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Our homes are made up of lots of working parts — bedrooms, redecorated kitchens, upgraded baths, ogle-worthy renos, ticks and tricks for cleaning and organizing, and real home tours all live here to represent the spaces of your Offbeat Home.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A venus fly trap eating up tasty garden bugs, fresh grapes, and cat/chicken interactions in the reader photos

And in the Clicky Links? We’ve also got two LEGO-related craft projects, some dog-and-dino-lover heat, and helpful information on solar panels.

And finally, if you don’t know what a potato box is — get in here!

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Make your own nautical lamp using hemp rope

Megan’s mama, Lala, invented the lala lamp — this pretty, simple, nautical lamp made with a few ingredients.

It’s got a wide berth for customization, so once you read this tute, you’ll be armed and ready for lamp love.