Architect's Unconventional Home Design Wins National Recognition

Architect Matt Schlueb's offbeat house will be nationally recognized Sunday in a television show with a title that describes his home perfectly.

"Offbeat America" will air a half-hour episode at 6 p.m. Sunday featuring Schlueb's curvy Franklin Park house as the leading home.

"It's pretty exciting," says Schlueb, 37. "It's pretty nice to get the exposure, for sure."

With a series of circular structures and bright, splashy colors, Schlueb's house -- which sits nestled in a four-acre forested lot, apart from other nearby houses -- might remind some people of Dr. Seuss' stories.

"It's nice.

It energizes me in the morning when I get up to attack the day," says Schlueb, who designed and built the two-story, 2,450-square-foot home.

"It is kind of a refreshing change from most of the spaces out there that you encounter every day."

Schlueb literally thought outside the box when designing his home, he says, since most houses are designed as box-like structures with a straight, linear pattern.

In Schlueb's house, the open floor plan takes visitors on a winding, circular path through rooms painted in a rainbow of hues -- purple, yellow, blue, red and green.