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Offbeat Homes

Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

December 12th, 2007

Warp Your Offbeat Walls

Offbeat has done warped homes and funky wallpaper — but never both together. I suppose there comes a time for everything.
Surrealien makes warped wall coverings that are so weird; it’s hard for me to imagine you’d honestly have them in a home but they might make a great addition to a club, bar, or wacky […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 6 comments

December 1st, 2007

Featured Architects of the Week: Anderson Anderson Architecture

Happy December! Hope everyone’s having a good kick off to what will be a busy month for many of us. Where I live we were supposed to get snow this morning. I’m in Southwest Washington and didn’t believe the rumors and so far I’m right. Good news for me because I’m not the biggest snow […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 3 comments

November 18th, 2007

See Dick. See Jane. See Dick & Jane’s House…

I love Dick & Jane’s house; talk about an offbeat beauty. However, first let me digress because I owe some props.
I was surfing about and where I first saw Dick & Jane’s house is a blog called Mid Beacon Hill. Now this is a blog worth mentioning and believe me, I see many blogs. This […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 2 comments

November 17th, 2007

Offbeat Weekend Fun with Literal Eye Candy

So, you’ve got your offbeat dream home… Now, what to do about filling your abode with offbeat art. You could go with plain old offbeat art pieces — there’s plenty around. Or you could go extreme and invest in some real eye candy.
Nathan Sawaya is a Lego brick master. However, once in a while he […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 7 comments

October 28th, 2007

Offbeat Pumpkin Architecture

So far for Halloween Offbeat Homes has brought you jack-o-lantern homes and an Offbeat haunted house round-up. Still Halloween fails to be complete without actual pumpkin architecture; better known as pumpkin carving. I can’t show just any old boring pumpkins at Offbeat so here are some of the most offbeat carvings I’ve seen this […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 2 comments

October 27th, 2007

Building With Eggs

Yup egg building. Soon it’ll be sweeping the country; or not.
I have no idea what’s going on here. Unusual Life — a super keen oddball blog posted this a while back with no explanation. However, on the upside, I suppose if you built an entire city out of eggs that it would at least be […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 3 comments

October 23rd, 2007

Blast from the Past: Erwin Wurm

These pieces, or installations if you will, by Erwin Wurm aren’t a total blast from the far past but they sure as heck aren’t current news. They are however new to Offbeat. I was combing the archives recently and realized, “Where are the Wurm homes?” I can’t find them; thus they must be added.
When […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 1 comment

October 21st, 2007

Offbeat Holiday Seating

We haven’t had an offbeat furniture post in a while (which are a fun break) plus I’ve got a backlog of houses; each better than the last and I’m torn over which to show first so… chairs it is. And just in time I might add. With the holidays coming where exactly are you going […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 0 comments

October 14th, 2007

Jonesing for San Francisco

Usually when I feel like going somewhere else it’s Humboldt or Montana. Then, every once in a while, I start feeling like a sprinkle of San Francisco. It’s a crowded city which I don’t adore but even with all the people it still feels large around you.
The thing about the city is you can walk […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 6 comments