Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 29th, 2006
Crooked
Via The Phoenix Real Estate Guy comes this picture of a very crooked building. Apparently, it’s a bar located in Sopot, Poland.
Crooked
More crooked
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Victorian Floating Home
A large three-story Victorian mansion made a voyage aboard a barge from Palmetto, up the Manatee River to Tampa Bay and across towards the Little Manatee River in Ruskin.
The house had been in Palmetto for nearly a century. On Tuesday, it was moved from its original location to make room for condominiums […]
No Comments » - Posted in Unusual Homes by Marlow Harris
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
Refrigerator Stonehenge
via Grow-a-Brain: Refrigerators of all colors and shapes stand 18-feet high, lined up in a 100-foot diameter circle, facing inward toward a cluster of taller fridge towers. It’s as if the outer ring of fridges is worshipping these inner towers, or perhaps protecting them from the outside dangers.
Pratie Place
Like Stonehenge, which is aligned to solar […]
No Comments » - Posted in Strange Places by Marlow Harris
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Doggie Delight
Via Curbed LA, “McMansionization Reaches the Back Yard” features doggie mansions for the pampered pooch. The company, “Doggie Mansions” builds custom dog houses to the owner specifications, to match the existing home or something totally different. One can even have a dog house built large enough for children too, to doube as a […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Land o’ the Hobbits
This is slightly frightening.
I love naive folk art, whimsical artist-built environments that spring up organically from the imagination and houses that are hand-built by eccentrics, like mushrooms growing in the deep forest.
But when this style is misappropriated by marketers, it’s just downright creepy.
Via “The Future of Real Estate Marketing” comes “Hobbit Living in […]
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Subterranean Fortress
From Zillow Blog comes this tip about a home in Blaine, Washington that is a very normal-looking house with an unusual twist: 45 feet under it is a 1,400-square foot underground bunker that was handbuilt between 1976 and 1982 by a man who was legally blind.
Scott Malis’ “One of a Kind House“.
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Thursday, September 7th, 2006
Mid-Century Modern Eccentric
Their Palm Springs weekend house has a midcentury pedigree, but they wanted a vibe all their own. So Lynda Keeler and Bob Merlis matched up vintage and contemporary finds for a colorful look. They unleash their love of all things ring-a-ding-ding in a color-saturated 1960 Donald Wexler-designed house in Palm Springs. Avoiding typical magazine-spread modernism, […]
