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Spaceship-inspired New Mexico house for sale

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April 19 (UPI) -- A home for sale in New Mexico is gaining attention online after the current owner spent 21 years filling the interior with spaceship-inspired decor.

Marten Griego said he wasn't satisfied with the paint job he was doing on the Albuquerque home when he first moved in two decades ago, so he redesigned a wall and fireplace after an imagined spaceship.

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"It's kind of like the edge of a cave. I thought of myself in the universe some place on another asteroid or something," he told KOB-TV.

Griego said he then spent the ensuing years filling the home with 3D murals and other space-inspired decorations, including a high-tech kitchen.

"I would think that people are fascinated with something new. Something created by somebody that they've never seen before -- and once again, when I was building it I didn't even know what I was creating," Griego said.

The house is being listed by Jonathan Ortiz and Alexandria Oberbeck of Southwest Elite Realty.

Ortiz said entering the house is akin to "walking into a museum."

The real estate agents said there already has been interest in the home.

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"So we actually have someone right now who wants to buy it as it. Furniture and all. They just love everything about it," Oberbeck said.

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