You don't have to be a huge Tolkien fan to appreciate this futurist Hobbit home

This property in Naucalpan, Mexico looks like a modern-day home for Bilbo Baggins.

Built by renowned Mexican architect Javier Senosiain, the Organic House is modeled after the shape of a peanut shell. Inside, the home features a living room, dining space, a kitchen, and sleeping areas with dressing room and bathroom.

While no real hobbits live here, the exterior is majestic. There are trees and grasses everywhere to provide visitors with privacy and to protect the house from heat and outside noise. Further adding to its allure is the fact that the furnishings are integrated with the surroundings.

Description provided by the website:

"The organic house was born of the idea of creating a space suited to human beings, adapted to their environmental, physical, and psychological needs, which takes into account both their natural origins and their historical background.

The aim was to create surroundings similar to the maternal cloister, to the refuges of animals or to those of early humans, who made use of caves without modifying their environment, to igloos and all such sheltering spaces: concave like the arms of a mother cradling her child, continuous, ample, and comprehensive."

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