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 Monday Montage
A rainbow dinette, one red-and-blue-and-yellow house in Illinois, and a home built into Arizona boulders in this week's reader photosIt's our weekly roundup of reader photos and interesting Offbeat Home-ish links from around the web. This week we've got the lowdown on air conditioned doghouses, an upcoming steampunk fest in Massachusetts, and era-appropriate Disney princess cosplay. Click on through! 
This is a trailer for a new book, released yesterday, called Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day. In it, author Doug Mack takes travel advice from classic travel book Europe in $5 a Day. You can imagine how well travel advice from the 1960s has held up. 
This Los Angeles AirBNB listing centers on the $150,000 pool/spa set up your room overlooks. If you rent here, it's like booking a stay on The Real World — but you got the best room in the house without fighting your castmates! Satellite TV, a billion flat screens, a personal arcade…and wait until you see the pool after dark! 
This week Ariel and I fawned over a little trojan horse-style B&B somewhere in Belgium. It looks like it's the mobile home of a band of mysterious, roguish, magical minstrels. I look at its starry night bedroom and twisted-wood lounges and sigh. 
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 Offbeat Decor Porn
This week in Offbeat Home pins: make your own shoes, a magic mountain in Chile, and GLITTERSince I am a collector at heart, Pinterest is my favorite. It's somewhere to put all the odds and ends I find for Offbeat Home that are cool, but not big enough to do a whole post about. UNTIL NOW. So I hope you'll enjoy this foray into a whole mess of Offbeat Home's pins. This week on Pinterest I was into fashion (that never happens!), art (that happens a LOT!) and one very amazing-looking hotel in Chile (it looks like an otherworldly dwarvish mountain home). But FIRST! Have you seen this huge pallet couch? 
I've stayed at a couple of places through CouchSurfing and AirBnB and I think I have a few ideas on how to make my guests leave glowing reviews (and send more guests your way!). You can call my strategy Toned-Down Ned Flanders: there's an episode of The Simpsons where Ned lets the Simpsons borrow his beach house for the weekend. He leaves a note on every square inch of the cabin explaining how to use each thing (like "Put food in me" on the fridge). Don't go to these lengths or risk being made fun of mercilessly on the internet, but DO share more information than you think you might have to. 
Behold the home of Robin and John Brown! It's a temporary home, but it's a beaut. Robin is a designer from San Antonio, Texas. She and her partner run their clothing business online, but take two trips a year — in the spring and the fall — when Magnolia Pearl heads to big shows. For this purpose, they've decked out an Airstream Land Yacht to roll in. It is up and down, head to toe, glitzed OUT. This trailer has wooly rugs, fancy pants wallpaper, a full-size BATHTUB — it is in every way a rococo road spa. |
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