Featured above, the Elephant Who Forgot To Spit, or The House of Cock And Balls, or The Uncircumcised House of Pain. A night’s sleep in there is like napping inside a scrotum.
In search of ugly houses, I don’t know that you can beat this brand of hideous. Built in 1976 by architect William Nicholson, the “Flintstones House” of Hillsborough, California is the type of ugly house that demands a reaction. The most timid pipsqueak of a mole will find himself “OMFG”ing aloud. Touring the photos, it’s as if you’re winding your way through the small intestine. As a result, this is one of those rare moments in a writer’s life when words fail gloriously.
Here’s a real positive, though. This eyesore challenges your brain to imagine, imagine better. Raise the bar. Because I certainly never could’ve dreamed this up. It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen, except maybe once on Fraggle Rock beside the all-knowing Trash Heap.
The Ugliest House In America
Stage This Ugly House: Blowup Doll Edition (How has this design tip escaped HGTV?)
You say Jacuzzi, I say Jurassic
“Global” Cooking – Yabba Dabba Don’t
Don’t Forget To Wipe Your—Never mind (See fur towel)
Flintstones House Kitchen
Rock Garden Friends: Bocce balls, Dino Eggs, and Polished Turds
Side note: People with rock gardens only need that one descriptor, and in an instant, we get it.
45 Berryessa Way, Hillsborough, CA
For the bargain list price of $3,780,000.
MLS# ML81513899
you can see this house from the highway (280). i’ve always wondered what it looked like inside (ugh. awful.).
Totally! I remember passing this house on the freeway as a kid, although at the time it was just beige (later painted the more colorful scheme it has today). Everyone who’s lived on the peninsula knows the Flintstone house.
I am fascinated by this house! I see it every time I drive on 280. Apparently when the house was built, the neighbors were so angry they tried to pool their money to buy it and demolish it.
Dick Clark also had a Flintstone-style house in Malibu – also fugly.