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Before the Luxor casino in Las Vegas was even a twinkle in a developer’s eye, Henderson, NV, architect Harry Wilson was busy building his dream home. The resulting twin pyramids built by Wilson were described by the Las Vegas Sun as “a giant discarded Madonna bra, one pointy side larger than the other.” To be fair, the Sun article is from 1996, so the reference was timely.
Wilson’s pyramid house juts out on a residential street, and has three bedrooms and two baths in 2,887 square feet of space.
Inspired by a trip to Egypt, Wilson started construction on his pyramids in 1981. The similarities to Egypt’s marvels aren’t simply superficial. According to the Sun, the pitch of the roof is the same as the great pyramid at Cheops (52 degrees), the home faces true north just like Egypt’s pyramids, and the bedroom is proportionally where the king’s chamber would lie.
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So how does living in a pyramid even work? Listing agent Brad Whiting explains that from the inside, the pyramid feels like a relatively traditional house.
The master bedroom is upstairs, along with a bathroom and small sitting room. The bedroom ceiling used to go all the way to the tip of the pyramid (which lights up, naturally) until Wilson and his wife started to feel weird about all the space above them and installed a translucent ceiling. Wilson also put stained glass in the upper windows of the pyramid, so that when the sun rises in the morning one window’s scene is projected on the tall bedroom wall, and as the sun sets, the other scene is visible.
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Downstairs, where the two other bedrooms are located, the walls are squared off below the windows, creating angled storage areas—and keeping wall angles from steeply sloping.
“You’d have to have an extra-long broom handle to sweep that,” jokes Whiting.
The downstairs also features a living room, dining room, family room, and kitchen. The second pyramid houses a two-car garage. There’s a covered porch, several balconies, and a pool.
“It’s been a very unusual listing,” says Whiting, and not just because of the home’s shape. The property, which was listed at $425,000, is currently in a contingency contract to a family with two special-needs kids who fell in love with the offbeat dwelling.
“The couple that wanted to buy the house got in touch and let us know they were interested but needed to wait for some money to come through before closing,” he explains.
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Their two children use wheelchairs, and the layout of the house was perfect for them.
“They thought it would be a neat experience for the kids,” he says. The angled storage spaces of the pyramid’s base are the perfect size for the kiddos to use as hiding spaces and clubhouses.
The home is a famous locally, and the prospective buyers were excited to be able to give their kids a unique place to live.
“The owners are really great people, and they agreed to let the family live in the house until they can close,” he said. “Real estate is so much more than buying and selling. It’s more than just a house. It’s people’s lives.”
Whiting adds this deal was “a perfect matching of the right buyer with the right seller, and it ended up being a great thing.”
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