[ See more under Tree Houses or in the Architecture category ] Treehouses are more popular than ever, as play spaces for children but also as luxury hotel (and even house) designs for adults. Some of the most fantastic…
[ See more under Furniture or in the Chairs category ] At first it looks unbelievable – the heaviest and most solid part of a chair floating on nothing. Clear acrylic at the base of the legs fades slowly…
So many architects have begun converting cargo shipping containers into houses, apartments, offices and more – so how could you pack any more sustainability into an entirely recycled building? By adding wooden pallet walls to the exterior, of course!…
The concept is simple: a hotel room-for-two that has reflective surfaces on all sides to mirror rather than stand out from the surrounding environment – a simple box suspended in a forested setting with views on all sides and…
The cord that plugs it into the wall – an inconvenient-but-essential element in nearly any lamp or lighting fixture. Sometimes you can hide the power source by covering the wall sockets and snaking cords with furniture, or you can…
Mobility may have been the most massive driving force behind the interstate highway system and suburbia as we know it - but the focus is slowly shifting. There is a growing movement toward (and market for) new types of…
There are many plans in place to convert existing structures into new-use buildings, including shipping container homes and missile-silo houses . This design idea comes from a slightly different direction – with a plan to use cheap, sustainable and…
They may look a bit dated at first, or at least more whimsical than required for functional living. Still, these earth houses have more to offer than custom curves and a unique aesthetic – including a set of design…
Set against the backdrop of a contemporary city skyline, this ramshackle collection of recycled parts looks as much like a half-sunk pirate ship of pile of floating debris as it does a functional floating hobo-style hodgepodge home. But these…
Sure, some of us ‘love’ our homes … but few of us wonder if a house can ‘die’. There is a fascinating 18th-and-19th-Century tradition of grieving loved by taking and braiding, knitting or otherwise working the hair of the…