Offbeat Holiday Gift Guide: Home for the Kiddos
November 16, 2007 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Home & Living
This home is a super fly gift for all the little offbeat kids in your world. The simplicity, mobility, and eco-sensibility of this gift cannot be beat.

Kids can take this home everywhere — not true of the typical doll house. Also, not to get sexist but my son who is all boy in the most boy way one can be even likes this house. He told me it looks cool and most doll homes he passes off as, “Girly.” Yes we are working on him never calling things “Girly.” It’s the only thing he does that really frustrates me.
Kids can play with this 360 degrees, pick it up, carry it around, take it in the car, and even sit it on their lap. The home has 8 rooms along with various stair openings and spyholes plus an attic space.


Other perks:
- Made of strong, stable 100% recycled cardboard.
- 100% biodegradable.
- Thoroughly tested: CE approved.
- Easy to assemble and folds down flat for storage.
- No sharp corners and opens on all sides.
- Kids on the Roof donates 5% of purchase to UNICEF.
My perk for you is that it encourages imagination better than a typical doll house. Don’t get me wrong I love some doll houses. However, with the Mobile Home, kids can perceive their own rooms and how they’d like the spaces to be arranged. They can decorate how they choose and simply swim in the simplicity of design that is the blue cardboard house.
Lickable Lollipop House
September 2, 2007 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Home & Living
Not truly candy but yummy all the same; this new Single Hauz designed by Poland based front architects comes on a stick.

It mainly reminds me of an interactive billboard or maybe a travel case without the handle.

Beat that pesky shark issue that comes with life on the water.

Here’s what I’m thinking. A home like this will leave a smaller footprint because technically how much of it honestly touches the planet. You could build high above the trees without cutting them down. This is my eco-theory of how the Single Hauz could be put to some nice green living use. I suppose a trek up that many stairs might be problematic but seriously you could sell your stair master and use the house as your main workout.
What do you think? A winner or not. I do like my theory but it seems a bit cool for my taste. Also, I’d never live above the water; even on the safest of sticks.
Big old hugs to: choc-o-licious Heather from Chocolate Bytes for pointing this out in the first place and to an old favorite, BLDGBLOG for having information in actual English about this home on their lovely blog.























