cave sweet cave

Caveland is for sale on eBay, and it’s a pretty sad story. This family built a crazy beautiful house inside a cave Missouri and documented the construction at caveland.us, but with the whole economy thing and all, fear they’re going to be foreclosed upon soon and are trying to sell their home for $300,000 and “start a new adventure,” a quote that made me want to cry. If they can’t sell it by May 1, they say, they will lose their life savings.

There’s hundreds of pictures in the slideshow of how they built the house, and they’re especially interesting because there’s random family and friends running through many if not most; and as the documentation runs over the five years they’ve been working on Caveland, you can kind of watch the kids grow.

A sad story with neat pictures. And if you’ve ever wanted to get away to beautiful Festus, Missouri, now’s a good time as any. Or you could throw the family a few bucks on their website.