The house float movement has given birth to a mini economy, putting laid-off musicians and artists back to work, saving businesses and fundraising for New Orleanians in ⦠The elaborate, professionally installed house floats popping up around town are thanks to Hire A Mardi Gras Artist, an initiative founded by float designer Caroline Thomas. While the vast majority are in the greater New Orleans area, Mardi Gras enthusiasts have created floats in at least 40 states. Check out our interactive map of float locations below -- just click on a house icon to see the address. While the 'house float' movement started as a joke on Twitter, it's grown to a community of thousands decorating homes to replace Mardi Gras parades for 2021. One commissioned house is rented by a pair of nuns. All around New Orleans, thousands of houses are being decorated as floats because the coronavirus outbreak canceled the elaborate parades mobbed by crowds during the Carnival season leading to Fat Tuesday. Designer, Caroline Thomas looks at a house decorated like a parade float in New Orleans on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. Parade float workers Travis Keene, left, and Joey Mercer position a pelican while fellow crew member Chelsea Kamm, right, looks on while decorating a house in New Orleans. You just canât keep a good city down, especially when Mardi Gras is coming. René Pierre's company usually looks after 75 floats during Mardi Gras and he has managed to get contracts to build 53 house floats. With Mardi Gras approaching, he said a 12th lottery would be the last. Boudreaux became the Mardi Gras house float coordinator overnight, she said. Skip Navigation Share on ⦠Krewe of House Floats a grassroots effort to save Mardi Gras officially launches Monday. All around the city, thousands of houses are being decorated as floats ⦠All bars will be closed indoor and outdoor across the city, the sale of to-go drinks is banned, and there will be no package liquor sales in the French Quarter. A top-hatted dinosaur, shown Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, is among Mardi Gras decorations in the yard of a mansion on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. The city of New Orleans has issued a number of rules that will take effect on Friday, February 12 until Mardi Gras Day on February 16. RELATED: Mardi Gras Galveston 2021 celebration canceled amid COVID-19 concerns The house float idea has also caught on in Galveston, Texas, 280 miles to the east. The Krewe of House Floats created an interactive, online map of all the decorated Mardi Gras homes in Louisiana, as well as around the rest of the country and even the world. The house is so popular that even guerilla photograph-style, it still drew a crowd," the one thing the Krewe of House Floats wants urgently to prevent. More than 3,000 homes are now decked out for the parade-at-home ⦠You just canât keep a good city down, especially when Mardi Gras is coming.
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