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Happy Not For Sale Wednesday! A few weeks in and I’m already cheating, as these are for sale — but they’re not from listings, so I say they count. Here we see what must be the best combination garden shed / pinecone ever invented:

“Would you like to commute to your office every day by just walking to the end of your garden?” asks the manufacturer. No, because that would be increasing my commute tenfold, plus once I got to work I’d be standing on last year’s Christmas tree instead of sitting at my desk. But maybe if I had one of these lovely pods…

Maybe I’m sold on the idea after all. Hmm. Do I really want my home office to be in a Womble’s head? Why, yes, I think I do.

Found by Kristyn, via Homedug.

Who could live here? Why make a house in a converted water tower?

It’s tall! So very tall. So tall one must scroll down and down and down…

Clearly there is only one possible explanation. Here, let me show you with my excellent Photoshop skills:

Ahhh… now all is clear.

Found by Kristyn.

More Not For Sale Wednesday delights! This one was designed by Roger Dean, who also did all those Yes covers and their logo and also a chair that was so complicated he got a patent on it. Oh, and he made the pods that people sit in in the movie A Clockwork Orange right before OHMYGOD WHY DID I WATCH THAT CLIP OH YOUTUBE YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR anyway sorry. Let’s move back to the comfy little round house. So round! So comfy! I shall retreat to it, far from the hideousness of the droogs in their milkbars…
Found by: Becki

P.S. This Friday’s post is going to be awesome in a whole different way… a way involving robots. And deadlines. And a test of skill. I recommend that you read it.

It’s our second Not For Sale Wednesday! Now with a more work-friendly headline for those of you who, unlike me, don’t have conversations with your boss where you pretend to turn a massive dial that says “BOOBIES –> MORE BOOBIES.” Whoops, there goes my work-friendly attempt… I’ll try harder next time. Anyway. On to the houses that are too astounding to ignore, even though they’re not actually from listings.

Today’s house finally answers the question “What should I do with all these leftover Peeps from Easter?” Clearly the only choice is to move to the Czech Republic and build a house!

(Note from the Lovely Legal Department: this is not actual advice to move to the Czech Republic and build a house.) (Also please note that the Lovely Legal Department does not exist and you should not be following their advice, either.)

As Google Translate tells us, “the building is set into the sloping terrain on the outskirts Czernin, from which it takes in its bowels the same floor slope.” And for those of you wondering why it’s pink clearly you are unsophisticated boors who wouldn’t recognize a “tribute to our favorite site flow channel hydraulic engineering institute in Berlin by Ludwig Leo” if it slid down a slope and ran over your dog.

This must be the “B” drawer, for “Bed” and “Books.” Oh, but crap, they’re Czech. The only Czech I know is “dobra voda.” So I’m going to claim that this is the “Dobra Voda” drawer, and that Dobra Voda is Czech for “Bed and Books,” because let’s face it, there are only so many Czech readers of Lovely Listing.

Found by: Beautiful Life

Loveliest comment, by Angel: Silly putty. Every time I look at this picture, I think “Silly Putty”. The only thing that is missing is the backwards imprint of a Dennis the Menace comic.