Offbeat Homes

May 30th, 2008

Win Free Stuff

With various Lifestyles Channel contests…
At Tree Hugging Family your kids can enter a Green Toys giveaway and your dog can win a Recycled Skooperbox for Nicer Doggie Walks.
Last chance to enter at Inside Motherhood - Contests end tonight (May 30)! Hop over and register to win one of 10 great prizes!
Mary Emma Allen has [...]

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May 30th, 2008

Pop Quiz Inspired House

So, before clicking on the link, can you guess what the inspiration is behind this house? It’s not my style. But it is pretty darn cool.

[See much more of this inspired house via devicepedia]
Tags: flying house, house, house inspiration, inspired house, pop quiz house, weird house

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May 29th, 2008

Parenting Those Offbeat Teens & Tweens

This May the entire Lifestyles Channel has been doing a month long theme event called “Three Doors Down.” The idea; sort of a meet & greet (and introduction) deal among blogs in our b5media channel. So far I’ve written introduction posts for three new blogs:

Architecture for bad parents???
Offbeat Play Structures for Your Unique Child
True [...]

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May 29th, 2008

Leisure Housing from Klaus Stattmann

Leisure Housing is a tribute to Schindler. The structure is from Klaus Stattmann, and it’s well, actually, this one is much better explained it the translation of the designers words.
“A spatial structure, in its appearance oscillating between landscape and architecture, serves as starting point for the Leisure House in North Kings Road 825. As a [...]

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May 28th, 2008

The Ultimate Budget Minded House on the Lake

I suppose this is one way to roll if you’re short on funds for a real lake house.

It’s actually sort of cool; like so not cool it’s reached cool status. Although, I’d be thinking, what if it rolled off? I found this at WebUrbanist where they have a delightful post up: 17 Extreme Houseboats and [...]

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May 26th, 2008

Too Much Category Chaos - Get Out of Here!

Ever notice how I have total smack out of control category chaos? It’s true I do. In any case, I don’t have time to post anything crazy original today or tomorrow, because there’s a special Offbeat date coming up, and my goal is to fix this blog up all spiffy, and the categories are going [...]

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May 25th, 2008

Happy Late Anniversary to the Baking Queen

This is sort of a late anniversary present. I pretty much stalk Humboldt real estate, hoping I’ll find something perfect enough to motivate me to move back. Yesterday, I found something for Marye instead.
Marye, long time Offbeat supporter and friend, just hit her one year anniversary at Baking Delights. All I can afford to get [...]

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May 23rd, 2008

Architecture for bad parents???

This month at the Lifestyles Channel we’re doing this whole Three Doors Down event. So far I’ve introduced Play Library and Psycho for Love. I managed to find structures that fit both blogs. Today however, I’m introducing Parents Behaving Badly - and I though Psycho was hard. I’m not sure there is a structure suitable [...]

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May 21st, 2008

Random Structures

Yesterday I posted, “Why I don’t mess around on Flickr” and then, although I said I would, I forgot to show the last two structures I found on there. Darn me anyhow.
Besides the cool finds yesterday I also found this great little converted grain silo. Love it.

[Cool House via Brian Warren]
And I found this, which [...]

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May 21st, 2008

My New Favorite Real Estate Website!

Green Homes for Sale! This site rocks. Of course, I can see myself spending WAY too much time browsing and dreaming at the site, but it might be worth it. Some of the homes featured are amazing. Many are a little off the beaten path; both literally and figuratively. I’m actually considering buying a home [...]

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