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Archive for the ‘Interior Oddities’ Category

February 18th, 2008

Who Said Water Tanks Were Boring?

Not me. Well, not anymore. If you’re Paul Morgan Architects then you know plain old water tanks are so last year. Marye, from Kettle & Cup, sent me a heads up about this beautiful home, the Cape Schank House. It’s posted at Materialicious - with a name like that, you know it’s a blog you […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 3 comments

January 29th, 2008

Seamless Unique Kitchen

Sorry no post yesterday - WordPress tag upgrades were taking a bit of time.
Today I have a kitchen first off. A kitchen sounds dull but this kitchen is so sleek. Really unique.  I’ve been in love with this Gorenje kitchen by French designer Ora-Ïto, since I first saw it at Gizmodo. They likened it to […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 0 comments

September 16th, 2007

Offbeat Homes Is My Favorite Blog: 10 Reasons Why

Is Offbeat Homes really my favorite blog?
As in blogs I write; not read because that would be a whole other discussion. I think about this a lot because most professional bloggers I know do have more than one blog. I think that there are some pros and cons to playing favorites.
Is it even fair […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 2 comments

September 11th, 2007

The Poop House

I have a confession. I’m actually sort of snob princess in that I don’t discuss issues like farts or potty humor or gastric issues all that often. It seems sort of off color to me.
I most absolutely do not walk around talking about poop. No matter the composting benefits; no matter the, “It’s just a […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 14 comments

September 3rd, 2007

Happy Labor Day

I hope everyone is relaxing and not working today. I’m working as you can plainly see but I get time off during my week normally so there’s my excuse. If you’re working today I hope you have a good excuse as well.
Let’s see. I’m not quite sure what kind of house to post for Labor […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 7 comments

August 27th, 2007

50 Fresh & Juicy Slices of Offbeat Home Decor

What could you do with 300 home & dining tips?
Live better, live happier, live off the charts? Well of course you can; you can do all that and more.
With the proper tools your home can be the amazing sanctuary it should be. That’s why today the b5media Home & Dining channel is bringing you […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 32 comments

August 14th, 2007

Best of the Offbeat Internet

I read a lot of cool architect blogs and offbeat design sites. It would be nice to have all the amazing structures I see gathered somewhere once in a while. So, I figured I’d post the best stuff I’ve seen all week. You can click on the photo and head over to visit and learn […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 0 comments

August 12th, 2007

Sit, Visit, Have Some Tea

People don’t go visiting so much nowadays. At the risk of sounding 80 years old, when I was a kid we went a visiting the neighbors. Often even. People had their neighbors over, they had tea (or even better coffee), talked, threw burnt orange Tupperware parties, and made colored popcorn balls. Or, was that just […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 4 comments

August 9th, 2007

Real Iron Chefs Drink Their H2O

At Morimoto, New York, you’ll find great food and plenty of water, or at least water bottles. Tadao Ando Architect and Stephanie Goto Design Group made sure of that when they designed the beautiful Morimoto.

LedLightRay has a great explanation about what’s happinging at Morimoto:
“Budgeted at $12 million, the interior of Morimoto features Ando’s trademark […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 5 comments

July 2nd, 2007

Offbeat Hot & Offbeat Not

Here’s the lowdown — you’ve found your perfect offbeat home (presumably with the help of this fine blog) you’ve moved in, you unpack and… blah. Your old furniture just doesn’t fit your new hip offbeat lifestyle. Don’t worry I can help.
Today and everyday offbeat is taking a stand against boring furniture everywhere. Why just dabble […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 13 comments

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