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So you have $1000 to spend. WHERE DOES IT GO?

This doesn’t happen often, but sometimes we have some extra money to spend on the house. A few hundred bucks for new speakers, or a grand for a couch. Each time we have a windfall we can put into our home, we stall with anxiety. Scott and I have been living together a long time, and out of our parents’ homes for a decade, and just like most people in their late twenties, money like this needs to be used carefully. We can’t just whittle it away on hookers and beer — we’d like a sensible piece of furniture good for a lifetime.

But that anxiety! What if we choose a couch we hate or our car breaks down the week after we paint the living room and then we wish we hadn’t dropped $400 on the job?

A moth-inspired bed

This is a sphinx moth bed built in 1904, part of a photo tour of a French magistrate’s home shared by Alexandre Prévot.

The lazy translation that accompanied this image states:

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Cardboard furniture part II: how to waterproof it all

In Episode 1, with a little bit of elbow grease, sweat and fun work, you built a handy piece of cardboard furniture. Time has now come to gorgeous-ify AND make it last.

There are several materials you can use to pretty things up: Nepalese paper, craft paper, wallpaper, paint — but whatever you choose, you cannot do without a Final Layer of Waterproofing Coating. This is the key.

Storage made especially for your comic books: The Comic Tomb solves the problem of backissues

Organization is a special problem for everyone, and no less so for comic collectors. We had a bunch of ideas for alternatives to the traditional short box come up in the answers to a reader question, but here’s a new alternative: The Comic Tomb.

Make an endtable out of cardboard — ENTIRELY out of cardboard!

Are you sick of cheap furniture which always looks the same? Are you longing for curvy furniture, furniture with as many drawers as you want, which adapt to the special shape of your home? Do you want customized furniture but can’t pony up the custom furniture price? You can do it: with cardboard furniture. I’m convinced this is the way of the furnishing future for Homies.