Archive for January, 2005

Everyone is fascinated with our local boy Bill Gates house.

Photos of Bill’s house from the water.

Interview with Jim Cutler, the designer of Bill & Melinda’s house.

Like looking at waterfront mega-mansions? Slate’s interactive cyber-mansion tour

Bill Gate’s House Tidbits

Bill’s house from a satelite way up in the sky…..

Entertain the kids! Paper model toy of Bill’s house.

Elvis and Nixon Songs about Elvis and Nixon. Not Elvis and Nixon together. But separate. Elvis and Nixon songs, separately. Together, but not, you know?

Seattle Yurt“With median home costs now exceeding $250,000 in many places around Puget Sound, it’s hard to believe that a house — and a brand new one at that — can be had for $100,000 or less. Is there a catch?

Of course there is: Land cost is not included, and the house may not exactly be a house. Rather it could be a log cabin or even a fabric-covered yurt (but one big enough to include a loft).

These are among the affordable-home possibilities on display at the Seattle Home Show. Each home is a full-size structure on the show’s Idea Street. Show promoters say it’s the only one of its kind at any Home Show in the nation.”

“A Dwelling on the Cheap, You Supply the Land” by Elizabeth Rhodes, 2/20/05, The Seattle Times

Seattle Home Show

The Castlemaine Retro Rental is a California Bungalow located in Australia, which has the 50′s Atomic Kitsch and Sputnik influences with Kitsch colors and decor; cocktail bar, flying ducks, chenille bed spreads and atomic lamps. Retro Rentals

As Castlemaine is the Custom Rod Centre of Australia the car culture is catered for here. Cruzin It’s odd to see people in other countries worshiping cars we laugh at here.

Australia has an interesting art scene. Outre Gallery deals in contemporary international pop, lowbrow, pop surrealism, street, tiki, modern folk, retro with a twist and underground art. So they have that there too?