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Offbeat Homes

Archive for the ‘Going Native’ Category

September 21st, 2007

Current Obsession: The Camouflage House

I’ve been drooling over the Camouflage House by Johnsen Schmaling Architects for a good long while now but had some concerns that it wasn’t quite offbeat enough for this blog. The poor house has been languishing in my bookmarks.
Here’s the deal. I’m moving and a little off centered, tired, and frustrated and I want to […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 4 comments

July 10th, 2007

Amazing Woodland Homes: Not Just for Elves and Gnomes Anymore

Thanks for being cool about missing an offbeat day so that we could help our new music channel buddies out. Today I’m back and to make up for yesterday, I found the most amazing home for all of you to see.

I know, this house doesn’t even look real. I actually thought I had stumbled upon […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 12 comments

June 5th, 2007

Pack Up The Van, It’s Road Trip Time!

That’s right; it’s road trip time. In just a few short weeks it’s time for the annual Taos Solar Music Festival. From the TSMF homepage:

“Come experience good music, interactive alternative energy displays and exquisite views at the 9th Annual Taos Solar Music Festival in Kit Carson Park in downtown Taos, New Mexico. Taos is […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 0 comments

April 14th, 2006

Hakka Dwellings of China

The Hakka people of China were originally immigrants from the northern regions who moved and settled into the southern provinces. Because they were latecomers to the area, the Hakka had to set up homes in mountainous regions and were often subject to attack. This led them to develop a unique form of architecture […]

By Kevin Humphrey -- 0 comments

March 4th, 2006

Kenya’s Giraffe Manor

Not far from Nairobi, Kenya, one can find some rather unique lodgings at a place called the Giraffe Manor. Originally built in 1932 on 120 acres of land, the Manor was bought in the mid-seventies by the founders of the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife, who promptly moved five young members of the endangered […]

By Kevin Humphrey -- 0 comments

February 9th, 2006

Tree Houses of Korowai

One of the few remaining ‘stone-age‘ tribes left on this planet reside in the Korowai region of Papua New Guinea. They even practise cannibalism still! (Don’t worry, they only eat their own - not outsiders.)
One of the peculiar aspects of these folks are the tree houses that they live in. While normally built […]

By Kevin Humphrey -- 0 comments

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