10 Best Places For Living

10 Best Places For Living

1. Living in a Billboard

This has got to be recycling at its best. Why throwout perfectly good billboards when you can reuse them as a living space? I don't know about you, but how many billboards have you seen that would make a good onebedroom apartment? This may be the idea, but we shall see if it comes into practical use. 

2.  Living in a Walking House

WALKING HOUSE is a modular dwelling system that enables persons to live a peaceful nomadic life, moving slowly through the landscape or cityscape with minimal impact on the environment. It collects energy from its surroundings using solar cells and small windmills. There is a system for collecting rain water and a system for solar heated hot water. 

3.  Living under the Grass

At first sight, the place seems inhospitable. A rocky cliff facing North, unsheltered, where the wind blows cold and makes the waves break would seem the last place you would want to build your house in. But its owners didn't think the same way and, thus, an unusual building of angular, butsober, lines was built to merge perfectly with the surrounding environment. Located in Loredo, in the north coast of Spain, facing the Cantabrian Sea (Bay of Biscay), the OS house, a project by the Nolaster group of architects, has, as its main characteristic, its covering, which is none other than grass.

4.  Living in a Water Tower

"The Tower," a Tri Level House Standing 85 Feet Tall, is a Replica of a Historical Water Tower that was Reconstructed. The Architectural Design is Combined with a Designer Interior Layout. The Water Tower Features a 360 Degree, Unsurpassed View of the Pacific Ocean, Huntington Harbour and the San Gabriel River. 

5.  Living over a Bridge

Max Pritchard Architect brought out the adventurer side in you. Living inside a “bridge” surrounded by the lush green scenery was challenging. It was the Bridge House. The house design was consisted of two steel trusses with concrete floors and steel decking. There was a roof made of plantation pipes. The unique house had transparent walls made of glass. The outdoor feeling in was brought by another great example of narrow housing. The box house was situated at one hour's drive from Adelaide, worth $175,000.

6. Living inside an Airplane

This accommodation is not a private dwelling but instead a suite that is part of the Hotel Costa Verde, a hotel located near Quepos, Costa Rica. It's a fully outfitted, meticulously detailed, two bedroom, Boeing 727 fuselage suite. The creators have refurbished a vintage 1965 Boeing 727 airframe, which in its prior life shuttled globetrotters on South Africa Air and Avianca Airlines(Colombia). 

7. Living in a Church

This stunning Gothic Revival-style building is now one of the most extraordinary and largest single family homes in San Francisco. Built in 1909 in San Francisco's famed Mission District, this church fell on hard times in recent years when its dwindling membership did not have the money to finance needed renovations. Enter businessman Siamak Akhavan who purchased the church for $2.25 million and invested another $3 million in it, turning it into a three-bedroom, 2-½ bath, twelve-room home. Its features include an enormous living area, which includes the original sanctuary (with soaring, hand-painted ceilings, arched windows, and most of the original stained glass windows), custom mahogany wood finishes, four fireplaces, and a new chef's kitchen. The Master Suite includes a marble Roman tub room, dressing room, and incredible 360 degree views from the tower meditation room. It's back on the market again, too. Asking price? A cool $7.5 million.

8.  Living on a 2,575m Peak

Since 1983, the Rifugio Nuvolau has been a refuge for exhausted trekkers, providing comfort and solace to those trudging in Italy's dramatic DolomiteMountains. Even during World War 1, the 2,575m high hut served as a point for surveying situations on the summit. Besides a flashback in history, the location will provide a bed, eatables, and the jolly company of other outdoorsy souls like you. 

9. Living on a Boat – on shore.

The Ship Residence sits on South Bass Island in Lake Erie at Put-in-Bay, Ohio. Its based on what is left of the former Great Lakes Shipping Boat, The Benson Ford. The boat was built by Henry Ford (of Ford Motors and the Model T) and named after his grandson. After 50 years of service on the Great Lakes, the Benson Ford was scheduled in 1986 to be scrapped. This is when an Ohio couple stepped in and the captain's quarters of the Benson Ford became The Ship Residence, a private home on South Bass Island.

The front section of the Benson Ford is where the walnut paneled state rooms, dining room, galley, and passenger lounge were located. These elegant quarters were removed from the rest of the ship and brought to land to make up the magnificent Ship Residence. 

 10. Living Upside Down

Klaudiusz Golos and Sebastion Mikuciuk created this upside down house for an exhibit in Trassenheide, Germany. It's clearly unlivable but still a lot of fun. 

