Australia
I have reached a point in my life where some things are abundantly clear. The heatwave we are currently enduring does nothing positive for 55-year-old menopausal women. Our clubhouse is located in the dairy section of your local Sam’s. You will find us all just standing there finding sweet, sweet relief as the chillers blow…
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You know how sometimes the new year brings a blank slate, and sometimes the new year means you have to blank that slate yourself before you can do anything? This Australian house is the architectural embodiment of that. Yes, that’s me saying the inside of this Midcentury Maybe in Queensland is a gut job, but…
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We’re all familiar with the concept of a fixer — a house that you intentionally buy knowing you’re going to have to put some money into it — possibly even a lot of money — to make it habitable. But this Australian abode we’ve found this week will require a pacemaker as well. Now, at…
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Australia has been the fodder of many a Wednesday WTF. Sometimes good, sometimes well, it puts the “what” in “WTF.” This week’s entry in the WTF annals falls somewhere in between. Meet The Bubble House – 11 domes, 20 rooms, three levels, and almost 3,500 square feet of space. Yes, domes. Bubbles. It looks like…
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One of the first things my predecessor told me about writing the Wednesday WTF is that you will always have this tiny little bit of panic on Tuesday morning when nothing worthy has crossed your desk, and then, she said, “the benevolent WTF fairies will deliver.” It wasn’t that I didn’t believe the woman who…
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