Srbac (Bosnia): It is not exactly on a par with the Taj Mahal but not far off: a family house in Srbac, a small town in northern Bosnia, is in its way a monument to love.
The house designed and built by 72-year-old Vojin Kusic, with its green façade and red metal roof, can fully rotate on its foundation.
Kusic's motive was simple: to satisfy his wife's shifting desires as to what she should see when she looks out of the windows of her home.
"I came to the idea to make this house a long time ago, but conditions were not right for that at the time. I had no time to spare because I had been running a private plastic manufacturing business, at the moment we also produce paper products, I had a lot of work, a lot of machinery and technology to take care of. But now, after I reached advanced age and after my children took over the family business, I finally had enough time to task myself with granting my wife her wish," says Kusic.
Many years ago, when they had just married, Kusic built another, typical house for himself and his wife in which they raised their three children.
But his wife questioned the room layout shortly after it was built.
"When I was building our normal house, (my wife and I) talked about it and she said she wanted our bedroom to face the sun so that sunrays would wake her up and I accepted that. But this meant that our living room had to go to the opposite side (of the house) and after some time she complained because it faced away from the road and she said she could not see people entering our front yard and suggested moving the living room so that it would face the road. I had to tear down the wall between our two bedrooms to turn them into a living room and to move all (electrical) installations, it was a very demanding task, it took a lot from me, but I did what she wanted," says Kusic.
But it didn't end there.