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Best And Amazing Tree Houses

Wilkinson Residence

Architect, artist, magician, Robert Harvey Oshatz is all of That and so much more. He is the organic architect Responsible for this magnificent home up in the canopy; the coolest house in the trees That Likely Will you ever see. The unique Wilkinson Residence graces the wooded landscape outside of Portland, Oregon. This Treehouse would turn even the Swiss Family Robinson green with envy. More than Likely you too Will have a more than a twinge of desire to live in it. 


 Spider's Leg Tree house





We're no Strangers to Germany's tree house Baumraum makers extraordinaire, so When We saw another brilliant arboreal home design from Them, We Knew We had to share it with you! The house resides at the World of Living, a showspace / amusement park for sustainable housing company WeberHaus and greets visitors with its curvy body perched atop a spider-like super skinny "legs". The unusual shape and clean lines are Baumraum's signature, and there are a lot of other cool features, so check Check it all out in our slide show. 




 Tree house Teahouse





Japanese professor of architecture Terunobu Fujimori built his boyhood dream in his father's garden in 2004. It's a Teahouse on DanceInternasional.Stilt. 



 Tree House Restaurant








The Naha Harbor Diner in Okinawa, Japan, lies at the very top of a huge Gajumaru tree about 20 feet above the ground. Sadly, that is not a real Gajumaru tree, it's Actually concrete. Actually Customers have to get in an elevator inside the trunk to reach the restaurant.


Yellow Tree House

The Yellow Tree House by Pacific Environment Architects is built around a redwood tree, the which is over 40m high and has a 1.7m diameter at its base, located north of Auckland, New Zealand. The structure is made of plantation poplar slats and used extensive natural lighting throughout. The tree house restaurant was built as a marketing promotion for New Zealand Yellow Pages.



The concept of building a tree house on a redwood tree was quite Challenging and required a range of consultants to get your resources and building consent, and to get construction underway in the limited time of four months. The design is an organic oval form wrapped around the trunk and structurally tied up the top and bottom, with a circular arrangement, split apart on the axis with a raised floor portion. The binding timber forms the base of the main structure. Glue-laminated poplar plantation pine has been used for the slats. It is around 10m wide and 12m high with seating over 10m off the ground. The kitchen and toilets are on the ground. It has the capacity to occupy 18 people with all the comforts Such as bars, structural soundness, and unobstructed views into the valley.

Beach Tree House Rock







This Treehouse by Japanese builder Kobayahsi Takashi was constructed with the express purpose of communicating with outer space. "A sparkling beacon Among Treetops, it is easy to imagine the dome succeeding at its mission to make contact with alien life," writes Nelson. 


 Wood Island Bogwon Tree house





The Island Wood "Bogwon" Treehouse in Washington is supported by a single tree. Engineer Jake Jacob and his team from the TreeHouseWorkshop fixed the house to the trunk with a series of limb-hugging rings. "Our trees are perched Actually, as opposed to nailed in," he toll us. "The tree Might move in the wind and We do not want to inhibit the tree to be Able to move in the wind." 


 97-Foot Tree house







Horace Burgess's tree house may be as close to heaven as a body can get inCumberland County. It Rises 97 feet into the sky, the support provided by a live, 80-foot-tall white oak 12 feet in diameter at its base. Six other trees brace the tower-like fortress, but Burgess says its foundation is in God. Most of his materials are recycled pieces of lumber from garages, storage shedsand Barns.The tree house has 10 floors, averaging nine to 11 feet in height by Burgess's reckoning. He has never Measured its size but estimates it to be about 8.000 to 10.000 square feet. He did count the nails That he has Hammered into the wood - 258,000, give or take a Few hundred. And he guesses he has sunk about $ 12,000 into the project. 


 Peter Lewis's Tree House






Any kid in Bridgton, Maine, would want to have Peter Lewis's Playhouse in his backyard. And no wonder. Lewis has tricked it out with a Drawbridge and two spiral staircases. Best of all, the whole thing floats 21 ft.. off the ground. Lewis, however, is no kid, and his masterpiece - a two-story, 6000-pound clubhouse slung from an Eastern white pine - bears scant resemblance to the banged-together Shacks of childhood. His Treehouse is held aloft by a well-engineered suspension system That imparts nary a scratch to the pine's bark. Hearty beams and mortise-and-Tenon joints Lend a built-for-the-ages solidity. Weather-sealed windows, insulation and a coal-burning stove deliver year-round enjoyment, even in icy Maine. 


 Crystal River Tree House





There is always a place for fun and frivolity in architecture! David Rasmussen, Treehouse resident expert, designed and built this "Treehouse" with log columns as the main support, since the trees on the property are not strong enough to build on. 

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10 Coolest Shower Designs

Aquarium Shower

Aquarium Shower


This totally baller shower enclosure called Plano Acquario by Cesena has a real aquarium built right into one of the walls. How cool would it be to be standing in the shower under a flow of water while watching fish swim around you? Very relaxing. They say you can put a TV or a bookshelf in there instead of the fish tank but what fun would that be?








