Cool, but I suspect somewhat hard to live with. At least for me things like that are almost headache inducing when viewed from angles that are close, but not quite spot on. It's like my brain is short-circuited trying to make things line up.

Maybe it would be good in a stairway where there really isn't a "close but not quite" angle.

See, I like starting with it being off and then enjoying watching things come into alignment

I like that too, but if I were to stop right before things get into alignment and stay there, that would tend to give me a headache.

Well then, don't stop!

I agree with Alex. A good trompe l'oeil might be great at someone else's house, but can be maddening at home if it doesn't always work perfectly.

Since this is the first house we've ever owned, I got excited when we first bought it and asked Heather if we could get an Imagineer to design the living room. She shot me down. She is a wise woman.

True, but if it were in my house it is quite possible that there'd be reason to stop in places not good.

(I was thinking that stairwell was in a residential home, but thinking about it more it is probably a gallery.)

Maybe installing a trap door right at the sweet spot to get rid of undesirables...

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Japanese company makes levitating house to prevent structural damage during an earthquake.

I realize this thread is focused on visual beauty, but I think this idea is brilliant.

Interesting idea. I'd be curious how long it can maintain that levitation. 20-30 seconds is a long time to be compressing and blowing air with not no real warning. And if effective, how quickly would it blow the electrical grid to have half the houses in a town suddenly start drawing that much power at exactly the same time.

The picture doesn't show what happens to all the utility connections from the house to the ground. I imagine they can be built with slack but they'd be torquing on the house while it floated and there's a non-zero chance that the part of the house attached to the ground will have moved when it comes back down.

I assume those are all dealt with and not explained in a 300 word article, but they're the questions that come immediately to mind.

And just proves that Carl from Up was ahead of his time.