Embrace word-nerdery: 6 ways to Scrabble it up at home
Scrabblers are hardcore. Celebrate the game that takes skill, smarts, and strategy with these ways people’ve used Scrabble as a decor theme — from fridge magnets to an incredible backyard game.
A rainbow dinette, one red-and-blue-and-yellow house in Illinois, and a home built into Arizona boulders in this week’s reader photos
It’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!
Organizing realization: wine rack for towels
In keeping with what we often call “Basket Moments,” I present to you this simple but brilliant concept: using a wine rack for your towels.
Make your own ironing board that fits anywhere
I hate ironing. Don’t we all? I’ve avoided buying everyday clothes that have to be ironed because, ultimately, they end up at the back of the closet. It’s also tough when you’re used to apartment dwelling without enough space for a full sized ironing board. A few years back I bought an upright steamer which made the situation a little easier to manage. However, with frequent sputtering, I think the life of my steamer is coming to an end. So I needed a new solution. I immediately though of making a new ironing board. I could control the size and had a lot of the materials on hand already.
First things first, I needed slab of wood.
Hacking myself: How I remember to take my pills
Lately, I’ve taken a stronger interest in my health. Step one: Get a baseline blood panel.
Lo and behold, I was super low in Vitamin D and Vitamin B. My blood pressure is high and my sinuses are a wreck. I’ve been prescribed sprays, allergy meds, vitamins and I am back on the aspirin.
So after a few years of taking nothing but prenatal vitamins, like a lot of Americans, I’m back on the daily pill party.
As I have a lot of other tasks vying for my attention, taking daily pills just isn’t something I always remember. But at least I know enough to hack myself.
My super easy bathroom/bedroom contemporary update: like putting a v-neck sweater over a gnarly sweat-stained tee
When I moved into my condo, I loved everything but the horrible almond-y bathroom. SO ’70s!
I moped around feeling helpless for a while, and then I got an idea to reno my space myself — no big commitment, just my own two hands and a little bit of smarts.
Building a tiny house/sleep shed for the backyard of our cooperative
This year I decided I wanted to build my own tiny house after being inspired by many other examples such as Tumbleweed. It’s 150 square feet, uses passive solar heating, has an earthen floor and a green roof, and I built it (almost) entirely by myself as an addition to my cooperative home.
How musical is your home?
I’m looking at my empty piano nook and my unused bass guitar and thinking about the HOURS I used to spend fiddling on keyboards and drum practice pads. My home is hardly musical anymore, and I’m wondering what place music has in the homes of Homies.
Take the survey and weigh in!