Patrick Havens on May 22nd, 2007

As house prices continue to soar, buying a property for £20,000 might seem like a bargain.
But, although this home sounds cheap, it is actually Britain’s most expensive property based on size – costing the equivalent of £80billion per square metre. That’s because the four-room property is only as big as a full stop.
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Patrick Havens on April 23rd, 2007

But I want this:

[spiral-slide]
Serious stuff will get talked about later. The cost of that being made in wood would be outrageous. But some good painting of a fiberglass or plastic slide?

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Patrick Havens on March 8th, 2007

When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 27th, 2007

Bloomframe (from the Dutch firm Hofman Dujardin Architecten) is a cross between a picture window and a balcony — it slides out of the side of the building to convert to a balcony when the need strikes, then retracts when you’re done. Link [via Boing Boing]
OK I’m a huge home improvement and that sort type [...]

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