Category Archives: Just for Fun

The 31st Olympiad starts tonight with 77 Athletes participating for Team Ireland across 14 disciplines including Golf, Sailing, Hockey, Athletic and Rowing. Our main medal chances again come from Boxing with the Bray Battler, Katie Taylor leading the charge. Rio de Janeiro, on the east coast of Brazil, is the host city. Here’s a few […]

At just 45-square-meters, this house, designed by Peter Jungmann, is a fully-furnished and functional home which has some of the best mountain views in Austria. It can be found on a hillside near the village of Nussdorf, on the outskirts of Vienna. The name Ufogel is a play on two words. It’s a combination of […]

Over the last number of years there has been an increased effort to design and build homes that are more and more efficient. In the process of designing these houses architects and designers are playing with and incorporating self-sufficiency into their plans. One such architectural & design co-operative, NAU, have worked to design a completely […]

In part one (read here) of this two part series on strange houses from around the world. We saw so very unique and unusual houses that people had designed and built. In part 2 we have unearthed houses that are even more unusual and truly unique. Some of them are small and some are huge. […]

Every year more and more people around the world are designing and building their own homes. The popularity of self-build TV programmes is rising rapidly and more people are looking to make unique houses unlike anything around them. We have scoured the internet to bring you some of the most unique and sometimes the strangest […]

So in our last blog we looked at some of the most lavish and expensive houses in the world. This time around we have decided to push the boat out a little and explore the notion of houses that look like they crashed here from outer space. While looking at some of the homes on […]

At Insuremyhouse.ie we insure homes of many different sizes and values. Some small, some large. We decided to make a list of the world’s most expensive houses. Before we did the research we didn’t even know that some of the houses on this list existed or could even exist, but they do and now you […]