The Lime Works, on the outskirts of Faversham, is a conversion of two water towers, made into an art deco-inspired contemporary home. The building was built in the early 1930s and was a functioning water softening plant until 1942.
Set in the Solent, a historically important strait separating the Isle of Wight from the Great Britain mainland, Spitbank Fort is a Victorian sea fort built on a circular base 50m in diameter. Now it's converted to a small hotel.
Do you love your car enough to live with it? I mean in the same room. While it's not always practical, this transparent live-in garage is unique for sure!
I want to live in a spaceship! While this house by designer Christopher Daniel of ViolentVolumes is not built (yet, I hope) it looks and feels great. Look at that door! That one itself makes me want to arrive five times a day!
A bit of break from our usual programming: at only 180 sq feet this Airstream is certainly no loft, but probably the best you can get on the road!. Rachel Horn,a Los Angeles interior designer renovated this 180-square-foot 1969 Airstream trailer to be their home at the Burning Man Festival
This Converted School Apartment is sure to stir up some fond memories of your studious past. Every piece of eclectic home decor plays a role in creating the nostalgic schoolhouse atmosphere. Fantastic antiques and artifacts grace every surface, every piece of artwork and furniture seems to embody the graceful passage of time.
It's Sunday, so time for another church conversion (my favourites, large windows, space, what else you need?) This chapel situated in the quaint Flemish village of Bazel (not the Swiss one) has been reconverted into 2 loft-type houses. The building was built in the second half of the 19th century by Countess Villain XIIII next to the castle of Wissekerke as a place where the children of the village are be educated.
Now this is seriously cool and environmentally friendly at the same time: Debbie Glassberg of Kansas City knew if she could make a home her family would feel comfortable living in, she could do it for others. That's the idea behind a home made primarily out of five metal shipping containers at 60th and Charlotte Streets in Kansas City, called Home Contained. Read along...
