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Battleship House
A house that looks like a battle ship! Is it someone who is absolutely paranoid about burglars? I have also seen it described as a zombie proof house. Basically the entire front of the house is covered in steel plate including the…
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Wilderness – Pass ? or Fail ?
Have you got a “No Junk Mail” sticker on your mail box? I thought it really appropriate when I saw this Wilderness Society sticker. Want to know Why? Well have a look at the house that the mail box belongs to:…
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Columns Overkill
The ‘Wedding Cake’ house! Columns can look classy . . . . .but there can be such a thing as too much. There are 24 columns on the front and plenty more on each side. I saw this house in…
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Privacy Fail
How would you feel about living in this house? Boiling hot all day when thew sun shines! Enormous heating bills in the winter due to the low heat insulation provided by the glass. As for privacy well that’s absolutely zero….
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Triangular Small House
People complain about the cost of land in Australia but land in Japan must be very expensive. Would you want to build on a 30sqm triangular block? Thats about the same size as some Australian driveways! Although these photographs make…
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Beware of Blocks Below The Road
On a summers day, during a period of dry weather, I came across these recently built houses with lines of sandbags! You would think that the houses must have fronted a river! Not much chance of getting a car in…
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Bedroom Pool
This has to be one of the most impractical ideas I have seen. All that water means lots of evaporation, so the bedclothes will feel damp all the time! What happens if you are sleepwalker, or just stumble when you…
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Bookshelf and Coffin
Would you like this Bookshelf? How about if I told you you could buy it to convert to your coffin? Seems a bit creepy to me. . . . . . but if you like the idea check out the…
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A Warning!
You might think this is a new house at fit out stage. Well you would be wrong it’s a house that’s around 30 years old . . . . and no it hasn’t been subject to a fire, or water…
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Small Windows – Fail
This ‘renovation’ really upsets me because I think that smaller windows are a good environmental, and, living comfort, choice . . . .but this a demonstration of how not to do it. Think about the scale. . . upstairs windows…
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