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Small house, grand designs: Couple build dream home from secondhand materials for just 6,000zł - complete with rustic kitchen, cosy fireplace and chic decor

Janusz and Karolina Gruchacz took just six months to finish their petite 35 sqm summer home. domzniczego/Instagram/Kasia Mikosz

VIDEO: Janusz and Karolina Gruchacz took just six months to finish their petite 35 sqm summer home which is set in a natural beauty spot on the edge of Dobczyce Lake, 30km south of Kraków.

Sleeping in a winter wonder home! Kraków uni builds hibernation homes for hedgehogs

Around 18 metres long and 1.5 metres wide, the housing complex was designed to resemble a mini-version of the AGH University of Science and Technology’s building, so that, as the organisers put it, the hedgehogs “immediately feel that they live at AGH”.

Ikea opens “house of tomorrow” in Szczecin to showcase future living

Ikea has created the world’s first ‘House of Tomorrow’ in order to promote sustainability in urban environments and an eco-friendly lifestyle that limits the amount of waste produced by households.

Eighteen thousand Poles brought home by national carrier

Eighteen thousand Poles have returned home since March 15 on special charter flights organised jointly by the Polish government and the state flag carrier LOT, the airline said in a Friday statement.

Łódź has Poland's 1st multi-generational home

Poland's first multi-generational home is ready for use in Łódź, central Poland, city authorities informed on Tuesday. The renovated building's tenants will be disabled persons, seniors and families with children.

Now, THAT'S a makeover! Kind-hearted couple transform poverty-stricken granny's hovel into 'dream home' - in just SIX days

The man and wife team converted the rotting old hut into a cozy home for the 82-year-old pensioner known affectionately as ‘Grandma’ after seeing her appeal for help on a local charity site. With just her dog for company, the pensioner told TFN: ‘I thought I was going to die there.’

Living in a box: man converts storage cupboard into 13-sqm micro-flat

It may be microscopic but the flat comes with all the creature comforts of a conventional apartment.

Top 5 articles:

  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
  • Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

The first report:

  • Opposition presents pandemic aid programme
  • Ruling Law and Justice continues to have highest voter support - poll
  • Belarus protests Enduring Soldiers commemoration in east Poland
  • Poland’s Świątek wins Adelaide International tennis tournament
  • PM presents National Recovery Plan

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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