Offbeat Homes

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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February 5th, 2008

For those of you wondering, the couch yesterday was made of…

6,400 nickels.
Johnny Swing, sculpture, welder, and all around imaginative guy, welded the couch out of nickels after finding the penny medium tough to crack - although, he did eventually sculpt a penny chair as well. It took 300 hours and weighs 125 pounds.
He also has an intriguing, and strangely beautiful, baby food jar chair (96 […]

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February 4th, 2008

Offbeat Furniture Finds

It’s been a while since we’ve had some good old funky furniture. I’ve been saving some good ones up too.
I love eco-artware. I swear they always have something you can fall for. Today I saw something I missed back in the day; an archive item, but spectacular.

Can you tell what it’s made of? If you […]

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November 7th, 2007

Offbeat Bathtub Link

So, I just linked Deb from Simply Thrifty at my green blog because she always comes up with great green ideas and posts. Now she’s also trying to corner the offbeat market by way of bathtubs and doing well I’d say.
I may be out of work soon.
Actually I love when people write stuff that makes […]

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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 […]

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