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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As shiny homes go, they don’t get much shinier than this.
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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.
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Reindeer fur?? [...]

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