Clearly a poll at Offbeat Homes does almost no good.

Why:

1. I don’t control what people build. Offbeat homes are not an everyday find. The majority of architects in the world build still nice, but average structures.
2. How I find offbeat structures is random and based mostly on luck.

That said, if you vote in the poll, I may be able to do something about it. I say give it a whirl, and we’ll see. Also, I set it up so that you can post an answer, this way if I left something great off, you can let me know. If you’d like to vote, look to your right, and scroll down (to above the archives).

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Vote in the nonsense Offbeat Homes poll

My Internet service should be up and running at my new place by the 2nd or 3rd, so I’ll be back then. Hope you all have a wonderful start of September.

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Here but not exactly here

Well the news is that they’ve just launched a brand new blog! and there’s more…

Imagine my delight, when I recently landed a new blogging gig with the Inhabitat team. Oh yes, I said it. I’ll be blogging on their brand new venture, Inhabitots. Am I excited – uh, yeah. but you shouldn’t visit just to see little ol’ me (although I know you want to). There are plenty of good reasons to visit this new pint-sized, design savvy blog.

1. If you’ve got tiny ones running around, and still would like to maintain your design sense, then this is the place for you. Inhabitots is covering all sorts of goodies like…

• Q Collection Junior’s Stella Stackables
• The Eames Eco Chic Modern Rocker
• Celery sustainable children’s furniture
• Convertible green ‘Taj Chair’ by Argington
• DIY KID DESIGN: Let the kids redecorate your house
• Make your own fold-up furniture with FOLDSCHOOL!
• Creative Color by Number Wallpaper

2. You can visit the above posts to keep your abode offbeat and stylish, yet still friendly enough for little feet.

3. It’s flipping Inhabitat – you know this stuff will be good. Enough said.

In any case, of course I’ll still be blogging away about quirky stuff here at Offbeat, but I’d love to see you over at my new haunt as well. See you there.

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Inhabitat launching a new blog!

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Comment update

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.

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Offbeat Homes Year Anniversary Wrap

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 have to say this is one of the favorite four.

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The Best of Offbeat Homes: May 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, I really liked the show your office theme day we did here at the Lifestyles Channel. It’s cool to see where other bloggers work.

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The Best of Offbeat Homes: April 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 G or even PG rated, so I won’t be posting them, but let’s just say it sort of made my world more amusing.

Best Site of the Week for Touring – Faces in Places – This post wasn’t exactly about houses. However Faces in Places is so darn cool, that I just love this post. It makes me happy. I love surprised houses.

Freitag Flagship Store – I just think this structure is genius. Simple, yet really attractive and hip.

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The Best of Offbeat Homes: March 2008

That said, when Offbeat readers leave comments they’re usually fun, nice, and smart. This isn’t the sort of blog where you get a lot of miffed off folks leaving mean comments. Readers here are nice and chill, with interesting things to say. I thought that for the Offbeat year anniversary, I’d point out some of my favorite comments from the past year.

My first official Offbeat Homes comment (post): Was from a favorite blogger of mine, a certain Crabby McSlacker who said, “Jennifer, I’m sorry, but if you think that’s a house you’re not dealing with a full deck. Okay, guilty of incredibly lame comment. What can I say, its bedtime. This looks like a fun site, and I’ll be curious to see what trouble you get yourself into over here.”

I’m not sure that playing with a full deck is an Offbeat blogger requirement (thankfully).

The award for the most amusing comments overall goes to: Angelique

When Angelique stops by she always leaves great comments. She’s funny and hyper, and I adore it. I love how she always ponders her own issues in comments. She never fails to crack me up. She’ll insert random thoughts like…

“I would end up eating the gummi bear rug then blaming it on the cat when my four-year-old came downstairs and wondered where it had gone.”

“I’m still mulling over someday living in an “elfin glen” shelter you highlighted a week or so again. I wonder if it comes with a year’s supply of Keebler cookies?”

Hmmm? Do you think that Angelique likes treats? But not chocolate, a fact she also noted in a comment.

Most Offbeat comments:

Marye is likely the person who has left the most Offbeat comments. I didn’t count, but since every other Offbeat comment has her name on it, I’m taking a wild guess. Marye is way funny. She always cracks me up, or takes a nice pro-green stance. Marye is often as random as Angelique, and loves almost as many houses as I do. Marye also tried really hard to make “grok” a household word with me. Not that we managed, but we tried, so props to her.

Best comments in total on one post: The Teenage Dream Pad didn’t have the most comments of any post here at Offbeat, but each comment was awesome. People talking about their treehouse dreams and their youth, folks offering funny treehouse ideas, and just all sorts of sweet things.

Honestly, I think the number one best Offbeat comment ever was on that post. It was from Judy who said:

“Thank you for sharing this , I was describing it to my dad who is 68 and has lost most of his sight due to a stroke and it brought tears to his eyes , remembering when he was a little kid and his dad and himself built a treehouse. What it is to dream !! Thank you again for sharing!!”

Such a great comment!

Lastly:

There is no way to point out all the great reader comments here. So along with the folks above, here’s a little round up of some of the readers who have left oodles of comments, ultra nice comments, taught me something new with their comment, or just been super funny or memorable. Of course I love all reader comments… If I miss you, it doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate you, I just can’t possibly sort them all.

• Linette
• Noreen
• Amy
• Nick
• Heather
• Jessie
• Mark
• Lindsay
• Evan
• Julie
• Peggy
• Jen / domestika

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Best Offbeat Reader Comments of the Year

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 2008…

Sustainable Beauty for Your Sunday Morning – This home is so utterly lovely, even though it’s dark.

Life in a House That’s Smaller Than Some Closets – because Tumbleweed rocks. No question.

The Most Sticky Sweet Pink House of All the Pink Houses in the World – Not that I’d live here or anything, but come on, it’s sort of so bad it’s passed into cool.

Teepee House & Road Trips – I LOVE the Teepee house!

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The Best of Offbeat Homes: February 2008