Houses that no one seems to know about
December 21, 2008 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Home & Living
Sometimes I’ll see a really delicious house, so I start reseaching because I want to learn more. However, sometimes this doesn’t pan out. Sometimes people randomly post houses and fail to say anything about said house. It’s frustrating.
Today I’ve got three of these houses. I don’t know anything about them except they rock (sorry). Starting with…
I suppose we can call this the tractor house. I’ve been all obsessed with finding out more about it for over a year. Since I’m having language issue with m3mary.com, there’s no hope. However, this is an excellent offbeat home structure, wouldn’t you say?
The Micro Compact Home
September 3, 2008 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Home & Living
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]]
I had this weird dream…
August 20, 2008 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Home & Living
In the dream, I was dating some famous person (not going there), but the dream took place in Florida (I’ve never been) and the kooky part was that a bunch of people, including me, were visiting this museum of tiny Pennsylvania. It was just this oddball museum, where you’d walk through the halls looking at tiny versions of all the parts of Pennsylvania. In the dream, everyone was very impressed. It was really strange.
Long story short, it got me thinking about this link my friend Marye sent me – Tiny Texas Houses.
These tiny houses are made from 95% recycled vintage …read more




