Continuing on with our celebration here’s my four favorite posts of Offbeat September…
Emergency Offbeat Post!!! – it was an emergency post for a reason, a good one, this structure rocked. It still does.
How to Use Spam to Build an Offbeat House – I think Alessandro Ludovico creates genius work. Due to the utter lack of comments and views this post got, no one apparently agrees with me. I don’t care. It’s still one of my fave Sept posts.

Current Obsession: The Camouflage House – my obsession is still strong; I love this house.
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Offbeat Homes is an odd blog to write. ‘Offbeat’ is subjective and mostly, I suppose, subjective to me. There’s no doubt that almost everyone would agree that structures like the Poop House or the Spider Web Chalet are offbeat. But what about extremely beautiful homes — off the cuff beauty like the Camouflage House or massive green induced and mod like the mkLotus.
By the way I seemed way more obsessed with the Camouflage House than anyone else which proves my point. Offbeat is subjective.
I’ve been considering this question because the first architects I wanted to use for the new weekly …read more

I’ve been drooling over the Camouflage House by Johnsen Schmaling Architects for a good long while now but had some concerns that it wasn’t quite offbeat enough for this blog. The poor house has been languishing in my bookmarks.
Here’s the deal. I’m moving and a little off centered, tired, and frustrated and I want to look at beautiful things to cheer me up so I’m posting the house. It’s not obscenely offbeat but obsession can be quirky so here goes…
Back in May AIA Wisconsin recognized some architects and their projects. Many won honors but this one house was my absolute …read more