This Florida Foam Dome Looks Like a Fluffernutter Sandwich Gone Wrong

One of the grossest sandwiches from childhood was a fluffernutter. It’s a sandwich that encompasses peanut butter and marshmallow fluff. You mash those two ingredients in between two pieces of white break and voila, you have a fluffernutter sandwich.

Yeah, I didn’t eat that crap. I always found it hurl-worthy. Mark Boackle was always eating them. I remember his nasty, dirty little fingers getting that sticky marshmallow garbage on his hands, and then he’d be licking that crap off the rest of the day. The memory is grossing me out right now.

By this point you are probably wondering why in the name of everything good and holy am I bringing up this kid and his disgusting food choices. Where oh where is the real estate angle? Okay my peoples, this is where I earn my six-figure salary.

The home featured in this week’s column looks like one half of a fluffernutter sandwich that was built by a student. No, seriously, it was built by a student. Not a third-grade student but you’d never know by the looks of the house that he wasn’t in third grade.

“The Foam Dome is a genuine original. Designed and hand-built in 1972 by a University of Florida landscape architecture student.”

Only in Florida would a landscape architecture student build a home from foam. It’s a shame Dr. Seuss did not live to see what undoubtedly would have been an inspiration for yet another beloved book titled, “Oh How I Love to Roam Around My Foam Dome Home!”

Look, I’m no landscape architecture student but I feel fairly confident in saying that the Darth Vader looking fireplace just doesn’t “sit” on the floor like that. Something tells me that foam would not like direct heat. Just sayin’.

Serious question here: How many Smurfs were pureed to paint this house? Let’s take a closer look at the kitchen.

Apparently Cabinetry 101 is not a required class for landscape architecture students in Florida. Imagine making a fluffernutter sandwich on a fluffernutter counter.

“Every curve, arch, and passageway was shaped by hand using a sprayed polyurethane foam and rebar frame — no two angles are the same, and not a single straight line exists anywhere in the building.” To all the real estate professionals out there: are these sensational selling points? I’m genuinely asking because I don’t know anymore.

The second bathroom is something.

It seems as though the job of designing and tiling this bathroom was left to the two-year-old student. No doubt that kid thought the paste was fluffernutter.

Okay, one more.

The ceiling is what, seven, maybe, eight months along? Lordy.

I want to leave you with a positive note on this foam dome home. This may be your only chance to move to Florida and be able to buy a home on almost an acre. Who says miracles never happen?

Only if that lifestyle is the disturbing combination of a fluffernutter sandwich.

Located in Gainesville, Florida, this home is listed for $249,000.