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Offbeat Homes

Archive for July 2007

July 30th, 2007

Home & Dining Channel: Offbeat Style, 3rd Edition

Onward with the great Home & Dining channel posts!
Deborah over at Simply Thrifty covers how to save money. But so do lots of blog. What makes Deb’s blog the best is how she’s always incorporating green-friendly tactics; which of course Offbeat is a fan of (and me). She’s got a great post right now about [...]

By Jennifer Chait -- 11 comments

July 28th, 2007

Home & Dining Channel: Offbeat Style, 2nd Edition

I’m back, with more great posts from around the Home & Dining Channel.
A big favorite of mine is  Declutter It. I’m a five file cabinet, alphabetize my albums, tidy kind of girl yet I have the world’s sloppiest email. This week Julie has a great quick tip for getting your email into shape. Julie also [...]

By Jennifer Chait -- 6 comments

July 28th, 2007

Home & Dining Channel: Offbeat Style

This weekend I thought I’d highlight the best posts I’ve read lately from the different Home & Dining bloggers. But I don’t want to neglect Offbeat altogether. Gotta have my structure fix.
So, I figure, why not find each blog a suitable offbeat house.
Here goes…
Maricar at Keeping the Castle is always offering great homemaking tips including [...]

By Jennifer Chait -- 12 comments

July 25th, 2007

West Coast Green: The mkLotus

In case you haven’t heard, West Coast Green is coming on full force this year.
West Coast Green, the largest residential green building conference in America recently released it’s full line-up of presenters and exhibits for this year’s show taking place on September 20-22, 2007. The show, which will be held in San Francisco, has two [...]

By Jennifer Chait -- 6 comments

July 24th, 2007

Do You Fancy Life Inside A Billiard Ball?

These folks do.
Down the road…

In the woods…

Going up…

Twisty steps!

Home sweet home

Not so spacious as our good buddy Corbin’s treehouse; but not bad for a weekend of camping. I do find it odd that it’s on HumorPix.com. I don’t know about you, but I don’t find it very HA HA funny. It’s flaming cool. But funny, [...]

By Jennifer Chait -- 3 comments

July 23rd, 2007

Reader Home #1: New Zealand Retreat

This house is not technically a retreat, it’s an individual residence… But it is so nice that I’d retreat to it.
Talia Mana, an Offbeat Homes reader sent me pictures of one of her previous homes located in Whangarei New Zealand. Talia has since sold it but had a hard time doing so. Seemingly folks [...]

By Jennifer Chait -- 6 comments

July 21st, 2007

Happy Harry Potter Day!

To celebrate; yes I like Harry Potter. I have hidden depths (and a six year old). So, to celebrate the release of the brand new book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, let’s look at some homes from our world that you might live in if you happened to be part of Harry’s world.
First up. [...]

By Jennifer Chait -- 9 comments

July 19th, 2007

Human Shelter: Air, Water, & Earth

Today we’re going to continue with more of Michael Jantzen’s work. As noted yesterday, it’s hard to pick favorites, but when I first saw Jantzen’s designs, his Wind Shaped Pavilion was the one of the designs that first drew me in. So, I’m sharing that one today. The other design I picked to share [...]

By Jennifer Chait -- 7 comments

July 18th, 2007

A Dreamy Mixture of Art & Architecture

This post is going up a tad later than planned. Sorry folks. I was dealing with my own offbeat house, as in so offbeat the health department was going to come close up shop if I didn’t clean. Long story short, here’s me cleaning (la, la, la) and losing track of time.
On a positive note [...]

By Jennifer Chait -- 11 comments

July 16th, 2007

The Fake Friday Challenge Winners Are….

Heather from Chocolate Bytes and Nancy from Nancy’s Baby Names!!! Yeah. Show them some winner love and pay a visit to their amazing blogs! Baby names and chocolate, unless you’re talking offbeat houses it doesn’t get much better than that.
So, number 3 was the only fake in the bunch.
The loony number 3 was [...]

By Jennifer Chait -- 0 comments