Hooked on Houses

Just for fun, I thought we’d take a look at some unusual, clever, and downright bizarre bookshelves. The Skew Bookcase shown here, for example, was created by Swedish designers Smånsk. They’re like giant Lego pieces.
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April 6th, 2008 | Tags: bed, bizarre, books, bookshelves, design, egyptian, king tut, Legos, oddities, pink, robots, smansk, staircase, Tokyo | Category: Shop | Comments (5)

Well, folks, you know it’s bad in America when rich-as-Croesus attorneys like Keith Barton, who owned this sprawling estate in Alpine, Utah, lose their homes to foreclosure, too. The house is on 9 acres with an incredible mountain view. Barton, a personal injury attorney who is famous for his “One Call–That’s All!” TV commercials, tried [...]

March 10th, 2008 | Tags: ballroom, big, chandeliers, Decorating, foreclosure, gold, home theater, house, House Tour, ice cream parlor, Keith Barton, mansion, mountains, pool, Real Estate, rich, salon, staircase, Utah, Versailles | Category: House Tour | Comments (40)

By JULIA @ HOOKEDONHOUSES.NET

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
I’m working on an article about Coco Chanel for Kiki magazine’s summer issue and have to share photos of her chic apartment with [...]

February 25th, 2008 | Tags: apartment, birdcage, camellias, chandelier, Chanel No. 5, chinese screens, Coco Chanel, corsets, Decorating, design, fashion, fortune teller, France, furniture, hair, hats, House Tour, Karl Lagerfeld, Kiki, lions, Paris, Ritz, staircase, tweens, Vogue | Category: Celebrity Style, Famous Houses | Comments (11)

I love touring fabulous houses, even if the only way I can see them is online. I’m betting that since you came to a site called “Hooked on Houses,” you do, too.
Here’s a 100-year old mansion in the Compton Heights neighborhood of St. Louis that has 4,400 sq ft with 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. [...]

February 19th, 2008 | Tags: 1908, bathroom, chandelier, Compton Heights, Decorating, fireplace, hardwood floors, house, House Tour, kitchen remodel, old houses, renovation, St. Louis, staircase, woodwork | Category: House Tour, Older Homes | Comments (4)