Category Archive

Home

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.

Nine gorgeous Victorian houses

If you think Victorians aren’t the house for you, wait until you see the Addams Family wannabes in this post.

The 5 not-at-all-essential things you should prepare for your home in case of a power outage

There are no-brainer needs when it comes to a power outage: flashlights. Candles. But if you prep these five items you won’t bemoan your lack of Internets the next time your power drops.

I called 911 — and here’s what I learned

I’ve never had to call emergency services before, but when smoke started rolling into our apartment through the vents, I popped my 911 cherry. Everything turned out okay, but I’m so glad I got the chance to learn these important lessons.

A fairy door, a rainbow of produce, and one very attentive dog

Meet a bullhuahua — a pit bull/chihuahua mix — who lives on a super stylish orange couch. Learn about underground automated carports, and about how squatters can take legal possession of their squats.

Vegetable-inspired tables: packed with vitamins, minerals, and good design

If ever you dreamed of furniture made in the likeness of vegetables, designer and woodworker David Rasmussen is your man. These tables are beautiful, mod, and so so colorful.

I have a stockpile of prescription bottles — there HAS to be a use for them

Where I live, prescription medication pill bottles cannot be recycled or refilled by a pharmacist. You are supposed to just throw them out — is that true everywhere?

I am trying to reduce how much goes in the garbage, so I am looking for some ideas to reuse them. I have already found a few alternate uses – storing small craft supplies like beads, as well as keeping one in my purse filled with over the counter antacids – but I feel like some Homies might have some other ideas.

I am moving into this video

This over-the-top adorabz video from Japan’s PonPonPon makes me start scheming a blue striped room and having my own special toy corner encrusted with My Little Ponies, rainbow tutus, enormous eye balls, pink brains, and other sparky things.

Proudly displaying my boudoir photos without making them too in-your-face

I did these gorgeous boudoir photos as a gift to my wife. Despite my insecurities, I feel confident and awesome about these photos and would love to have one framed and displayed somewhere in our house… but I don’t want to shove my thighs down my guests’ throats!