Welcome to an easy round of bonus points for this December’s Reader Appreciation Contest.
Offbeat has featured some outstanding architects. Sometimes though, the architects we meet here aren’t as popular as other featured guests. Probably because this is Offbeat Homes and not Architectural Digest.
That’s fine. I am partial to the architects because they mastermind such visions of delight for us all to see but I get that sometimes other people can be fun. That said we had a very popular non-architect guest here at Offbeat Homes back in August 2007.
Who was it?
A. One of the stars of the X-Files television series
B. …read more

So, all the regulars just spit coffee out their nose because frankly what house isn’t my favorite? I think my most used Offbeat phrases include:

“My favorite house today”
“My favorite building ever”
“I’m so in love with this house”
“My future home”
“This structure has to be the most amazing I’ve ever seen!”

The sad part is I’m never kidding. I do fall in love so many structures — I could never really narrow it down below twenty favorites. Even when there’s a structure I don’t like I tend to at least like one thing about it.
Therefore if you want …read more