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Maison de l’Amitie – Private Oceanfront Paradise

Maison de l’Amitie – Private Oceanfront Paradise

Donald Trump, mogul and TV personality, sold his 80,000 square foot mansion in Palm Beach, Florida for a whopping $95 million dollars, in July of 2008.  The buyer was one Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian fertilizer businessman who is worth about $12.8 billion dollars.  Rybolovlev, who was number 59 on Forbes’s list of the richest people [...]

An Apartment Building for the Green of Thumb

Want the convenience of apartment living but don’t want to give up on things like your garden or sunlight? Then there is a perfect apartment for you in lovely Rotterdamn. Referred to as the Cactus House, the twisted design allows for large balconies which aren’t directly overlapped by upstairs neighbors. The end result is a [...]

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Martin Castle – Lexington Kentucky

This majestic piece of real estate near Lexington, Kentucky was originally built to be a single-family home. Construction began in 1969 by one Rex Martin and his wife Caroline Bogaert Martin.  They had traveled a bit in Europe and were stunned by the architecture, so they decided to try to recreate it on some prime [...]

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The Most Haunted House in the United States – The Whaley House

The Whaley House was built in 1857 on land that formerly held gallows.  It is not only the most haunted house in America, it was even haunted before it was built.  The first ghost to roam the area where the rooms would be built was that of James “Yankee Jim” Robinson.  But we’ll get to [...]

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Toilet House Reboot

We posted a pic of this before, but here you have a guest post on the Toilet House! What happens when you combine an architect, activism, and a latrine? Don’t be alarmed. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you; that is a toilet-shaped house and it’s real. Sim Jae-Duck, an architect from Seoul, Korea, is the mastermind [...]

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A Celebrity You Live Where – Perry Farrell’s Former Home

We don’t usually delve into celebrity news and scoops, but when I saw the specs on Perry Farrell’s Venice, CA home that went up for sale several months ago, I know I just had to write it up here.  The home sold on May 25, so unfortunately you can’t count on me for the latest [...]

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