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"One summer day, Kensuke Kenmotsu stepped into his nine-month-old house and found a monkey standing in the laundry room. The airy single-story home hugs a wooded slope overlooking the city of Odawara and Sagami Bay. The monkey had walked out of a tangerine orchard adjacent to the house, slid open a screen door, and swaggered inside. “I think he was after our bananas,” says Kensuke, a construction labor contractor. His wife, Chika, who is terrified of monkeys, was not pleased. But for architect Masahiro Harada the story is the highest of compliments."

Tags: wood fiber cement ceiling panels, shelving room deviders, japan
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The Island House sits on a petite man-made island in 'Loosdrechtse Plas,’ a lake area near Amsterdam and Breukelen (from which the New York borough gots its name). The thin strip of land, a result of peat farming centuries ago, inspired the design of the cabin. Image courtesy of 2by4-Architects.

Tags: black, 225sf, glass wall
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of houses


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Alexander Girard pop-up show

via Justin
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nice beamage in traditional Portugal house with yoga chick


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a love letter to concrete


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$5k cabin

* price doesn't include everything
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Free book tells you how to insulate old brick buildings without them falling apart in a few years


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haut sh*t

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tension lamp


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brick red


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sandwich panel


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bridgmanite


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house designed around dining table Osaka


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roadkill metal working videos


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Claude Parent


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casa window w Alphaville


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brutal


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Alan Buchsbaum (originator of the Loft look and Hi-tek)


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Ward Bennett (nice bachelor pad look going on here. Notice I-beam side table. Sweet!)
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various switches


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how to buy a shipping container


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CADRE house Japan


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swivel guide


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