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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.

Build a planty, sunlit vivarium for reptiles and photosynthesis

Make a slick and sexy vivarium for reptiles — or even just to admire plants. It’s just 31 simple steps!

Little teapot playhouses and tiki lounge chairs: Disney comes to yards

Aw man, I’m back to admiring something from HGTV again. Not that there’s something wrong with HGTV… it’s just not a typically offbeat organization! Anyway, enjoy the peek at Disneyfied yards.

Reader Photos! You will like this zebra-striped house and a link featuring DINOSAUR LUNCHES

PLUS: two ducks and a cat, make a cartoon version of your cat, Empire Records foreva, and cats cats cats cats cats why NEW and UNIQUE money tips are dumb.

Victoria’s English garden summer studio/occasional shop

Victoria started posting her sweet little backyard studio shed in the Offbeat Home Flickr pool. And with each photo, I fell a little bit more in love with her space. Come along on a tour!

A playful full-wall underseascape mural — seals, dolphins, and some anthropomorphic fish

Straight from the Offbeat Home Flickr group comes Katie’s epically-big undersea mural. That little seal can do no wrong.

So you think you ought to clean today: A systematic approach, part II

Part II of Allison’s systematic approach to cleaning. Today we’re talking about the actual nitty gritty like how to get started, and more importantly, how to stay motivated.

So you think you ought to clean today: A systematic approach, part I

I am not a “naturally” clean person. I didn’t grow up expected to do a lot of chores, and definitely not on a schedule. I taught myself, as an adult, how to be neat and how to clean, and I learned that I liked my house better when it was clean.

What’s your grocery look like?

Do it: buy into the voyeurism of the Internet. Show us what your grocery looks like. What you think about when you visit. What you think is different about yours than others.