Homes
A family in Croatia have decked out their home and turned it into a spectacular light show with over 1.2 million Christmas lights.
Every year, the Salaj family celebrate Christmas by decorating their 17-acre property in the village of Grabovnica in Croatia with lights – the number of which increases each year.
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by Lana Galea December 16, 2011
Tags: Christmas, Christmas lights, Grabovnica, Zlatko Salaj
Homes
Hong Kong has the world’s most expensive luxury property market, according to a recent report compiled global real estate consultants Savills.
Out of 10 “world class” cities profiled in the report — Hong Kong, London, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, Paris, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney and Tokyo — the average £6,700 per square foot price of Hong Kong luxury homes ranked the highest in the world.
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by Lana Galea September 23, 2011
Tags: luxury homes, Savills, world's most expensive, world's most expensive luxury homes
Design
Our friends at Gizmodo always come up with good ideas, and their list of top 7 tools to make the office suck less is no different. But we though we’d chime in with our own suggestions that may at times be less subtle, slightly braver, certainly silly and yet no less possible.
Check with your boss before buying any of these, of course. If you are the boss, we hope you have a sense of humor.
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by Maria September 19, 2011
Tags: 04i, DuneCraft, Gizmodo, IdeaPaint, Magnif, The Spoon Sisters
Homes
A Swedish real estate agent has listed an unusual piece of property on the market for sale: a five-bedroom house, complete with medieval tomb and skeleton in the cellar.
The ’skeleton house’, located in central Visby on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland, was built in 1750 on the foundations of a Russian church. The kitchen lies on the presbytery, and the tomb containing the skeleton — visible through a glass panel — is in the cellar.
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by Lana Galea August 19, 2011
Tags: Homes, skeleton, skeleton house, tomb, Visby
Homes
Why buy an apartment or house when you can buy an entire town?
The town of Scenic, South Dakota – once a booming ‘wild west’ town – is on the market for sale, with an asking price of $799,000.
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by Lana Galea August 2, 2011
Tags: Scenic, South Dakota, town for sale