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- This custom tiny home features a surprisingly spacious interior Thu, 14 Jun 18, 7:00amCreating a comfortable living space is the always first challenge of tiny home design. Although many people decide to forgo a spacious sleeping area for a larger living room, the savvy tiny home builders from Alabama Tiny...
- Solar-powered house in Ontario redefines sustainable living in the wilderness Sat, 7 Apr 18, 1:53amThis remote cottage, nestled deep in a thick forest 160 miles from Toronto, Canada, allows for sustainable living deep within its wooded surroundings. It occupies a quiet lakeside site and functions as a weekend retreat for...
- This adventurous couple revamped an old Airstream into a dream house on wheels Fri, 23 Mar 18, 10:21pmMany people purchase items on eBay--but only a few decide to live in them. When Atlanta-based couple Sheena and Joe stumbled upon an old Airstream for sale on eBay, they decided to transform it into a home on wheels perfect...
- Renovated 1960s A-frame cabin proves that clever design triumphs over square footage Sat, 30 Dec 17, 6:28amThis 1960s A-frame cabin went through a massive rehabilitation that took it from a rundown shack into a beautiful home tailored to the needs of its owners...
- Sleep like an angel in this renovated 18th-century church in Tuscany Fri, 13 Oct 17, 10:11pmTraveling through Tuscany can be a spiritual experience - especially if you spend the night sleeping beneath the altar of this gorgeous 18th century church-turned-hotel...
- Unique temporary shelter in Greece offers an elevated camping experience Tue, 19 Sep 17, 10:07pmWell, this is different. Studio Genua and hiboux ARCHITECTURE designed this contemporary wooden shelter, which acts as a short-term residence for farmers and harvesters—or a summer beach lodge. Called Tragata, the elevated...
- San Francisco is too expensive - so this couple hit the road in an amazing renovated van Thu, 15 Jun 17, 4:00amAfter just four months of dating, San Francisco residents Juliana and Richmond grew weary of the city's shockingly high real estate scene. So they decided to convert a 15-year-old Sprinter Van into 50 square feet of custom-built...
- Seoul's multi-tiered Deep House slopes into a gorgeous grassy roof Wed, 26 Apr 17, 11:02pmThis house in South Korea's capital utilizes negative space to create various micro-environments that boost the building's energy efficiency. Architecture firm poly.m.ur designed the Deep House as a single volume featuring...
- This gorgeous greenhouse-like home in the Netherlands soaks up daylight Fri, 21 Apr 17, 9:08pmFrom beneath this traditional thatched roof in the Netherlands emerges a stunning glass greenhouse. Lochem-based Maas Architecten conceived the Modern Countryside Villa as two contrasting volumes: an opaque, timber-clad space,...
- Stunning revonated alpine workshop is bathed in natural light Sat, 20 Jun 15, 4:00amItalian architecture firm Messner Architects renovated a traditional alpine workshop and transformed it into a much more spacious workspace bathed in natural light...
- Harvard Stores 70 Billion Books in Record Breaking DNA Bio-Library the Size of a Thumbnail Wed, 22 Aug 12, 4:20amDNA photo from Shutterstock A team from Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has discovered a way to store 70 billion books in a space the size of your thumbnail! Using next-generation...