I’ve had this bookmarked for ages and ages, but never posted it, because frankly it’s not so offbeat. But man, I can’t keep bookmarks forever. I’ve wrestled with posting it, and due to the fact that I think it’s a head turner, I’m gonna.

How adorable, right?  It reminds me of some tiny Berkeley homes I saw on my last visit to the Bay area. I would so paint my house like this.
I found this home randomly at Lloyd’s Blog. His blog will get you all lusty for California and easy going architecture. Right now he’s got this post Two Small …read more

Yesterday I posted, “Why I don’t mess around on Flickr” and then, although I said I would, I forgot to show the last two structures I found on there. Darn me anyhow.
Besides the cool finds yesterday I also found this great little converted grain silo. Love it.

[Cool House via Brian Warren]
And I found this, which seems like something I’d have seen, and yet, no. I love how it looks like the sections are moving, or could be twirled. If you had a few beers and walked under this one, things might get kooky.

[Köln (Cologne) – contemporary architecture – WDR via …read more

I like flickr. It does make me a little envious, because I’m the type who will screw up the lighting, or cut off heads in photos without even trying, and there are some pretty talented folks who post at flickr. I can deal with that though. The real reason I don’t mess around on flickr is because there are just way too many cool house photos. I’ll spend far too much time browsing; you can find some odd, to fairly insane homes on there. Another reason I don’t visit so much is that I enjoy seeing an architects full line …read more