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Our future home – trends.
Modern solutions:
Smart homes:We dont want the speaking fridge but what we do applaude it when service, technique and care goes hand in hand. For example, alarms, locks and surveilance is taken care of and superviced from you mobile and can be stored in your computer. A heating system that regulates itself dipending on the needs of the owner. A system that works remote controlled with one device for all the entertainment in the home such as tv and internet.
Green thumb: The intrest for gardens and greens are enourmous and you dont need to live in a villa in order to live out your passion for getting dirt under your nails! The new trend is urban farming, comunity farming and farming on your balcony. You want to grow your own veggies!
Energy efficiant: Houses that are so well isolated that they in principle does not use any energy at all. More people are looking to produce their own energy through suncells, using the wind etc. Heating is done with the help of sun catchers and pellets. New EU directives makes demands that makes it allmost impossible to build houses that are heated with electricity – practically banned
Flexibility: If you are one week a big family with 4 kids and every other week just 2 adults then it would be good to be able to open up or seperate room for example with movable walls, sliding doors and hidden sleeping cots. Today in Sweden the norms and rules of reconstruction your house are very details and complicated and puts a stop to all personal solutions. Read the rest of this entry »
Jun 4, 2010 0 comments - Leave a Comment
The Greenest Home
Below images of this pre-fabricated house are from LIVING HOMES who properbly makes the greenest homes on earth til’ this day…at least according to the great web Worldchanging. If you are interested for more please take Living homes tour of the house – great expinations too! Take a look!
If I could get my hands on a piece of land and afford this house…yummi!
Jun 3, 2010 2 comments so far - Leave a Comment
Lovely swedish country house
Ah wouldn’t I just love living here! Just look at the size of this house, the garden with its huge trees that gives shadow to the 2 little kids chairs and table, the fantastic flooring, the mix of white and black, the mix of materials and surfaces, old and inherritad object, object found in fleamarkets, objects with a history, the big soft sofas, this big windows without curtains to let all the light possible in….and all the vases with fresh flowers.
…just to give you some inspiration out there.
and thanks to LANTLIV who allways gives me inspiration.
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