Weird Homes

Name: Weird Homes
Released: 1998-09-09T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary

Weird Homes is a television series about some of the most unusual and bizarre homes and the fascinating and inspiring people who built and live in them. Eccentric yet elegant, batty but beautiful, these homes and yards salute the creative spirit in us all, the spirit that defies trends, the neighbors and the local building code.

1998 · 22m

EPISODE 1

Retired, Still Working

Some people just can't relax when they retire. A retired engineer builds a full size operating rail road in his backyard. In a rural area near Oakland, California artist Karen Wyse works non-stop expanding her home and yard with her creations. And then
EPISODE 2

Folk Artists

Folk artists seem naturally to use their homes and yards as a canvas for art. 'Dick and Jane's Spot' in Ellensburg, Washington is a delightful world filled with this couple's unique folk art. In the backwoods near Seale, Alabama, Butch Anthony treats us
EPISODE 3

Recycled Wonders

An amazing undertaker's home built out of 600,000 embalming fluid bottles. A beer can house in Houston, Texas and Moore's Junk Castle in Pullman, Washington. Wonders created from trash.
EPISODE 4

Inspired By Pain

Unique homes created as a result of personal suffering. The Button King in South Carolina has insomnia so he has taken to glue hundreds of thousands of buttons to his home, clothes and car. Ex-alcoholic, The Flowerman uses recycled junk to decorate his
EPISODE 5

Funny Farm

In Bend, Oregon two delightful men have created a fantasy farm bursting with humour including a bowling ball garden and a love pond. And 'Andy's Dummy Farm' in rural New Brunswick is littered with hundreds of life size dummies that all have a story to te
EPISODE 6

Something To Say

A decoration of homes to make a point. Pearl Fryar's topiary garden in Bishopville, South Carolina brings a message of love. 'Richart's Ruins', in downtown Centralia, Washington takes teaching art to the outer limits and in Alabama, a religious fanatic