This House Looks Ordinary From The Outside, Only Until You Step Inside And See Why It Costs $7,600,000
Dragons, battles and daring adventures. The beauty of fantasy novels is that they can take you to other worlds, but what if you could live in another realm every day? Well, Oregon artist and house developer Ed Bemis managed to make that possible. Tucked away in the foothills of Ashland, Oregon sits Shining Hand Ranch, a whimsical home that is so detailed it is fit for royalty from your favorite book.
This dream home was completely custom created by local artists and incorporates eco-friendly features. The space is heated and cooled with the use of geothermal energy with a solar heated pool. Intricate, hand-made pieces are the cornerstone of what makes this home unique. Bemis spent 1 1/2 years alone carving the Brazilian mahogany arched front door. The 8,881-square-foot property spans across 706-acres, enough room to keep your dragon on. Bored Panda has your virtual photo tour of Shining Hand below, and if you $7,600,000 to spare all of this could be yours!
More info: zillow.com
Welcome to the mystical kingdom of Shining Hand Ranch
It was custom designed with the help of multiple local designers
It took artist Ed Bemis 1 1/2 years just to carve this intricate door
It’s all in the details, maple and cherry floors give the illusion of a flowing stream
This elaborate staircase was carved from manzanita branches (indigenous tree)
Artists incorporated lots of native imagery into the design details
Fire And Ice style mosaic dragons are one of the most intricate house features
The bathroom is decked out with blue Van Gogh granite
Large open windows look-out onto Mount Ashland, Taowhywee Point, Wagner Butte, Mount Shasta, and Pilot Roc
Geothermal energy heats-up the pool, housed in a separate building
Would you live here with your dragons?
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Share on FacebookBeautifully crafted, but just a little bit over the top. that wavy wooden floor makes my eyes go funny
I agree. For me this house is ugly. But probably the people who live there love it and that is the most important thing. :)
Load More Replies...All of that curvy detail and then the standard rectangular pool...
No mosaics, no wet bar, no waterfall, very dull pool.
Load More Replies...I always find these 'themed' houses so darn Tacky. I don't care that your hand carved staircase cost thousands, it's tacky ugly. There's a reason why these type of homes look enchanting in fairytale stories and movies. In the real world, they are impractical and just cringe worthy.
I like a couple of beautiful things to look at in my house ---that house is too much
Load More Replies...Apparently the designer has not heard of the concept that "LESS IS MORE"
Almost every little bit is tasteful and expensively handcrafted. But waaaay too much of it all in the same space - bet the staircase and wavy floor alone cost over a million!!!
Load More Replies...To enter this house you just have to say the word "mellon" at the door.
Lots of craftsmanship doesn’t make it any less ugly. What a hot mess.
Honestly, if I had 7.6 millions, I would buy a different house. This one is a little bit eccentric for my taste, borderline kitchy in my honest opinion. I am not denying the craftsmanship that went into the wood details, but it is too much. And I mean Buddha and dragons and Van Gogh granite and wobbly floors... just makes me think about a bad trip on acid. Less is definitely more.
look at all these trees we killed to make it look like we live among trees...
I would like to up vote your comment 100 times!
Load More Replies...Um, nope, not diggin it, I like individual elements but overall this isn't doing it for me.
I wonder why it is for sale? Strange to make something so personal and customized, only to sell it.
Actually living in that place for awhile probably drove them crazy, that is, if they ever did live in it! Not for me! Mega ugly! :(
Load More Replies...I love it! The plain doors inside are a little jarring though compared to everything else.
Interesting...beautiful, but strangely so. I don't think I could live here permanently (I'd make to much of a mess :DD) but yes, it would make a great holiday home for me and my dragons.
The people who might like this house would probably be the kind of people who cannot affrod this kind of house.
There's a lot going on here, it's just too busy and that's without furniture. Maybe the problem is having more than one artist involved so there was no cohesive vision. I don't know, I just know I don't like it, I'm sure someone else will think it's lovely.
