Maybe it’s because I’m a curmudgeonly old misanthrope (no, no don’t protest, it’s true) but I’ve always fancied the idea of living on an island.
The only thing stopping me is a slight lack of cash, because unless I fancy a midge infested rock in some Canadian great lake, then the more salubrious islands are way [...]

You may like your toast quite well-browned, or even slightly burned; but for really, really DARK toast you need one of these bad boys – a Darth Vader Toaster…

And in the interests of keeping the balance of the Force, we move away from the Dark Side to something that’s lighter than errr, a lightsaber and [...]

My new favourite designers are the Play Coalition, who first came to my attention with their selfless light fitting, The Martyr; a neat little visual pun on the idea of energy-saving.

They’ve now come up with a crazy, Tim Burton-esque solution to light-starved houseplants, The Plantbot.
Slap in your favourite fern, yucca, whatever and say goodbye to [...]

Now here’s a novel notion: a church built out of beer cans.  Yep, that’s right.  A church. From beer cans.
Although it may sound like something straight from the mind of Homer Simpson, this is actually a true story of ecclesiastical architecture.
Having lost their main church building to developers, the parish of Colston Milton in Glasgow [...]

No room at home to work? No room for a kitchen? No room for Great Aunt Ethel to stay?
No problem, thanks to the slightly odd, very Japanese and super space efficient creations of Architect Toshihiko Suzuki and his ‘Architectural Furniture’.

His three designs, a foldaway office, kitchen and guest room offer a neat solution to limited [...]

We like clever designs at FindaProperty. And we like smart, green ideas.  So when a marriage of the two comes to our attention, we like to share the joy.
Therefore, it is with great pleasure that we bring to your attention the Can Can Chair, a regal looking affair (albeit toytown-sized) that is made entirely from recycled [...]

Consider this. It’s 1952. You live in Boswell, British Columbia, and you’ve spent 35 years working as a mortician in the local funeral parlour.
Now it’s time to retire. But how are you going to make the most of your twilight years?
David H. Brown could have spent them trout fishing in the local lakes, but instead [...]

“There’s a curious truth in architecture that the worse the conditions of the project, the more beautiful the solution.”
So mused Kevin McCloud about this beleaguered project in Cheltenham when Grand Designs featured it back in January.
But I think Kev may have been having a bit of an off day. The house, built in defiance of [...]

Here’s possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen all day. Some deck builder (that’s skateboards not verandas) over in Canada has specced out his board-building school with a very special staircase
As eager students hurry towards the basement to learn the ancient craft of skateboard construction, their scuffed up Supras and dirty Vans will have to navigate [...]

So this is how it is: you’re living in a shared flat, your flatmate Dave has annoyed you once too often – he’s nicked your milk *again* and left crumbs in your margarine.
You’ve seen the Godfather a billion times and you know he’s showing you far too little respect. This shmoe needs to get da [...]