Category Archives: Unusual homes

Cool tent designs for a stylish glamping trip!

Posted on March 16, 2012 | 2 comments

With the weather getting better we start planning where to go on holiday this summer. They say there is a crisis so why not go camping? It’s cheap, fun and it is actually very much accepté! Make it a glamping trip and spend what you save by camping on one of these cool tents!

A tent shaped like the mother of all camping items; the Volkswagen Van! Available through firebox.com.

VW Camper Van tent from Firebox.com

Animal Farm, a truly fantastic tent by tent designers Field Candy. Make sure to check out their website for many many other designs!

Animal Farm tent by Field Candy

For the price of what an average tent at Field Candy costs you can ‘buy’ a night in this inflatable Bubble Tree. For a mere £400 a night, tourists can spend an evening in one of these inflatable ‘tents’. Created by French designer Pierre Stephane Dumas, the structures are designed to get people as close to nature as possible… Downside is that other people are very close to you too….

Bubble tree Hotel

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Posted in Design, designers and online finds, Unusual homes

Tagged camping, cool tents, Field Candy, glamping, tent designs, VW van

Iconic Dutch architecture inspires Hotel in Zaandam

Posted on February 2, 2012 | Leave a comment

Check out this interesting hotel design by Dutch architecture firm WAM architecten. The design looks like a pile of typical green wooden houses stacked on top of each other. It’s the new Inntel Hotel Amsterdam in Zaandam, a town North of Amsterdam. The 4-star hotel has 160 rooms and a total of 11 floors.

What do you think?

Inntel Hotel Zaandam

Floor plan porn…..

Posted on November 17, 2011 | 1 comment

Look at this magnificent apartment. It’s the Penthouse of the mother of all real estate pearls; 15 Central Park West. To be fair, it’s ‘just’ the penthouse of the lower part. But it faces Central Park, and has terraces overlooking it on pretty much all sides. Hence it’s rather steep asking price of $88.000.000….. That means Greece couldn’t afford it.

15 Central Park West

Sanford "Sandy" Weill's swanky crib

I love a bit of floor plan porn in the morning. Thanks to Real Estalker for the original post!

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Posted in Homes of the rich and famous, See how others live, Unusual homes

Tagged 15 Central Park West, Floor plan porn, Real Estalker, Real Estate, Sanford Weill

Prefab garden shed / greenhouse / guesthouse

Posted on November 6, 2011 | 2 comments

This lovely green house Garden shed is designed by architect Ville Hara and designer Linda Bergroth for Kekkilä Garden’s Home & Garden collection. It’s a prefabricated garden shed combined with a greenhouse that easily doubles as a guesthouse. It can be assembled by simply using a screwdriver. The Garden Shed, made from Finnish pine and safety glass, was launched in 2010 and was awarded with the Garden Product of the Year prize.