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Offbeat Homes

Archive for the ‘Fake or Real’ Category

January 22nd, 2008

Mushroom Holiday Village

Is this for real? It supposedly is. I heard about this mushroom village before; but you know, I wonder if it’s been built yet. A few sites I’ve read state that it was started in 2007 - but finding current production stats on the village has been tough.

So, according to most places I’ve seen this, […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 1 comment

December 23rd, 2007

Impractical Architecture

The other day when I showed the zeroHouse I mentioned that I like other designs from Specht Harpman better. First off I should say that any architect firm who has a structure category entitled, “Impractical” is worth a good look.
The most interesting impractical item to see is Specht Harpman’s Psychoplex; which is as odd as […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 1 comment

November 26th, 2007

Cyber Monday: Offbeat Style

I say skip the sales and instead create some ultra offbeat and slick virtual homes. Equity Green had this killer post this summer on homes featured at Second Life, an Internet-based virtual world. People create worlds and then interact. However, the crown achievement of sites like this may be the home designs. Cyber based, not […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 3 comments

November 7th, 2007

Real or Fake: The House Between Two Rocks

So here’s my issue; this house looks completely fake to me. The placement and colors — more like it was staged or photoshopped than a real live oddball home. However, searching around has turned up plenty of websites that say, “Yes, it’s real.” Technically most sites say something akin to, “This is a house in […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 12 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

July 13th, 2007

The Fake Friday Challenge

Hello offbeat friends. I’ve got a fun few days planned. Starting today with a spot the fake structure challenge. Then I’ve got something so cool, so interesting, it’ll take up both Sunday and Monday. And then a reader’s home to kick off the rest of the week.
End of the Offbeat promo and on to the […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 4 comments

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