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

 

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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 could be a WIN . . . . but it doesn’t look very comfy so for me it’s a FAIL!

 

Want to get some more ideas for pallet furniture? . . . . Have a look at palletfurnitureplans.com/

 

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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 impressive examples including a steam engine, a dinosaur, and an elephant.

There is even a shop  selling topiary frames in the main street if you want to try your hand.

 

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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 more like a hamburger bun house.

Want to find out more?

Then check out Dornob.com

 

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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 find out about . . . .

An exerpt:

“I want it now against this wall!” she ordered,

“And keep it up as long as possible.” 

“Don’t worry,” I said,

“I know how to put up a shelf.”

 

For more visit 50 Shades of Grey on Twitter.

 

 

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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 how did they get the car in the garage?

 

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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 the bales.

The final step was to allow a cow to eat its way through the bales until the final surface were revealed.

I think the floor would have needed a lot of cleaning before you could lay a carpet.

Want to find out more? then check out Dornob

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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.

This photo is from There I fixed it – Red Neck Repairs one of my favourite waste of time websites.

 

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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 distractyourself.com

 

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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 for natural disaster victims and refugees, and even include Solar Power

The flat pack homes were developed as a collaboration between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) and the Ikea Foundation.

Read more about the ‘Flat Pack Homes’ on the Inhabitat  Website

 

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