Deer Stag Shower




Deer Stag Shower


Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take a shower with a deer stag head spewing water onto you? Now you can. This porcelain version was unveiled at Milan Design Week 2010. I've no idea what such a design would even cost, but it's safe to assume it won't be showing up in the fixtures aisle of your local Home Depot anytime soon.


Colour Phasing Shower Light







Colour Phasing Shower Light


This is shower head with a temperature controlled light so you will never burn your bottom again. Temperature changes from green (when the temperature is less than 32C) to red (at more than 45C). The phasing colours in between are blue, orange, purple and pink.


The 18-head Shower







The 18-head Shower


With all of the crazy inventions people come up with today, it comes as no surprise that this baby would be invented. What? You want to be freakishly clean and you enjoy a solid stream of water to caress your nether-regions? Well, look no more! As you can see in the picture, this shower does enjoy the advantage of sporting 18 different shower heads. With adjustable settings (i.e. temperature, water pressure, etc.), you really can't go wrong with this. Oh wait, yes you can. How? Well, one only needs to look at its price tag. $100,000. Yes, that is 5 zeros you are looking at. I need to find someone who has this and see if they will give me a spin in it. 





Viteo Garden Shower






Viteo Garden Shower


The Viteo Garden Shower begins a gentle, meter high shower as soon as you step on its white platform a little over four inches high. What's interesting about it is that instead of water coming down on top of you; it springs up from below, fountain style. Honored with the iF Product Design Award 2007, the white platform is made from a stainless steel frame base, sturdy UV-resistant ABS plastic white skin and slip-resistant tread. Sandwiched in between are springs which take a light load of about 33 pounds in order to activate the valve which causes water to spray from an inner channel system to 16 fine cone shaped jets. The result is a gentle cone of water from 2 to 4 meters (6ft to 13ft). And while the gushing flow of cold water from your tap may prove rather startling, not nearly as so as the cool $930US price tag. 



Folding Shower






Folding Shower


This Folding Shower, is a concept by French company Supiot and it is currently looking for a manufacturer and a distributor. It has a unique design that's supposed to allow people living in small apartments to install a shower that doesn't take up too much of their limited space.




Rotating Shower/Bath





Rotating Shower/Bath


The industrial designer Ron Arad came up with this rotating shower/bath with Italian manufacturers Teuco (the shower section of their website was particularly funny). You can have a bath in the lip, or rotate it around to give you a shower cabinet if you fancy that instead. Of course, you'll need a bathroom the size of most of our entire flats to fit it in. And it also doesn't explain why this girl is having both a shower and a bath with her clothes on. Still, it's very cool. 



Pocket Shower





Pocket Shower


This is a very cool idea for campers and festival followers, the pocket shower, fill with water, hang from tree, get clean. The pocket shower comes in a fist sized bag but can hold up to 10 liters of water which is enough for a 7 minute shower. The water reservoir is made from a thin black material which absorbs sunlight and a solar system that heats the water. This is probably one of the few showers you'll enjoy when camping. You can buy the pocket shower from I Want One of Those for $26.98


Psychedelic Shower





Psychedelic Shower


These awesome temperature-sensitive glass tiles will change color depending on their current temperature. You just tell the manufacturer what base temperature you want, and every 6-10 degree increment from there activates a different color phase. There are three phases in all, and once you've passed the third, it will return to the original color. I wouldn't recommend installing these in a house with more than one or two people in it. You can bet that the first person in the shower is going to use up all the hot water just messing with the colors on the tiles. Of course you'll need to rob a bank first, since a single 4” x 4” tile will run you $33, or around $300 per square foot.




Shower Pod






Shower Pod


It's nice being clean. It's a shame, then, that being clean is just so much damn work. Like, you get in the shower, and then you're supposed to STAND there. Stand! And you have to be rubbing soap on your body and shampoo in your hair, and if you try and do that in opposite directions at the same time, it'll make you fall over and you'll crack your head open and die. And that would be bad. The automatic human washing machine takes most of the dying out of showers by not only giving you the chance to lie down while getting clean, but also by doing all of the actual cleaning for you. You stick yourself inside the washing pod and command it to go, and it will wash you with soap and water, use infrared light to steam heat you, pamper you with sound and aromatherapy, and then finish up with a seaweed wrap and some body lotion. Then you get out, and the machine sterilizes itself to get rid of all the nastiness you left behind.

I have no idea how, or how well, the automatic human washing machine (aka the “Santelubain 999″) actually performs its numerous cleaning tasks, but the website assures us that “the automatic human washing machine has been recognized by various people through coverage by different medias.” Ah, okay, very good then.

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