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Lollipop House
Can you Lick This? This ‘Lollipop House’ is in Giheung-Gu, South Korea The unusual shape incorporates 7 rooms, each on a different level, as you can see from the drawing on the right. For more pictures check out freshome.com For…
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Pallet Furniture – Win or Fail?
So the house cost a lot more than your original budget . . . . and now you can’t afford furniture! No worries all you need is a few 2nd hand pallets! It’s an interesting idea so it…
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Don’t Cut The Hedge!
It Might Bite Back! I saw this impressive shark hedge during a recent holiday. It is in Railton, the Topiary Town, of Northern Tasmania. I didn’t count them but there are 150 living sculptures around the town with some very…
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Easter Egg House?
With it being Good Friday today I couldn’t resist using this photo of a house that looks like a big egg! Although it looks like an egg from the side it’s actually circular in plan . . . so its…
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50 Sheds of Grey?
As a bloke are you feeling left out if your wife has read 50 Shades of Grey? When you move into your new house will you get back to blokey stuff at the bottom of the garden? Perhaps you need to…
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Sloping Site – Win
In this blog and my ‘Guide to Building a Block‘ I have talked a lot about the problems about building on a sloping block. That doesn’t seemed to have worried the builder of this house I saw on www.axewielderx.wordpress.com But…
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The House a Cow Built!
This is certainly an unusual house, and a key construction worker was a cow. Basically dirt was piled up and a concrete floor was poured. Hay bales were then stacked on the floor and more concrete poured around and over…
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Alternative Heating!
You might think that living in a hot country like Australia you don’t have to think about heating. Have another think or on a cold night this sort of ‘Fan Heater’ might be the only way you can heat your room….
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Outdoor Bathrooms – Win
I have often though that on a nice day it would be great to have a shower outside, preferably with a view. So here are a couple of bathrooms that have gone that little bit further: Both pictures are from…
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Ikea Flat Pack House
Did you know that Ikea also makes flat pack homes? As you can see from the picture below they aren’t what you might call a home, but to a refugee they are better than a tent. These shelters provide emergency housing…
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