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)
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It’s Bonfire Night – hooray!!!  A fine reason for a few midweek tipples in a pub with a view of some fireworks action.
And, in order to remember, remember the fifth of November, we’re locating this week’s Five to View in Westminster, home to the very building that Guy Fawkes was planning to blow up all those [...]

Here’s a property I came across the other day – a quirky pub conversion in Brighton.

The upside, obviously, is that staying in can become the new going out. When time is called, you just stumble up the stairs and pour yourself into bed.
The downside, though, is that the exterior still looks like a pub so [...]

Not quite sure what to make of this – a new collection of bed linen from Dutch By Design inspired by cardboard boxes and pavements.

Their heart is in the right place – 30 per cent of the gross profits go to Centrepoint, the UK charity for homeless young people aged 16-25.
But is there something a [...]

This week, in honour of Hallowe’en, we’re going Gothic.  Nope, we don’t mean dressing entirely in black, piling on the scary eyeliner, and emptying a bottle of noir-shaded hair-dye over our head.
Although – note to self – that may not be a bad idea for Saturday night’s festivities…
No, we’re talking about the Gothic style of architecture.  Typical [...]

A few days ago, I read a Knight Frank report proclaiming that the price of country houses had risen for the first time in two years.
Ever since, I’ve been plagued by the Blur song which features that particular property type. You know the one: he lives in a house, a very big house…
Anyway, I digress. [...]

Richard Rogers, as you probably know, won the Stirling Prize for architecture last week.
I meant to blog about this property then, but, well, it slipped my mind.
It’s by David Chipperfield, a former Stirling winner (2007) and currently the subject of an exhibition at the Design Museum in London.
If you like crisp lean minimalist spaces, this [...]

Other people’s homes: always interesting, aren’t they? Following on from Joss’s post below about a very pink house in New York, here’s a video from style magazine dwell about a very black apartment in the same city.
It’s owned by Cindy Gallop, an international advertising consultant.
Cindy, who has enough shoes to put Imelda Marcos to shame, [...]

I love New York. And I love pink. So how much do I love this NYC townhouse with its fabulously pink bedroom? Very, very much, is the answer.

However, even I’m aware that intensely pink bedrooms with golden angels adorning the walls are likely to be the stuff of nightmares rather than sweet dreams for most people.
But [...]

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 [...]