Ahh THESE are our idea of wondrous Christmas trees. No need to decorate them further: the house does it all, a magical platform for living trees.
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Elemental Dream Cabin Clad in Aluminum
We find ourselves looking closely at “Tatek’s Cabin” in Velebit, Croatia to see all the materials Tatek used, as we wonder about its evolution.
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Ever-Improvised Driftwood Cabin Somewhere in CA
(Video link here.) We spotted this lovely driftwood cabin at the great, always-refreshing, Cabin Porn; it is in an undisclosed location somewhere on the Northern California coast, there for people walking on the beach to come upon. The cabin stands to this day and good-hearted travelers continue to make small improvements. This video provides a…
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origma hut: off-grid retreat made with crazy smart materials
We are smitten with the Origma Hut, custom-designed and built by by Gary Warner and Philip Sticklen in Sydney, Australia. We admire it not so much for the way it looks but for the thinking and materials that went into it. The description posted on Architizer is potent and to-the-point (our favorite bits bold-faced): Origma Hut is…
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ordinary trailer morphed into strangely charming cabin
Cabin Porn is one of our favorite escapist websites, which we check into periodically to oggle remote, eccentric retreats of various kinds. Recently we came upon this strangely appealing Swedish cabin improvised out of a rather ordinary trailer that opened up our heads to various trailer/cabin hacks and possibilities. Photo by Reidar Pritzel. Related posts: favorite…
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a magical cabin’s wall of reclaimed windows
Over our many years of traveling to West Virginia, we’ve admired a number of eccentric, cozy dwellings, including a school bus with a giant stone hearth built onto it, nestled by a river. But this shack we spotted at Cabin Porn incites serious envy. A couple named Lilah and Nick built the Sunset House using lumber from…
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hut built over 5 years with salvaged materials
We love checking in to Cabin Porn a site which provides “inspiration for your quiet place somewhere”, which right now, is in our heads. Recently, we became smitten with this hut overlooking Lake Bonney in the southeast of South Australia. All we know is that “it was built over 5 years with salvaged materials”; no other details…
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cabin porn fave of the day: garden cottage, netherlands
…fuels our imagination…gives us a lovely vicarious experience: a fantazoom to will lead who-knows-where? via Cabin Porn Related posts: favorite escapist blog: cabin porn ‘tiny homes: simple shelter’ voyeur: suzanne shaker’s interiors evocative ideas from “the best of the selby 2010″ inside björk’s house (we’re back!)
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favorite escapist blog: cabin porn
Many of the blogs we read have direct practical applications to our lives; they give us ideas we can use in our home, office, traveling, relationships, work, self-image… One category of blog is really for pure escapism; they offer us a break from our usual routine and vision. Of late, our favorite is Cabin Porn,…
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