Home & Dining Channel: Offbeat Style

This weekend I thought I’d highlight the best posts I’ve read lately from the different Home & Dining bloggers. But I don’t want to neglect Offbeat altogether. Gotta have my structure fix.

So, I figure, why not find each blog a suitable offbeat house.

Here goes…

Maricar at Keeping the Castle is always offering great homemaking tips including how to design your own artwork and this week she had great nature-based furniture. I loved the lamp!

Now if Maricar and her blog were to live in an Offbeat home which home might that be?

I figure, that since Maricar’s always making our lives easier she might like something like this:

Treehugger recently featured this Push Button House from architect Adam Kalkin:

“The Push Button House is exactly that: it starts as a shipping container until a button is pushed, and it turns into a house. Motorized walls unfold like a flower, revealing a fully functional house, complete with refined, understated furnishings”

How do you like that! A house that unpacks itself. Treehugger friends are currently debating where the walls are. A fact that might be of use to the normal home dweller. As is, it’s way more art than home in my book. Still, it is easy.

Next up is a blog I visit often, Chocolate Bytes. Why? Well, there’s the chocolate thing…I like my kisses. Plus Heather always finds the rarest chocolate items. The other day I sped over there so fast because she found bubble chocolate! Very neat. Also, the fastest chocolate cookies ever — really good (I’ve had them).

I wanted to find Heather the best ever chocolate house. Do you know how hard that is? For one, no one seems to build chocolate structures (I think there’s some sort of melting issue) and when they do, she already knows about them first.

Like this amazing indoor chocolate fountain:

And the largest chocolate skyscraper in the world:

If she’s seen this castle I will freak:

Neat huh. So, Heather does not technically get a house she can live in. (sorry) But maybe a chocolate castle is even better. This one, featured by the cocoa clever folks at Chocolatework.com stands almost five feet tall. Visit Chocolatework.com or Chocolate Bytes to see more amazing chocolate treats.

Okay, heads up, we’ve got an action packed Offbeat weekend in store.

Check back later. There are eight other Home & Dining blogs. I read all of them. So I’ll be back with some more recommendations in a bit. I know you may thinking, there is no way Jennifer can find a suitable offbeat home for each H&D blog by the end of the weekend. Hmmm, I guess we’ll have to wait and see.