We Love Unique Homes
Amy Kleinwachter, the owner of Old World Antieks usually spends a lot of her time searching around the world for interesting heirloom pieces and quirky architectural finds. Her best find to date is a 14 foot round grain silo. The silo is located near La Grange, Texas. She had already built an entire farmhouse out…
In today’s fast and stressful world, the need to unplug is greater than it has ever been. If you are like I am , your life is driven by technology. My phone is an alarm, a distraction and a time telling device, while my computer is an office, a shopping mall and a movie theater…
All over the world today, the number of people decided to cut their normal lives and go life off grid is increasing. A great example of this trend is an island one hour of the coast of Vancouver. Named Lasqueti, it lies between Vancouver and Vancouver Island. Sporting a population of around 400 people this…
We are told to treat our body like it’s a temple, that we have only one and that we should care for it and use it wisely, this is a microscopic example of the bigger picture about our planet. We only have one earth as we do have one body, we should take care of…
When last month over a billion dollars were donated for the restoration work on the Notre Dame, many people asked the question why aren’t such big amounts of money used for things like homelessness or the environment. It’s is a rare thing to see such big sums being used for nature, yet something it does…
“I have a suspicion that this is actually the blueprint, and there is something, when people get to it, everybody would want to live this way, but it might be a really long journey for some folks to get to that knowing.” – Tom Nicholson This is a tale of two people, Tom and Sarah. Tom is…
In today’s world the mainstream idea of producing food is getting further and further away from the way it is done in nature. Maybe we should start becoming more self-reliant and start growing our own food. Even if we go and buy fully organic from the supermarket, we pay a premium and we stall can’t…
The folks over at i-Beam design created this ingenious design. A house plan that only uses commonly available materials and designed to be built by people that don’t even have construction experience. i-beam Design The whole house can be built in a day. i-beam Design Also it’s upgradable with stuff like insulation, AC, smoke detectors…
A new world Guinness world record was set in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh after more than 1.5 million volunteers planted 66 million tree saplings in a time period of 12 hours. This planting beat the previous record which was set in the state of Uttar Pradesh when 800,000 people planted 50 million trees…
If you ever wanted to live in a big home in Japan, you are in luck. Japan has more than 8 million abandoned or vacant houses and the government is making efforts to populate the houses that have been left empty. Abandoned houses are difficult to manage for owners and they also might not want…