I kinda love this Ikea chair. The Strandmon is not new to the Ikea family, but back after a stint of absence. It reminds me of the chairs you see in cartoons. In fact, of the one in the Cartoon Network animated series ‘Cow & Chicken’. I could only find the image below, which is clearly their sofa, but it’s similar right?
Strandmon by Ikea
Cow and Chicken interior
Anyway. I think that at €199,- the Strandmon is a steal.
Not sure how the Dutch saying ‘Baas boven baas’ translates to English, but the $65 million apartment in an earlier post has met its match. The penthouse in the video below is on the market for $100 million… the most expensive listing the city has ever seen….
Posted in Homes of the rich and famous, See how others live
Tagged expensive, inside, most expensive, NYC, penthouse, Real Estate, tour, video
In january 2009, in an article about how not to present your home when selling, I wrote about a detached 30’s style home close to Amsterdam. It has everything going for it. Close to the city, large garden, great lay-out, views, dead-end street etc. The decor is hideous, but the current owners will take that with them. Lick of paint, maybe a new floor and some finishing touches here and there, and the house is as blank a canvas as any other.
You can imagine my frustration when I saw the pictures the realtor put up. Closed curtains, shady shots of storage rooms, cluttered bathrooms etc. To top it all off; the realtor added floor plans of a different house! And I still think that the little convertible on the drive way is the realtor’s. Parked as a getaway car: “I’ll just run in, take a few shots and that’s it”.
No surprise that three years down the line the house is still on the market. It looks very unappealing and
For shame! Even if your clients refuse to take any advice, there is no excuse for the way you present it online. And how hard can it be to add the right floor plans!
Posted in See how others live
There is something eerie about abandoned homes. Especially if parts of the inhabited past is still there, like furniture, curtains or other traces of the times when people called it home. Photographer Kevin Baumann photographed a 100 of them. Each of them with a story that the spectator is left to guess or fantasize about. Was it the crunch that drove the occupants away? Or did they die alone with no family left to take care of their homes? I love this series.
all photography in this article by Kevin Baumann
Posted in Design, designers and online finds, See how others live, Unusual homes
Tagged abandoned homes, Architecture, banks, cool, crisis, crunch, eerie, foreclosure, ghost, haunted, Kevin Baumann, occupants, photographs, pictures, spectator, USA
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