Weird Homes: The People and Places That Keep Austin Strangely Wonderful
By David J. Neff and Thanin Viriyaki
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David J. Neff
David J. Neff and Chelle Neff share a love for interesting design, eye catching architecture, and all things weird and whimsical. These things brought the two together and are the driving force catapulting their Weird Homes Tour™ into new markets each year. By day, David is an author and digital strategy consultant and Chelle owns and operates Urban Betty Salon, an Austin beauty-scene institution. The Weird Homes Tour has not only given the couple a way to satisfy their own curiosity about what lurks inside the county’ s weirdest homes but it has given them a way to give back to the communities that are home to these iconic treasures as each tour donates a percentage of its sales to local affordable housing nonprofits.
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Weird Homes - David J. Neff
INTRODUCTION
WHY SO WEIRD?
As the co-founders of the Weird Homes Tour in Austin, Texas, we’ve been privileged to see firsthand what makes our city so weird, whimsical, and wonderful. The tour has showcased homes in all their glorious eccentricity for thousands of people who have gone on the tour since 2014. With this book, we invite you to take your own virtual tour. Go behind the scenes to meet fabulous people and gawk at the inspired places that have made the tour such a success.
Austin has always been a hub of creativity, energy, art, and weirdness. It’s full of artistic people who would rather be pirates than join the Navy. But Austin is rapidly changing. And, although we are proud of our growth, we want to fiercely guard what makes Austin unique.
Some of the homes we feature here have already changed hands. For a few, the owners simply moved on. For others, rising property taxes and other hardships have forced these artists and visionaries to sell the homes they so passionately cultivated. Keeping Austin strangely wonderful is one of the goals we had in founding the Weird Homes Tour, and preserving that strangeness is why we fought to make this book a