Six gothy, hippie, neo-classical ceiling alternatives for when you need something not-white to stare at
Remember the brick-ceiling Spanish apartment of Clarisse, her partner, and a friend?
I’ve been thinking about ceilings a lot because sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I stare at the one in my bedroom and wish there was something interesting up there. This is what I’ve found in my research of alternatives to the rough plaster ceiling.
A Portal-themed bedroom and a message board you pet to use in this week’s Monday Montage
Start your day with our collection of interesting articles on the web and photos from our readers. In these Clicky Links you’ll find lots of sites to waste a little time on — and you’ll see a raver-friendly penless message board.
Click through, too, to find our links on submitting YOUR stuff to Offbeat Home!
Learn a new skill: Make white milk paint at home
The paint we all have in our homes is often quite toxic, but you don’t have to buy a petroleum based paint — you can make your own and have it be totally toxin free: I’m talking about milk paint. Powdered milk paint can be purchased and just mixed with water. This would be convientent but would cost about $36.00 a gallon.
Making your own milk paint is relatively easy and half the cost of buying the ready mixed. The lime powder and the pigment are available at paint stores or craft stores. The results are amazing, flat muted color that resembles old-world plaster. Many artists still use this ancient paint because of its workability and the tone of color.
Five silly-easy Halloween crafts that I’mma do this weekend
I haven’t decorated for Halloween at ALL — but I totally plan to. It’s on the list for this weekend — and these ideas are the bullet points on that list.
Ironing boards go hardcore and high decor
Wim Delvoye is pure High Art. He’s known for making projects like Cloaca, a digestive machine which turns food into feces and Art Farm, a Chinese farm on which Wim tattoos the backs of pigs. I know these ironing boards are an installation piece, but I still covet them.
Make a creepy, glowing light for your yard or a party
Halloween rocks, but it can be hard to find time to do anything around the house when you have limited time and money. In this post you’ll learn how to make a spooky light for a party or to set up a creepy yard.
This house is off the water grid — how much do cisterns suck?
My fiance and I have been house-shopping for quite some time now, and I have fallen in love with one amazing little fixer-upper. It has three bedrooms, a fenced-in area, a pond and it’s on one beautiful acre… the only catch is that it is not hooked up to public water/sewer: it has a septic system and a cistern.
Housekeeping realization: put your toiletries in baskets to keep your bathroom organized
My housemate Darby and I — we’re very similar — seem to be constantly figuring out really simple things, like what people use baskets for. Sometimes we feel like our brains just don’t work, especially when it comes to putting things away. If that makes sense to you, this is the thread in which to share the incredibly dumb things you’re incredibly proud of having figured out.