The Japanese are very clever and they have always been quick in catching new trends. Talented Japanese architects Suppose Design Office have just created a residence in Nagoya, that looks like an office and a garden at the same time. As to me, the most interesting part of this house is a garden-office room.
The following Grid house is the one all garden-lovers will love and enjoy to live in, because it is situated right in the middle of lush intact forest. The place where the house id situated is perfectly protected from windows and is as close to the forest as possible. Right from the house goes a little path leading to the heart of the forest and to the top of the hill. The view from the hill is mind-blowing.
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I am going on with my birdhouse theme and the new one to show is the house designed by Marcel Wanders, and it is named the Droog birdhouse. The following cutie will not only make your garden a pleasant place for birds, but it can easily improve the birds etiquette – from now on they will eat from porcelain plates.
I am ready to bet that most big cities dwellers don’t have enough fresh air, enough time to have a walk in the park, they don’t walk at all, they won’t know a rose form a dandelion and DO believe that eggs come from trees. Don’t laugh, most of us live in big cities and see real nature very very seldom or there is enough nature for us in the nearest park. However, you can be closer to nature right now, you have to … plant a tree at home. What I am talking about? A backyard? No. Thanks to the Serralunga it is possible to have your own tree at your own home and grow it in a simple vase.
I’ve been wondering whether the following Green Pockets from Maruja Fuentes will look nice in my garden or in my kitchen? The most important thing – all these pockets are made from recycled materials.
Have you ever thought why so many people (I mean almost everybody) have plants at their homes? I think because they perfectly understand the whole importance of such plants for their every day life. Today I would like to offer you an interesting alternative to plants – that is incredible green walls. Such walls are not only beautiful and unusual, they are are very useful and since they help to enliven a space, humidify the air, and get rid of toxins.
Have you ever been to Poland? It is a great, big, beautiful and very green country. What is more, it is clean and offers numerous attractions, for example, the following house. I like it very much – especially their stair-case. What a cool thing! The following masterpiece was created by a Polish architecture firm KWK Promes and its main aim is to show the beauty of nature. The grassy mound of land beneath which they built a house is fantastic and I am fond of idea they put the land on the roof. The house seems to be incredibly close to nature.
Spring is already here and it welcomes us with all things great weather, sunshine, birds’ songs and amazing mood. Gradually our gardens become more and more beautiful, I love spring flowers and grass, they seem to welcome life at its best, do you? Today I’ll try my best to show you best 3 ideas for planters as to garden containers, window boxes and hanging baskets:
Make your windows and doors more beautiful than ever before while putting pots with real gardens on them. The only one recommendation – choose such plants that perfectly stand both sun and shade, rains and winds.
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Even if you stand on the basics of organic and completely natural gardens, you will never deny that the following concept is as close to nature as possible. A young French designer Magali Bergon has created her own garden paving technique and it looks like a number of slab with unusual chips – place where grass grows. The most important thing – you can design your paving the way you like and create your own garden pattern.
This design promotes both natural growth and look, and it is completely environment-friendly.
Thomas Doyle is a talented artist who creates unusual garden compositions. As a rule his works are sculpted in 1:43 scale and even smaller, they are about every day life and gardening. Very often you are welcome to enjoy glass, grass, houses, people and the remnants of things past in his works. What is more, the artist tries to depicts important to people moments and the way they have influenced their lives.
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