The Amazing Rotating Home
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Al and Janet Johnstone have solved the problem people run into when they have a great view. Most have to decide which rooms get a view and which rooms do not. These non engineers have designed a home that every room has a view, as it can rotate as fast as every 30 minutes or as slow as every 24 hours.
Their home, and prototype, is built on Mt. Helix outside of San Diego and is truly a marvel. As opposed to hotels that have rotating views, the whole house rotates including the plumbing and the electrical systems. For a price starting at 75,000 you too can get the swivel that is the base of this cool home.
The First Floor is a fifty-two foot diameter circle (approx. 2,100 square feet), and has a full bath, kitchenette, sizable entry and garage/second recreation room (a movable wall in the garage allows the adjustment from an eight car garage and small rec. room to a two car garage and very large rec. room or anywhere in between). The garage has two turntables that rotate the first two cars 180 degrees after the cars have been parked for five minutes so that the drivers never have to back out of the garage. The entrance to the house is on the first floor in the center of the house. You can see in the pictures the large center column; which is the elevator entrance.
The Second Floor is an eighty and a half foot circle (approx. 5,100 square feet – 3,700 square feet of living space and 1,400 square feet of rotating deck) and can be stopped in any position or rotate in either direction 1 or 100+ times at any speed between one rotation in 30 minutes to one rotation in 24 hours. The second floor has a great room, living/dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms plus an office/bedroom, three bathrooms, entry, laundry, pantry, elevator equipment room and 5 to 10 foot wide deck all around the outside of the circumference. The exterior is all glass (no walls) and is surrounded by a glass deck railing. Associated with the second floor is an enclosed, fixed (non-rotating) deck of approximately 1,200 square feet for additional entertaining and fire egress.
A Rotating Home can be as small as a one story 2,000 square foot vacation home or as large as a 20,000 or more square foot multi-story main residence. From a cost per square foot basis, the larger the home the smaller the impact of the substantial cost of rotation. We are currently about 98% complete with the construction of our first, very modern, two story, 8,900 square foot rotating home. This web site will follow the construction and will give information about the specialty parts that allow a house of the 21st century to rotate. via the RotatingHome.com
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wow this is a wonderful creation...............i would like to be there once even in my life time........... 
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