Surely the ultimate in green one-upmanship for all the Jocastas and Joshuas, is Plan Toys’ very model of a modern green dollhouse?
Gone is the Victoriana chintz, the tiny china tea-set and the traditional grandfather clock. Instead, your eco-conscious kiddies can now play with a wee wooden wind turbine, a pint sized [...]

… or more specifically, PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise.
In their own words this is:
“ … an inviting, luminous hue … Combining the serene qualities of blue and the invigorating aspects of green, Turquoise evokes thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a languorous, effective escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same time restoring [...]

Recently Google ran a poll on which UK landmarks people would like to see in full 360° Googlevision and the results have just been updated in Street View.
So you can now do what druids have been trying – with various degrees of success – to do for generations and wander at leisure around Stonehenge.
Or maybe [...]

Quite special this one. Not only is it a) super and b) shiny, it’s c) officially the best house in the world and d) it exists in more dimensions than it ought to!
Confused? Then I’ll cover these points one by one.
a) and b) – well just look at it.

(Photographs by John Gollings – Gollings Photography)
I [...]

As shiny homes go, they don’t get much shinier than this.
Looking like another escapee from the set from Blade Runner (cf. The Pyramid House), it is in fact the overall winner of the 2009 Solar Decathlon over in Washington D.C. – a competition which seeks to raise awareness about renewable [...]

I came across a property the other day advertised with “duel aspect windows” (sic).
I was immediately put in mind of the incident when Lord Sash-Windowe famously called out Major P.V.C. Casement for suggesting he’d defenestrated his wife …

Both parties were injured, the local constabulary was called and the case eventually went to court where the [...]

You should never underestimate the power of a photo when marketing a property.
But sometimes discretion should definitely be the better part of valour and you really, really, really should just upload an ‘awaiting image’ pic, especially when the property you’re promoting looks like this:

or this:

or for sheer bizarro, how about:

Bear? What bear? I can’t see [...]

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
Why, ’tis Juliet on her new Bloomframe balcony.

Had Shakespeare been alive today, and living in Amsterdam, then it’s a dead cert that ‘Romeo and Juliet’ would have included a Bloomframe balcony scene (and more sex and drugs probably, but this is a family show, folks).
A whattyframe? A bloomingpardon?
Hush [...]

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I was wandering around the Neocribs blog the other day when I came across this … a hairy rough-hewn hunter-gatherer kind of a house in the middle of a Swedish forest.
Being Swedish, of course, it’s also beautifully designed – a perfectly pitched combination of Red Cedar wood shingles, Birch lattice, plasterwork, and reindeer fur.
Reindeer fur?? [...]