Adventures in Interior Design: Count the Tchotchkes in This Overwhelming 1850s Abode

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Curbed NOLA has come across a fixer-upper for the truly adventurous in the New Orleans neighborhood of Tremé. Not only does it need a good deal of work in the traditional sense—the listing boasts that this 7,000-square-foot dwelling, bu...

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Take to the Roof in This Dapper, Futuristic Prefab

Tuesday, April 29, 2014, by Spencer Peterson


Photo via LoftCube
There are any number of reasons someone might want to put one house on top of another, be it a mountain villa perched on a Beijing apartment complex, or a log cabin atop a Soviet-era high-rise. With the LoftCube, German...

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Monochromes: According to Realtors, This Was the Domestic Ideal of 1941

Friday, April 25, 2014, by Amy Schellenbaum


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Photos via the Library of Congress’; Gottscho-Schleisner Collection
In April exactly 73 years ago, this model apartment on NYC’;s Fifth Avenue was flaunted by the long-defunct real...

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Adaptive Reuse: This "Aviator"s Villa" Takes Reclamation to Wacky New Heights

Monday, April 21, 2014, by Spencer Peterson


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Most often, when a home is built from salvaged plane parts—from wings, to engines, to entire cabins; as one enthusiast once put it, “like the Native Americans use every part of the b...

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Architectural Craziness: This Wacky Home Has Leafy Walls and Upside Down Chairs

Monday, April 14, 2014, by Lily di Costanzo


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Home to Australian designer and floral artist Joost Bakker and his family, this former cherry farm property in Melbourne offers what might be the most whimsical family home of all time, despite some serious...

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