Boy that is an ugly house. Why not just spend all your 7 million on legos are rootbeer?
That place is ghastly. My husband would tell me to say, "It's not to my taste", but I'm going for ghastly. It's cluttered and claustrophobic even without furniture and art. The endless tree branches say, "Dusting is your new life's work". He is NOT going to get his asking price for this. ... I see he's using First Nations "themed" elements, but didn't bother hiring any of the First Nations carvers to do the actual work. ..... Whoever buys this place - and someone will, Oregon's real estate market is going bananas - is going to gut it and start over. If nothing else, I can pretty much guarantee that the branches are going away. I
Probably requires a full-time cleaner to keep it looking decent. 😏
I agree with a lot of the comments, beautiful if not slightly overdone. Still though, those wood ceilings are the stuff of dreams!
NO. Because: 1. Dusting. ALL THE TIME 2. WHAT? furniture fits in this? 3. Personal art selections would be superfluous. 4.Polishing ALL THE TIME. 5. Cultural appropriation. 6. Too idiosyncratic for general use, such as anyone other than creator. 7. Who would visit you? Only other people with too much time and money on their hands?
It's sooo kitschy. I could live with that bathroom though. And pool. Everything is so too much, it's not for me. But it's ok to see it all. :)
Perhaps it's not a good idea to live there, but I would have LOVED to play inside it as a child! Also, as an adult I still want to dance around in it, just all by my self...
I love how they determine value??? It is only worth what someone would pay for it. And you probably have to find the one or two people in the world who have the money and are completely insane to like that. Good luck.
No thanks, if I lived there I think I would have nightmares every night
That front door & the gate do not suggest that this is just an "ordinary" house.
For me, the best part of the house IS the door. That really is a work of art! - Can I buy just the door? ;)
Load More Replies...You know, I don't care how isolated or far in town you live, curtains are a good thing people!!
I wonder if that's Chihuly Glass on the ceiling in photo #5? https://www.chihuly.com
Wanted to ask the same thing but I couldn't remember how to spell Chihuly.
Load More Replies...I like some individual elements ( the mosaic dragons and the tree shaped windows) but overall it's just too much.
No, I would not live there, it's over done. By overdone, I mean that it would be a constant overstimulation of the senses with no relief or respite available. I absolutely cannot see this as ever being beneficial to the human psyche, the overstimulation of it all would leave you in a constant state of psychological chaos.
I can't imagine having to dust all that fancy stuff. Do you think they keep listerine in this big a*s jars in the bathroom?
No accounting for taste. Too big, too busy, too lavish. Leave it to the 1% to steal a poor man's humble cob house concept and give it the Busby Berkeley Hollywood treatment. Van Gogh can run $200 per square foot and these folks plaster the walls with it. There are other houses that cost a fraction of this home that are hundreds of times more beautiful. The "Hobbit House" of Chester County, Pennsylvania, beats this one hands down. It was designed by Archer & Buchanan and built for Vince Donovan to house J R R Tolkien memorabilia.
Does anyone know the name of that medieval artist who did that famous door engraving?
The door was hand carved by local Native American artist Russell Beebe.
Load More Replies...In what way does this house "look ordinary from the outside"? Sure, it's less ordinary on the inside, but the outside is hardly suburban standard.
Overkill, and they should have used darker granite in the kitchen to contrast the cabinets. Individual elements are beautiful, but they're jumbled all together into an 8,000+ square foot mess - too many cooks in the kitchen, so to speak. It'll be included in the area's Tour of Homes to be sure, and maybe viewers will be able to take away elements to incorporate into their homes somewhere. I just hope whoever lives there is happy...
Cute but no. I have a 1951 home that used to belong to my Gramma. Just over 1k square feet but all mine!
It's nice and all, but for me it's a cleaning nightmare. Although if you spend so much money on it, you can afford cleaners.....but still
It's beautiful and very well built. If given to me I'd take it. There is no way I could afford to pay for it. But I could dream can't I?
