About

Dedicated to helping you create a comfortable space for yourself in this world, Offbeat Home celebrates occupants as much as we ogle over decor porn and DIY projects.

We're not especially into fetishizing furniture or unattainable decor, but we love to explore how people authentically integrate and express their personalities through their homes. Offbeat Home is the third site in the Offbeat Empire, a cheekily-named network of lifestyle websites published by Seattle author Ariel Meadow Stallings.

Offbeat Home equally dedicated to showcasing:

• Funky, hand-crafted spaces
• Truly alternative shelters like buses, yurts, sheds
• Rentals and dorms
• Small urban spaces
• Surprising suburban homes
• Mobile living like busses, RVs, and trailers
• Anywhere people sleep and call home

We're not about:

• Ogling the unattainable
• Making people feel shitty about where they live
• Propagating the American dream of home ownership

Unlike our sister sites, Offbeat Bride and Offbeat Mama, Offbeat Home is both un-gendered AND non-relationship-based. Offbeat Home is just about YOU and YOUR SPACE. Not other people ... although we do have a category dedicated to Offbeat Entertaining, full of fabulous dinner parties and brunch potlucks and nights in.

We're very much a reflection of our community, with about half our posts coming in as submissions from our readers. If you're reading Offbeat Home and wishing we featured more people like you, don't send us an email to complain — send us your guestpost submission!

For instance, none of us working on the site are lesbian homesteaders, so we can't write the first person perspective about that lifestyle. I mean, we could try, but then y'all who ARE lesbian homesteaders would be like, "WTF? You don't know shit about this subject!" And it's true. We can't tell your stories for you ... but we sure as hell want to help you tell them yourselves! Invite us into your home and your life: get submitting!