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A Beginner’s Guide to Italian Ghost Towns Selling Houses for €1

It’s been a rough few years, but it’s also been a time for re-evaluating our lives and dreaming “out of the box”. Back in 2015, we caught wind of the first Italian towns to adopt the appealing concept of giving away or selling abandoned houses for the symbolic price of 1 euro, in a bid to…

Paris’ Utopian Village of Concrete Cabbage

If Ernest Hemingway made Paris a moveable feast, architect Gérard Grandval made its Créteil suburb the vegetable course. Built during the 1970s, the Créteil Cabbages, or “Choux de Créteil,” are French Brutalism at its finest. The ‘utopian’ residency is composed of 10 otherworldly buildings whose balconies extend like giant, concrete petals – hence the nickname, “the…

Weekend at Wallis & Edward’s Secret French Cottage

For the man who gave up the throne of England to be with the women he loved, living in seclusion became a life sentence. Exiled from England to avoid stirring up trouble for the Royal Family, Edward and his American wife settled in Paris and lived in the beautiful Chateau Le Bois, which became better known…

The Man who lived in an Airplane

His address would read something like this: Boeing 727 in the field, Oregon, U.S.A. For almost ten years, Bruce Campbell, who needless to say loves planes, has been living in one ever since he purchased a retired Boeing 727 for $100,000. To move it from the airport to his house cost him an additional $60,000+.…

Let’s visit every inch of these Paris Apartments (that you could stay in)

Ever since I moved to Paris and became a bit of a blogger on all things Parisian, I’ve come to the understanding that it’s basically everyone’s secret desire to live in a quaint little Parisian apartment at one time in their life. And it’s true, there’s nothing quite like Parisian apartments; the bohemian pied-à-terres with all…

Modern Home built within a 150 year-old Abandoned Farmhouse

For over 150 years, a limestone house built on the tiny island of Coll in Scotland was left abandoned, watching over the crashing waves, whistling with the wind that danced through its cracks. It was built in the 1700’s for the caretaker of a large estate belonging to the Macleans, a family who still own…

Abandoned French Countryside Village Sold for the Price of a small Parisian Flat

It boasts 19 buildings with traditional French features, including a swimming pool, tennis court, stables, a chapel, village hall and acres of land, but only had an asking price of 330,000 Euros. At such an outlandish price, the abandoned hamlet of Courbefy soon caught the attention of the international media, interest sky-rocketed and gave the…

BALCONY CHIC: The Big, the Medium and the Tiny

A little inspiration (ideas to steal) for those lucky enough to have al fresco spaces and looking to do a bit of sprucing up for summer. No matter what size your balcony/ patio / terrace is, take some notes for making your space as inviting as can be, even if there’s only room for you! In…

Paris Houseboat Hotel (Temporarily Live the Dream)

Spying on house boats along the river Seine has sort of become one of my daily activities. When taking my evening run on the banks, I find myself focusing less on my heart rate and more on imagining life aboard one of the peniches; how I would ideally arrange the deck furniture, what I would…

Wall Art is like, SO Hot right now.

If you trawl the internet and its design blogs as much as I do, you might have already come across this wall art trend that seems to be happening. I’ve finally discovered the company behind most of it, with their clever faux headboards that I’ve been eyeing and various other creative graphics for walls around the…

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