If your path ever takes you to the French countryside around Bordeaux and you travel with your thumb up, pay attention to the wooden pavilions "stuck" on wooden pillars. These are your lodgings. The water tower-like bivouacs are available for free and are just what hitchhikers and hikers need after a long day.
Architecture & Interior
Men, do you already know what kind of furniture should not be missing in your male apartment? Allow us to come to your aid here. See below how to furnish a man's apartment or man's den.
Even the sparrows on the roof are chirping that lack of physical activity leads to doom. Maybe not quite as dramatically, but it definitely hurts us seriously. Professions that require us to sit or stand still are increasingly under fire, especially from the medical profession. Many companies allow their employees to regularly exercise for a few minutes during the working day, because they realize that a healthy employee is the best investment.
We blame ourselves for losing touch with nature. That we cut down the forests, neglect the rivers, do not cultivate the land and pollute the air. They say that nature will take its revenge on us. Let's (p)remain optimistic! There are more and more initiatives for living with nature. We seem to be re-learning what a relationship can bring us and how important it is for the generations after us. Mette Helbaek and Flemming Hansen share the same opinion, having created a permaculture farm in the south of Sweden, where you can reconnect with nature and find inner peace.
We love recycled. Just because of the good feeling, because we contribute to a cleaner environment. After all, such things also look great, especially furniture. What about plastic, do we like it? If the answer to some is no, that may change now. The Dutch designer Ulrike Jurklies found a way to make a tea table out of recycled plastic.
At the end of August, the new InterContinental Hotel opens in Ljubljana on Dunajska cesta, the first five-star hotel in the capital. What will its interior look like below.
Due to increasing urbanization, large living spaces have probably run off their bells. We will have to figure out how to make the best possible use of smaller areas without feeling cramped at the same time. Apparently, quite a few architects and designers are already thinking in a similar way, which is reflected in the growing range of furniture and home equipment suitable for smaller apartments. Among them is the young Finnish designer Tatu Laakso.
You are hot, your partner is cold. A classic. While one throws the blanket off himself, the other frantically covers himself. SmartDuvet, which debuted on Kickstarter with a self-cleaning bed, is now here with another masterpiece: the SmartDuvet Breeze bed, which cleans itself while also adjusting the temperature according to our preferences and those of our partner.
Houses by the sea are usually romantic and attractive anyway. If they're not, at least there's an idea about them, right? Most of the time, we imagine sitting on the terrace and listening to the sound of waves and the calls of seagulls. Maybe with a book in your lap. Well, now with this picture, let's move to Japan for a short time, specifically to Kagawa, where there is a minimalistic designed holiday house.
Amina Mucciolo or Studio Mucci lives a truly colorful life. Well, at least judging by the apartment. It's the most colorful apartment in the world, and as you might expect, it's a real internet sensation.
The most frequently used herbs should always be at hand. For immediate consumption, they can be grown in a larger pot or trough. To make everything easier, this time in our prize game we are giving you as many as 5 convenient prizes with which you can grow beautiful vegetables, herbs and flowers.
Ikea never ceases to amaze. After announcing her collaboration with the fashion house Off White on Instagram, she has another surprise for us. The Swedish furniture giant announced that an Ikea perfume awaits us in the future.