So, can you tell what this is?

It’s a furniture piece – really. And it’s named after a sea creature. Hint: it would go in your kooky living room. Ok, or maybe a bedroom. Oh, and it’s made from recycled something…
Hmmm. Give up? Click here to learn more.
[image via I New Idea Homepage]

It’s been a good long time since we saw any offbeat furniture. I always mean to share, but I just fill up my bookmarks, hording stuff for my own viewing pleasure. Today is show and tell. Well, more show than tell. If you’d like to learn more about any of these amazing pieces, click on the photo.
Stool slash newspaper holder slash ultra fun!

[via the very cool NEL]
Seating option by one innovative Gadi Dudler – although my vote goes to the giant from the beanstalk using this upside down to wash dishes.

[via Coroflot]
Biggest dog chew toy ever – you know, …read more

6,400 nickels.
Johnny Swing, sculpture, welder, and all around imaginative guy, welded the couch out of nickels after finding the penny medium tough to crack – although, he did eventually sculpt a penny chair as well. It took 300 hours and weighs 125 pounds.
He also has an intriguing, and strangely beautiful, baby food jar chair (96 jars were used):

The recycling aspects of art like Swing’s is incredible when you think about it. This is reuse at one of it’s finest hours if you ask me.
Swing has so many delightful objects at his site that you really do need to visit – …read more

It’s been a while since we’ve had some good old funky furniture. I’ve been saving some good ones up too.
I love eco-artware. I swear they always have something you can fall for. Today I saw something I missed back in the day; an archive item, but spectacular.

Can you tell what it’s made of? If you can guess tell me in the comments. You could just go look, and then leave a comment, but that’s so karma damaging, that I just won’t know what to do with you. By the way, I thought it was made out of something else – …read more

So, I just linked Deb from Simply Thrifty at my green blog because she always comes up with great green ideas and posts. Now she’s also trying to corner the offbeat market by way of bathtubs and doing well I’d say.
I may be out of work soon.
Actually I love when people write stuff that makes me want to link them and you will be thrilled with this post she did as well; 6 Uses for Your Old Bathtub.
Here is a taste:

An old bathtub couch! How cool is this. Believe me she found weirder stuff than this so absolutely hit it …read more

People don’t go visiting so much nowadays. At the risk of sounding 80 years old, when I was a kid we went a visiting the neighbors. Often even. People had their neighbors over, they had tea (or even better coffee), talked, threw burnt orange Tupperware parties, and made colored popcorn balls. Or, was that just my 70s childhood?
Now we stay home. I think we need to draw the neighbors in. You can do that with an offbeat house for sure. Another way is to consider your interior. Is it inviting? Quirky enough to keep people mesmerized? Does your furniture say …read more