The LA based couple redesigned their apartment into The Funhouse House where imagination and creativity reign.
Hacker Chris Hughes and artist Alexa Meade weren’t even together when they started working on the project. Meade asked Hughes for a friendly favor to help her renovate her home. Not long after that, Hughes started coming up with creative ideas on how to enhance the home’s design and Alexa went with it.
The Funhouse House is their private home, with each room having domestic function as well as fun function. There’s a “Ye Olde Gift Shoppe,” “Nelson Mandela Memorial,” “The Rainbow Bridge” and more. Even though the house is not open to the public, and unfortunately never will be, you can take a virtual tour of the space here.
Check out some of the rooms below:
The Breakfast Club – When the sun goes down, the kitchen breakfast nook transforms into the planet’s tiniest disco. Given the modest size (roughly 1’10” x 6’3”), this is easily the most exclusive dance floor in L.A.
The Rainbow Bridge – When you open the door to a seemingly ordinary house, splayed out before you is a set of rainbow stairs. The walls, lined with Mylar foil, make the rainbow pattern painted on the stairs reflect back and forth like a hall of mirrors. It feels like you’re falling into a psychedelic rainbow rabbit hole.
A Giant Periscope – An elaborate system of mirrors mounted on hinges in strategic corners around the house enables one to see out of every window simultaneously — all while lounging in bed.
Nelson Mandela Memorial – The bathroom closet is a psychedelic jungle of neon spandex — a synesthesia-inducing alternate dimension. While Meade and friend Aza Raskin were wrapping construction on this jellyfish room, they received the tragic news that Nelson Mandela had died. They re-named the space in the late icon’s honor, commemorating his lifetime achievements.
Ye Olde Gifte Shoppe – All must exit the Nelson Mandela Memorial through the mini “mom and pop” souvenir gift shop tucked away in the bathroom’s medicine cabinet.