How ugly is that. The guys must suffer from taste disorder. Terrible.
love it, the general feel is amazing. Some things are a bit over the top and others are not enough, like why one square dooren all the rest are bows??? but generally I would go and life there with my dragons........
My life long favorite is wood, anything wood and there is so much in the home, otherwise the rest of beauty to much. A log cabin for me please !!!
I would stay there a few days, but not live there. The maintenance must be crazy expensive. Not to mention that I loathe wall to wall carpeting.
Just too much going on, to dizzying lengths. The dining room looks tacky AF
OMG...I so want to live in this house (as long as I can have someone else clean it, lol). This house is the dream of any little girl who loved princesses and fairy tales and dragons and princes riding up on white horses. The house is beautiful and the craftsmanship is amazing....and yes it is a little over the top and not everyone can afford to spend millions on a house, but, everyone can afford to dream.
Ugh no. The whole thing is just odd. All the medieval looking stuff with dry wall walls? Branches stickin out all over and what is with the fireplace? I dont know the term for whats in front of the fireplace but its sitting up so far its just a spot for dirt to accumulate. Nope this is not for me.
Whatever floats your boat, personally I'd rather spend my money on something else !!
What do I think? Would I live there with my dragons? I wouldn’t even step into this thing with my mother’s 14 years old half blind Maltese. Please google “intricate wood carving”. It took the artist 18 months to carve those doors? Michaelangelo’s David, little over 2 years, I am just saying...
It is a beautiful house and the materials are really nice. The only thing I don't like that much are all those dead trees as decoration. A few would be okay, but there are so many and I think they distract from the design. Just my thoughts
the house is way to busy to much to view at once-would have a panic attack in walking thru
I would love to live here. May I? This was made for me and my dragons and long flowing dresses.
I love the dragon fireplace. The floors are a bit busy. But overall its a beautiful home with alot of amazing art work in the staircase and floors and marble bathrooms. I would love to live there with all of my dragons.
I was wondering what kind of furniture would even "fit". You'd probably have to have that custom designed too.
Load More Replies...A bit over the top for my taste but that's just my opinion. What I don't get is the dragons on the fireplace. Why? They have nothing in common with any of the other elements and look a bit childish to me, like something someone would draw in their high school notebooks. Again, just my opinion.
I Love this House!!! If I had the $6+ million, I would buy it in a second. Amazing house! With a house like this you would need unique furniture. Maybe the artist could make some unique furniture to go along with the theme for each room. I just love it!!!
beautiful location and very crafty! but yuck, someone must be colorblind and live in 1990 to live there
Beautiful view but interior too busy and over the top. I would get rid of some of the branches.......
The last questions asks: "Would you live in here with your dragons?" I'm wondering if my Toothless plushie counts guys...
I like it. Though I don't have millions for it. It could be a great vacation house for some billionaire out there. Love each photo of it.
I absolutely love it. I can see how it would too much for some people but this is right up my alley. SO amazing. ;)
*Too much as in eccentric. Monetarily it's DEFINITELY too much for me haha. XD One can dream right?
Load More Replies...I hope the owner is willing to sit on this house for the rest of his life. It will never sell for $7.6 million.
I hope the owners love it and enjoy it for many decades to come. I can't see them ever recouping their investment, but that money may not matter to them. I think they needed someone to help them with their vision, to pull them back in places. Sadly, the glass brick is too much of an anomoly, the blue Van Gogh marble in one part of the bathroom needed to also surround the tub. They haven't left any space to dream, to breathe.
If you want to live like a hobbit then this is the house for you. But I'm a klutz, I need carpet to prevent all the things I drop from breaking.
It would be fun to visit and see...but...my head would explode if I lived there
Too expensive and although i like fantasy,this doesn't look too extraordinary. But well done
I love how the title of the post says that the outside looks ordinary.
