Here’s what I suggest for your reading (and viewing) pleasure.

Link to bookmark:

This first link has been a long time coming. I meant to plug this far sooner but now is better than never. Followers of Offbeat have heard me mention Architecture.MNP countless times — these guys can’t help it if they rock.

However, I recently found out that they’ve got some other fine ninja sites including a music site, music.mnp and a killer green site, green.mnp. Their music site is a bit too funky fresh for me — a little low on the chill factor, depending on your definition of chill. However, green.mnp is great. It’s actually been around for a long while but as I’ve been know to do, I miss stuff.

Right now they’ve got a series going on about building a straw bale house and oddly enough the home is going up where I built the passive solar house — in the East Mountain area near Albuquerque. Very strange. I was looking at pictures of the land at green.mnp and it brought back all kinds of memories.

But I digress. Check out green.mnp; you will not be disappointed. I’ll be adding it to the blogroll here and at Tree Hugging Family — it’s that cool.

A winning link:

The always slick Dezeen has the scoop on The Prototyp Einfamilienhaus by Italian architects AKA architetti. This beautiful home design recently came out ahead in a low-energy wooden house competition.

See many more great photos of this award winner right here.

Offbeat home item links:

CubeMe has many note worthy items to see but my two big recommendations would be the $75,000 toilet (yikes) and the item made from these:

Can you tell what these items in the picture above are? Can you guess what household item might be made with them? At a loss? Find the answer at CubeMe.

You know, I’ve got a few more cool links to share but maybe I’ll save them for later in the week. Enjoy the ones above.

Don’t forget to gather points for the December Offbeat Homes Contest — you could win one of three great prizes.

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