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35 Expensive Things You'll Need In Your Dream House When You're A Millionaire. Imagine you just won the lottery and you can suddenly afford a massive, 20,000 square foot house with an enormous back yard for your entire family.

35 Expensive Things You'll Need In Your Dream House When You're A Millionaire

Now you need some inspiration for how to fill it - don't worry, I've prepared 35 crazy ideas. hgtv.com I wish my parents had thought of this when I was a kid! Aerusvacuums.com The tiny slot sucks up dirt that is swept nearby, then stores for easy disposal. Although money can't buy happiness...it can make your house unbelievably awesome. Send this list to people you would share your dream house with by clicking below! 37 Amazing Bathroom Designs That Fused with Nature. So you like to relax in the bath?

37 Amazing Bathroom Designs That Fused with Nature

Then this tropical nature inspired bathroom uses blue lighting to set the mood and fauna to make you feel like your bathing in a rainforest. Natural greenery promotes a sense of wellbeing, and there are several ways in which you can play on the look. So, if you have a beautiful garden on the other side of your bathroom wall, then why not install a run of floor to ceiling glazing to allow you to enjoy the view right from your bathroom. 21 Coolest Alcove Beds. IBM's Smarter Cities Billboard Campaign. Billboards are meant to distract and annoy, to draw attention and to not fit in.

IBM's Smarter Cities Billboard Campaign

In its recent on-street ad campaign, IBM promotes its People for Smart Cities Program with billboards that are even more invasive. Ogilvy & Mather France took the concept of the board and bent it into shapes that could – with some effort – be seen as solutions for a somewhat smarter city, London and Paris in this case. A board bends to become a bench, a rain shelter or a ramp over stairs. It is still visual clutter, it is still preaching something, but at least it is doing it with a bit more imagination than just pushing a loud message.

How many citizens actually paid attention to IBM’s message on the street while perusing the practical benefits of the boards, we don’t know, but the social media attention this campaign is achieving has certainly worked its magic. Architecture. Math professor Dr.

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James Stewart, who is also a former violinist with the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra near Toronto, Ontario, has made millions writing calculus textbooks. When he decided to spend most of his fortune on a residence, he could have used any architect anywhere in the world. Instead of an international star, he selected the then-relatively unknown pair, Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe of Shim Sutcliffe to create his residence in a ravine in the posh Toronto neighborhood of Rosedale. Stewart was not looking to build just a residence, though. He also wanted a private concert hall and lots of curves. A decade after the initial discussions with Shim and Sutcliffe, the $24 million US, 18,000-square-foot Integral House was completed.

The house exudes a patina, a classic semi-Scandinavian simplicity that makes it seem older, more established and mature than a brash, brand-new house. Small Attic Loft Apartment In Prague. The design of this modern loft conversion located in Prague, Czech Republic uses natural materials such as stone, brick and wood to enhance the flat and angular surfaces.

Small Attic Loft Apartment In Prague

Designed by architect Dalibor Hlavacek, the two-storey attic loft makes good use of limited floor space. The living room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom are on the lower floor. The upper gallery, accessible via staircase and a steel footbridge, creates an intimate space for the study, which can also be used as a second bedroom. Via: ArchDaily. Put your stuff up in the air! Hanging DIY ideas & tutorials. Posted by ScrapHacker.com on onsdag, juni 27, 2012 · 9 Comments To heck with both feet on the ground!

Put your stuff up in the air! Hanging DIY ideas & tutorials

Now’s the time to put your ideas up in the air! I’ve gathered a bunch of supafly D.I.Y to give wings to anything you’ve got around the house (well, almost!). By showing you a bunch of different applications (from chunky sofas to delicate D.I.Y hanging planters) I hope you’ll all find a little something to get your DIY juices flowin’ in the mix – Enjoy! Pics via here The hanging desk is not only cool looking but an awesome space saver! Pics via GreenWeddingShoes, CapitolRomance & Etsy. 39 Easy DIY Ways To Create Art For Your Walls.

Sky Garden House. I think one of the reasons that many are skeptical about environmental design is because they think its terribly complex and costly.

Sky Garden House

It does take a bit more effort on the front end, but it's definitely not rocket science. Unusual stairs. Unique and creative designs of stairs from around the world.

Unusual stairs

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A completely renovated first apartment