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While many of us go for a functionalist, pick\u2019n’mix approach to home decor (\u201dI need curtains: oh, that will do\u201d etc.), let us be upstanding for the financially brave, creatively passionate and unashamedly\u00a0geeky<\/em> souls who transform their homes into miniature versions of their favorite corners of modern culture, as these 8 thoroughly unique examples illustrate.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n If you wish that the\u00a0Steam Age<\/a> was still with us and have a thing for overengineered pipes and rocket-firing dirigibles, you would feel thoroughly at home in this Extraordinary Gentleman\u2019s house in New Zealand. The house is designed to look like a beached\u00a0\u00a0Twenty Thousand Leagues<\/a>-style submarine, complete with rust, encroaching greenery and a working periscope! Feeling similarly inspired? Prepare to have your savings torpedoed \u2013 this beast cost $100,000 to build.<\/p>\n Everyone wants a treehouse. (Even\u00a0adults<\/a> want a treehouse.) But is it going too far to build a treehouse\u00a0in your bedroom<\/em>?<\/p>\n The\u00a0Kidtropolis Magic Indoor Treehouse Bedroom<\/strong> is kitted out with everything a treehouse-hugger could wish for. As well as the bed (only accessible via ladder), the room contains trapdoor storage facilites and a table that folds down from the \u2018fence\u2019 running round the room.<\/p>\n Staying with wood, what happens when you want a plushly-paneled basement study and your budget won\u2019t stretch? For Lexington (Kentucky) lawyer Charlie Fratzer, the answer was simple: pull out a pen and\u00a0draw<\/em> it. With nothing but a $10 Sharpie and a fertile imagination, Fratzer has decorated his basement with staircases, furniture, members of his family and historical & fictional characters including Winston Churchill, Sherlock Holmes and Bullwinkle & Rocky.<\/p>\n Now for the work of truly dedicated parents. This is a kid\u2019s bedroom (please<\/em> let it be a kid\u2019s bedroom) in a house currently up for sale\u2026<\/p>\n \u2026and the centerpiece (if you can call something entirely filling a room a \u2018centerpiece\u2019) is a reconstruction of a\u00a0Star Wars<\/em> Y-Wing<\/a>. If you are wondering where the bed is, it\u2019s laid along the wing. All you need is a droid alarm clock and the illusion is complete. (\u201dR2, that duvet\u2019s broken loose again, see if you can\u2019t tuck it in\u201d).<\/p>\n Or perhaps your scifi tastes lean more towards the other largest franchise in the known Universe \u2013 in which case this\u00a0NCC-1701D<\/a> (that\u2019s\u00a0\u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>\u2019s USS Enterprise\u201d to us terrestrial folk) home theatre should push all the right buttons. Check out other 14 similarly creative \/ mad-as-a-fish<\/a> examples over at\u00a0SlipperyBrick<\/a>.<\/p>\n But for sheer unadulterated\u00a0Trek<\/em>-lurve, the prize goes to interior designer Tony Alleyne. After his marriage faltered, Alleyne decided to turn his flat into the ultimate geek bachelor pad \u2013 by modeling it on the set of\u00a0Star Trek: Voyager<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Press the doorbell and a voice says \u201cwelcome to the 24th century\u201d \u2013 and from there it\u2019s a Trekkie\u2019s paradise, complete with a \u201cfully-working transporter<\/a>\u201d (a\u00a0what<\/em>?), touch-panel lighting, command consoles and a replica of\u00a0Voyager<\/em>\u2019s warp core that propels the ship between the stars. (It\u2019s in the spot where the fridge used to be).\u00a0 The price of all this geeky luxury? Fourteen maxed-out credit cards,\u00a0 $160,000 in debt\u2026and\u00a0bankruptcy<\/a>. Alleyne remains philosophical: \u201cI\u2019m still proud of what I created, but it\u2019s been a financial disaster\u201d.<\/p>\n If you constantly have the\u00a0Mario<\/a> theme-tune running through your head (like the creators of\u00a0this little masterpiece<\/a>), why not turn your home into a shrine to your favorite Italian plumber? That is what\u00a0Antoinette J. Citizen<\/a> has done, as reported by\u00a0Wired<\/em><\/a>. The walls are painted in jolly Mario colors and are studded with bricks that play the original sound effects when poked and pushed (and maybe even when jumped on). How many shiny gold coins did\u00a0this<\/em> cost?<\/p>\n And finally, for all young girls pining to live the Cinderella dream (the glamorous ending, not the sitting-in-cinders part) then that dream can be a reality \u2013 if daddy is a premiership footballer with $80,000 to kick around, that is.<\/p>\n The individually-tailored work of Mark Wilkinson Furniture, these luxury items of furniture include ornate murals and hand-crafted carriage beds. Some footballers have even come up with their own designs \u2013 leading the British media to label these creations the latest demonstrations of footballers having more money than sense. Would you like your darling treasures to grow up expecting to be treated like fairy-tale royalty?<\/p>\n While many of us go for a functionalist, pick\u2019n’mix approach to home decor (\u201dI need curtains: oh, that will do\u201d etc.), let us be upstanding for the financially brave, creatively passionate and unashamedly\u00a0geeky souls who transform their homes into miniature versions of their favorite corners of modern culture, as these 8 thoroughly unique examples illustrate. 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