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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.

Container gardening part deux: Beyond thunderdome

Container gardeners, SOUND OFF! What’s going on with the container garden of your dreams? I have a couple extra ideas to help make it great.

A bookshelf made of books

Jim Rosenau uses books to construct chairs, shelves and other furniture. We highlighted his cheeky book shelves for Library Week, April 10 – 16, 2011.

Horrific discoveries: oh, so THAT’S what’s in air freshener

Alternate title: “Your Home Can Smell Acceptable without Glade products?!

Teaching old texts new tricks by turning books into planters

Are you bold enough to pervert a book in the name of stylish plants?

The Royal Tenenbaums meet Amelie in a colorful, book-filled New York apartment

Summer, Graham, Gus and Kingsley all live together in a brightly-colored Brooklyn apartment filled with art, ephemera and intriguing artifacts.

Shelving your books by color: awesome-sauce or recipe for organizational catastrophe?

Arranging shelves based on the color of book covers: mean trick on the colorblind or brilliant decorating concept?

How to grow your own mushrooms for fun, deliciousness, and protein

I started out as a mycophobe, picking mushrooms off pizza and turning up my nose at cream of mushroom soup. But once I started growing my own I discovered a wide world of delicious flavors.

Classical book porn, a handmade crib and a menagerie of pets

In addition to the regular house porn, it’s Library Week at the Empire! This Montage has book porn, a drool-worthy handmade crib, and an aquamarine interior.