Quirky places to stay that don’t sacrifice luxury

Daily Mail ^ | 4 January 2018 | Jennifer Newton

[mairdie]

If you thought that staying somewhere remote or quirky, or both, meant sacrificing luxury - think again.

From a converted bus with comfortable beds, to an iron age roundhouse with extravagant interiors and even a luxury shipping container by a lake, MailOnline Travel presents unusual stays that still provide high levels of comfort.

They can all be booked through Canopy & Stars, a glamping website that describes itself as marketing 'a wonderful collection of beautiful, quirky and special places to stay in the great outdoors in the UK and Europe'.

[mairdie]

Canopy Hotel in Telemark, Norway, which is located in the middle of the Norwegian wilderness for ultimate seclusion

The Bower Treehouse in Somerset, which guests have to find themselves using a lantern and a map provided to them

There are two beds inside the Humble Bee house, one to use during the day for lounging on and another suspended from the ceiling

The beach hut sits in a tiny cut in the rocks above a personal strip of sand for guests to enjoy alone. Due to the remoteness of the hut, it has no mains power, a compost loo outside the property and an outdoor shower.

[mairdie]

We look at the wackiest sheds in Britain

[mairdie]

Engineer transforms retired passenger jet into 'dream home' in the Oregon woods

[mairdie]

'Squatter' secretly builds incredible (but thoroughly illegal) treehouse hidden in Canada's Whistler forest

[mairdie]

Man creates real life 'hobbit house' complete with working water wheel

[Reily]

I thought a “Hobbit House” was mostly underground?

From “The Hobbit”
‘ ... in a hole in the ground lived a Hobbit, not just any hole ....’

[mairdie]

World's wackiest hotel where you can spend the night in a Trojan horse, a troll's lair or even sleep with a mermaid

[mairdie]

First look at the magical film set of The Hobbit

[21twelve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix11VQ8f7uY

Above is a video on a “Hobbitt Home” built by a gal in Washington state. It is pretty amazing the effort she put into it - it is pretty cool, and you can rent it!

I was expecting a lot more from the “dream house” with the airplane. Not sure a camping cot amidst 40 years worth of crap qualifies.

[mairdie]

The ultimate beach huts revealed

[mairdie]

Consider it a “starter home” that someone else will buy and turn into something incredible!

[Reily]

That’s more like it!

[mairdie]

'It's like a ship in a bottle': Inside the one-of-a-kind 1880s farmhouse built within an aircraft hangar

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I think I would enjoy staying in that house for a week or two.

[mairdie]

Wouldn’t it be more fun to make your own water wheel?

[mairdie]

PING - strange houses and sheds

[Mercat]

We have a place on our farm that used to, many decades ago, a she’d where a railway man would shelter to switch the line. It was moved to our farm, wired for electricity, and a cantilevered deck built out over our small pond. Mr. Mercat restored and rebuilt it and would make a great place to glam.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Oh yes. But right now between the farm and work I am kind of busy.

But a water wheel is somewhere on the list. Maybe in a couple of years. But I would hook it up to a millstone or something. Everything around here must work! Except for the old cat. At 17 you are allowed to retire. But the young one had better hop to it. Lots of mice are finding the cow shed nice and cozy.

[JayGalt]

Our £3,000 Hobbit house: The family home dug from a hillside and built with scraps scavenged from skips

[mairdie]

I wish I'd gotten pictures of the inside of this barn. It was the one built by Henry Livingston in the 1770s. But it's amazing that it's still there. The whole property was saved because it was purchased by the husband of his great granddaughter, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, who was also the nephew of Henry's son-in-law.



A few pix of Henry Livingston's barn

The full property