolls under the name "Otsy-Totsys". Hugh and Mayotta married that same year. Buyers from large cities placed many orders for the dolls, which soon filled their house to capacity. Hugh's wife asked him to build a summer house for use as a showroom.
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Hugh was neither a builder nor an architect, but he loved to draw.
He designed and built with Mayotta a whimsical cottage inspired by the watercolor illustrations of British children's books by illustrator Arthur Rackham
.
The locals loved Hugh's intriguing creation and wanted him to design and build their cottages and shops. His houses have served as inspiration to other builders over the years.
So who builds these gingerbread houses and hobbit holes? According to psychologists, these are people who seek to escape from real life. But this is probably not surprising: having matured, impressionable dreamers do not at all want to accept the harsh, and sometimes cruel, reality happening outside the windows of their “house”.
Who didn’t dream as a child of living in a fairy-tale house somewhere in a dense forest? But, becoming adults, we forget these stupid, as it seems to us, dreams. However, not everyone “sends their childhood fantasies to the archives.” Below, especially for you, we have collected a whole collection of the most real magical houses. Let's remember together what we read as children?
House of the Seven Dwarfs. One of the exhibits at Efteling Park in Holland. In fact, the entire park is dedicated to the theme of gnomes - they really love them there)) There are really seven gnomes hiding in this house - and each one is busy with some kind of business. If you're in Tilburg (a small town in Holland where the park itself is located), be sure to find all the gnomes!
Isabella's Little Pink House is located in Orlando, USA. I’m not sure if this is a fairy tale from our childhood…. But I know for sure that a pink dollhouse is the dream of all girls.
An attraction at Disneyland Paris, the Haunted Mansion is one of the most visited attractions. The piano itself playing, the corpse of the bride, your reflection in the mirror in the form of a spirit, singing heads - you definitely won’t forget this.
And this is the house of Hansel and Gretel. If you don’t remember these, be sure to re-read this wonderful fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.
This strange stone house in Portugal is probably the creation of a fan of the cartoon "The Flintstones", which was released in the 60s of the twentieth century. It really reminds me of Fred and Wilma’s home...
How did you imagine Alice's house from Wonderland? One of the English architects decided that it should look exactly like this. To see this creation in person, head to Finchley, New London.
For some reason, this house immersed in greenery reminded me personally of the fairy tale about Little Red Riding Hood. What fairy tale did you remember when looking at him? We are interested - sign up in the comments!
We are all talking about foreign houses. We, in Russia, also have craftsmen! Like, for example, Sergei Ivanovich Kirillov from the Sverdlovsk region. It’s difficult to say what fairy tale this house is from, but it’s absolutely sure - it’s fabulously unusual.
And finally, a selection of houses for which it was not possible to find information about what fairy tale they are from. If you know, be sure to let us know in the comments!
