Bug eyed Michael is out.
Why not Carisa already? Andrea beat Matt. Goil is fumbling and bumbling.
The task, design a private dining room for a chef. This particular chef likes a mix of Mid-Century Modern and Arts and Crafts. The first client to give a “clean cut” idea of their likes.
Mistake.
Goil I hate to say this, I agreed with the judges; “…you think outside the box, but we wish you would think about a room everyone wants to be in…”
Carisa, terrible and finally someone has noticed her best ability, “blaming someone else”.

…I am from the design school less is more…

A fourteen …read more

When you hear of a prefab home do you also think custom? That’s right custom, in eight foot increments. Will that be a glass wall, window high, window low, or just solid? The system, Flatpak, developed by architect Charlie Lazor is also a partnership with Dwell Homes and manufactured by Empyrean.
You can pick from predesigned floor plans or create originals. Working with architects to create a modern home with a floor plan and exterior that fits your site. Then your home is delivered and assembled by an experienced contractor in the Empyrean network.
Go to the Lazor Office’s Flatpak …read more

[picture via Treehugger]
This home seems humble, right? Found in Texas, this 4,000 square foot ranch house sits on a concrete slab running East to West. This has to be in order to take advantage of shade. Well, the porches would help with that right? True, but in this case the porches also act as a hallway between rooms. This is an excellent idea considering the climate. It also lets you use all of your square footage for living spaces not halls. Halls in typical ranch home plans can be killers. You can’t see it in the above picture but there …read more

This year, Malaysia will see the birth of four homes that will harness the power of the sun and transform it into energy.
Next year, the number will rise to 15. The lucky inhabitants of the first four homes will have the system sponsored by the Malaysian Building-Integrated Photovoltaic project and will get it free of charge.
The houses are all being built in Precinct 16 of Putrajaya, and will feature solar cell-integrated buildings (as opposed to roof-mounted cells).
Developing company, Senadung Budiman Sdn Bhd (SBSB), is already reporting interested buyers.
I can already hear the environment sighing with relief.
Via | The Star

Everybody all together now – “…our house…in the middle of the street…our house…”
You know, when most folks move, they just take their possessions to a new place; but apparently some people just have to be different.
Ok, I’m kidding. This was actually an old historic home in Bloomington, Illinois that was relocated last year. Dubbed the Mandel-Cohn house, it’s a Queen Anne style that was built in 1894. A church had brought the property, donated the building itself to the local Old House Society who then sold it to the new owners who moved it.
I came across the …read more

Last weekend in Switzerland, 200 folks set a new – and rather odd – world record by building a village of one hundred igloos in just 12 hours with no mechanized assistance.
The team of ‘eskimo enthusiasts‘ built the village on the frozen Melch Lake in the Jochpass region in the central part of the country. The village measures 200 feet across, has a snow church and central piazza and many of the igloos feature kitchens and fireplaces.
Check it out at igluprojekt.ch. The site is in German, but if you follow the ‘Fotogalerie‘ link on the left side of …read more

From an article in The News Tribune…
The late-1880s-era house, which Deriugin dreamed of encasing in concrete and using as the core for a 500-foot office and condominium tower, will be torn down within the next couple of months, Deriugin said.
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Deriugin, 52, estimates he’s invested $2 million worth of time in “research and development” over the years.
Here’s that article at TheNewsTribune.com and then here’s a full page of photos of the unusual building courtesy of KevinFreitas.net.
[via Aaron at House in Progress]