home is wherever I'm with you

My sweetie and I are SUPER into diy stuff and we want to build our someday home ourselves as much as we can. That means growing a lot of our own food (yay aquaponics!), refurbishing furniture versus buying it, and other homesteading adventures. My main blog is here: http://numinous-queer.tumblr.com/

[sroloc--elbisivni]

[grabs your shirt] listen. listen to me. the practical is holy. the everyday is sacred. the simple act of surviving is divine. do you get it? sanctity begins at home, in the hands that build and the lives we live and the deaths we die and the worms that eat our bodies. if making something by hand is not worthy of veneration then nothing is.

[everywaythatmatters]

Huge news everybody did you know you can just embroider whatever you want onto a jacket

[everywaythatmatters]

Update we’ve now got a swirly vine and some more flowers (featuring an inchworm)

[ilikeit-art]

[clawmarks]

Au jardin des gemmes - Léonard Rosenthal - 1924 - via Internet Archive 

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Another one back on the market after a hiatus. 1979 Davidson Residence designed by architect Robert Thiele and artist James Hubbell, and hand-built by the homeowners in Alpine, CA. 2bds, 1ba, 800sqft, $750k (Zillow's est.: $741,300)

Brick wall and some steps up to the main entrance.

It's small, b/c it's not even 1,000sqft. So, you've got a very sculptural living room/kitchen combo. The fireplace is cute.

There isn't much room for seating.

You can tell that the owners weren't brick masons, but it's a free-form art piece.

Small rounded kitchen with a stained glass window and mosaic counter and backsplash.

This door opens to a small den.

It has built-in shelving.

There's room for maybe a small desk, then it steps down to an area with a mosaic floor.

You might be able to fit a chair or two, then double doors open to the yard. There's supposed to be a 2nd bedroom, but it's not shown. I doubt that it could be this small space.

Up in the loft, this seating area is part of the main bedroom. Note the way that the windows open.

Then, you walk into the bedroom and there's a wall, so it's not open to the 1st floor.

It's small. I guess that's a full size bed, but you couldn't get a Queen size in here and have much space left.

They did their best on the mosaics and it's nice, but it's not what an artist or professional tiler would do, b/c it's lumpy and uneven.

The shower/tub is sculpted.

A little peep hole for natural light.

It would be a cute summer or vacation home. The lot dimensions, according to the listing are .5 to 1 acre.

https://www.redfin.com/CA/Alpine/1025-Alpine-Blvd-91901/home/167128163

[monacellipress]

Jellyfish mosaic tile piece, Havana, Cuba. From Great Houses of Havana.

[m-interior-m]

Source

[gatheringbones]

[gatheringbones]

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[gatheringbones]

bigger….

[callmebliss-got-swamped]

Sorry I’m late I was obsessing over herb spirals

[foggycreekfarmboy]

Oh my god I know what I want to do with the rest of my summer

[callmebliss-got-swamped]

Doooooo iiiiiiiit I’m having a blast

A half dozen of the bricks keep falling off and I think a chipmunk is nesting in it

But I have at least two jalapeños and the oregano is spreading out like woah and the lavender and snapdragon and and butterfly bush are putting out so many flowers

[poisonedgreentea-deactivated202]

This is cute as fuck yes I need this

[callmebliss-got-swamped]

Yes good do it! Remember to take breaks and stretch so you don’t wink your back when you’re building it!

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[littlealienproducts]

The Original Forever Succulent by TheBohoBeachBum

[hellenhighwater]

Gonna get myself a fun little surprise I guess

[hellenhighwater]

This is better than I'd ever hoped for, I bet a rat could kill you with that thing by firing a laser back in time and electrocuting your grandfather

Just look at this thing

[hellenhighwater]

The rat gun is hereeeeee!

[hellenhighwater]

This is getting notes again so I will admit that "rat gun" was an autocorrect error and it was supposed to be "ray gun."

But it'll always be a rat gun to me.

[hellenhighwater]

The most expensive thing in these pictures was the cat, and he was $60.

[hellenhighwater]

I'll be honest--I forgot that the pump organ desk/bar was visible in the background, and it was NOT under $60.

It was actually $75.

The chairs, however, were paid for in human life. I inherited them; they were originally my great grandmother's. But they're not particularly rare-- you can find these exact chairs without a lot of effort, in reasonable shape, for not that much money. They made a lot of them.

