By Janet Eastman | The Oregonian/OregonLive | Posted March 11, 2019 at 08:12 AM | Updated March 11, 2019 at 08:43 AM
Do you live in a treehouse, former airplane or funeral parlor? Do friends think your home décor is offbeat, your collection off-putting, but you love it? Then show off your pride for oddness at Portland’s Weird Homes Tour on June 29.
Organizers are combing neighborhoods now, searching for up to 10 out-of-the-ordinary dwellings designed by eccentrics, artists and over-the-top collectors. Is your place magical, unconventional?
You can also nominate a friend’s place.
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Last summer, Portland’s first annual Weird Homes Tour let ticket holders inside a Boeing 727-200 airplane where Bruce Campbell, an electrical engineer, not the actor, has lived for two decades after parking it among Douglas fir trees in Hillsboro.
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… and explored the kaleidoscopic House of Sarcasm in Southeast Portland’s Mt. Scott-Arleta neighborhood. Here, artist Christine Claringbold, who views paint as a “living entity,” has created explosively colorful ceiling mandalas and psychedelic murals.
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But, hey, there are more bizarre abodes out there. Here’s a chance for your standout home to be celebrated. If you’d like to join in, go to www.weirdhomestour.com
[2018: A 1911 church converted into a home has a massive collection of devils, satyrs, krampuses and other horned creatures. The owner, a retired Hollywood special effects artist, also displays devil books, figurines, novelty trinkets and other artifacts in what she dubs her devil museum.]
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Participating owners are given professional photos of their place, a plug for a business associated with the home in publicity materials, the option to promote products to tour-goers, two pairs of tour tickets to see the other quirky houses on the tour and bragging rights, say organizers.
[2018 House of Sarcasm. Artist Christine Claringbold, who views paint as a “living entity,” has created explosively colorful mandalas on her ceilings and psychedelic murals. She also recycles vinyl records into clocks, bowls, mirrors and jewelry, and displays her vintage psychedelic houseware collection.]
