The Taj Mahal inspired by nature
Why hello there my friends… and how the hell are ya?!!! What’s been going on? Me? I’m just great thanks! Super relaxed and ready for the next adventure after spending the past couple of months ticking a few boxes: – Complete 500 hour yoga teacher training in India – tick! – Eat amazing spicy food [...]
The Patient Gardener } Visiondivision
I sure hope to be around in 80 years time when the vision of this sweet project is realised, but we’ll all just have to be patient – just like the ‘Patient Gardener‘ folks at Visiondivision who dreamt up this fantastical tree-top study space on the campus of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Ten Japanese cherry trees [...]
Tulips, tulips and more tulips…
Floriade 2011 in Canberra is a spectacular and florally exciting display of over 210 different varieties of flowering plants. This years theme is ‘A Feast for the Senses’.
BACSAC: bag/planter = portable garden
Founded in France by two landscapers and a designer, BACSAC aims to make gardening easier, cheaper and more mobile.
Cape Town’s Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
We’re so lucky to have a very special guest here on Cohabitaire today: the lovely Lana Kenney who’s blog, lanalou style, I read religiously and highly recommend. Please give Lana a warm welcome as she shares some natural beauty from Cape Town… Today I’d like to share with you one of Cape Town’s highlights and [...]
Garden stalk
The best thing about living in a tiny apartment with no yard in a snooty neighbourhood is that you get to spy on lovely houses with beautiful gardens. So I’ve been out papping the neighbours and planning and dreaming of the garden I might one day have (only in my dreams will it be in [...]
The real together garden
Hey there everyone – how was your weekend? Good? Hope so. If Monday is starting to get to you hopefully this quick distraction will help you along… I hear from all sorts of people spruiking their designs, plantwares etc. to feature on Cohabitaire but not many have made me exclaim ‘hold the phone, Jeroen’ more [...]
It’s light outside
I don’t know about you, but I’m completely smitten with the juxtaposition of an outdoor chandelier. I’m yet to attend an affair with such novel lighting but certainly hold out hope to one day dance below crystal that sparkles in the sunshine and twinkles in the breeze (*hint hint engaged friends). Anyone know where this [...]
Hungry? Eat the house…
I love the Dutch. Partly because I’m partly one; partly because they invented the best mayonnaise and cheese in the world; partly because I loved living in Holland for a year; and partly because of the way they embrace small spaces. Is this genius or what? Run out of land. No problem! Grow stuff on [...]
Seaside Dane
I can very easily picture myself here. Somewhere along the coast of Denmark, between Vedbæk and Rungsted, stands this residence of Danish furniture architect Rud Thygesen. The white semicircular villa, just a few steps from the sea, was originally built in 1957 and later expanded towards the water. Can you imagine getting lost for many [...]
Balmori’s Bilbao Jardín
Last year, Diana Balmori of Balmori Associates Landscape & Urban design, completed this captivating creation – an 80 square meter garden that spills down (or climbs up) a stair case in Bilbao, Spain. [rss-cut] As a member of the jury for the second edition of Bilbao Jardín 2009, Balmori was invited to create a garden, [...]
