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The Abandoned Ruins given New Life

I can’t help but notice a rapidly growing trend happening in architecture that involves giving new life to what may look like the most hopeless of ruins. Ever since I showed you the modern Scottish home built within a 150 year-old abandoned farmhouse, I’ve been hugely intrigued by these modern interventions of age old crumbling…

One Guy’s Quest to Save the 1960s Time Capsule Homes of America

Miles McDermott might just be the youngest person to restore a time capsule home. An award-winning designer, local tastemaker and fellow old soul living in Phoenix, Arizona, he’s just spent the last few years transforming his own mid-century style home– which he found looking worse for wear on Craigslist– into a virtual museum of 1960s interior…

Best Dad Ever builds a Tree in his Daughter’s Bedroom

My own Dad is of course the best ever and too he built my brother and I a top-notch treehouse in the garden when we were kids. But I wasn’t quite clever enough to ask him to build me a treehouse inside my bedroom… While doing my morning coffee browse of Reddit.com, I came across a rather…

The Most Mysterious Mansion in London is For Sale

Malplaquet House is one of those places that makes everyone in the neighbourhood, or anyone walking past its mysterious overgrown gates, wish they could get a look inside. A home worthy of Miss Havisham herself, until recently this stellar cabinet of curiosities was one of London’s forgotten mansions, uninhabited for over a century, heading towards a fate…

Stop Everything, Check out these Miniature Mediocre Motels

Among my favourite things are mid-century American kitsch and teeny tiny stuff. Put the two together and you basically send me into overload. I’m not exactly sure why run-down vintage motels fascinate me so; perhaps that seedy glamour of America is much more appealing to a European road-tripper like me who hasn’t stayed in enough of them yet to have encountered bed bugs. But those pastel…

All the Colour they Left Behind

Man oh man, do I need to get a look at this photographer’s address book. Mattias Haker is up there with the best abandoned photographers I’ve seen. And I like that he’s not shy with the saturation, highlighting all those vibrant colours that were left to fade over time. You can tell he spends a lot of…

Oh Lord, Won’t you buy me a Gypsy Caravan…

Why would you want a Mercedes-Benz when you could buy a whole new lifestyle? The day that I have a backyard to park it in, mark my words, I’ll buy a gypsy caravan and turn it into my mobile MessyNessyChic clubhouse. And I found just the company to get it from… We’ve found each other by chance, my…

We can now Hang Out in Jimi Hendrix’s 1960s London Flat

Number 23 Brook Street in Mayfair of London, is the only officially recognised Hendrix residence in the world. And for the past 13 years, it’s been used as an administrative office. Updated from an article originally posted in 2014 following an announcement of plans to restore the Hendrix residence. Coincidentally located next door to the…

This is what Leonardo DiCaprio’s Private Uninhabited Island Looks like

Ten years ago, Leonardo DiCaprio bought an island in Belize with plans to build the world’s first eco-restorative resort that would “restore” the over-fished waters, eroding coastline and deforestation. The island is called Blackadore Caye. Leo discovered it while vacationing on a nearby resort in 2004. Fishermen would use this island to manage their catches and chop…

Inside Sophia Loren’s Roman Villa, 1964

I don’t think Sophia Loren gets enough credit as a 20th century screen icon. Her curves and beauty could certainly rival that of Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot, not to mention her career and lifestyle choices. While Monroe’s and Bardot’s talents were questionable outside of their looks, Sophia won 50 awards during her career including an…

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