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Driveway – Fail
Which came first the house or the pole? The moral of this is make sure the drawings are right – don’t assume anyone will have some common sense….they are more likely to follow the plan exactly, no matter how…
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Hello Kitty House
My daughter, who is 30, still likes Hello Kitty Products. If your daughter likes Hello Kitty perhaps this is the house for her. I know this, talking about girls, sounds prejudiced, but “I stereotype its faster”. (Quote from one of…
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Kitchen Fail
Do you like this kitchen? …………The photo is from Kitchy Living In the 1960’s this was probably the height of fashion! I wonder what people will think of todays fashionable kitchens in 20-30 years? For more Unusual ‘Houses’ go…
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Garage Door – Win
Do you want a conventional garage door? Want to impress the neighbors with your new yellow Lamborghini? Perhaps you want another type of car? or Do you feel the need? THE NEED FOR SPEED!!!!!! It might be you…
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Angry House – Fail
Some Estate agents talk about Kerbside appeal. Some house designers talk about a house having a ‘Happy Face” Whatever you call it this house hasn’t got it…….It’s the angriest looking house I have seen. For more Unusual Houses and…
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Bell Trap – Win
See what I have to deal with when calling on people to organise sewer inspections……a bell push set in a rabbit trap! Do you think the house owner has had too many people calling to ‘Save Their Souls’. Or they…
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READ the small print
I’ve been driving past this lighting store with the Closing Down board outside for the last year. It was only last week when I had a job in the area, and I was walking, that I had the chance to…
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Outdoor Painting – Win
This looks like a quite nice little painting on the outside wall of a house I recently visited. Its not just a painting though…….. its actually the cover of the electricity meter box. A very neat, and artistic, solution to…
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Damp House – Win
This attractive looking cottage has a ‘problem’ with damp. That’s because its an underwater sculpture 8m below the surface off Cancun, Mexico. It has been designed by Jason deCaires Taylor to be fish friendly. The photo below shows the view from…
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Levitation Bed
What do you think of this bed? It certainly looks very “Star Trek” I can see a few problems: It would be very complicated and expensive….you couldn’t install this bed in a conventional brick veneer house as the timber frame…
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