Just when I thought I’d exhausted all my pumpkin house resources… I found one more.

This cool little pumpkin house is located at the Dallas Arboretum. They’ve got all sorts of Halloween activities going on, so if you happen to be in the neighborhood, you might want to check them out.
To see my other pumpkin house efforts during the Offbeat Halloween season you can visit:

Offbeat Pumpkin Architecture
Pumpkin Architecture Take Two

If you and the family are headed out for some trick-or-treating tonight, be sure to take your camera. Then head over to Simply Thrifty and enter the Little Monsters Costume Contest! You …read more

We’ll be viewing some new Halloween treats (or maybe tricks) here at Offbeat this year, but first, let’s take a look at a cool Offbeat spooky post round-up.

Jack-O-Lantern Homes
Jealous ghosts walk the halls here
It’s not Halloween without some Extreme Pumpkin Carving
Haunted Homes: The Myrtles Plantation
Apparitions everywhere!
Dracula’s Castle
The Haunted Mansion Sugar Cookie House – too cool to eat
Offbeat Pumpkin Architecture
Pumpkin Architecture Take Two
Get some killer spooky glowing lights for your haunted house
Of course, the good old The Winchester Mystery House
Have some scary fun with these links.
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With Halloween quickly approaching it’s time to get your pumpkin game on. Now you could do a simple jack-o-lantern home like this:

But while neat and a great offbeat home idea you won’t be wowing the pants off anyone with this baby. What you need is something with a bit more punch.
And a lot of orange and black paint!

Or heck, why not use the real thing to build a house.

With smart architectural planning you don’t even need pumpkins or orange paint to create the perfect jack-o-lantern home.

You should however attempt to get the shape correct when building a jack-o-lantern home. Like …read more