Unique houses around the globe.

I was googling for unique houses a while ago and stumbled into houzz.com post entitled 10 Unique Houses Around the Globe. The unique houses featured were:

1. The Voglreiter Auto Residence in Salzburg, Austria (that I also featured in my previous post here).

2. The Spiral House-Ramat in Gan, Israel

3. The Basket House in Newark, Ohio

4. The Stone house in Guimarães, Portugal

5. The Bubble House in Cannes, France

6. The Crooked House in Sopot, Poland

7. The Tunnel House in Houston, Texas

8. Narrow house in Madre de Deus, Brazil

9. The Upside-Down House in Syzmbark, Poland

10. Hang Nga House in Dalat, Vietnam

You can read the entire article and see the photos of the 10 unique houses here: 10 Unique Houses Around The Globe.

 

El Mueble Magazine.

My female employer travels a lot of times in a month and everytime she does, she always brings home magazines, mostly fashion and home mags. Good for me coz I love fashion and houses, decor, interior designs and anything related to houses and homes:) So, everytime she travels, I always look forward to the mags that she´ll be bringing back home.:) In her last travel to Madrid, she brought 3 mags: 2 fashion and 1 homey mag: El Mueble (The Furniture, in English).

You can also visit their website at: http://www.elmueble.com/.

The Car House in Salzburg, Austria.

The car house in Salzburg, Austria was also featured in the MTV Extreme Cribs episode that I saw a month or so before. And glad to find photos and a post about the house at http://electrictreehouse.com. The entire post, you can find here: http://electrictreehouse.com/tag/car-house/.

All photos below are grabbed from electrictreehouse.com.

The shark house in Mexico City.

Here are some photos if the shark house in Mexico City that I grabbed from http://www.interiordesign.net. I googled “shark house” after seeing the MTV Extreme Cribs episode featuring the house. And happy to stumble upon interiordesign.com´s entry about the shark house. You can read the post here: http://www.interiordesign.net/article/480424-In_the_belly_of_the_beast.php
The shark house was designed and owned by a Mexican architect, Javier Senosiain.

Extreme Cribs.

Photo grabbed from mtv.com.

I didn´t know that there´s an MTV show with the title, until I saw an episode on the Spanish MTV channel. I was amazed by the unique, bizarre designs of the houses. One of the the houses featured on the episode I saw was the shark house. It was pretty cool! The show truly entertained me til the end.

The shark house. Photo grabbed from zimbio.com

You can visit  http://www.mtv.com/shows/extreme_cribs/series.jhtml#moreinfo  and watch past episodes of Extreme Cribs.

interior dezine.

I just found a new cool homey site : http://www.interiordezine.com , a site crammed with information and ideas on all aspects of interior design and decorating. They have free e-courses like: interior decorating, free color and free curtain design and they have a lot of free tips too about interior designing and other stuffs related to organizing your abode.

I will surely frequent this site coz I love reading articles about home designing and decorating and I want to look at photos to get ideas on how my dream house should look like.:)

Merry, Merry Christmas!

I´m back again just in time to greet you all a Merry, Merry Christmas! I hope that you will all have a super nice and fun celebration with your family and friends.:)

I will celebrate it far from my family (for the 7th times) and my bf, but it´s ok, the celebration will go on, coz it´s not about me, but it´s about Jesus´birthday. It´s about HIM, the real STAR ng PASKO.:)

Anyways, I bought an Elle mag for December (Spain edition) and it comes with an Elle Decor issue. I´ve browsed it already and I saw a lot of good, homey stuffs there. But I am going to take a closer look at it once the schedule is no longer very hectic and then I´ll share to you whatever good finds I´ll encounter.:)

Happy holidays once again!

Minimalists.

I am glad that my new employers are minimalists especially when it comes to their home. Only the necessary furniture are present in the house and definitely no small stuffs displayed in every corner of the house, just like what I saw in other huge houses. They are indeed minimalists (especially my female employer) coz she throws things without second thought when she don´t need them anymore even if they´re still in perfect condition.

They are very organized as well, so even if it´s a 3-storey house, it´s still easy to clean and maintain. And I love their house coz it´s painted white in the inside and the wooden floor is dark brown to black in color. Exactly my idea of my own house in the future.:) I´ll take some photos in my mobile soon.

And speaking of home, I want to have my own home soon (a house and a family living in it,:)). The bf is planning for a vacation soon and I am already excited.:) But he´s not bringing the huge delivery truck with super loud train horns that he is driving. It would be exciting to personally see the huge truck, but someone else will be driving it, while he´s on vacation. Hope soon, I can go with him in one of his driving trips.

Home alarm system.

I only got aware of alarm systems when I started working abroad coz it´s very common in houses, almost all houses have alarms. So far, only the house of my employers in DK has no alarm. And since then, I already wished to have a home alarm system in our house in Pinas, especially that robbery is very common there. I think alarm system is still common in the big cities in Pinas, but surely, not in the small cities, let alone in remote areas, just like our place in Pinas. So, right now, it´s impossible for us to avail of offers from different home security systems. And I don´t think it will be soon that alarm systems will reach our place coz heck, internet connection hasn´t reach our place until now! grrrrrrrrrrrrrr, it just shows how slow progress is, but it will not stop me from hoping for a better future. I know all good things come to those who wait! I am not sure of ADT Home Security is already in Pinas, if not, then I hope it will be soon. And hope that its presence will also reach the remote areas in the near future.

Maybe, we can make use of an improvised alarm system while waiting for an alarm company to reach our place.

Doctor friends.

I instantly remember my college classmates who are now medical doctors in Pinas, after seeing the medical teaching course link. We took BS Biology in college as a preparatory in realizing our dream of becoming a medical doctor. I was already so sure back then that I´ll become one in the future. But obviously, God has other plans for me. He brought me here in Europe to work as a househelp. I was in self pity for years, but not anymore! I already realized that the dream is not for me, God has a better version of that dream. So here I am and no more regrets and self pit anymore!

Anyways, back to my college classmates. Others studied nursing after the BS Bio course and some are now working as nurses abroad, while others are nurses in Pinas. But most of our college classmates continued with medicine proper and are now medical doctors. I am so happy for them because I feel like I realized my dream of becoming a doctor in them.:) One of my close friends in college worked as a Doctor to the Barrios, my very plan, if given the chance to become a doctor. But I found the realization of that plan in her and I am so proud of her. And now, she´s specializing in anesthesiology and I know that she´ll finish it with good records. I haven´t talk to her about her plans after finishing the specialization. But maybe she wants to teach on the side, so she can also share her knowledge to upcoming doctors. I will ask her the next time we talk, but whether the answer is a yes or a no, I will still share to her the medical management course and teach the teacher course links, so she can check them and they might be useful for her in the future.

I hope to see her and my other college classmates when I come home for vacation and home that it will be soon.:)