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

your gazelle has a pearl choker

[hellenhighwater]

That's Hadrian. He's a bush buck and he loves fashion.

[hellenhighwater]

Hi you asked this question and I immediately went to the pottery studio to make a calcifer to put in my woodstove.

Will update if he survives the kiln.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

i am still on tenterhooks vis a vis calcifer 🥺🥺🥺

[hellenhighwater]

I just brought him home from the pottery studio and wired him for light. He lives!!!!!

[thebisexualwreckoning]

OP just wondering do you like have the closet to Narnia tucked in there somewhere?

[hellenhighwater]

Dude, c'mon, these things take time.

Give me a couple hours.

[hellenhighwater]

Okay!! We have doordrobe! It's not quite done but after nearly turning myself into an hellpancake while carrying this in from the garage to the house, I feel like I should call it a night.

Right now it's not going into a secret room (but the Angel of Death (And WiFi) behind it does have a secret compartment for my router? Does that count) but Malice and Vice are still exploring it like it's a whole new world.

The House of Horrors continues to be...well, exactly what it is.

[hellenhighwater]

Oh, no, all radioactive materials go in The Box.

[copp3rtop]

please explain. Do you actually have a lead lined box for radioactive objects, or are you just talking about the router behind the painting?

[hellenhighwater]

The Box.

[hellenhighwater]

Not people's teeth, no.

[chaoticgremlinmakingart]

Holy shit. This just keeps getting better and better. Absolutely marvelous house. What other treasures do you have in that house?

[hellenhighwater]

I recently got some very silly dishes and a telescope!

[hellenhighwater]

All of these accusations of witchcraft! As if the vibe in this house could be any more clearly Artificer.

[hellenhighwater]

Someone made a YouTube short of like...half this post. So if you're looking for it, here it is. And here's some recent lighting updates to the living room! Lantern, ghost radio, and the celestial clock.

[importantdogimages]

[solar-sunnyside-up]

I feel like yall don't know bout earthships??

An earthship is a building that's built out of recycled materials (glass bottles, old tires, cans, etc..) and mostly Cob walls with solarpanels, wind turbines, greenhouses, and large water capture system to ensure all you need within the walls. All these components help regulate the temp for both plants and you creating a proper oasis from all of itnall

Here's a good dissection of one to give you an idea

The most famous one, and one of the first ones ever made back in the 1970s by a small off grid group working together is The Phoenix which was built as the model for how cool these guys could be its now a place you can take tours or rent-

But now there is so many different styles and cool ideas for it! Now some of these are merely concepts

But you can adapt them to any weather for your particular light/weather/energy conditions.

The main thing about Earthships is typically they are illegal to build as the US government considers them waste sites due to the materials their built out of.

[leolaroot]

how the world opens up to you as a kid learning to hand sew when you realize you can do literally anything with the button holes and dont have to do an X or = stitches you can do anything. nad then like an image of a futuristic neon city

[leolaroot]

when i realized i could do this sort of shit to a button my life changed

[unusual-suspects]

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[faerytale-wings]

Front door, Before picture

Peeling and fading faux stained glass sticker. Very opaque. Blocks a lot of light in an already dark space.

The Plan!

My thought is: if there is already a fake stained glass in the window, what if there was a BETTER one? I can totally do that. (This is hubris. I have never done that.)

Result: OHOHOHOHO I am the best! I am in love! We are ignoring that I need to clean the outside of the window!

I need to paint this door black SO BAD.

[faerytale-wings]

@juiceconcentrates

I just used the gallery glass stained glass paint!

^ this stuff!

Instead of doing it directly on the window, I did mine on acetate sheets I cut down to size. Made it MUCH easier to get a nice thick, even coat being horizontal.

I just printed out my design and used it as a guide under the acetate.

I used several colors in the leaves and flowers and used a toothpick to blend the gradient. This helped it look more like real colored glass.

My tips, having played with these a while now:

-Highly recommend doing test swatches.

-if you are doing straight lines, get the fake leading strips! They’re awesome.

-wait a full day after doing the black lead lines before doing the color.

-use more paint than you think you need. It dries down a lot and looks really bad when it’s too thin.

-toothpicks. So many toothpicks.