Are there too many condos in Toronto? Real estate wiz Brian Persaud takes on this contentious issue
We're feeling like nobility just looking at these new renderings from The Royal Collection
We’re big proponents of change at BuzzBuzzHome; we love watching neighborhoods evolve and grow. Cities are living organisms, after all.
This week’s shots are about movement, whether it’s condos sprouting or us snapping photos of downtown Toronto from the expressway (don’t worry, someone else was at the wheel). Read more
We admire futuristic people-tracking floors, photon showers and self-destructing furniture like the next home-tech geek, but sometimes you just need an old-fashioned Dyson that vacuums fire.
The daredevils at Photonicinduction splashed tubs of gasoline on pavement, tossed a match and vacuumed the ensuing blaze. Read more
Behold, an architecturally accurate Lego Hogwarts, built out of 400,000 pieces.
What’s truly amazing is the playable L-shaped structure was built by a single person: Seattle resident and mother-of-two Alice Finch. Read more
If the windows are a portal to a building’s soul, the toilets inside are… well, you can complete that analogy. The Tumblr Toilets of New York chronicles the commodes in the city, one bar bathroom at a time.
The not-safe-for-lunch Tumblr was created by graphic designer Ian MacAllen, who lives in East Williamsburg. The inspiration for the project, which mostly features cheerfully grimy toilets from Brooklyn dive bars, came to MacAllen when he was in the bathroom in one of his favorite hangouts. Read more
Well, this is just awkward: a 60-year-old male real estate agent was caught on camera stealing women’s clothing from a house for sale in Arlington, Virginia.
Stephen Brumme of Silver Spring, Maryland, was arrested and charged with burglary after a couple accused him of purloining clothes from their home, with the surveillance footage to back it up. Read more
Even the White House gets the blues: during Harry S. Truman’s presidency in 1948, the head-of-state digs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue looked more than a little peaked. The building, nearly 150 years old at the time, was suffering structural deterioration, unsanitary plumbing and a third floor that was a huge firetrap.
“The ceiling of the East Room, elaborately done in the frescoes of fruits and reclining women and weighing seventy pounds to the square foot, was found to be sagging six inches on Oct. 26, and now is being held in place by scaffolding and supports,” The New York Times reported. Read more
“Cellar door” might be the most beautiful phrase in English, but in the language of real estate, that title goes to “parlor floor.”
Trulia analyzed the language of their property listings to pick out phrases linked with the most expensive homes for sale. “Parlor floor,” often used in descriptions of Manhattan townhouses and mansions, got the platinum crown; the average price of homes listed with that phrase was a whopping $4.935 million. Read more
Soon your roomba will seem like a throw-back to a quainter time. Designers are hard at work, souping up some of the most basic pieces of furniture to make life easier, more comfortable and a whole lot weirder.
We’ve already explored solid chocolate lamps and interactive floors, but that’s just the tip of the bizarre-design ice berg. The list below will make you feel like a Jetsons-style life is just around the corner:
