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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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What’s the least water-intensive way to hand-wash my dishes?

How do you conserve water in your houses/apartments? Specifically, I’m most interested in the eco-friendliest, most water conservation-minded way to wash dishes without a dishwasher?

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15 houses of very, very different color

I sorted and sorted through Flickr and found all these houses — SO MANY HOUSES — of a different color. And, surprisingly, so many really mean comments. I had to give these houses their time in the sun.

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Six ways to cool down — without cranking the A/C, getting in the pool, or turning on a fan

What food will help me cool off?! What can I do when it’s too hot to sleep? And how can tea make getting by in the heat easier?

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Foursquare houses: shipped to you in 30,000 pieces from Sears Roebuck

Time-travel back to the 1890s. You’re in the heart of the Industrial Revolution and part of a growing middle class. You need a house which can fit your big family on a tiny lot. You open your Sears Roebuck catalogue and there it is: your Foursquare.

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A skulltacular No Soliciting sign, links to a Royal Tenenbaums house tour, and the furriest pink couch you’ve ever SEEN!

This montage is full of questions: would you embrace this furry couch? Would you dye your hair purple? How much is a kickin’ steampunk ceiling fan worth to you?

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A vintage snack: super-pink bathrooms from the ’50s and ’60s

Take a break with four obnoxiously-pink bathrooms, straight from the pages of the 1950s and 1960-era design mags.

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Drop-side cribs are now contraband, so here are 30 ways to reuse that baby bed

After many safety issues, the US has outlawed drop-side cribs. Now, this can be a boon for Homies — have you any idea how many projects you can make with a disused crib? No? Consignment Mommies thinks there are at least 30 projects waiting in all those cribs people are dumping.

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A colorful bathroom makeover with a chemistry theme

When we moved in, the bathroom walls were pure white. Now, they’re pink, yellow, blue, and green — and they tell the world we’re science nerds.