Finding your home away from home
Unfortunately, I don’t know much about this place, other than it’s referenced as a “Refuge in the Pyrenees.” According to the text on the architect’s website, it’s a refuge built in the Regional Natural Park of the Catalan Pyrenees, and to be used by hikers. It certainly looks like a great place to wait out a storm, no?
via D3 Architectes
No, that’s not a misprint. This beautiful vacation home is a remote hotel located in the Himalayas. Featuring awesome floor to ceiling glass windows overlooking amazing views of the Himalayas, this home (dubbed Shakhti 360), was conceived as “a place to share in the rejuvenating effects of remote surroundings, far away from the noise and clutter of the modern world.”
Sounds good to me. 3-night/4-day packages at Shakhti 360 start at 1916 USD per adult, and that price seems worth it.
View more at ShakhtiHimalaya.com (via Freshome)
We’ve featured a few towers before, and with good reason – they tend to be quite striking and unique, but still livable. And right up that alley is this new tower restoration in Spain.
Seemingly only accessible from an external enclosed staircase, the tower has a commanding view of the surrounding countryside. My only reservation is with the interior. While it’s beautiful, it’s a little too austere for my tastes. It looks more like an art gallery than a relaxing cabin or home. But it still works!
Read more a gessato
Built to handle the extreme weather and elements of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, this cantilevered cliff house is situated on Cortes Island in British Columbia, Canada.
I love the beauty of the house, but I also love how solid the house looks. It doesn’t look like it’d budge during a windstorm, tidal event, or major asteroid collision!
Read more at Contemporist
This wonderful article about an English family rebuilding a run down (uninhabitable) French mill into a small stone cabin is really interesting, including all the difficulties they faced – and the clever ways that they overcame the problems. It’s too expensive to do carpentry work on site? Do the work at home in the UK, and transport the pieces through the Chunnel to France and install them complete. No electricity on site for work? Install a couple of solar panels. The roof faces the wrong way for the solar panels? Install the panels on posts in the ground! It’s a good story, and the cabin is beautiful.
Read more at Dwell
This tiny cabin is located in Palo Duro Canyon State Park just outside Amarillo, Texas. It’s only two rooms and I have no idea what the inside looks like, but I love it. For a rock cabin in the desert it really looks comfortable and inviting!
Read more at PaloDuroCanyon.com (via Tiny House Blog)
If you’re as worried about the zombie apocalypse as I am (and I know you are), this might be the perfect home. Built on the coast of England in the 1800s as a tower to defend the British Empire, it has 18-foot thick walls, few windows, and a single tiny entrance. You could hold out against the undead horde for a long, long time!
Read more at Inhabitat
This tiny cabin is wonderful. I don’t have any info on it, but it’s super cute!
View more at purekitchen
I love the comfortable yet modern yet warm feeling of this Texas lake retreat. Maybe it’s the colors, maybe it’s the design, I’m not sure. But I like it.
