You like a colorful house with butterflies? This one is for you!

[True Dough]

Under $1 million (just under) in Pacific Grove, CA. Now go on, fly away home!









More pics at the link below. The inside looks relatively normal.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/309-9th-St-Pacific-Grove-CA-93950/19324264_zpid/?

[Bayard]

1. Now, that's cheerful!

Wonder how the neighbors feel about it?

[applegrove]

2. Was a time in the 1980s that Nova Scotia rural homes were adorned with wooden, colored

butterflies. My Aunt and I would go on road trips. Good times. Houses along the highways would have 5 or so butterflies on their homes. When I moved back there in the 2000s, the butterflies were gone. The houses there are colorful but each one is monochromatic. Your house is wild.

[rsdsharp]

3. The 60s called. They want their microbus back.

[Ilsa]

4. What if someone in the neighborhood wanted to paint cockroaches

all over the front of their house? Would neighbors object?

[magicarpet]

5. Is the garage full to the rafters with magic mushrooms ?

I think I would need some heavy drugs to live there.

[True Dough]

6. Do you think

their car looks like this, maybe?

[IcyPeas]

7. It's pretty. It was a labor of love.

The creator passed away in 2020 at 83 years old.

https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/news_blog/creator-of-the-fanciful-and-famous-p-g-butterfly-house-j-jackson-passes-away/article_ef2ecd10-207e-11eb-93dd-c3a00e4586ca.html

[True Dough]

12. Thanks for the background

I'd never live in such a house, but I would slow down and take a good look at it if I were passing by. Good to know the "back story."

[LudwigPastorius]

8. I am assuming there are no HOA fees?

[Raine]

9. So BEAUTIFUL, just GORGEOUS!!!! 🦋 🥰 🦋 nt

[Luciferous]

10. The story behind it is wonderful.

[Niagara]

11. The story behind this exterior design is extremely thoughtful.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pacific-grove-butterfly-house

Sonja had always dreamed of living in Pacific Grove, so in 1977 these newlyweds purchased a tiny cottage just a few blocks from the heart of downtown and began their new life together. In need of repair, the house was ready for its first overhaul. One fateful day, the kitchen floor collapsed under J’s feet while he was doing the dishes. The structure was in such bad shape, it only took one afternoon for J to strip the house down to its frame. Undeterred, J rebuilt Sonja’s dream cottage.

Not too many years later, J would set out to transform their home yet again. In the early 1990s, Sonja slowly started losing her eyesight, the result of a degenerative eye disease. One day J made a painted wooden butterfly as a gift for Sonja, and they both quickly realized Sonja was able to make out the bright colors, if little else. Now their home is covered in hundreds of brightly colored wooden butterflies. The dazzling rainbow house delights visitors day and night, as colorful lights keep the butterflies shining bright after dark.

[Vinca]

13. LOL - this house would be my husband's worst nightmare. He's a real estate appraiser.