Offbeat Homes

June 2nd, 2008

The Best of Offbeat Homes: August 2007

To celebrate my year anniversary week here at Offbeat, we’re looking back at my top four favorite posts from each of the last 12 months.
Here’s August 2007…
50 Fresh & Juicy Slices of Offbeat Home Decor - this post is maybe the most popular post I’ve ever posted, at any blog, ever. What makes this […]

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June 1st, 2008

A Super Special Sunshiny Day at Offbeat Homes

Guess which blogger is having a year anniversary today?

If you said “I bet it’s Jennifer” you’d be correct. Today marks my one year anniversary here at Offbeat Homes.That officially makes me the longest-term Offbeat Homes blogger ever! Offbeat has had other very cool bloggers; Kevin, Ingrid, and Adam, but no one stayed a year. Go […]

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May 13th, 2008

Have You Been Following the 100K House?

I’ve mentioned the 100K house here before, but head’s up - the blog is going strong, with all kinds of cool information regarding building thoughts, materials, and costs. Also you can catch all the most current photos, renderings and floorplans of the postgreen 100k house project at flickr. The interior shots are really neat.
If you’re […]

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April 29th, 2008

Offbeat Furniture Finds

It’s been a good long time since we saw any offbeat furniture. I always mean to share, but I just fill up my bookmarks, hording stuff for my own viewing pleasure. Today is show and tell. Well, more show than tell. If you’d like to learn more about any of these amazing pieces, click on […]

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March 31st, 2008

Random Classic Offbeat Homes

Today I was thinking, who am I to say which Offbeat Homes posts are the most classic. I like to do one classic post a week, but frankly I tend to dwell on which home I’d like to see again, which ones you’d all love to see again, and so fourth.
That said, I decided to […]

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February 11th, 2008

How Would You Redesign the White House?

If ideas popped into your head when you saw the post title, then today is your lucky day!
Storefront for Art and Architecture, in association with Control Group is holding a little competition called the White House Redux.
The basics:
You ponder, you design, you send your idea for a spankin’ new White House in.
“The best ideas, designs, […]

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February 10th, 2008

Offbeat Homes Week in Review

This past week we had the server issues - but we still managed to see some pretty fine homes and structures.

Two new and exciting issues -  Residential LEED & the mkSolaireCool flowers for offbeat homes.
Couches made of nickels, chairs made of baby food jars, and other Offbeat Furniture Finds!
The Gilmore Trail House Update - which […]

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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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January 31st, 2008

Offbeat Classic: Dracula’s Castle

Dracula’s castle is actually not Dracula’s castle. This Offbeat classic post, Dracula’s Castle Given Back, explains why. Still, if you like the scary stuff Bran Castle is actually an interesting visit.

It’s being touted still as home to Prince Vlad the Impaler - inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula character, and remains one of the more […]

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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 […]

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