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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.

Big Bear’s gonna teach you how to get oil stains out of clothes

You ever ruined a good shirt with an itty bitty oil spots? Oil spots’ll never ruin another cool shirt again.

A potter/truck driver’s deep-heartland, renovated retro geodesic dome

Ever driven past a geodesic dome house and wondered what it’s like to live there? Becky can tell you: it’s hard to figure out where to put the furniture.

10 tips on moving to a new country and being happy there

You know how most of the time people write tip lists it’s like nine things that are so obvious anyone could write the list, and then one maybe-useful idea? Katie’s list of ways to ease international moves is not that type of list. It’s like years of experience compacted down for the newbie.

8 ways gardening is harder than pregnancy

It came to me after we found a power tiller in our shed, declared it not functional after more blood shed than I care to admit, and found myself tilling the garden with an ax: Gardening is a lot like pregnancy. But harder.

Space Invaders and Tetris on the walls of a pink and green video game apartment

Forthesun has the best landlords ever — they helped turn a new apartment into a gamer-perfect rental. Get your inspo on and dig the bright video game walls.

Your wall of glass blocks is screaming to become a Tetris homage

A glass black partial wall becomes a eight foot tall video game art piece.

See a tease from a colorgasmic home tour and live vicariously in a Mediterranean country

In addition to the colorgasmic tease, this montage has a painting-perfect work desk and an adventurer’s mantle.

Should housemates split chores 50-50?

Talking over which chores each member of the household does is essential to household bliss — because it can help you get some of the crappy tasks off your plate. It’s couples’ counseling — via a post about cleaning.