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Under the stairs
This collection of home accessories and art pieces caught my eye at Tatung's Garden Café. I'm not crazy about how they're all put together (there's no unifying theme that I can see), but I do like the inlaid chest and the framed matchbooks, individually. ...
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What It's Like Living in an Abandoned Auto Factory [Video]





Some people take pride in the huge gardens or expansive rooftop decks they have at home. Alan Hill of Detroit, Michigan? He lives in an abandoned automobile factory. And he's every bit as happy with his h...
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Climbing Wall House Makes You Earn a Relaxing Moment On Its Rooftop Patio [Architecture]





Ensuring its residents are always physically fit, this 3 Way House includes a rock climbing wall in its courtyard that can be used to access its multiple floors and a rooftop patio. More »
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Touch me
A pair of hands on driftwood welcome guests to Tatung's Garden Café.
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To read and to dream
The workshop of sculptor Carlito Ortega (see yesterday's post) is open to his extensive garden, and so is the study beside it.
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My home is your home
We recently discovered yet another lovely restaurant near our house: Tatung's Garden Café. Chef Myke Sarthou converted the ground floor of their house in Sikatuna Village into a warm, intimate, and quite romantic setting for diners to enjoy his delectable...
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Fashionable plants
At Resurrection Furniture and Found Objects Gallery (see yesterday's post), reused and recycled objects are not only found in the pieces that they sell. Everything at No. 10 Alabama Street is old, refurbished, recycled or repurposed. I couldn't help but n...
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Tea for me
The driveway of yesterday's 10-A Alabama Street, New Manila, Quezon City.
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Blue bird of happiness
At 10-A Alabama Street, New Manila, Quezon City.
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Of clay and water, leaves and wood
Follow us to the home, garden, and workshop of master potter Ugu Bigyan, whose art is inspired by the leaves and roots of plants which abound in his spacious garden, where one can sit or lounge, or take a siesta on bamboo, surrounded by bamboo; and, if y...
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Meandering
Patis Tito Garden Café is located in the City of San Pablo in the province of Laguna, about 85 kilometers away from Manila. Featuring Filipino cuisine in an al fresco garden setting, the main dining room is one large covered patio with coconut tree trunk ...
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Two hearts
It is not unusual to find religious tiles on the walls of houses in Manila representing the particular devotion of the family living within. This tile shows a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate of Mary.
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O holy night!
The stars are brightly shining,It is the night of our dear Saviour's birth.~John Sullivan DwightMay your homes shine with the light of the Star of Bethlehem and your hearts be filled with the joy that the birth of our Savior brings.Christmas BlessingsExie...
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Upper-middle
Modern, upper-middle class houses in Quezon City typically stand on 200 to 300 square meter lots with hardly any room for a garden.
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Mountain life
Tam-awan Village in Baguio City is a replica of small Igorot village for people who have not and cannot travel into the interior of the Cordillera mountains. Some of the huts in Tam-awan Village are not reconstructions though. A few are original Ifugao an...
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Visualizing the Most Dangerous Blocks In Your City [Video]






Go-to real estate hub Trulia has expanded its offerings to include heat maps of the parts of town you try to avoid after dark. It's remarkable how much better—or worse—it can make you feel ab...
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R&R
Welcome to Casa San Pablo, a garden resort in San Pablo City in the province of Laguna, where our office had its annual R&R last Friday. Before WWII, it was a 7-hectare coconut plantation owned by the Azores-Gomez family. After it was divided among th...
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(Try to) Map Your House with MagicPlan [Apps]






Should you ever need a floor plan of your home, bringing in a professional to do the measurements might be expensive. And time consuming! So MagicPlan wants to replace human work, automatically creating a...
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This House Provides Sustainable Energy in a Half-Shell [Architecture]






Solaleya's Pearl house takes on the counter-intuitive task of maximizing its energy efficiency by limiting the amount of solar energy it absorbs throughout the year. This tactic allows the structure to de...
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A Checkerboard Home For the Elderly [Architecture]






Designed by the architecture firm Aires Mateus in Alcácer do Sal, Portugal, this has got to be one of the coolest looking places you could ever hope your grandparents would live. I just visited my grandm...
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This House Wears the Address On Its Sleeve [Design]






You say your address is Number 523? Hmm. I still can''t seem to find it. More »






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Could You Live in This Ultra Minimalist Home? [Architecture]






I like minimalism. But Aires Mateus's House In Leiria goes a few notches beyond being merely clutter-free—the Portuguese abode doesn't just have stark interiors but a strikingly featureless white ex...
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Darth Vader's Place in the Suburbs [Architecture]






I wonder how the neighbors of this house in Sendai, Japan feel—their buildings, from the look of things, seem like normal, unassuming homes. And then someone had to come and build this brooding blac...
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Who Wants to Buy Cameron's House From Ferris Bueller's Day Off? [Architecture]






