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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.

Adam Wallacavage’s high drama light fixtures with Hello Kitty, octopus, and deer

You’ve probably seen Adam Wallacavage’s octopus chandeliers floating around the ‘net before — photos of them have made the rounds for a while now. I was happy to stumble over his other sculptures this week — and I kind of love them even more.

The HippieShack2000™: the most amazing place I ever lived

Six months of living in an industrial loft in 1999 soured me so deeply on everything urban, I fled the city completely and moved an hour south of Seattle to Olympia, WA. This is in commemoration of the amazing house we rented.

Sara’s heavenly laundry room makeover

WHO WANTS TO LOOK AT A LAUNDRY ROOM?

I hear it. I know you read the title and you’re yelling at me through the computer right now.

But Sara sent her laundry room to me last week — and a couple other totally impressive renovations — I have to go with the lowly laundry room. She rocked it!

An antique-filled Midwest bungalow for four

Lindsay and Matt share their tidy retro home with two dogs in Oklahoma.

How I lost my battle to remove rats humanely and became a rodent murderess

A veterinary clinic is full of people who don’t want to kill animals, but when it became clear we weren’t deterring the rats, we had to step up our game.

Treehouse fantasy break time!

Oh, I’d love to look out the window and see swaying redwood branches. How do you think you’d handle thunderstorms in a house like this?

You already have a green thumb, or: how to grow houseplants

When people come over to the house, they usually compliment me on my green thumb, but here’s the secret: There is no such thing as a green thumb. Or, if there is, you already have one.

A Mega Man bedroom, plus cats and cameras make a C-themed shelf

This week’s Montage has a mean collection of LEGO minifigs, a super-simple kid-made table cloth, and a Mega Man level recreated on walls in excruciating detail.