Kurt Cobain’s childhood home is for sale — anyone in Aberdeen need a roomie?
The childhood of Kurt Cobain is totally for sale — if you have $500,000 to spare. Considering the average home price in Aberdeen, Washington is around $80,000, you’ll definitely be paying that extra zillion dollars for the memories. BUT OH WHAT MEMORIES THEY ARE — who WOULDN’T want to live in the room that has a wall that Kurt punched a hole through? I’m serious, Homies. Let’s take a gander…
3 ways to cope when you didn’t get the home you wanted
My partner and I just bought our first house. We love it. However, we didn’t get the first four we tried for, and we almost didn’t get this one at least 372 times throughout the process. I found myself on an emotional rollercoaster where I had to constantly prepare myself for a possible “it’s just not going to work.” To make the potential hard blow softer, I started searching for ways to make that situation a learning experience.
Wright-designed adobe home with interior canal
Offbeat Homie Colleen passed along a link to this awesome home in Santa Fe, New Mexico known as the “Pottery House.” It’s apparently the ONLY adobe structure ever designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and it’s for sale for a measly $4,750,000. Let’s check it out, shall we?
This five-story castle in New England is stuck in the 1980s
When you think of castles you think “built in the ’80s” right? You will now, when you explore this New England castle that looks like it came out of a David Lynch film.
Colorado mountain home with hand-made details
This Offbeat Real Estate porn was brought to my attention by Offbeat Home reader Anna. This Evergreen, Colorado home, built into the side of a freaking mountain, wowed both her, her family, and me!
Let’s take a peak around inside while Anna explains why the furniture is just as offbeat as the home itself…
Vintage circular home in Illinois
We’ve seen geodesic domes, yurts, and yomes on Offbeat Home, but I think this is our first circular home. This house has been contemporarily restored on the inside, but it still has the unique distinction of being built completely around a pool with a retractable roof. Yeah, it’s pretty awesome. See for yourself…
Eclectic, contemporary, Dallas townhouse filled with art from around the world
f you’re decorating tastes are more on the eclectic, bohemian, artistic, and wordly side, you’re going to draw a LOT of inspiration from the interior of this contemporary Dallas townhouse that was recently on the market. I’m digging the kitchen cabinets something fierce.
Let’s all pretend we’re mermaids and move to this rainbow seashell-inspired house
I didn’t know it at the time, but in 2006 the geniuses behind Arquitectura Orgánica designed and built MY (new) DREAM HOME: this mollusk-shaped, rainbow-window adorned abode.