So you failed to win the auction for Cameron Frye's Dad's red Ferrari last year. Now what? Well, if that $1.65 million is burning a hole in your pocket, you could always buy the glassy Ferris Bueller hous...
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Easy to miss
From the road, the ancestral house of the Legarda family looks like any of the few 1930s houses in Manila that survived World War II—though better maintained than most—and belies the wealth of history that lies within. The garden in front is planted with ...
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Old world elegance
As I mentioned at the start of this series about the ancestral home of the Legarda family, the house is now also a fine dining restaurant called La Cocina de Tita Moning. Appetizers are served in the sala (living room) while you wait for your table in the...
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White
An all-white bedroom in the ancestral home of the Legarda family displays the wedding gown of one of Alejandro and Ramona's daughters. Isn't that train just magnificent? • LEGARDA ANCESTRAL HOUSE #7
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Ornate whimsy
With my fascination for lamps and lighting fixtures, a lamp was bound to catch my eye in the 1937 home of Alejandro and Ramona Legarda. I just love the young person with a monkey cavorting all over this particular metal chandelier. • LEGARDA ANCESTRAL HOU...
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Another hobby
Aside from being an avid photographer, Dr. Alejandro Legarda was also an amateur radio operator and a member of the Philippine Amateur Radio Association. He had a room specially built for his radio equipment on the third level of their house and when he g...
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Hobby
Dr. Alejandro Legarda was an avid amateur photographer. He kept his own dark room in their home and was one of the first members of the Camera Club of the Philippines; he remained a member until his death in 1993. His now-antique cameras and other accoute...
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This Half Million Dollar Mini House Was Built on Top of a Single Parking Space [Video]






Tiny houses are not uncommon, especially in Tokyo. But Fuyuhito Moriya's three-story pad (which he bravely shares with his mother) is among the most impressive I've ever seen. It sits atop a single parkin...
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Victorian nightmare
Alejandro Legarda was an OB Gynecologist and had a clinic in his house. In fact, one of his sons was born in this very clinic. Yes, the skeleton is real; Alejandro used it when he was in medical school. Pardon the title, but I couldn't help it; this clini...
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Pride of place
The interiors of the Legarda ancestral house is a perfect example of American colonial era home design in Manila. I will not be the only Manileño to say that it reminds me of my own grandmother's house. What I find absolutely amazing is how everything—fro...
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Ancestral home
Welcome to the home of Alejandro Legarda and his wife Ramona Hernandez, now a museum and fine dining restaurant called La Cocina de Tita Moning (The Kitchen of Aunt Ramona). Built in 1937, it was one of Manila's first art deco houses. It is located along ...
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What Do the Neighbors Think of the Glass-Walled Narrow House? [Architecture]






Bilzen is a small, quiet city near the eastern border of Belgium. Its streets are lined with 17th and 18th Century buildings and modest homes. And then there's Bassam El-Okeily's glass-fronted Narrow Hous...
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The Mansions of Modern Tech Giants [Homes]






My goodness, Steve Jobs' new house looks like it'll be a doozy. And it'll have to be, if he wants to keep up with the ivory castles his tech mogul cohorts have built for themselves. More »
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Happiness is…
My favorite white lilies on the dining table… and my husband and best friend back home after two weeks in London.
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Steve Jobs Gets To Tear His House Down [Bulldozing]


In this episode of Home Makeover: Mansion Edition: Steve Jobs finally, officially, gets to demolish his house to build a new one. There had been some scuttlebutt over Jobs-occupied Jackling House was a historic landmark, but! It seems that ...
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Whatever Happened to Sexy, Sexy Waterbeds? A Brief History [Sexy]






"She'll admire you for your car, she'll respect you for your position, but she'll love you for your waterbed." The waterbed undulated to 20 percent of the bed market by 1986. Now, they're gone. What happ...
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Solar Powered Fab Lab House May Save the World, But Not Your Eyes [Architecture]






On show until the end of June at the solar declathlon expo in Barcelona, this Fab Lab house is already making waves due to the fact it can be built in 15 days and house a family of four. More &raq...
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Jam-packed
The district of Binondo is Manila's Chinatown. It is a densely populated area, with more than twelve thousand people crammed into its .66 square kilometer (.26 square mile) land, according to the 2007 Philippine population census. Despite its narrow, crow...
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Rural town
The small island province of Marinduque, from where we began our Bellarocca trip, has six municipalities and no cities. They are typical of rural Philippine towns, whether they are inland or coastal, from their architecture and available services to the l...
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Fore!
Capitol Hills Golf & Country Club is one of the most popular golf courses in Quezon City. It is located beside three of the richest residential subdivisions on this side of the city: Capitol Hills Subdivision, Ayala Heights and Ayala Hillside Estates....
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In our neighborhood
This is a typical section of our village's main road and shows well the wide mix of residents in our barangay. On the left is a big house, probably with no garden at all because the house takes up the entire lot; the house isn't new but it is very well ma...
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One Day We'll All Have a Living Room Lamborghini [Garages]






"I want a 9 car garage and be able to enjoy viewing one of them in the living room." And so it came to pass, and the people rejoiced. I love it when rich people go bonkers, don't you? More »...
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The Flaming Lips' Crib Is Even More Psychedelic Than Their Music [Architecture]
Wayne Coyne, frontman of the acclaimed rock band The Flaming Lips, recently renovated his Oklahoma compound, and the new space gives the group's music a run for its money in terms of psychedelic flair, playful construction, and sheer imagination.
The last...
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Read About Capsule Living and Feel Better About Your Dinky Apartment [Capsules]
Twenty years ago, Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 was a place where Tokyo's businessmen could get a quick night's sleep after a long day at the office. Today its an apartment building for those left unemployed by the devastating recession. As Japan's jobless r...
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