The World's Most Extraordinary Homes: A visual marvel at some of the world's most expensive houses

     The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes is an incredible reality TV series. There is no plot, no conflict, just watching two British people travel around the world to some of the most remote locations to visit these house that cost millions and millions of dollars. Some of these houses are ridiculous in shape, color, size, everything. To see what some people can do with the amount of money that they have is astonishing.

      The first house that they show in the first episode “Mountain” is crazy. The roof of the house is made out of old wings of a 747. This at first seemed like a really bad idea, because plane parts all over the place on top of a mountain? That could make other planes flying over think it was a downed plane, and the owner had to get it approved with the U.S air force just to use those parts. Also, all parts of the house were airlifted to the top of the mountain, which in of itself is a massive cost (“Mountain”).

     In the next episode, “Forest”, the hosts go to a house that, instead of taking down the trees on the building site to make room for the house, the architect instead built the house around the trees. This led to the house looking absolutely absurd, with so many twists and turns. Some of the trees are as close as six inches away from the house. (“Forest”). This seems like a cool idea at first, but what will happen if there is a storm? The trees may get struck by lightning and fall onto the house, destroying the multi-million dollar work of the architect. If you have that much money though it may not really matter it seems.

     The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes is so worth watching. Though there is really no “show” and it is more just looking at how cool these houses and their views are, it creates a relaxing feeling. There is no thought that has to go into this show, as it very much achieves exactly what the title says, to look at cool houses.








Works Cited:

“Forest.” The World's Most Extraordinary Homes, season 1, episode 2,

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b087yy47.




“Mountain.” The World's Most Extraordinary Homes, season 1, episode 2,

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b087yy47.





“The World's Most Extraordinary Homes.” Netflix Official Site, Netflix, 5 Mar. 2018,

www.netflix.com/title/80213025.