A room somewhere
Sunday, 15 April, 2007
Had I not gone on to study Creative Writing at university, architecture would have been my next choice. I love looking at houses! I probably wouldn't be very good at designing them but I love looking at them.
I've always wanted to live somewhere cool. This place we're in now is probably the coolest place we've ever lived in (with its three metre high windows, marble fireplaces and wooden floorboards). Mercedes Lackey apparently lives in a “2½-story concrete dome with an octagonal wooden shell over it to make it look more like a normal house ... it's round with curved outer walls, which makes placement of furniture kind of awkward” (source) and Neil Gaiman lives in a house that looks like something out of the Addams Family. Here are some other cool places to live:
- In a yurt;
- In a warehouse like Dalgety Square—formerly the Farmers & Graziers Wool Store (View photos);
- In The Shire—built just like The Shire in The Lord of the Rings;
- In Terri Windling's house—which is now up for sale (features wall art by Brian Froud, Alan Lee, Charles Vess and other artists). )View photos.) (Via Neil—or at least his Web Elf);
- In a spherical treehouse—not very roomy but think of the view! (Via Endicott studio.)
Also see The Wharf Restaurant to understand why I'd like to live on a pier.
Blinks:
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Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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I can imagine a hotel or hostel made out of those hanging spheres, scattered through a forest.