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If you took one dollop of 2001: A Space Odyssey, whisked in a hefty glug of Blade Runner and added a dash of The Mummy you’d end up with something like Makoto Tanijiri’s sleekly beautiful Pyramid house in Saijo, Hiroshima, Japan.
Not only is it a stunningly futuristic statement, but it also apparently echoes the earliest [...]

The winner of Shed of the Year 2009 has been announced over at The Shed Blog, and wooah! What a wonder!

In fact, it’s such a humdinger of a shed that Steven Harwood’s Kite Cabin has caused some heated debate in the Editorial Dept here at FAP Towers.
“It’s bigger than my [...]

*** UPDATE 24/7/09 Alan has now done his plinth stint and very entertaining it was too. Well done sir! ***

Walk around Trafalgar square in Central London and you will notice that one of the plinths is lacking any customary statuary.
Known as (wait for it) “The Fourth Plinth” it was originally meant to [...]

Unlike Jocelyn some of us didn’t want to remortgage our homes and go to Glastonbury this year to spend four days in a soggy tent listening to the constant thump thump of the dance tents.

No sirree, that’s not for me. I stick two fingers up to Glasto and have instead created the Staying At Home [...]

Our favourite shed blog, er, Shed Blog, has posted the rather fantastic new video for the official Shed Week song.
Sung with gusto by ‘Punks not Dad‘ it’s called, appropriately enough, ‘In Me Shed’.

Great video, great sentiment (it’s about all the things we do in our sheds) and pretty catchy in a ‘we know 3-ish chords [...]

Fancy borrowing a neighbourly cup of sugar from Norman Cook?
Or do you like the idea of paddling in the surf on your own private beach before inviting Nick Berry round for sherry?
Then look no further my property finding funsters as it seems a house on ‘Millionaire’s Row‘ in Hove is for sale (although I think [...]

In the midst of the whole MPs’ expenses row it seems two particular cases have caught the public imagination (and fired their ire).
First it was the fantastically ‘up-yours-plebs’ moat cleaning claimed by Douglas Hogg and more recently it’s been the Duck Island purchased by Sir Peter Viggers.
The Twittersphere was all over it. First, @CountryLifeProp tweeted [...]

The April edition of the FindaProperty.com Rental Index has hit the virtual shelves, with the headline:
“Two-Tier Rental Market Emerges: Houses Begin Recovery Whilst Flats Continue To Suffer”
Click here to read more headlines from the April Rental Index or click here to download the full Rental Index pdf. ( 1.7MB approx)
Alternatively if you prefer a more [...]

“The fully outfitted, meticulously detailed, two bedroom, Boeing 727 fuselage suite” at Hotel Costa Verde, Costa Rica.
Just… wow.
(via Inhabitat)