How to spoil your plants with.. water

Posted by Bogdan on February 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

Did you know the most important thing to keep you flowers growing happy all the time? Water them properly. Some flowers need to be watered less than once a week while others need to be watered every day. An apartment palm, for example, needs his leaves sprayed with water every day. Usually, people tend to use water straight from the sink for their plants. It’s good, of course. But you can also add some ingredients in it to make it even better (there are all kind of products in the store for this).

But did you know, that the best water plants can get is.. rain water? Just think about it: in the wild, they don’t have water from the sink, or special ingredients for growing or shining. They only got .. rain. But rain harvesting is not always an easy job, especially if you have a large garden. Some people thought about this and now we have rain barrels:  a large plastic barrel that you position under your water pipe, with a tap at the bottom for easy use.  Don’t worry about the design of these rain water barrels, you’ll have a lot of options to choose from: shape, size, color, material.

If you consider yourself a handy man you can easily build one yourself, from an usual barrel, but if you are the lazy type, don’t worry, there are online stores where you can find rain barrels for sale.

The Ideal Palace of the French postman

Posted by Bogdan on February 9, 2010 | 3 Comments

The Ideal Palace (Le Palais Idéal), is a impressive construction, built by a French postman, Ferdinand Cheval (1836-1924). Cheval began the building in April 1879, using stones that he was collecting while delivering mails. He did this for 33 years, and most of the time he was working at night, helped by the light from oil lamps.

First he was carrying stones in his pockets, later he used a basket and finally a wheelbarrow. He used lime, mortar and cement to bound the stones together.

After finishing his Ideal Palace, Cheval spent another 8 years to build a mausoleum for him in the cemetery of Hauterives, the same town where the palace is built.

The palace is considered the only example of naive architecture.

If you ever want to visit Le Palais Ideal, is located in Hauterives, near Lyon, in France.

Home decorated with blackboards

Posted by Bogdan on February 8, 2010 | 4 Comments

If you ever wanted to decorate your home with blackboards, this example is great for the “note freaks”, or for families with kids, that can write with chalk instead of markers on furniture, walls and cabinets.

You can forget about the fridge magnets, hundreds of post-its or notes left on the breakfast table.  Just think about it, you can left a message everywhere you want! A big “REMEMBER” in the kitchen, a eye catching “Pay the bills” on the wall, a big wallpaper with the Family portrait drawn by your son/daughter in the living room.

House built from recycled materials

Posted by Bogdan on February 5, 2010 | 4 Comments

This awesome house was built only from recycled materials. As you can see in the pictures, it has a small wood bridge, that takes you to another house tree.

Another cool thing is the wall covered with broken mirrors that creates a strange effect of huge space (don’t be fooled).

The ceiling looks amazing on both sides, interior and exterior. Outside it looks like it’s waving or it’s made of rubber.

House built from recycled bottles

Posted by Bogdan on January 23, 2010 | No Comments

Sorry I couldn’t find any more information about this project, only pictures with the house built from recycled bottles. Anyway, it’s looking good, right? I heard some guy built his own island from recycled plastic bottles, maybe this will be a future post.

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