Monsters ON your bed: a DIY duvet cover
Maybe monsters under the bed aren’t so cool, but what about on top? Offbeat Homie Sully gave us the heads up on this awesome DIY duvet cover from the blog JenThousandWords. Jen took her kid’s artwork and traced it onto a duvet cover with a fabric marker. The results of this labour of love are super cute for kids and adults alike.
Monday Moment: Belinda reads in her colorful room
Here’s to our latest Monday Moment fodder: YOU! Or weird portraits of Offbeat Homies in their living spaces. This photo was submitted to us by Offbeat Homie Belinda. She wanted us to make note of the monster blankets, stories, and fantastic animal sheets!
Disguising the tube: How to make an old-school TV look less ugly
In my living room I have a modern flat screen television but in my bedroom I have a little twenty-something-inch old school tube TV. I have it sitting on a vintage suitcase to raise it off the dresser to make it visible while lying in bed. That helps the aesthetic nastiness of it, but is there any other ways to make it look cooler?
Make your own city map wall art
One of the blessings/curses of moving to a new and bigger place is having an abundance of blank wall space. If you’re like me, you want to fill it with color, color, and more color. Unfortunately, art is expensive. Fortunately, DIY is cheap and easy. I fell in love with graphic city map concept a while ago. So I attempted to make my own for around $37.
The black bedroom and bathroom of your delightfully dark dreams
Tabatha, of Turn Right at Lake Michigan, has been working HARD on her master bedroom — starting from the studs up — and it’s finally finished. It’s dark and beautiful and FULL of gothy inspiration. But wait until you see the black bathroom action. Now this is how one does a BLACK home decor…
Monday Moment: the dark and girly version
Our copyeditor Caroline created a gorgeous moment on and around her vanity. But I also had to throw in a bonus bed moment because it’s the perfect lesson in how you can make your bedroom dark and goth-y yet still pretty and girly.
Spa green + zebra print = soothing but badass palette
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a zebra print combined with this super soothing green color… the effect is simultaneously a totally relaxing but also a little bit badass. Of course it says something that this room was designed for a teenager, BUT I LOVE IT.
And wait until you see the bathroom…
Purge’s punk rock room: making the most of a share-house space
Purge and her fiance Fernz live in a share-house space — but that hasn’t kept them from creating an amazing punk rock bedroom hideaway, utilizing some of the tricks she’s learned for decorating without losing your lease.