I’ve decided to take a  break from HouseAHolic holidays in the third world today and head north to Scotland. I grew up in Tasmania, possibly the most ridiculously long way from Scotland imaginable while still staying on Earth, but my Mother (a Scot) took us there every couple of years for holidays.  All those early treks around run-down [...]

My Mum is a Tasmanian-living Scot (or should that be a Scotland-born Tasmanian?), so the chance of a trip to Nova Scotia in Canada must have seemed a good opportunity to see some familiar sights in a totally new part of the world. She took these pictures along the way.

Today I’m hooked on Sweet Juniper’s photos showing urban decay around Detroit. As explained by JDG - the photographer - ”any asshole with a camera can take beautiful photos of Detroit”. This is his explanation of the urban prairies, formerly thriving neighbourhoods, which have been left to sink back into the ground: step one: build a nice [...]

Time for another showing from Flickr. These photos capturing rural decay come courtesy of Pastor Rick, who lives in North Dakota, USA. The photos beautifully capture abandoned homes, rusting old cars and farm machinery. I don’t know much about this region or what would cause so many people to abandon their lives on the land, but judging [...]

I discovered Flickr user Metroblossom and his Isolated building series the other day after it was featured on the Flickr blog. I’ve just picked out a few I thought were interesting, taken in Chicago, but if you’re a fan of urban decay and derelict buildings, the rest of the series is well worth a look too.

There’s something about a derelict house I find really beautiful and, somehow, when it’s a derelict Queenslander, it’s even more so. Many of the traditional Queenslanders in the cities have been renovated to a high-gloss (and very beautiful) state. Others still have been pulled down to make way for concrete townhouses and apartment blocks. Out in the countryside [...]