I don't know about Oregon but it damn sure isn't ordinary by my areas standards.
Some cool elements, for sure, but it does seem a bit disjointed. For instance the kitchen - I think they chose the wrong cabinets. Should be a richer color and probably a different style too. It looks like they got to the kitchen and said "Ok, I'm tired of being creative" and just stuck that piece of manzanita (or whatever type of wood it is) in the corner of the island. :/
Aspects I love (windows and that inner door), but the "flowing" floor, not so much. And all those branches inside are nice, but the first thing I thought was I'd have to dust them! And I don't understand the "his" and "hers" sinks...in the kitchen? I agree with many that there are just too many moving parts.
This house looks really awesome! :O From the outside it already looks kinda expensive...
its beautiful...but for 7.6mil, no freaking way..i wouldnt pay anything over 2.5mil ;-)
Beautifully crafted, but just a little bit over the top. that wavy wooden floor makes my eyes go funny
I agree. For me this house is ugly. But probably the people who live there love it and that is the most important thing. :)
Load More Replies...All of that curvy detail and then the standard rectangular pool...
No mosaics, no wet bar, no waterfall, very dull pool.
Load More Replies...I always find these 'themed' houses so darn Tacky. I don't care that your hand carved staircase cost thousands, it's tacky ugly. There's a reason why these type of homes look enchanting in fairytale stories and movies. In the real world, they are impractical and just cringe worthy.
I like a couple of beautiful things to look at in my house ---that house is too much
Load More Replies...Apparently the designer has not heard of the concept that "LESS IS MORE"
Almost every little bit is tasteful and expensively handcrafted. But waaaay too much of it all in the same space - bet the staircase and wavy floor alone cost over a million!!!
Load More Replies...To enter this house you just have to say the word "mellon" at the door.
Lots of craftsmanship doesn’t make it any less ugly. What a hot mess.
Honestly, if I had 7.6 millions, I would buy a different house. This one is a little bit eccentric for my taste, borderline kitchy in my honest opinion. I am not denying the craftsmanship that went into the wood details, but it is too much. And I mean Buddha and dragons and Van Gogh granite and wobbly floors... just makes me think about a bad trip on acid. Less is definitely more.
look at all these trees we killed to make it look like we live among trees...
I would like to up vote your comment 100 times!
Load More Replies...Um, nope, not diggin it, I like individual elements but overall this isn't doing it for me.
I wonder why it is for sale? Strange to make something so personal and customized, only to sell it.
Actually living in that place for awhile probably drove them crazy, that is, if they ever did live in it! Not for me! Mega ugly! :(
Load More Replies...I love it! The plain doors inside are a little jarring though compared to everything else.
Interesting...beautiful, but strangely so. I don't think I could live here permanently (I'd make to much of a mess :DD) but yes, it would make a great holiday home for me and my dragons.
The people who might like this house would probably be the kind of people who cannot affrod this kind of house.
There's a lot going on here, it's just too busy and that's without furniture. Maybe the problem is having more than one artist involved so there was no cohesive vision. I don't know, I just know I don't like it, I'm sure someone else will think it's lovely.
Boy that is an ugly house. Why not just spend all your 7 million on legos are rootbeer?
That place is ghastly. My husband would tell me to say, "It's not to my taste", but I'm going for ghastly. It's cluttered and claustrophobic even without furniture and art. The endless tree branches say, "Dusting is your new life's work". He is NOT going to get his asking price for this. ... I see he's using First Nations "themed" elements, but didn't bother hiring any of the First Nations carvers to do the actual work. ..... Whoever buys this place - and someone will, Oregon's real estate market is going bananas - is going to gut it and start over. If nothing else, I can pretty much guarantee that the branches are going away. I
Probably requires a full-time cleaner to keep it looking decent. 😏
I agree with a lot of the comments, beautiful if not slightly overdone. Still though, those wood ceilings are the stuff of dreams!
