Tomorrow is the first day of August. It’s the perfect time to take advantage of late Summer sales, especially on Summer-themed items and with a good two months of warm temperatures ahead of us, there’s still plenty of time to enjoy these great buys.
I live in an apartment, but I have a patio area and when I’m entertaining, we always end up out front. I have set it up to be as garden-y as possible with lots of plants and two small seating areas. When the weather allows, I pull out a portable fire pit and we sit around the …read more

It’s almost summer and you know what that means! Meals out on your deck and outdoor BBQs, of course!

And this is our outdoor umbrella. We have searched high and low for this. MrG and I didn’t want an umbrella that you stick in the middle as we found that this blocks our view of our friends and family members during our conversations over our meals.
What I like about this is because the umbrella is quite big, the reach is quite wide as well and you can move the umbrella depending on where the sun is or sometimes we point it …read more

The micro compact home [m-ch], is a super small, super compact house.

One or two people can live in one of these homes; it’s obviously not really an appropriate large family home. This project of micro homes was first launched in Munich back in November 2005. It started as a case study village sponsored by O2 Germany. Below is a shot of the O2 project (students lived there).  The micro homes were clustered in a family-like setting.

Currently this slick project can be viewed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; through October.
[images via [m-ch]]

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Offbeat & outdoor showering fun!

I found these killer showers at Home Design Find. I think someone should build a tall offbeat home and put them in their bathroom.
Learn more about said showers.
I recently received an email from some nice person at HDF informing me of their blog. Being a sucker for homes (shocking) I headed over and saw these showers. I looked around some more, and although HDF is new, I’m going to recommend you check them out. They’ve got some cool offbeat stuff – some stuff we’ve seen here and some new. If HDF continues on with …read more