The Red & White Media Cabinet is a beautiful piece of furniture designed by Wüd Furniture Design, a Brooklyn based design and manufacturing studio. This design is a combination of contemporary designs with classical joinery, merging both function and beauty. White and wood together look awesome and the final result it’s such a clean and [...]

The Superior Neon is a contemporary flueless gas fire which will transform any room in your home with its glossy black glass mounted onto an aluminium back fascia. The benefits of having a flueless fire (aside from the fact they look great) is that they are 100% heat efficient. Normally fires let a large amount [...]

I really like some of the things I see on Next House’s site. I even like the site itself, which is really saying something; I find so many architects’ sites so fussy and difficult to navigate, which is odd given the inevitable descriptors in their “about us” statements: elegant, functional, minimal, clean, etc. I love [...]

One of the most valuable assets in my garden is my greenhouse. It has allowed me to grow plants that I normally would not be able to grow, produce crops that the season is not usually long enough to produce, and protect my plants from frosts, hail, or other severe weather that normally would have [...]

It is finally warming up in Humboldt County, after an extremely cold spring with snow flurries in April — very unusual for us. My greenhouses are not heated in winter, and other than fans, there is no cooling system. One of the problems with our foggy climate is that temperatures in the greenhouses [...]

Grand Designs Live, the slightly addictive t.v. show about house renovations, has named its Voters’ Choice Home of the Year, 2008. Winner of the Best Conversion category, Black Sheep House went on to beat off all the other contenders to win the overall prize. That is quite a feat because some of the other houses [...]

Casa Elegante is a pure simbol of luxury, that I’ce decided to post under my Dream Homes collection. I know that I didn’t post to much in that category, but this house is really amazing, and I had to post about. Now let’s find a few things about this luxurious home. The home was developed [...]