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“I don’t think that they realize that there are only a couple bedrooms,” Lavin laughs. “They’re not choosing their roommates. It’s awesome.”
“I researched sleeping areas of embassies and military bases in the 1940s and 1950s just to make it feel very real,” he tells PEOPLE. “The wooden beds with the little fold-out tables were based on beds in the embassies in Indonesia.”
After the bedrooms, Lavin moves his tour into the living area, complete with couches, long tables, and ample greenery to reflect the season’s jungle theme.
“For this jungle house, we very much wanted it to have a Lara Croft-y vibe,” McGowan says.
“Typically, they will drop their bags off and rush into the kitchen for something to eat and/or drink,” Lavin says as he moves into the kitchen. “Probably the latter.”
Adjacent to the kitchen in this home is a pool table.
According to McGowan, the kitchen is often the most difficult part of designing aChallengehouse.
“Kitchens are always problematic,” he says. “I always find you can make bedrooms and living rooms that fit with the theme but then in these houses, you often have built-in kitchens that are just suddenly like, ‘Oh my god! You’re in 1996!’ ”
The solution? “I try to make them go away because they just have to be functional but you don’t want to make too much of them.”
In addition to a pool, everyChallengehouse has to have a gym, and, according to Lavin, “this one is particularly nice with a beautiful view.”
source: people.com
