An Indoor Underfloor Hot Tub. Ideal For Tiny Home Dwellers...

A great space saving idea if you live in a tiny home but just can't live without a hot tub.
This installation, designed by Weir Phillips Architects for an Australian client with a three bedroom apartment, could easily be incorporated in a tiny home.
When the hot tub isn't in use with the lid in an open position, it simply gets walked on.
So if you fancy being able to walk on water without getting your feet wet or have somewhere to sail your toy boats or play with your rubber ducky in the privacy of your own tiny house, then this idea could be the answer...

Tiny Gutsy Homes On Wheels To Take You Here There Or Anywhere. Even Back Again...

These go anywhere tiny homes on wheels will probably take you to almost any place you'd care to choose. And get you back too.
Should you want to. But really, why would you.
However, if you did, you know, get sick and tired of living pretty much a self sufficient lifestyle, getting all your electricity from the sun as well as Vitamin D for your good health.
If you found that Freedom Camping wasn't your cup of the proverbial, well, I guess you'd be able to get back to civilization.
It's a scary thought though...

For The Foxes Sake. Please Slow Down...

Slow down?
Slowing down wasn't an option.
I was laughing so much I had to stop...

The Wonderful Painted Ladies Of San Francisco...

The wonderful painted ladies of San Francisco aren't your usual sort of street girl.
For a start they're all about a hundred and twenty years old but beautifully preserved.
You'll find these gorgeous old girls on Steiner Street over from Alamo Park.
Just some of the thousands of Victorian beauties built in the mid to late 1890's during San Francisco's boom time.
There's more to know here on Amusing Planet...

The Natural And Simple Beauty Of Wabi-Sabi...

Wabi-Sabi is the marriage of
the Japanese Wabi meaning humble and Sabi which suggests beauty.
Wabi-Sabi invites us to set aside the pursuit of manufactured perfection and appreciate the simple, unaffected, uncluttered beauty of things as they are.
To create a true harmonious Wabi-Sabi environment we will strip away excesses and be happy with how something is in it's unadorned state at that moment.
Through the Wabi-Sabi philosophy we appreciate the modest, the handmade, the recycled, the cracks, the mistakes, the frayed edges, rust, the natural aging caused by the ravages of time and weather.
The marks that loving use has left behind.
The aging lines on our faces, that when left alone, add to and enhance our personalities, that without fads like botox and plastic surgery, tell our life stories. That add to our character and say unashamedly who and what we are.
To know about Wabi-Sabi is to learn more about less and there's more about less here.
Following Wabi-Sabi, we find that perfection is the result of imperfection...

Beautiful Images Of Forgotten Palaces And Villas By Photographer Thomas Jorion...

Paris based photographer Thomas Jorion has been entranced by the  grandeur of Europe's abandoned but magnificent mansions and villas since he was a child.
He's been touring Germany, Switzerland and in particular northern Italy photographing the decaying splendour of some truly marvellous homes that have been allowed to decay for a variety of reasons.
But mostly because of financial ruination.
There's more of these beautiful but abandoned ruins here...

Inspirational Michael Trimble. Being Born In Chernobyl And Having No Arms Hasn't Stopped Him Riding A Bicycle...

Twenty seven year old Michael was born without arms in Soviet era Ukraine, his birth defect a result of the 1986 disaster in Chernobyl.
He was one of thousands to be affected and can happily say, pun intended, It's not the hand you are dealt, it's how you play that hand.
He was lucky too. An American couple adopted Michael when he was seven and took him to live in Pittsburgh USA.
His gym teacher at the school he attended modified an old bicycle and Michael had his first taste of cycling, something he was to fall in love with but many years were to pass before he could realise this particular dream.
Michael graduated from Pittsburgh's Duquesne University with a degree in political science and the desire to be mobile on two wheels again.
Fortunately he met the wonderful Michael Brown of Maestro Frameworks and that meeting was life changing.
Now Michael can ride a bike, something most of us take for granted.
This remarkable young man wants to become a motivational speaker hoping to inspire others and show that despite seeming insurmountable odds, anything that you wish for can be achieved.
Treehugger have a wonderfully inspiring six minute video by Andrew Rush here and there's an interview with Michael here. 
If you can dream it, you can do it...