Is it too early to be dreaming about holiday escapes? Or homes where it feels like you’re on holiday all year round? I rather like perched houses: after all, they provided our ancestors with such refuge. There is a beautiful poem by Romanian poet George Bacovia about the ‘lacustrine’ homes on stilts of long ago. Although, this being Bacovia, it is anything but cheerful… I’ll just translate the first stanza for you below:
De-atitea nopti aud plouind,
Aud materia plingind…
Sunt singur, si mă duce un gând
Spre locuintele lacustre.
So many nights I hear the rain,
hear solid matter cry and drain…
I’m all alone, my thoughts go back again
to the lacustrine dwellings.
findingtimetowrite 
Oh… Couldn’t you just! Never to early to think about a hideaway 😊
I wanted the top one over the sea and then I saw the New York one and the Hudson and oh, New York.
I’ll have a talk with my people and see what I can do…
They’re beautiful – I can just imagine sitting in front of that view with a book – lovely!
But of course – the one accessory you cannot do without in a new house – a book!
I’m rather taken with the Austrian one, although having the sea softly susurrating beneath you would be lovely.
Oh, Marina Sofia, these are all just fantastic! I think I’ll just have to visit all of them before I make my final choice. And after all what’s a year or two or three spent living a few months in different places?
Yes, this calls most certainly for a ‘try before you buy’!
Where was the house that featured in the film The Lake House? Not sure if this was real but if so this could be on your list? What fab homes you’ve picked. Perfect as reading hang outs!!
I can never resist a challenge – I know exactly what you mean by that magnificent house. So I checked and it turns out they built it specially for the film:
http://hookedonhouses.net/2011/02/13/how-they-built-a-glass-house-for-the-lake-house/
Wow that was quick! Shame its not real but it will always be real in our imaginations ! Congrats on finding it so quick – very impressed! x thanks for sending
They’re fab…I love Neil Gaiman’s shed ‘cos it’s in a wood 🙂
Fantastic places to read but it must be hell when you come back from the grocery store.
Oh, you’re far too practical…
I know. I can’t help it.