10 lovely houses for loners
Posted by staff / September 17, 2014
If you dream of nothing more perfect that being completely isolated, then has the Mother Nature Network got a list of ideal real estate for you!
You can shout from these mountain tops or islands as much as you want without a call coming in from the neighbors, and though they aren’t actually for sale, they do offer plenty of fodder for those long meeting daydreams.
Thousand Islands, Canada/U.S. (above)
To be officially considered one of the 1,864 islands in the Thousand Islands — an archipelago that spreads across the Canada-United States border in the Saint Lawrence River — the land mass must remain above water year-round and support at least two trees. Just Enough Room Island, pictured here, does just that. An excellent place to avoid neighbors; not so good for long strolls and sleepwalking.
Photo credit: Szilas/Wikimedia Commons
Ellidaey Island, Iceland
See the little house-shaped speck on the island? Guess what? It’s really a house. On an island. On an uninhabited 111-acre Icelandic island named Ellidaey, to be exact. This sweet fishing house is owned by the Ellidagrim Islands Society and is accessible, according to some sources, by rope (to climb the cliff) or for non-mountaineers, by boat. Although the commute may be rigorous, the house does include a detached sauna which will surely make the trek worthwhile.
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