One looks like a desert mirage. Another appears to float. They all melt into their respective surroundings.
- Yahoo Homes/Marcin Tomaszewski - Izabelin House(Slide 1 of 4)The Izabelin House in Poland is kind of a twist on the more traditional mirrored home (if such a thing can be called traditional): The bottom floor
Mirrored homes are all the rage these days.
One, at Joshua Tree National Park in California, looks like a desert mirage thanks to its alternating panels of mirrored glass and wood; one looks like a fancy treehouse camouflaged in the woods (and another actually is a treehouse); and one, clad with a reflective top floor and opaque second floor, appears to literally float off the ground.
"The world is currently awash in mirrored buildings that claim to 'disappear,'" Curbed writes.
While all that smoke and mirrors may make them seem a little gimmicky, the mirrored house actually makes a lot of sense in the right environment.
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Typically, these homes are clad with reflective glass, which allows residents wide views from inside without allowing passersby the same views of those residents. The mirrored homes work best when there's something to look at, and something worth reflecting—mountains, lakes and forests—where residents may want to go about their business without having to pull the shades for privacy.
A second benefit: Because they are reflective, these homes are often better at blending into their natural surroundings than building made of more natural materials that hope to mimic their settings. (And a short PSA: Many of the houses have a UV coating that prevents birds from crashing into them, so there's that.)
Finally, they just plain look cool.
This article originally appeared on Yahoo US Homes.
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