A famous artist realized his dream home by covering his entire house in doodles for two years. Mr. Doodle, also known as Sam Cox, is a world-renowned illustrator. He rose to prominence in 2017 when he transformed an Appear Here pop-up into a live art installation at London’s Old Street Station. Aside from being a famous artist, he had another lifelong dream. He had dreamed of having a “doodle house” since he was a teenager.

He was inspired by the cartoons and video games he had played as a child. In 2020, he bought a 6-bedroom house in Tenterden, Kent, with his wife, Alena. The house’s seller did not want doodles on the walls, but he did not object to their request. The artist in him took over, and he began drawing on every corner of the house. Cox shared a two-minute stop-motion video of his dream house covered in doodles…

He didn’t leave any surface undrawn, including the television, stove, and bath, which are all covered in black-and-white doodles. According to Cox, he didn’t plan any of his doodles, but he did make a theme for each room. The stairs are covered in drawings of Heaven and Hell, while the Hallway is crammed with Noah’s Ark creations. His main bedroom is themed “dream,” while his en-suite bathroom is themed “sea.”

“I had a rough idea of the theme, but the individual doodles are spontaneous,” he said of the 2,000 tiles covered in doodles of various sea creatures. “My main inspiration still comes from watching Tom and Jerry, Wacky Races, and SpongeBob SquarePants as a kid, as well as video games like Crash Bandicoot.” “I’ve always wanted to draw characters for video games,” said Cox, who used black acrylic paint and a bingo marker pen in four different sizes for his doodles.

For a more artistic result, he used spray paint on the outside property. He used 286 bottles of paint, 900 liters of emulsion, and 2,296 pens in total. The first phase of his doodling project was difficult to complete and took two months. Nonetheless, the great illustrator was determined to complete it on his own. ‘It’s the longest project I’ve ever worked on.’ I wanted to say I did everything myself.

He was proud to show the world his dream home, which he doodled on his own. “The whole house is real, everything is doodled, the doodles for the animation were all hand doodled, it’s not CGI,” Cox explained. The artist posted an animation of the outside of his house, complete with his doodled Tesla. “The world is getting doodled!” said the post. ” He said he did the entire animation himself, using 1857 photographs he took over the last two years.”

Cox said he is thrilled that his doodles now have a permanent home in the UK, and he and his wife plan to stay in their doodle house in the coming weeks. The only drawback is that curious neighbors couldn’t help but ring the doorbell to inquire about his doodle house. Fortunately, no one has objected to his doodles, so there is no need to change the look of his home just yet.

‘I’m unlikely to be persuaded to move, even if the money was fantastic,’ Cox said. ‘I’d be sad to leave this house because it’s my first.’ Cox was inspired by the success of his dream “doodle” house to spread his creativity even further by doodling more houses in his area and possibly creating a “doodle” town. “The completion of the house is just the start of my childhood dream of doodle-ing the entire planet and encouraging the art world to recognize doodles as an art form,” Cox concluded.