Bouncing Off The Walls? Try A Rubber House.

Willem Dafoe’s rubber pad is up for sale according to the celeb real-estate website The Real Estalker and rather nice it is too. If rubber is your thing that is.

It’s only rubber clad, so it’s not strictly a rubber house … that’d be silly. It’d wobble around far too much and smell like an inner tube. Not that I sniff many inner tubes… Ummm.

At the risk of this post rapidly turning into an admission of gimp tendencies, let’s move quickly along.

If $850K for Mr Dafoe’s rubber retreat is a little steep for your wallet, then you can indulge your architectural rubber fetish closer to home.

Whilst not for sale, ‘Vista’ (aka ‘The Rubber House’) is similarly rubber-clad. OK, technically its neoprene, not rubber, but let’s not get bogged down in details.

Award-winning and completed in 2004 by Simon Conder Associates it’s less a house, more an art-project and – looking like a scene from a David Lynch film – it sits well in the weird, post apocalyptic landscape of Dungeness.

To make things even weirder it’s accompanied in the shingle wasteland by that sleek classic of caravans, the Airstream, which any moment you feel could pop open to reveal Dennis Hopper, beckoning whilst inhaling from a canister of gas.

I do like it, but at the same time {shudder} it’s a bit scary. I’ll stick to brick.

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