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Treehouses… Soporific Bliss

Having just moved to a tiny cabin overlooking the sea, and surrounded by native forest, I can attest from personal experience that there really is something very, very relaxing, indeed almost soporific, about living high up amongst trees. Trees really know how to seem to be doing nothing.

Even though trees are actually ferociously manufacturing wood, (and more and more and more of it) they make you feel like really they are doing nothing but existing, and in turn it makes you feel like doing nothing but existing too.

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Simon Says Stack Clever Chairs to Make a Side Table

There is nothing more of an ugly in-the-way nuisance than a stack of chairs, waiting to be separated and used. You practically have to hide them away at all other times, and who has the space to spare for that? Wouldn’t it be a great idea to design stackable chairs so that you could store things on them when they are not in use as chairs?

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Luxury Hidout for the Safari Set

The outside of the exclusive resort Singita Boulders Lodge is the perfect picture of rustic African calm.  Sabi Sand Reserve offers a spectacular African safari experience, allowing you lots of chances to see the plentiful game, by partaking in exciting game drives with open safari Land Rovers. A peaceful bath, overlooking the savannah makes a [...]

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The Opera Camper, for Those Who Hate to Rough it

Here’s the most luxurious home away from home you could imagine. The Opera camper was originally conceived 4 years ago. The first prototype was a far cry from this superbly elegant camper, but it held the basic idea. A camper that could be towed behind a car in a folded-down position so that all the [...]

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Contemporary touch to classic design: 11 greatest chopsticks of all time

Chopsticks are a symbol of tradition, culture and an unique way of life that has evolved under its own special norms. Those who have tried it for the first time will vouch for the fact that using chopsticks to eat is no kids play and it requires skills  – though not as the ancient Chinese [...]

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