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.

Houses built in a mountain – 700 years old

Posted by Bogdan on February 1, 2010 | 3 Comments

These cave homes are located in Kandovan, in the North East of Iran, at the border with Azerbaijan, and are supposed to be over 700 years old.

The house are built in the Mount Sahand, a volcanic mountain. Most of them have two storeys: one for the animals, and one for the people to live in. If the house has more than two story, the last ones are used for storage.

If you want to visit this village, you can find there a five star hotel, built in the mountain.

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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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