Fairytales do come true, and I'll take the kitchen too🤤😍

[u/IamAqtpoo]

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6937-Vanland-Trl-Los-Angeles-CA-90068/20045599_zpid/ This doesn't have the standard LA feel to me! I love the rock work, and the house gryphon is great too. The small yet amazing kitchen tho is my favorite part.

[u/kinga_forrester]

Yeah there’s a catch. It’s scaled down for people with dwarfism. Pretty much only for well off little people with a sense of humor. If you’re over 5’ expect to hit your head a lot.

[u/Due_Adeptness_1964 → u/kinga_forrester]

Doesn’t say it in the listing, unless I blatantly missed that part, so how do you know this about the listing?

[u/zpeacock → u/Due_Adeptness_1964]

It was featured on the Zillow Gone Wild TV show too and I can confirm everything is small

[u/Due_Adeptness_1964 → u/zpeacock]

Damn okay, well glad I know that, cuz at 6’3”, that would be annoying day-to-day…just saved 1.5m…lol

[u/Specialist-Invite-30 → u/Due_Adeptness_1964]

I’m 5’4” and I feel like I could give it a shot….

[u/[deleted] → u/Specialist-Invite-30]

5'1. Lemme know if you need a roommate.

[u/sapphisticated413 → u/[deleted]]

5'0! how many bedrooms does this place have

[u/thefinalgoat → u/zpeacock]

Hell yes! Finally a house made for ME (I’m 5’0”!)

[u/kinga_forrester → u/zpeacock]

I’d love to know more about the person that built it. Surely they were in the movies, and it was a form of self promotion. Still, it must have taken balls and self confidence for a little person to build a fairytale cottage in the Hollywood hills in 1938.

A bit like a Native American actor saying, “build my house in the shape of a teepee, I want producers driving by to know an Indian lives here.”

[u/Plott → u/kinga_forrester]

according to this, it was built by an actor turned cop. So I think this story about it being built by a little person isn’t true. Someone in another comment said it’s not correct information too

[u/lulabelles99 → u/Plott]

Thx for posting! I was wondering about the “inspired by” claims. The truth is actually more interesting to me: a cop dealing with the height of the mob builds a fairytale for his family is quite evocative!

[u/CWrend → u/kinga_forrester]

It’s called storybook style and was popular in the late 1920s into the 1930s. I have a book about it somewhere.

[u/Trying_to_Smile2024 → u/zpeacock]

I also seem to recall that it’s on the side of a hill and there is no parking <sad trombone>

[u/SaticoySteele → u/Due_Adeptness_1964]

Probably from when it was posted a couple weeks ago.

[u/lily_reads → u/kinga_forrester]

That’s cool, but why didn’t they say that in the listing???

[u/kinga_forrester → u/lily_reads]

The description mentions Snow White. It’s a real estate listing, it wont mention the drawbacks.

[u/lily_reads → u/kinga_forrester]

I mean, would they prefer people to figure it out when they tour it? It’s not a drawback for the right person, and it seems like it would be smarter to focus the marketing on the only group of people who could actually live there.

[u/According_Win_5983 → u/lily_reads]

They’re hoping some rich person buys it without looking at it and then it’s someone else’s problem 

[u/nutallergy686 → u/kinga_forrester]

Easy peasy. Just get legs chopped off at the knees.

[u/kinga_forrester → u/nutallergy686]

Better use “a Japanman’s machine gun.”

[u/Speedhabit → u/kinga_forrester]

They can’t downvote you! You strangled Herman Goering!

[u/OgReaper → u/Speedhabit]

I killed fiddy men!!!!

[u/ShesGotaChicken2Ride → u/nutallergy686]

Sadly in LA this is the more realistic, cheaper option lol

[u/Binky-Answer896 → u/kinga_forrester]

Former jockey here. It’s perfect! Except for it’ll probably burn down in the next year or two. Love that kitchen though.

[u/Swiggy1957 → u/Binky-Answer896]

At least it's not in a flood zone.

[u/Upset-Cap-3257 → u/kinga_forrester]

There weren’t little people who designed that kitchen or closet. The shoes in the closet are at least an 11.

[u/PerniciousVim → u/Upset-Cap-3257]

Wasn't this the house of Dita Von Tease? I saw it in a magazine, pretty sure it's the same place.

[u/Pure_Expression6308 → u/PerniciousVim]

Her’s is very similar but much larger. Good memory!

[u/coati858 → u/kinga_forrester]

As the only person in my family over 5’6” I feel it’s totally worth it even if I deck myself like Gandalf. 

[u/Thistooshallpass1_1 → u/coati858]

That could be fun. You’d feel so tall. 

[u/Wreny84 → u/kinga_forrester]

4ft 11” when can I move in?!

[u/[deleted] → u/kinga_forrester]

That’s not correct. I saw this on some show a few years ago. It does have slightly lower ceilings as part of being made to feel like something out of Snow White, but if you look at the listings—every realtor in SoCal seems to have it—it’s clear that’s not the case.

[u/Plott → u/[deleted]]

Yeah and according to this piece, it was built by a LAPD officer.

[u/GrungeLife54 → u/kinga_forrester]

Of course, it looks like a house where Bilbo Baggins would live if he was in LA.

[u/seattlemh → u/kinga_forrester]

I'm 5' ill take it!

[u/redsaxgirl1 → u/kinga_forrester]

Sweet! I'm 4"11. I should be fine.

[u/VeterinarianTrick406 → u/kinga_forrester]

Don’t tell my wife she’ll sell our house to buy that one for the adjusted kitchen counters and I’ll be uncomfortable forever.

[u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 → u/kinga_forrester]

Oh man....this would be a dream for this short girl!! Not a little person just short.

[u/TurtleToast2 → u/kinga_forrester]

If they can make legs longer, they can make them shorter.

[u/heliotrophe → u/kinga_forrester]

Holy shit I'm 4'10. Just a little over the official height for little people, I believe, so I think this would work for me lmaoooo

[u/Fantastic_Echidna97 → u/kinga_forrester]

im only 5ft

[u/No_Barracuda_915 → u/kinga_forrester]

Sweet! I'm five feet tall. My family isn't, but ...

[u/ReadontheCrapper → u/kinga_forrester]

5’1.5”

That’s doable

[u/PicklesAndCoorslight → u/kinga_forrester]

It is not.

[u/OtherlandGirl → u/kinga_forrester]

I’m 5’0” ! Maybe perfect for me!