The final question from the Voice, the one that got me through the backscatter machine, past the shoe swipe-o-meter and onto the plane, was a stunning surprise: “What color is your house?”

We do not carry our shoes in our house but leave at the entrance of our house in the shoe rack.

The unique pad, dubbed the Haines Shoe House, has three bedrooms and a living room which sits in the toe and is 17-feet-wide.