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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.

Sydney’s Ugly Dolls and monsters nursery

Normally, monsters in the nursery is a bad thing, but Sydney’s Ugly Dolls nursery with guest appearances by Godzilla and other monsters is scary cute.

How we decorated the nursery without breaking the bank

Decorating your kid’s nursery with style doesn’t have to be a monumentally expensive task — you just have to know where to look.

How to use a shoe organizer to tame a box of unruly cords

We have this basket that’s become the wire/electronics/camera bin. It lives on a shelf (seen lurking in the background of this shot) and Tavi has recently discovered it. Time to clean it up!

Brigsby’s kind of crazy carnivalesque nursery

Brigsby’s nursery is all kinds of carnival-inspired, hand-me-down greatness. Jamie and her husband used a lot of their own belongings and heaps of imagination to create a wonderful resting spot.

Retro space nursery turned big kid’s room for two

Remember the Retro Space Nursery we featured in 2009? Well, Leah’s two boys have grown significantly (one’s a toddler, and the other is in preschool), and the room was due for an upgrade!

Why I almost decided to have an unassisted birth

I currently live in North Carolina — where traditional midwifery is illegal. At 37, I’m also “of advanced maternal age.” This means, no one wants to deliver my baby.

Dealing with super painful post-partum sex, aka vulvar vestibulodynia

After three frustrating years, many visits to fertility clinics that ultimately resulted in nothing, we found ourselves pregnant in the late Spring of 2009. Aside from the regular baby chaos, everything has gone extremely well. Except for one thing: sex. I can’t have it.

Brigsby’s kind of crazy carnivalesque nursery

Brigsby’s nursery is all kinds of carnival-inspired, hand-me-down greatness. Jamie and her husband used a lot of their own belongings and heaps of imagination to create a wonderful resting spot.