Party at Frodo's, dude!
Have you ever wanted everyone in your neighborhood to share your values? Have your unique outlook on life? Enjoy a similar vision of how the houses in the subdivision should look, be maintained or landscaped? Would it somehow make you feel better to live in an outrageously priced town home that is nothing more than a defunct movie set?
Dream no more! Move right in to Shire in Bend, (as in around the bend) OR. This planned (try obsessively engineered) community has been built to resemble Bilbo Baggin's hometown the Shire. Gosh, just what I've always wanted. To live in a hollow tree with the Keebler elves!
According to the Nanaimo Daily News, the development features "faux thatched roofs, medieval signage, fireplaces with Rohan carvings, and irrigation canal dubbed Brandywine Brook, and maintenance sheds built into the hillside to look like hobbit holes."
The houses aren't all that big, but they sure are pricey: $600-$900K. Seems it takes more than middle income to live in Middle Earth...
So far I haven't been able to find out how many units have been sold, but it would be of interest.
I'd love to live in a community of like-minded souls. People who are committed to living with nature, deep in the woods, maintaining their exotic sports cars quietly in their 8-car garages. We could call it Walden Pond With Paved Access or something.
As the cartoon strip Sylvia would say: Which Gender are you? Answer below and find out.
Would you buy a Hobbit House?
A) Like, would Gandolf come and visit?
B) No, but at least it's comforting to know all the geeks are contained in one place.
Read another blogger's take here.
Covenants Enforcer ?
Have you ever wanted everyone in your neighborhood to share your values? Have your unique outlook on life? Enjoy a similar vision of how the houses in the subdivision should look, be maintained or landscaped? Would it somehow make you feel better to live in an outrageously priced town home that is nothing more than a defunct movie set?
Dream no more! Move right in to Shire in Bend, (as in around the bend) OR. This planned (try obsessively engineered) community has been built to resemble Bilbo Baggin's hometown the Shire. Gosh, just what I've always wanted. To live in a hollow tree with the Keebler elves!
According to the Nanaimo Daily News, the development features "faux thatched roofs, medieval signage, fireplaces with Rohan carvings, and irrigation canal dubbed Brandywine Brook, and maintenance sheds built into the hillside to look like hobbit holes."
The houses aren't all that big, but they sure are pricey: $600-$900K. Seems it takes more than middle income to live in Middle Earth...
So far I haven't been able to find out how many units have been sold, but it would be of interest.
I'd love to live in a community of like-minded souls. People who are committed to living with nature, deep in the woods, maintaining their exotic sports cars quietly in their 8-car garages. We could call it Walden Pond With Paved Access or something.
As the cartoon strip Sylvia would say: Which Gender are you? Answer below and find out.
Would you buy a Hobbit House?
A) Like, would Gandolf come and visit?
B) No, but at least it's comforting to know all the geeks are contained in one place.
Read another blogger's take here.
Covenants Enforcer ?
2 comments:
no covenants here. i think i'll paint my house bright purple camoflage.
Hmm! Orlando Bloon might visit too? LOL this is crazy.
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