Australians, doing it right.
I want to build a copy of this somewhere and live in it forever.
(Source: liddicoatgoldhill.com)
Photographer’s Studio by David Clark of Kartwheel via Remodelista (Photographed by Alexandra Valenti)
Did you ever see anything so beautiful as that darkroom?
Butterfly Cabin by Mickey Muennig in Big Sur, California via Dwell
The thousand-foot cliffs and precipitous mountains of Big Sur, California, have a long history of attracting contrarian thinkers. “There being nothing to improve on in the surroundings,” writes Henry Miller in Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch, “the tendency is to set about improving oneself.” Surrendering to the stunning natural beauty of this sparsely populated region seems to be what people do here, and architect Mickey Muennig is no different.
Rural writer’s studio by Cooper Joseph Studio in Ghent, New York
Easier than actually finding a place to live is looking at woodland retreats I could hide in.
pretty much all I want in life is to live in a tiny cabin like this.
(Source: Apartment Therapy)
The Miner and a Major is an experiment in communal living and fantastical form. A New York story of creativity born from hardscrabble circumstance, the project grew out of the joint imagination of three architects with a limited budget.
It took just five months and $4,000 for Serban Ionescu, Jim Dreitlein, and Justin Smith to build the warren of five sleeping units inside a Greenpoint, Brooklyn, live/work loft that was selected for being big and affordable
…the Miner and a Major’s painted oriented strand board (OSB) exterior conceals five small bedrooms, each outfitted with a desk, bed, and storage space. Idiosyncratic openings and operable skylights offer ventilation and bring illumination from the loft’s large industrial windows into each cell. While the wood-framed walls are thickly insulated for privacy, life in the Miner and a Major is undeniably intimate. “The thing is, it gives us all weird dreams,” says Ionescu.
Read more: http://www.dwell.com/articles/Take-Five.html#ixzz1zzFQv3NY
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen/read/heard about. Oh my god