NO. Because: 1. Dusting. ALL THE TIME 2. WHAT? furniture fits in this? 3. Personal art selections would be superfluous. 4.Polishing ALL THE TIME. 5. Cultural appropriation. 6. Too idiosyncratic for general use, such as anyone other than creator. 7. Who would visit you? Only other people with too much time and money on their hands?
It's sooo kitschy. I could live with that bathroom though. And pool. Everything is so too much, it's not for me. But it's ok to see it all. :)
Perhaps it's not a good idea to live there, but I would have LOVED to play inside it as a child! Also, as an adult I still want to dance around in it, just all by my self...
I love how they determine value??? It is only worth what someone would pay for it. And you probably have to find the one or two people in the world who have the money and are completely insane to like that. Good luck.
No thanks, if I lived there I think I would have nightmares every night
That front door & the gate do not suggest that this is just an "ordinary" house.
For me, the best part of the house IS the door. That really is a work of art! - Can I buy just the door? ;)
Load More Replies...You know, I don't care how isolated or far in town you live, curtains are a good thing people!!
I wonder if that's Chihuly Glass on the ceiling in photo #5? https://www.chihuly.com
Wanted to ask the same thing but I couldn't remember how to spell Chihuly.
Load More Replies...I like some individual elements ( the mosaic dragons and the tree shaped windows) but overall it's just too much.
No, I would not live there, it's over done. By overdone, I mean that it would be a constant overstimulation of the senses with no relief or respite available. I absolutely cannot see this as ever being beneficial to the human psyche, the overstimulation of it all would leave you in a constant state of psychological chaos.
I can't imagine having to dust all that fancy stuff. Do you think they keep listerine in this big a*s jars in the bathroom?
No accounting for taste. Too big, too busy, too lavish. Leave it to the 1% to steal a poor man's humble cob house concept and give it the Busby Berkeley Hollywood treatment. Van Gogh can run $200 per square foot and these folks plaster the walls with it. There are other houses that cost a fraction of this home that are hundreds of times more beautiful. The "Hobbit House" of Chester County, Pennsylvania, beats this one hands down. It was designed by Archer & Buchanan and built for Vince Donovan to house J R R Tolkien memorabilia.
Does anyone know the name of that medieval artist who did that famous door engraving?
The door was hand carved by local Native American artist Russell Beebe.
Load More Replies...In what way does this house "look ordinary from the outside"? Sure, it's less ordinary on the inside, but the outside is hardly suburban standard.
Overkill, and they should have used darker granite in the kitchen to contrast the cabinets. Individual elements are beautiful, but they're jumbled all together into an 8,000+ square foot mess - too many cooks in the kitchen, so to speak. It'll be included in the area's Tour of Homes to be sure, and maybe viewers will be able to take away elements to incorporate into their homes somewhere. I just hope whoever lives there is happy...
Cute but no. I have a 1951 home that used to belong to my Gramma. Just over 1k square feet but all mine!
It's nice and all, but for me it's a cleaning nightmare. Although if you spend so much money on it, you can afford cleaners.....but still
It's beautiful and very well built. If given to me I'd take it. There is no way I could afford to pay for it. But I could dream can't I?
How ugly is that. The guys must suffer from taste disorder. Terrible.
love it, the general feel is amazing. Some things are a bit over the top and others are not enough, like why one square dooren all the rest are bows??? but generally I would go and life there with my dragons........
My life long favorite is wood, anything wood and there is so much in the home, otherwise the rest of beauty to much. A log cabin for me please !!!
I would stay there a few days, but not live there. The maintenance must be crazy expensive. Not to mention that I loathe wall to wall carpeting.
Just too much going on, to dizzying lengths. The dining room looks tacky AF
OMG...I so want to live in this house (as long as I can have someone else clean it, lol). This house is the dream of any little girl who loved princesses and fairy tales and dragons and princes riding up on white horses. The house is beautiful and the craftsmanship is amazing....and yes it is a little over the top and not everyone can afford to spend millions on a house, but, everyone can afford to dream.
