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Category / Desirable Digs

Who Will Rescue this New York Manor Worthy of a Tim Burton Movie?

This incredible historic home has been sitting on the market for a little longer than we’re comfortable with. Fairview Manor is the sort of place that’s pretty much straight out of Tim Burton’s imagination, so it’ll take a special sort of owner to take it on. But of course, pairing quirky houses with even quirkier…

Vintage Home inside a Giant Industrial Shed

Is it a movie set? An art instillation? Nope, this is a real home (within a home) built by quirky architect Adam Kalkin in suburban New Jersey. It’s called the Bunny Lane House and was built around the original traditional two-storey house you can see in the photograph (which sadly does not have yet an…

Real-Life Version of Disney’s UP House

Everyone loved Up. Even grown men wept within the first 20 minutes (and then had to rip up their man cards into pieces). It’s a movie that really hit home with people, including a group of home developers in Utah… Bangerter Homes has recreated the Pixar house down to every last detail. They even had…

Sorry, this French Townhouse is not yours.

I found photographs of this house from a Hungarian blog (don’t ask) but even with the help of an internet translator, there was absolutely no information about it; no name, no location, except for the mistaken assumption that it was in Paris. A fair bit of research later (just call me GoogleGirl) and I’d finally found…

Abandoned Chateau du Jour

A house fit for Gatsby, nestled in the South of France, inspired by the palazzos of Italy, the Chateau Bijou is a one of kind find that I’ve been bursting to share with you. These incredible photographs are brought to us by the Belgian explorers behind Forbidden Places who jumped the gates and took of…

Abandoned Gentlemen’s Club Transformed into a Stylish Home

I can’t believe it took me so long to stumble across this incredible gem of a house but never mind, here it is. I thought since we look at so many abandoned properties, what a breath of fresh air it is to see one that’s been adopted and given a second chance. These images appeared…

American Retro Time Capsule Homes

Kitschy design is being reproduced so much these days you can’t really tell if something is actually retro anymore. But what about the original retro homes that didn’t change with the fashion and stayed exactly the same since the day they were built when kitschy living was the future? MessyNessy did some digging on Retro…

This Girl’s Amazing College Dorm Room is depressingly NOT Yours.

Does this room not make you want to bathe in its warm cocoon of preppyness and revisit those college years once more with brand new stationary and unrealistic expectations for what life has in store ahead? Yes! This is an actual college dorm room, belonging to a freshman no less, at the University of Pennsylvania.…

And Suddenly I’m interested in Wallpaper…

Okay so it’s not technically wallpaper. I posted this image of mural art on my Facebook page last night and it caused a mini sensation, so I thought I might show you a few more photographs from this beautiful space… Images by Alan Carroll We are looking/ gawking at the Goess Apartment, a jewel of…

Postcards from a Seaside Village of Upturned Boat Homes

There’s a sleepy seaside village in France with a small fishing port, a population of less than 3,000 and some very peculiar-looking houses. At a moment’s glance, they could almost appear to be an unfortunate pod of beached orcas, but look again carefully at those unusual roofs. Yes, those are boats … upside down! Local fishermen of Équihen-Plage have lived under scavenged boat hulls here…

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