When I posted about the Farnsworth House, I was asked if it was from the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It’s not, but there is some crossover. The house they are talking about isn’t Ferris Bueller’s house. It’s Cameron Frye’s house. It is the Ben …
One of my favorite things about visiting IKEA is wandering through the display houses. These IKEA display houses demonstrate Small House living. They are in the Jacksonville, Florida IKEA store. This display in the Jacksonville, Florida IKEA store looks like a beach house. They had …
When you first walk into an IKEA store, there are rooms to wander through for inspiration. This IKEA display demonstrates a home office with a sofa-bed living area. It is in the Jacksonville, Florida IKEA store. The office has a comfortable rolling chair, full-sized desk …
These photos are from one of the display houses at the IKEA in Jacksonville, Florida. It is a model small, not tiny, house. This model has a semi-open floor plan with a dining room that easily seats eight, a large kitchen with four bar stools …
The one room glass and steel Edith Farnsworth House seems to float above the ground. It was designed in the International style of Modern architecture by Mies van der Rohe. In 1945, Edith Farnsworth purchased nine acres of beautiful wooded property on the Fox River …
Midwest Products House Framing 3/4″ Scale Model Kits are used to teach construction using 3/4″ scale micro-cut wood cut to thousandths of an inch tolerances. The kits use the principles used in real world house framing. The included instruction booklets explain the purpose of each …
This photo showed up on Facebook of houses surrounded by oval hedges with no roads. The caption was nonsense, so I used Google Image Search to see what it really is, De Runde Haver or Oval Gardens, Nærum, Denmark. The gardens are in Nærum, Denmark, …
The historic Emmons Cottage is a Florida Cracker Cottage. It is near the parking for the Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens. The Art Museum is just past The Casements, the Rockefeller Estate near the beach on Granada Blvd. It is 994 square foot 2-story …
I want to share another of my favorite home design books. Cottages by Brian Coleman with photos by Douglas Keister is filled with inspiration. If small houses make you happy, I’m sure you will love this book, too. Cottages by Brian Coleman (Author), Douglas Keister …
See how a Facebook Marketplace seller has turned a shed into a 448 square foot studio. She bought two and all of the materials to finish them. After finishing one, she is selling the other one and the rest of the materials. You can finish …
