From Travel+Leisure:
Want to live out your own fairytale in the tranquility of Montana’s secluded countryside?
Now you can: The Hobbit House, also known as The Shire of Montana, is up for sale.
The Hobbit House, which sits almost fully underground, is located on 20 acres of Montana hillside, where visitors will find several attractions from the house itself to hundreds of tiny fairy homes.
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Bordered by the Cabinet National Forest, the property offers magnificent views of Courage Peak and the Whitepine Creek Valley, and is across from Michaels’ 80-acre alpaca ranch and two-acre pond.
The 1,000-square-foot home was modeled after the hobbit houses described in “The Hobbit” and includes a monolithic-dome ceiling, handmade juniper furniture, two bedrooms, a full bath, a kitchen with granite countertops and intricate woodwork, a living room, a dining room, and an outdoor deck.
Link to the rest at Travel+Leisure
I love this. That’s because I’m short.
I’d much rather have one of the set homes in New Zealand.
The first thing I wondered was, like everyone else here, where’s the round door? Then it was, is that a real thatched roof? If it’s located in the US probably not, since I don’t think most building codes here would allow it. So why have one? Then, what would be the maintenance costs of such an unusually shaped building?
If I’m going to buy something claiming to be a hobbit house it needs to be much more hobitty than just a cute facade. If it can’t be built into a hill, at least put a live roof on it, and for heaven’s sake, get the door right.
Also, I strongly suspect it was not built to emulate an actual hobbit house at all, but is just a marketing angle thought up by the real estate agent to describe a house that might otherwise be difficult to sell.
No round door?! Hardly worth the price.
It’s not a house for a hobbit without the round door.
You could always put New Zealand on your bucket list…
http://www.hobbitontours.com/our-tours/
Where’s the round door?
The thing is, if you’re going to do this, you need to do it all the way. The conventional furniture and kitchen inside this shell really doesn’t work.
And the fey touches are much too… twee.
How much can I take off the asking price to cover the cost of getting a proper round front door?
Adding a round door would be expensive. They should have done it right the first time.