Photos: Look inside new ‘Hobbit House’ in China Grove
Published 11:37 am Monday, October 12, 2020
Trent Cherry looks out of the house that he and a small team of workers built in just a few months. Ben Stansell/Salisbury Post
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The door to the Hobbit House is decorative and functional. Ben Stansell/Salisbury Post
The house is composed of two main rooms — the bedroom and this room, which serves as a living room, sleeping quarters and kitchen. Ben Stansell/Salisbury Post
Just outside the house sits a fireplace and chairs. Ben Stansell/Salisbury Post
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Looking into the house from its colorful entryway. Ben Stansell/Salisbury Post
This is the scene that greets you when you enter the house. Ben Stansell/Salisbury Post
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Three sides of the house are covered in dirt making it difficult to tell that it's even a house when approaching it from behind. Ben Stansell/Salisbury Post
CHINA GROVE — Trent Cherry this weekend welcomed the first group of visitors to the new Lucy Lu’s Hobbit House
Built in just a few months, the Hobbit House is the most recent addition to the Cherry Treesort, which now has six houses and is located in the China Grove area. While the other five houses were built in the trees, the Hobbit House was built with three of its sides covered in dirt. Only the front of the house is accessible, creating the hobbit-like feeling.
Before allowing guests to stay in the house on Friday night, Cherry and his children spent the night in house. Having his children be the first ones to stay in a new house at the Cherry Treesort is customary, Cherry said.
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