My partner wants a bland palette in our new home. What can I do to keep color alive?
If my current house was an analogy of a clown puking all over everything — which is a description I’ve heard — the new house would make that same clown drop dead from sadness. What can I do?!
One reader hosts an open studio tour, another makes driftwood useful, and there are a whole lotta clicky links in here
Also included: a hipster chandelier made of mason jars, cupcake wall art, and a documentary about Community Supported Agriculture.
Going into the closet: to, you know, work there
“Cloffice” kind of sounds like… I dunno, maybe an equine venereal disease. But sound it out with me and you’ll see we’re actually talking about offices built in closets. It’s genius, right?
Lindzilla takes a living room from white and bland to blue and just a smidge nerdy
Remember Sara, of the heavenly laundry room redo? This is her living room makeover. Enjoy!
A punk-inspired nursery and baby shower
Like Sheena, Laura and Matt’s little baby-on-the-way Gavin is going to be a punk rocker. Discotheques be damned!
So these exist: wagons as garden lounges
YOU GUYS. Somewhere in the world, there exists more than one Roma wagon converted into a garden house.
Jeanne Bayol and Jean-Marie Marechal live in France, where they rehab beauties like this one for a more stationary, but no less romantic life.
Bright yellow, book-filled living room accented with art and religious iconography
We just moved into a new house, but I’ve already set up our living room. I wanted our family of six to be able to escape the chaos of moving somewhere!
A backyard suit of armor, a Hello Kitty house, and a Portal cake platter
Come with me this Monday morning and tiptoe through the Offbeat Home Flickr Group to enjoy uploads from our readers. Another fantasy-land photo from whoisjaja’s backyard, a pretty little table setting, and dreamy photos from a drizzly Seattle day.