This house is really great; wish I’d heard of it earlier I would have gone house stalking the last time I was in Utah. This is worth 7 minutes - I promise.
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Superuse.org is this great site that consists of (as you might think) recycled items made new again.
From Superuse.org:
“Superuse.org is an online community of designers, architects and everybody else who is interested in inventive ways of recycling. The site allows you to post items at various scales within the reuse-topic. All examples of small commodities, furniture, […]
Actually, barrels of houses. They are fun though.
The pickle barrel house — think they ever got the smell out?
The beautiful whiskey barrel house — recycled living in Findhorn Foundation Community.
The worst use of an old barrel ever.
Next the most amazing barrel home of all on the most gorgeous land ever.
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Remember yesterday when I said I liked two cool homes from Cheryl Heinrichs Architecture yet, only showed the Twisted House? Or maybe you remember my straw bale promise. Well…
The Tranquility House is a great straw bale home designed by Cheryl Heinrichs Architecture. I really like this house. Although to be honest it had to grow […]
In Bend, Oregon is a small team, Cheryl Heinrichs Architecture who has created some great sustainable designs. Not all offbeat but two in particular stand out as notably unique. The goal of Cheryl Heinrichs Architecture is to indulge owners while maintaining a sustainable outlook — in materials, size, and feeling. One of the two homes […]
From time to time we do have an offbeat emergency. Usually it involves me not being able to sleep until I post something amazing. Today’s emergency comes smack in the middle of the day which is new. I’m in the middle of building a monster city with my son but I took a break to […]
Sorry that I’ve been MIA everyone. We had a mice invasion at our house and I’ve had to use a lot of time to hunt and clean. Mice are so not offbeat or cool unless they live in a happy field somewhere — I don’t want them in my house. I’m not a pet person.
Speaking […]
That title’s not joking around. This home is one of those top ten dream homes you hear about. Well, it’s one of my top ten dream homes anyhow. Actually if you wanted to create a top ten dream structure list you could just visit the Lundberg Design and be perfectly fine. All the work is […]
This is it; the last Blog Action Day Offbeat post. I tried to show a decent amount of sustainable homes today which I hope you enjoyed. If you’d like to learn more about green building and design or are thinking about building your own home one day check out some of my favorite books. I […]
Rockhill and Associates aren’t an entirely sustainable architectural business but they do incorporate green touches that stand out in their unique structures. They play heavy with how nature and landscape can be utilized with their structures which I like a lot.
Here are some of my favorites; for more information on the eco-incorporations of each project […]
The unique, odd and freaky homes of today and tomorrow.
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