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The African Queen is a house in Missouri with a unique African design to its indoors and outdoors. This is now on the market priced at $15 million.
The house is measured at 3,300 square feet with two bedrooms, reclaimed wood, a textured floor, an office with a two-inch-thick glass floor, glass walls, large bamboo beams, and various furnishings. The property also includes a six-acre jungle, fountains, and water views.
The African safari-style home on six acres of jungle in Missouri is listed under the Real Estate listings of the Zillow Group.
This is a look at the property from the vantage point of the main gate with a couple of rough stone pillars adorned by elephant statuettes and wall lamps. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is a look at the house from the vantage of the walkway across the banks. You can see here the large house perched over the water scenery with a fountain. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is a look at the house with a foreground of the fountain. You can see here the wooden exteriors of the house complemented by tall glass walls and the background of tall trees. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
Upon entry of the house, you are welcomed by this foyer with a console table that bears a couple of table lamps against a dark wall that matches the floor. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
The living room has a set of beige sofas and armchairs paired with a rustic stone wall and a wooden ceiling. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is the kitchen with a large curved kitchen island with a wooden hue that matches with the wooden cabinetry of the cooking area. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is a closer look at the large curved kitchen island with a rustic rough-cut design to its stone countertop that extends to the deep sink. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This angle of the kitchen shows the proximity of the kitchen to the dining area on the far side. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
A few steps from the kitchen is this dining area with a row of tall windows to give a landscape background for the round glass-top dining table. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is the primary bedroom with a large dark brown bed that complements the beige walls. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This other bedroom has a platform bed that matches with the beige tone of the walls with a row of tall windows on the side. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This bathroom has a stained glass panel on its door. On the side of this is the large stone structure that houses the bathtub. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is a look at the wooden vanity with a freestanding sink and a mirror above. On the side of this is the glass-enclosed shower area. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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This is a closer look at the brown marble freestanding sink of the vanity. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is the den with a large dark brown leather sofa topped with a beige ceiling with exposed beams. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
On the side of the brown leather sofa of the den is this small area by the door with a large aquarium above a couple of armchairs. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is the home office that has a thick glass flooring showing the water scenery below. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is a closer look at the desk of the home office with a decorative table lamp in the shape of a small monkey. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is a close look at the pond that the house overlooks. This is surrounded by colorful flowering shrubs, decorative rocks and stone walls of the base of the house. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is a look at the back of the house from the vantage of the water scenery. This side shows more of the wooden exterior walls that fit the green landscape surrounding it. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is the detached guest house with tall glass walls and surrounded by a jungle of trees. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is a look at the other side of the house that also has a water scenery adorned with tall trees and shrubs on the side. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is a nighttime view of the fountain showcasing the ethereal glow to match the warm glow of the house. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
No passport needed for this African safari – one only has to go as far as Springfield, Missouri to get the full impact of a jungle watering hole fed by a spring thick with vegetation and with a rustic outpost home bridging part of the stream that feeds it. The house named The African Queen, now for sale by its owners, is the fruition of a dream and their talent for turning a vision into reality.
With exceptional creativity, they resurfaced the house with reclaimed wood from ancient structures and had an artisan create a textured floor made from 500,000 pieces of inlaid oak, walnut, and ebony in a mosaic pattern that includes a crocodile that appears to be ambling across the room.
The office has a two-inch-thick portion of the glass floor weighing in at 1,000 pounds with views of the creek below with its rainbow trout. The ceiling is thatched with large bamboo beams where one can look out over the water and fountain through its glass wall. Almost all the rooms in the house have unobstructed jungle, water, and fountain views.
Furnishings include imported pieces from taxidermied animal trophies on the walls to animal skin upholstered antiques with horn legs and many African works of art as well as those collected from around the world.
One can forget the overuse of granite kitchen counters in this huge kitchen. Instead, counters and sink have been honed from seamless slabs of Carthage stone weighing in at 3,500 pounds. A hammered copper hot tub is positioned into a rugged rock wall and the bathroom sink is honed from petrified wood.
Out of Africa and located in the middle of the United States, the one-of-a-kind two-bedroom, 3,300-square-foot African safari-style home on six acres of Missouri “jungle” is selling furnished and priced at $15 million.
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Jon Dykstra
Jon practiced law before launching his online publishing career, bringing analytical rigor to everything he builds. Home Stratosphere combines that precision with a lifelong obsession with residential design — architecture, interiors, landscape, and furniture.
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