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Maturity isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. If your inner child is fighting for freedom, take a look at our top picks for immature indulgence:

Fun Home Designs

If you thought you had to leave tree houses behind when you hit puberty, think again! From exclusive hotels catering to vacationers looking for alternative accommodations to primary homes, tree houses are not just for kids anymore. If you’d like to live like a bird, check out Blueforest. This UK-based business can create a modern-day, adult-sized tree house for as little as $15,000.

Depending on your choice, it will contain a bathroom, small kitchen, and a full-sized living room. Not too bad for the price! If you’d like to try one out before committing to full-time life in the air, spend a night or two in the branches with a room in a tree house hotel. Find one as close as Connecticut or Washington State, or venture out to Belize, Thailand, or New Zealand for a full-blown adventure vacation!

Set against a scenic and historic backdrop, the Florence Institute of Design International will again offer a unique  four-week architectural learning experience for aspiring and professional architects. The course, which will run from June 1 to 30, will usher students though different architectural periods to discover the key to the evolution of Italian architecture.



The course will be held mostly in the form of walking tours combined with on-site discussions, photometric analysis, as well as hand sketching. However, classes will be also held in Florence Institute’s elegant Baroque style palazzo, located in the historical center of the city. During which, students will also be treated to feature lectures on architecture and urban planning. Basically, the short program is designed to expose architects and designers to the significant architectural works of Renaissance Florence together with its relationship to the city.

Weather you’re a freshman in architecture, or a full grown architect, you should read these quotes because inspiration is something we, human beings just can’t get enough, but on the other hand it is food for the brain. (and quoting dead people makes you look smart and… credible)

Here are 101 famous quotes and quotations in no particular order from some of our “idols”:

#1. A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#2. God is in the details
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#3. Less is more.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#4. The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

#5. Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd Wright

One of our readers outlined a problem a lot of architects, and probably interior designers sometimes, when they have the image of an existing house their clients want to renovate or just want to add some small improvements, like a driveway texture, or a different color or material for the facade, and want to deliver a fast result.

This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to edit an image in Photoshop CS5 (earlier versions work just fine) so then your clients can see the improvements they want on their house, and so they can compare the proposed situation with the existing one, and decide on a solution.

1. First you want to open the image you want to edit. In this case was a one story house with vinyl sidings as our reader wanted to know how he can make the adjustments we talked about in the beginning.