Offbeat Homes

August 11th, 2008

Awesome Bookshelf

Where do people come up with these ideas? I see wood, and think “wood” - I love that there are artists out there who see wood and think:

Time to make a crazy Quetza bookshelf! Well, who knows what they were thinking, but I like it.
[image via NEL]
Tags: Art, books, bookshelf, cool bookshelf, slanted bookshelf, strange […]

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July 7th, 2008

Offbeat Furniture for Kooky Kids

We haven’t had a good old offbeat furniture post in a while. I haven’t seen too many adult oddball pieces lately, but I did recently find this crazy amazing table set for the kiddos:

[Toadstool Table and Toadstool Set available at Karma Kiss]
How come when I was a kid I never had such a cool table […]

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May 12th, 2008

Do You Feel Lucky?

I’m not sure if the award winning Ontario College of Art and Design has ever made an Offbeat appearance - (I’m feeling lazy about checking all the 2006 archives). That said, I’ll err on the safe side and post it.
If you haven’t seen it; it’s pretty cool. It is however, one of those buildings that […]

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February 6th, 2008

Some Sugar for Offbeat Homes

The Lifestyles Channel is having a theme day. It’s a Valentine’s Day theme day. We were supposed to create a poem or card or something like that for our significant other (I seem to be out of those), your celebrity crush (no), your craft inspiration, anyone we like, etc.
I’m not actually too keen on […]

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February 6th, 2008

Gilmore Trail House Update

Do you remember this cool house?

I posted about this house, the Gilmore Trail House, a while back. Well, Mark Fejes, the fellow who designed and built the home contacted me with an update about it plus some photos. Neat, because if you remember, I noted that I wanted to learn more about it, and […]

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February 3rd, 2008

48 Weekend Links All In A Line…

Did you know that we have 48 blogs here in the Lifestyles channel? 48! I don’t read all of them - my interests just don’t spread that wide. Plus there’s that pesky issue of not enough time in the day. So, I usually send link love to the blogs I do frequent, but this […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 5 comments