This beach house couldn’t get any closer to the water even if it wanted to. Located near Cape Town, South Africa, this house was designed to create an extraordinary living experience. The home was built using a minimal steel framed box with a hull-shaped roof, clad in...
In the best way possible, Stanford professor Mark Jacobson‘s new house is like a giant Erector Set, snapped together in less than a week on an irregular, pie-shaped lot near the university. It’s a 3,200 square foot modular home, and the frame is made entirely of...
Every house needs house numbers. But not every house has to have boring house numbers. They’re easy to change and can make a place feel fresh and new when you find just the right ones....
Here's another guy who insists on 'disrupting' real estate. While the mobile devices are handy, are people - especially the affluent baby-boomers who are making the real estate market, going to give up their more-traditional homestead to live in a 320sf tin can?...
Horizontal “letterbox” style windows are a design detail that are quickly gaining in popularity. Perfect for bringing in light without completely sacrificing privacy, these long, thin, horizontal windows are often found being used in kitchens....
It’s hard to fathom how magnificent castles were built centuries ago. One group set out to understand just that by building their own masterpiece two hours outside of Paris. Tucked away in a forest, a team of master builders and archeologists are attempting to...
They asked, "If you could do anything today, what would it be?" Let's go for a hike! I had found this old article a while back, so we went for it: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/nov/03/roam-maple-canyon-bankers-hill/ Midpoint of the Spruce Street Bridge,...
Hat tip to Susie for sending this in! http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/billionaire-door-neighbor-buying-playboy-mansion-39654765 Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion is about to acquire a new owner — the wealthy businessman who lives next door. Representatives...
This home in the foothills of Santa Barbara has amazing 360-degree views of the Pacific Ocean, the City of Santa Barbara to the south, and the Los Padres mountains to the north:...
Here's an original-looking house from 1974 on three acres which look mostly unusable. But this is a decent deal for those who would rebuild - just tear the house down and build a new one 30 feet back from the slope and create an instant backyard!
