When we first wrote about the green prefab H-Haus back in January, the innovative design was just a sparkle (i.e. cad rendering) in Aaron Bohrer and Arunas Repecka's eye. Now a prototype of the

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We've covered a lot of fusion tree houses: treehouse meets Jetsons; treehouse meets Modernism; treehouse meets biology experiment. Today, we've been introduced to a new pairing from O2

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Torbjorn Lundell has just launched a new light-emitting textile at the 2006 Stockholm Furniture Fair called GloFab. This is such a fabulous idea it makes you wonder why this development has

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We love the idea of living walls here at Inhabitat, and if we could turn every surface into a living surface, we would. That's why we were so struck by Loop.ph's stunning new BioWall, which was

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Adam Frank struck a chord last fall with his gorgeous Lumen oil lamp which casts a shadow of a tree on your wall. A couple weeks after the design made the rounds on the blogosphere, the Lumen

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New York’s John Houshmand creates what he calls “urban organic furniture.” Large slabs of rough-cut timber (most of it reclaimed or salvaged) are married with simple, modern

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It seems that Brooklyn is fast becoming the hotbed for reclaimed wood furniture. Inhabitat has long been a fan of designer wood-recyclers like Scrapile and RG Furniture, and we are excited to

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Why use regular old patio lights when you can have giant glowing pet rocks instead? Made of durable, weather-tested polyethylene, Oluce's stone lamps can be used indoors and out. Now if these

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We don't often wax lyrical about kitchenware here at Inhabitat (we tend to focus more on the big stuff) - but we are completely entralled with Stella's Urban Myth tableware. Stella's

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Have you ever wondered why most bookshelves are flat and straight? I'm pondering that question right now as I look at the fabulous Storyline bookshelf by Frederik Roije. There is no good

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We just can't get enough of Andrew Maynard, so we thought we'd say a few more words about him for our Prefab Friday roundup. In the diverse collection of projects in Maynard's portfolio, we get

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Design company Freedom Of Creation (FOC), straddles the cusp between cutting edge engineering and haute-design. The future-forward company is pushing the boundaries of manufacturing production

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Imagine a high-tech glass that you could change from transparent to frosted with the flick of a switch... You could use it for home windows (eliminating the need for blinds), for store fronts

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Dear readers- A bunch of you have written in to ask about why our comments aren't working. We have had to shut them down because some spawn of satan has set up an automated spam-bot to send us

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When it comes to the essentials at home, sanity trumps vanity. In old apartments and houses, big clunky radiators seem like a necessary annoyance, but do they really have to be? Dutch designer

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http://www.mindfully.org/Energy/Old-Heating-Idea.htm I've been hearing rumors about a geothermally heated townhouse in lower Manhattan for awhile now, and have been meaning to go check it out

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These Oooms Twig USB sticks have been around the blog block a lot in the past week, and frankly, I'm not surprised. Seriously, who amongst us can resist a USB drive disguised as a twig?

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Erin Vali from Ulterior Mode has recently been getting all sorts of attention for an art-studio house he recently designed in the Catskills (profiled in The New York Times). Just as

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Scott Bennett from housefish.com writes: I've had a sample of this stuff sitting around on my desk for a few years now, just waiting for the chance to use it. That chance still hasn't come

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If this isn’t the cleverest idea for a room divider, I don’t know what is. Instead of a boring old shoji screen in your house, you can have Globalhaus’s Stick Screen and be

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Despite looking like something straight out of Star Wars – Icosa Village’s collection of “Pod” prefab shelters are actually very down-to-earth. The pods are practical,

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The Japanese are taking the world of botanical gadgets by storm. Just today I spotted this awesome tiny pet-plant on Japanese gadget site Compact-Impact. Its a mini cactus, in a little plastic

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Here’s a cute and clever way to say “I love you” – and just in time for valentines day. If you purchase a Word Sprout and give it to someone you love, when they first

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Although coffee tables are often the centerpiece of warm, comfy living rooms, they tend to be hard and angular - and anything but cozy. That's why we were so taken with Loyal Loot's fetching

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“Canadian design” may not have the same cache of “Danish design” or “Dutch design”, but an up-and-coming design collective by the name of Loyal Loot seems

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With prefab housing garnering a lot of attention from the press lately, some people are beginning to cry “fad.” Archinect’s Mason White has written a great post on the

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We love the clever use of negative space in Studiobility's gorgeous Inner Beauty tables. While the outsides of these pieces have a generic, rounded-rectangle look common to a lot of modern

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There's a fabulous article today on BLDGBLOG, about roof-top farming in London. Being both an avid green-roof fan, and a former London resident myself (and remembering those miserable grey

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This is a little off-topic for Inhabitat, but we since we love Biodiesel and Willie Nelson - we couldn't resist: Willie Nelson, the 72-year-old braided country-western star, has recently

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