Cheers! At the Farm Pub in Bristol, England, sip your beers outside among ducks and cows and lots of flowers -- painted ones, that is.
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Get Obsessed
Nightmare Neighbors Anyone Would Dread
by Brooke Foster
In the mood for a change? Sick of black-and-white houses? Well, you might feel a bit better after you click through our gallery of some of the weirdest home exteriors in the world. The owners of these spaces didn't think twice about exerting their strange (and sometimes wildly creative) visions on to their home—no matter what their neighbors said. Don't miss the "Porcelain House"—a home built from 400 million porcelain fragments—or the German building that has city officials demanding it be repainted.
And next time you walk out your front door and roll your eyes at your neighbor's disastrous front yard, you can breathe a sigh of relief. At least their house doesn't look like this ...
Check out the slideshow above for the quirkiest home exteriors we could find.
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Imagine buying a building, renovating it into your dream property, and then the local city board tells you it's "too colorful" and demands you repaint it.
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A close-up view of what has to be one of the nation's most colorful houses.
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There aren't any windows in the front of this Canadian home. Where does it get its light? Turns out, the entire back wall is made up of nothing but windows.
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Inspired by the works of Andy Warhol and Vincent Van Gogh, homeowner David Metcalfe has painted murals on the outside of his home in Essex, England.
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Architect Peter Kaschnig thought it would be interesting to paint this Austrian house a vibrant royal blue both inside and out.
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This French-style house, built in 2008 in Tianjin, China, was constructed using 400 million porcelain fragments, 5,000 ancient vases, 4,000 antique china dishes and bowls, over 20 tons of crystalline rocks and agate and 400 white marble stone carvings.
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Located in a neighborhood of the nation's capital, this homeowner decided to treat his home's exterior like a painting -- and the more color, the better.
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One homeowner wanted to exert his wild streak by painting his house a bright green. Let's hope it's easy being green.
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People who live in the nation's capital may be more patriotic than most, but these homeowners in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. took things to another level.
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