It’s one thing to have a few nice decorations for your house at Christmas, but it’s another thing to try to give Clark Griswold a run for his money. While this post is labeled as “Cool Christmas Lights,” a lot of them are more tacky than cool.

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WebUrbanist has some great animal houses on one of their recent articles, but I have to say my favorite is definitely the fish tank adaptation that allows the fish to swim across the room from one tank to another. Do any of you have similarly cool adaptations at your home?

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Sure turtles carry their own homes on their back, but why limit yourself to such a small hut when you can move in to a mansion instead? If you need more proof of how much he loves his home, then don’t miss the rest of the pictures.

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Have you ever wanted to see what a haunted LEGO house would look like? Well, Mike Doyle’s abandoned LEGO houses are probably just about as close as you can get. He has three great ones on his site, including the one above, aptly titled “Three Story Victorian With Tree.”

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Artist Ofra Lapid creates small-scale model homes from photographs of their real-life abandoned, dilapidated counterparts. The original photographs are a series of the buildings in different stages of decay, taken by an amateur who resides in North Dakota.

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This Japanese language video shows a house that is only 67 inches wide, yet is quite comfortable and equipped. The kitchen is tiny, but it has a full-size bath and one of those super high-tech toilets. It’s two stories tall and features a lovely skylight with rooftop access. -via Doobybrain

When I was a youngster, I thought firefighters were the coolest people alive…not because they were heroes, but because they got to slide down a pole to go to work. These days, while I respect the heck out of firefighters (anyone who lives in Southern California knows just how important they are), I have to say the people who own this house filled with slides might just be the coolest people on earth.

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Jon Salerno has a neat idea for a little home. It’s built to be fitted with a car which becomes an additional room when it’s parked underneath:

the fundamental structures of ‘habitat’ are a 100-square-foot cubic pod and a 32-square foot electrical vehicle, usable separately (as a microhome and car) or together, to create a 132-square-foot multi-level living space. the vehicle’s four chairs are reconfigurable: arranged in a normal forward position for driving,but rotatable to face one another to create a small living room when the car is docked to the home.

utilizing solar and wind energy, the two structures each store and feed energy to one another, with adjustable solar panels lining the roof of the living structure.

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And you thought your place was a dump. What if you actually lived in a dump truck? This industrious person has utilized every bit of a small living space inside of an old garbage truck. See link for full gallery.

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The Check House in Framlingham, UK — that’s the narrow building in the background — is only seven feet wide! It’s kind of upside-down because the first floor has a bedroom and the second floor has a kitchen and sitting room. The house, which has only 308 square feet of interior space, used to be part of a mill:

The tiny Victorian property in Framlingham, Suffolk, has the kitchen on the first floor and the bedroom underneath – and once formed part of a steam mill.

The one-bedroom house is part of the sought-after Mauldens Mill development. It is the last remaining Victorian part of the old steam mill.

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Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum of Massachusetts are pretty enthusiastic about steampunk. So much so that they have converted the entire interior of their home into a steampunk haven called Modvic (modern Victorian). The full-house effect is amazing, as can be seen in the photos on the linked page.

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WebEcoist has some truly fantastic homes on their latest post, including this fantastic hobbit house above. The whole collection is quite nice.

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WebUrbanist has some fantastic houses on this list, the upside down one is probably my favorite after this list. Don’t miss out, click the link and view them all.

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