Ugh no. The whole thing is just odd. All the medieval looking stuff with dry wall walls? Branches stickin out all over and what is with the fireplace? I dont know the term for whats in front of the fireplace but its sitting up so far its just a spot for dirt to accumulate. Nope this is not for me.
Whatever floats your boat, personally I'd rather spend my money on something else !!
What do I think? Would I live there with my dragons? I wouldn’t even step into this thing with my mother’s 14 years old half blind Maltese. Please google “intricate wood carving”. It took the artist 18 months to carve those doors? Michaelangelo’s David, little over 2 years, I am just saying...
It is a beautiful house and the materials are really nice. The only thing I don't like that much are all those dead trees as decoration. A few would be okay, but there are so many and I think they distract from the design. Just my thoughts
the house is way to busy to much to view at once-would have a panic attack in walking thru
I would love to live here. May I? This was made for me and my dragons and long flowing dresses.
I love the dragon fireplace. The floors are a bit busy. But overall its a beautiful home with alot of amazing art work in the staircase and floors and marble bathrooms. I would love to live there with all of my dragons.
I was wondering what kind of furniture would even "fit". You'd probably have to have that custom designed too.
Load More Replies...A bit over the top for my taste but that's just my opinion. What I don't get is the dragons on the fireplace. Why? They have nothing in common with any of the other elements and look a bit childish to me, like something someone would draw in their high school notebooks. Again, just my opinion.
I Love this House!!! If I had the $6+ million, I would buy it in a second. Amazing house! With a house like this you would need unique furniture. Maybe the artist could make some unique furniture to go along with the theme for each room. I just love it!!!
beautiful location and very crafty! but yuck, someone must be colorblind and live in 1990 to live there
Beautiful view but interior too busy and over the top. I would get rid of some of the branches.......
The last questions asks: "Would you live in here with your dragons?" I'm wondering if my Toothless plushie counts guys...
I like it. Though I don't have millions for it. It could be a great vacation house for some billionaire out there. Love each photo of it.
I absolutely love it. I can see how it would too much for some people but this is right up my alley. SO amazing. ;)
*Too much as in eccentric. Monetarily it's DEFINITELY too much for me haha. XD One can dream right?
Load More Replies...I hope the owner is willing to sit on this house for the rest of his life. It will never sell for $7.6 million.
I hope the owners love it and enjoy it for many decades to come. I can't see them ever recouping their investment, but that money may not matter to them. I think they needed someone to help them with their vision, to pull them back in places. Sadly, the glass brick is too much of an anomoly, the blue Van Gogh marble in one part of the bathroom needed to also surround the tub. They haven't left any space to dream, to breathe.
If you want to live like a hobbit then this is the house for you. But I'm a klutz, I need carpet to prevent all the things I drop from breaking.
It would be fun to visit and see...but...my head would explode if I lived there
Too expensive and although i like fantasy,this doesn't look too extraordinary. But well done
I love how the title of the post says that the outside looks ordinary.
I don't know about Oregon but it damn sure isn't ordinary by my areas standards.
Some cool elements, for sure, but it does seem a bit disjointed. For instance the kitchen - I think they chose the wrong cabinets. Should be a richer color and probably a different style too. It looks like they got to the kitchen and said "Ok, I'm tired of being creative" and just stuck that piece of manzanita (or whatever type of wood it is) in the corner of the island. :/
Aspects I love (windows and that inner door), but the "flowing" floor, not so much. And all those branches inside are nice, but the first thing I thought was I'd have to dust them! And I don't understand the "his" and "hers" sinks...in the kitchen? I agree with many that there are just too many moving parts.
This house looks really awesome! :O From the outside it already looks kinda expensive...
its beautiful...but for 7.6mil, no freaking way..i wouldnt pay anything over 2.5mil ;-)
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