Category Archives: General living and fun stuff

Cardboard furniture for a quick sale!

Posted on April 13, 2011 | 1 comment

This is very clever! Everybody knows that a furnished home sells faster than an empty one. However, sometimes people have already moved out, or homes have just been remodeled and there is not always money for a decent bit of furniture. Enter Boxter.nl. Sacked realtor Marijn Muller noticed the demand for real estate styling and designed cardboard furniture. 250 Euros will get you a standard set with a cardboard sofa, book shelves,  fire-place and a TV. Other accessories and furniture are for sale in the webshop.

 

Cardboard furniture by Boxter.nl

 

 

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Yarn Bombing

Posted on April 5, 2011 | Leave a comment

The days that knitting was something for the nerdy or elderly are far behind us. Knitting has taken the streets with some true street creds! Yarn Bombing, also known as Knit Graffiti is a form of graffiti with less destructive results. The tags are colorful displays of knitted objects or collages instead of paint.  Anything can be yarn bombed. Busses, benches, poles, parking meters, statues or, as the yarn bombed Banksy below shows, existing graffiti. It is said to have originated in Houston Texas in 2005 by design collective Knitta Please.

 

Banksy Yarn Bombed

Yarn Bombed tree with Twiggy portrait

Yarn Bombed graffiti spray 'paint' cans

Feel inspired? Read more about knitting and Yarn Bombing in some of the books for sale in the Homevoyeurs webshop. In particular this book about Knitting art. Available for $23,09 and eligible for free shipping!

 

Knitting Art

 

 

 

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House that looks like Hitler

Posted on March 31, 2011 | Leave a comment

This is too funny to pass on.

“Morning. Here’s a house that looks like Hitler. Your welcome.” Thus read a tweet from UK comedian Jimmy Carr one day. This tweet turned Welsh Charli Dickenson into a bit of a celebrity Britside. It all started with a snapshot she took of a house in her neighborhood. Below is Dickenson’s photo.

 

The House that looks like Hitler

 

Several online and print media all over the world published about this picture, but often cutting of the top and bottom of the original pic to make it resemble Hitler even more.

 

Yes, this makes the house look even more like Hitler

 

Imagine owning this house. Every time you come home you enter the mouth of one of the world’s most hated men. Velcome Home!

Do you think this house looks like Hitler? Or do you have a picture of a home that looks like it has a face? Please share!

 

Smiling Home

 

 

 

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House Flips

Posted on March 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

In a previous post I wrote about house flipping. I got inspired and did a Google search and discovered many people upload their stories on Youtube!

A few examples, many of them from a Guy named Tom Tarrant. Tom; we share different taste in music, and your videos tend to be a bit long, but keep up the great work as you are doing an amazing job!

Not sure if I like all of them, but they sure are inspiring.

Please share any of your flips with me!

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