Offbeat Homes

June 20th, 2008

A Different Sort of Treehouse

This treehouse wasn’t made exactly to be a treehouse; at least not how you might think.
The Tree House Clapham is covered in the book Diary of an Ecobuilder, and is really special. A huge tree occupied the lot of the Clapham house, making home building a bit of work. However, instead of taking the tree […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 1 comment

June 3rd, 2008

The Best of Offbeat Homes: October 2007

Continuing on with our year celebration here are my four favorite posts from Offbeat October 2007…
The Remainder House - green and lovely.
Jonesing for San Francisco - because who knew you could build the city out of Jello? plus, LOCUS Architecture is pretty fly too.

The World’s Best Offbeat Gingerbread Homes - not appropriate for Halloween month, […]

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February 16th, 2008

Bamboo Living Homes

Bamboo Living Homes is a company that builds and ships bamboo homes - like a container bamboo house. It’s an interesting concept, with some odd building codes mixed in - i.e. it could take you a while to get your permit to actually use one as a home. On the plus side bamboo is a […]

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September 6th, 2007

The WIRED LivingHome Installation

So, lame me; I’m a day or so late in reporting this but for some reason I thought the post I read about this project at CNET said that the WIRED installation was happening next week. I was so excited and then later felt this sinking sensation that I had speed read too quickly. […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 3 comments

July 30th, 2007

Home & Dining Channel: Offbeat Style, 3rd Edition

Onward with the great Home & Dining channel posts!
Deborah over at Simply Thrifty covers how to save money. But so do lots of blog. What makes Deb’s blog the best is how she’s always incorporating green-friendly tactics; which of course Offbeat is a fan of (and me). She’s got a great post right now about […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 11 comments