Home & Dining Channel: Offbeat Style, Final Edition
August 4, 2007 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Home & Living
Wow, this took all week. It’s been fun finding offbeat homes for the channel but I seriously doubt I’ll be this ambitious again. Plus, I ran into one glitch. What glitch? Well, it turns out that a certain offbeat blogger lost a house. I had the perfect house for Noodles and Rice and it’s vanished into the large vast space that is my computer.
I’m not happy. Still, one day I will find it so we’ll all just patiently wait; it’ll be worth it the house is great. Until then I suggest you pop over to Noodles and Rice to see what sort of delicious dishes are up. Stef and Tom always have something great up like Okonomiyaki or Honey-Spiced Ribs. The pictures alone will make you hungry; I don’t even eat meat and the ribs look so good to me!
Last, but not least, in our great offbeat Home & Dining Channel round up is Marye at Baking Delights. I recently found my new favorite cake at her blog, the Tie Dyed Cheesecake — unbelievably cool. You will impress everyone if you make it trust me. I’d also hit the Vegetable Enchiladas. They look so good and it’s a more earth friendly recipe.
Admittedly, Baking Delights was the hardest blog to match up with an offbeat structure. If it was up to me there would be bread shaped homes. Instead I found something more along the lines of serving up your freshly baked dishes.
This “porcelain house” in Tianjin, China is owned by Zhang Lianzhi. It’s made from:
- More than 4,000 antique china pieces.
- More than 400 white marble stone carvings.
- More than 20 tons of crystalline rocks and agate.
Would Marye ever run low on clean dishes with this? I think not. She could grab a plate from the celling:
Or grab a vase for flowers…
Not sure about this but it looks like part of the gate…
It cost a US $64 million and according to Spluch, will be open to the public soon.
What do you think? Excessive waste, smart re-use of materials, or a whacked rich guy with nothing better to do? Personally, I’m just glad someone built a home with plates so I had something nice for Marye
The Home & Dining Channel has a lot of fun stuff coming up. We’re going to be highlighting back to school this month, and some of us (not me) have already gotten started. So, if you’re looking to save money on supplies or just get the kids organized go float around the channel.
I’ll be back this week with some interesting structures from my favorite place in the world and give the whole ‘back to school’ topic some offbeat flare so stick around.
[Pictures via Spluch, many thanks]
Jennifer – you are just awesome! This was quite a project you took on and you did/are doing a fantastic job.
I need to think of something similar to this instead of just one of those, “I saw this great post over at…” links. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I just need some creativity.
Love it, love it, love it – Jennie, oops, I mean Jen. haha
Very cool house, but I think I vote for “whacked rich guy with nothing better to do.” I’d like to see it in person!
Jennifer!
This house is SO me! Look at it..it has a victorian look to it..it is huge (8 kids and 2 grandkids dont forget) looks like blue transferware, one of my collectibles.
I don’t suppose it has a wedgwood barn out back?
Thank goodness you all like your houses! That was way too much work. Fun though. I was thinking of doing more like this like for my favorite out of channel blogs — but what would I do for Brand Curve? It’s a lot of work. But it was better than my typical link love posts.
I was thinking, about the ceiling on this house; what if plates just started falling on your head? That would suck. I don’t think I’d build something like this. And I don’t think there’s a wedgwwod barn out back, sorry. You could build one, maybe out of other dishes like tupperware!! A Tupperware house in old school colors would rock my world.
Thanks all for stopping by!
And no Julie, not Jenny, Jeni, Jennie. Maybe Jen-i-kins… no, not that either. Seriously Bob is better than Jenny to me
Hmm…maybe an avocado green tupperware Yurt?