Make a new area rug with $10 and 10 minutes
We are apartment-dwellers, which means we have shitty carpet. Maybe some apartment managers put in nice, expensive flooring that looks awesome after ten years, but our landlords didn’t. After ten years of parties, dogs, and one wild child, the carpet in our place is spotty, threadbare, and wrinkled in places.
When we made over our eight year old’s room recently, one thing we really wanted was a big area rug. Unfortunately, rugs are expensive. Lucky for us (and you), making a rug is easy and cheap!
Someday you’ll find it, a rainbow collection
This collection proves you can make nerdy work, even in the dining room. So if you’ve got a burgeoning vinyl toy collection, get in here and see how it’s done.
Detaching, reflecting, and moving house — how a home becomes a house
It’s strange how, when you know you’re going to be moving, you start to look around where you live and see things in a completely different way. Even before the For Sale sign has gone up outside and the first potential buyers have stepped in the door, it stops being quite so much of a home and starts turning back into a house.
Wait until you see what’s inside this missile silo. Hint: they have drum circle.
Ed and Diana Peden bought their very own missile silo outside Topeka, Kansas in the 1980s. At the time it was twenty years decommissioned and filled with water and sludge, but the couple couldn’t pass up the 18,000 square feet spread out on 13 floors underground.
Healthy homemade nut-free lunch options for school-age kids
I have a new “back to basics” attitude when it comes to my son’s school lunches this year. I’m limiting as much prepackaged items as possible and increasing my own homemade items — with spectacular results.
Homemaking for Gamers: Playing well with others and preventing gaming goods sprawl
My husband and I believe a healthy adulthood includes creative play. However, we have interests other than gaming and prefer miniature dragons do not overrun our home.
A candy-coated Willy Wonka house in New Jersey — with a bonus wedding thrown in free
Today Offbeat Bride featured a wedding that y’all will love — Peter and Stephanie’s wedding at a house fit for Willy Wonka. I pulled a number of photos — eat it up, Homies.
Ultra-natural, high-design treehouses from around the world
We haven’t taken a day to hang out in the forest for a while, and since it’s just good medicine, let’s do that. I’d like to introduce you to Romero Studios, a treehouse-building husband and wife team which has traveled around the world, spreading treehouses, gardens, and sculptures using 98% reclaimed materials.