Last October, 22 temporary hotel rooms popped up around Mannheim, Germany, as part of the Hotel Shabby Shabby event for the city’s Theater der Welt festival. Designers were invited to build temporary cabins in unexpected locations using found or recylable materials, for a strict 250 pounds (less than $400) budget. It yielded a many ideas for building…
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Lately, we find ourselves collecting images of interesting spaces for hanging out: nests of various kinds both indoors and out. We view these little improvisied spaces as mini vacations —a transporting place to read and dream…
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(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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One of our secret passions is connectors — not just connectors of ideas – but connectors of physical things as well: materials you can build with. We can’t wait to try out Stick-lets, flexible, stretchy silicone connectors made in a variety of configuerations. (They’re meant for kids, but when did that ever stop us?) You…
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For some time now, we’ve been mulling the idea of pop-up, temporary “rooms” that we could put in place easily in a smallish apartment. The idea started with wanting to provide out-of-town friends camping in our living room with privacy, and evolved when we were trying to figure out a way to separate our sleeping…
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