Author Archives: mpomo
Flat roof / living roof / green roof
I must admit to a growing attraction to living roofs (or green roofs as they now become under the green-wash that splatters onto even legitimately green solutions). From Travel …I’ve taken to snapping pictures or starring intently whenever I see one of them. Think I may have decided on my roof… If you liked that [...]
Horizontals
I recently stayed in a lovely chalet on an estuary in Brittany. It was basically a log cabin, but well disguised as something far more sophisticated. It was built in the late 60′s with some great design features such as these wide horizontal windows that give an irresistible framed letter box view of the landscape [...]
Tiny apartment
I would love to have the discipline required to live in a place like this ’11-feet-3-inches wide, by 16-feet-2-inches deep, by 10-feet-4-inches tall’ apartment built by Steve Sauer in Seattle. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2012595209_pacificpnwl22.html I love the effective use of space, the lack of waste, the optimisation and functionality. I must admit I think I’d struggle to maintain [...]
Cabin in British Columbia
Not that I want to live or even sleep in my place (well perhaps the occasional snooze) but I think that this weekend cabin on Gambier Island, British Columbia, Canada is a smasher Small, functional and well designed – three attributes I want for my place of my own… I love the simple, uncensored and [...]
A tower of my own