The secret of the strangest house in Vietnam: Price 70 million to exchange for a villa in District 1 - Saigon
In a small alley of Dinh Nghi Xuan Street in District 6, Ho Chi Minh City, there is a very special house. According to many architects, even if you spend 10 billion, you still cannot build this house.
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| According to many architects, spending 10 billion is not enough to build such a house. However, the cost he spent was less than 70 million VND. Most of the "building materials" were used from discarded things, even the wooden planks of the dead. The owner of this unique house is Mr. Pham Ky Anh. According to him, only the sofa set in the house was bought new for 20 million VND. Everything else is made from old things, you just need to be a little creative to make it new and beautiful. |
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| Since the day the construction started, people have labeled him as a “freak”, some said he was crazy, had serious mental problems. Yet now Mr. Anh’s “great project” has captivated many people. Even a tycoon, upon learning about Mr. Anh’s eco-house, came to discuss the matter of exchanging his house. |
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| Accordingly, the price that this tycoon offered to negotiate was a villa in the center of District 1, where every inch of land is an inch of gold. However, Mr. Anh refused this offer. Because of all those years of dedication, this house is associated with him many happy and sad memories, heavy with love and affection, for Mr. Anh it is priceless. |
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| Mr. Ky Anh is very hospitable, kind and open-minded. “All the furniture in this house is the only sofa set that I bought for more than 20 million, the rest are all recycled items. Everyone else threw them away, I found the ones that still had value so I took them back, put in the effort to fix them up, and with a little creativity, they turned out to be genuine and unique items,” he smiled humorously. |
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| Although not luxurious because the materials he used were all scrap, the arrangement was reasonable and pleasing to the eye. |
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| The two bedrooms are located on one side, the remaining area is a common living space connecting to the outdoor space. In addition, from the ground floor to the third floor, Mr. Ky Anh also placed more than 20 bird cages, with all kinds of birds, from cuckoos, magpies, red-whiskered bulbuls, doves, quail, and wagtails. Wherever you go, you can hear the chirping of birds. |
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| “I have planted two bougainvillea trees since I built my house. They are now 17 years old. Many seasons have passed since birds came to build nests and bees came to make honey on those bougainvillea trellises,” he said. Mr. Anh used to be a school security guard. In 1995, because he saw his family’s difficult circumstances, a teacher at the school sold him a 40m2 plot of land in installments. By the end of 1997, he had paid off all his debts and started building his house. At first, he cast the foundation himself, then each pillar. When the pillars were erected, he covered them with a corrugated iron roof to temporarily live in, then gradually built the surrounding wall. It was not until 2014 that his family’s 1-ground-floor, 2.5-story house was completed. |
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| To others it may be a house worth hundreds of millions or billions but to him it is priceless. |
