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Offbeat Homes

Archive for the ‘Edible Homes’ Category

March 13th, 2008

How would you like to live in this vegetable?

I know it’s always been my lifelong dream to live in an onion - what about you?

I’d actually rather live in something a little more sweet, like a blackberry for instance.
See more kooky homes at Funny Real Estate Photos at eBestAgent (lots of funny stuff).

Tags: edible home, odd shaped home, onion house, vegetable houseShare […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 4 comments

February 3rd, 2008

And the Link Award of the Week Goes To…

Frog shaped house made of sugar!

Click it. You know you want to.
Tags: frog house, frog shaped house, little house, sugar houseShare This

By Jennifer Chait -- 5 comments

December 21st, 2007

Classic Offbeat Homes: “You’ll shoot your eye out!” (plus gingerbread!)

Talk about an action packed title, huh.
A year ago Offbeat Homes featured the fully restored version of the house where it all went down; crazy lamps, decoders, and of course the infamous Red Ryder BB Gun.
The Christmas Story is a slice of holiday cheer in my mind so this post deserves a second Christmas look. […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 8 comments

December 2nd, 2007

A Brand New Blog for the Coffee & Tea Addicted!

I’m so there.
I’m not the biggest tea fan but coffee is another story altogether. Not to mention that one of my favorite people is writing this blog. Marye from Baking Delights is rounding out her already useful scone, cookie, and other fine baking recipes with beverages that warm the soul at the new Kettle & […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 5 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 -- 6 comments

October 29th, 2007

The Haunted Mansion Sugar Cookie House

There aren’t that many days left until Halloween so in continuing with the theme of spooky homes today we have The Phantom Manor! The Phantom Manor is the official name of the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland Paris and one fellow named Ray Keim took nine hours and recreated it with cookie dough.
I love […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 0 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 -- 2 comments

October 21st, 2007

Jack-O-Lantern Homes

With Halloween quickly approaching it’s time to get your pumpkin game on. Now you could do a simple jack-o-lantern home like this:

But while neat and a great offbeat home idea you won’t be wowing the pants off anyone with this baby. What you need is something with a bit more punch.
And a lot of orange […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 3 comments

October 10th, 2007

The World’s Best Offbeat Gingerbread Homes

Fact: There are far too many amazingly offbeat gingerbread homes. I could never fit them all in one post. Technically that makes this, “Some of the world’s best offbeat gingerbread homes.” Which, sorry; was less catchy as a header.
Fact: You may be thinking, “Has Jennifer gone plum crazy! Gingerbread home making season is a ways […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 13 comments

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