It looks like a normal suburban home… but this house boasts a surprising ancient secret
Boasting two garages and a large terrace - everything looks normal in the residence of Newport, Oregon
FROM the outside, it just looks like an average family home - but this house is not what it seems.
Boasting two garages and a large terrace, everything looks normal with the property in Newport, Oregon, US.
But as you step inside the property, it tells a completely different story.
It looks like something out of a history book and resembles an extravagant castle with walls covered in rich gold detailing and ceilings finished with dark wood displays.
Its current owner is Almine Barton, who bought the estate around the time it was built in 1975.
Describing it as an "ordinary suburban house with shag carpets", she decided to take it apart and redesign the whole thing.
She transformed the three-bedroom, three-bathroom home with furniture imported from Europe and hand-made rugs.
The walls are covered in moire silk and imported Schumacher silk satin.
Most of the windows have been replaced with stained-glassed ones from cathedrals and from an old English church.
Almine told Realtor.com that she designed the house on the "fly" and described it as a "work of art in progress".
“It feels like you’re in a Rembrandt painting," she added.
Now she wants to sell her home for a fixed price of $399,000 (£283,000) but only to someone who won't sell or change any of the stuff inside.
Almine estimates her antiques are worth more than $50,000 (£35,000) which you have to pay on top of the house price.
What you get
A 42-light bulb Australian lead crystal chandelier
Books that are at least a century old, with some dating to the 17th century
A trunk that “predates the Norman Conquest”
Curtains worth £9000 “minus the hand-made rugs” in the dining room
Handcrafted silk rugs
An inches-thick wood door (carved by a preacher who advised Henry Ford) with antique Spanish hinges
Victorian-era wood furniture
Antique cabinets made from violin wood
A mounted mural detail of “The Transfiguration” in the master bedroom
Multiple stained-glass windows from European cathedrals
Italian stucco work
She added: "I sound a bit foolish, but it would be like taking the Lincoln Memorial apart to sell its bricks. I’m bending over backward to sell it furnished."
Almine says she wants to downsize to a smaller home that's more manageable since her health deteriorated.