Some of us have lived in our houses for just about for ever. We acumulate a lot of stuff and have mountains of furniture on which and in which to arrange all of our accumulated stuff.

Moving is a huge project, entailing movers and boxes and screwdrivers and weeks of packing and unpacking.

Some people, however, have less seditary jobs or life styles and they move around alot, having to lug things from one place to another, set up for a week or a month and then move again, lugging everything around in bags, and not always having the possibility to get organized well and comfortably at the next location.

Doctors without borders are on this list, so are archiologists, environomentalist, people who have to spend time in make shift dwellings could certainly do with an upgrade to there lifestyle and easier organization.

Casulo - Mobile Living Furniture offers just that

Very Fresh I think.

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The Style Files did a really beautiful post about bathrooms, with the most lucisous bathrooms that you could possibly imagine, the kind that you could only have if

• You had a maid to keep it spick-n-span,
• You had no Kids
• Your kids had all grown up and left the nest

But, on the other hand, they are the kind of bathrooms that I always dream about having, or,  more to the point, I dream about having the kind of life that would allow bathrooms like that.

The bath tub in the picture, is so perfect and could work in a more functional bathroom than the beautiful bathroom from the picture.

I can just imagine finishing the day in a bowl of wonderfully sented warm and soothing water.

The word soup keeps on popping into my mind… who knows why!

When you think of your house, or a house or abode you would like to live in - what comes to mind if you brainstorm?

I got: Family, cosy, comfortable, comfort, well designed, planned, food, private, privacy, cat, dog, garden, sleep, escape, fortress.

Would you want to live in this house?

This is R128  on of the prefab houses designed by Werner Sobek.

I like thinking about living in this house, because I would never live there in all actuality, being a very private person.

I do however admire the thinking behind this home and am sure that the thinking is something I would like to live in.

This house was constructed in only 11 weeks, all of it made out of glass and steel - 100% recyclable materials, it is triple glazed - for easy maintenance of temperature, and of course has solar panels. The house is an intelligent one and is controlled by movement sensors.

In this house, the H16 I would love to live

According to Inhabitat

The cubist H16 is constructed from contrasting cubes. Open glass cubes house the public functions while black concrete cubes surround the private spaces. The ensemble is highlighted by a light-colored cube. Heated by a specially designed geothermal system and powered by photovoltaics, the H16 is able to collect the energy that its inhabitants uses. Recently named a Record House by Architectural Record, the home is garnering international attention.

I feel calm all over just looking at this.

Starcks latest statement, “everything that I designed is absolutely unnecessary.” has started an interesting discussion.
You could take this discussion in any direction you please really, from if designer products are necessary, delving into the need to surround ourselves with beauty, or beautiful functionality, and take it all the way to the necessity of furniture….(which is where Starck was going).
If what Starck meant is that you can live without it - Sure - I get his point, you can, and many people have, do and will survive without designer pieces or furniture at all in there lives.

But I am pretty sure, as is Allison Arief says that this is another good way to create a hype about his work and generate interest, and that this was the motivation for this statement.
Even if this was his intention, the bomb has been dropped, so to speak and the thought is out there.
Stan says that it would be possible to get by without furniture - prehistoric man did… we could settle for pillows and throws and that would be that…

I Don’t really buy into that theory - for two reasons … prehistoric man didn’t have designer furniture but the certainly had furniture - sitting on a rock and leaning on another is a form of a chair, or sitting on logs around a fire is similar tositting on sofas, all be it less comfortable.
They say that the mother of all invention is necessity, which is one of the truest truisms.

We wouldn’t have invented sofas and chairs and pillows and lamps if they weren’t necessary on some level or another.
So on the debate whether we need furniture - Sure we do!!
If we can live without it - Sure! With a whole lot less comfort. And as far as I am concerned - furnishing a room with pillows and throws is furnishing non the less.

What do you think?

Photo courtesy bonluxat.com Phillipe Starck - Arm chair

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Oh boy - am I in trouble now!!!
This via Surroundings - Rachel from Hue, the color blog, which I had not heard of till today, is holding her anual color competition - This year it will be about exteriors.
She has a picture of a house, and the participants are invited to color this house in what ever way pleases them, on photoshop or by hand, to their absolute fancy.
Of course their are guide lines and dead lines (October 31).

My hands are itching to start doing multiple copys, by hand of course, of this very classic house, turning it into anything but…
If you too are hyperventilating with excitement - pop over their and join the fun.