To conclude this week long celebration of the last Offbeat year, I thought I’d do a nice wrap-up.
The kick off: A Super Special Sunshiny Day at Offbeat Homes
The best of Offbeat Homes:

June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
December 2007
January 2008
February 2008
March 2008
April 2008
May 2008

Thanks:
Offbeat Homes would like to thank…
Thanks to these great b5 media blogs…
Best Offbeat Reader Comments of the Year
Thanks for hanging out for the celebration. Coming up this week, I’ve got something pretty cool planned here at Offbeat, so stick around.

We’ve hit the last month in the year celebration – yahoo. Here are my four favorite posts from Offbeat May 2008… Hmmm, it seems like we were just at May
The Powerlight Office Space – I love this space. Also I rarely blog about offices, so this was a good break.
I’d like to live, under the sea… – Senosiain Arquitectos creates some of the most unique work I’ve ever seen.
Offbeat Play Structures for Your Unique Child – I love cool kid play structures.

My New Favorite Real Estate Website! – I’ve been spending a lot of time here, so I …read more

Continuing on with our year celebration here are my four favorite posts from Offbeat April 2008…
Antonino Cardillo’s Vaulted House – I pretty much adore everything Cardillo creates. The colors, the lines, the minimal factor.
Outstanding Offbeat Organic Beauty – the Work of Robert Harvey Oshatz – His work is so amazing.

Arte Luise Kunsthotel – This hotel may be one of the best in the world. I love the whole idea of themes by artists.
 
 The Most Stylish Blogger Spaces In the World! – So far, a theme day post hasn’t made the top four in any of the months this year. However, …read more

Continuing on with our year celebration here are my four favorite posts from Offbeat March 2008…
I double dare someone to build an entire house out of these… – I really like shaped and nicely designed bricks and other building materials. If you’ve got kooky building supplies, you might not even need a weird home design to pull off an offbeat home.
Classic Offbeat Homes: Favorite Posts of Spammers – I more like this post because someone emailed me later and had some ideas about why “Eating the Biscuit City” was so popular with spammers. Um, the ideas are not …read more

Offbeat is an odd blog. As page views go up comments go down. How’s that work? I’ve literally never seen a blog of mine act like this – or I should say blog readers of mine. I write plenty of blogs and traffic and comments are always correlated. Except here. Can I explain it? Not really. Do I mind this lack of comments? Again, not really. While I enjoy comments, a lack of them gives me a break from moderating. I’m good either way. It is what it is.
That said, when Offbeat readers leave comments they’re usually fun, nice, and …read more

Sorry to be absent yesterday. I told Cedar I’d take him to see Kung Fu Panda – which was totally fun by the way. Jack Black is just as funny as a cartoon, as he is when he’s a real person. Then Cedar wanted to continue the movie madness at home with Chicken Little. When did my life turn into one long-playing cartoon?
In any case, we’ll wrap up this year anniversary celebration tomorrow and then I have something very cool planned for next week. First though let’s round out the year; here are my four favorite posts from Offbeat February …read more

Being that it’s my year anniversary week here at Offbeat Homes I posted props to the various blogs that have sent Offbeat the most traffic throughout the year. It’s important to note that home and architect blogs aren’t the only blogs that send Offbeat traffic though.
Offbeat is part of the b5 media network, so it’d make sense that some of my traffic perks come from various b5media blogs. What’s always surprising to me is which b5media blogs seem to send more traffic this way. You’d think it would be the oddball blogs, or blogs related to houses, but it’s not …read more

December was an odd offbeat month. One of my least favorite offbeat posts, as in, not one of the better houses I’ve shown here, shocked me by becoming massively popular (it still is), and with the holidays, it got busy, so of course I threw a random contest. So, yeah, it was a wacky month, but I did find my four favorite posts, which include…
Robert Bruno Steel House – sort of one of those perfectly offbeat homes.

Impractical Architecture – Specht Harpman has done so much wonderful stuff not to mention the zero house, it’s hard not to list them as …read more

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 post unique, is that along with my readers, I like it too. Usually I think a post should be popular, and it’s not, or my readers here LOVE a post that totally surprises me. This post makes everyone happy. And it’s cool.
HGTV Design Star Contestant …read more

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 me.
Of course, Offbeat is not a hard place to stay because I adore this blog. Since I started here last June, Offbeat has gained some nice momentum and readers just keep on increasing. And that’s not a pat on my own little back, believe me.
Not …read more