Results for: book
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So I Bought the Gay Green Couch
The instructions for putting this couch together stated in bold print “this is a two-person job! don’t try and do it by yourself!” and I said, “I’m a dyke” and proceeded to try and put it together by myself.
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Dating a Librarian Is The Best Thing To Happen To My Bookshelves
What dating a librarian and fellow writer taught me about organization and intimacy.
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Five Cheap Ideas for Your Container Garden This Summer
If you’re looking for ideas for container gardening, no matter how small your space, this is for you!
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Notes for a Queer Homemaker: How To Clean Your Kitchen
My hope in crafting this guide for cleaning your kitchen is that it makes the task never feel daunting, even when your kitchen is absolutely a mess – and believe me, your kitchen will be a mess more than once if you use it as it’s intended to be used.
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Homo Reno: 13 Tips for Keeping Your 5 Year Queer Relationship Intact While Renovating the House You Live In
Sometimes you are going to have to undertake a project during which it will be inevitable that you will scream at each other. My advice is to just kind of pretend it didn’t happen.
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Notes for a Queer Homemaker: Tips From Someone Who Loves You
Many of us are getting into the season of hosting and cleaning that comes with the holidays, and I hope that this makes preparing for company feel a little easier and brings a little order to what can sometimes feel like an unhinged time of year.
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My Gender is Maximalism
As these queer and trans bodies took up space on my walls, my queer and trans body felt free to take up space in the home itself.
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Spaces & Places Community Gallery
As part of our three-week Spaces & Places series, we asked you if we could see your favorite spaces — and wow, did you deliver!
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Queer Design 101: Figuring Out Your Personal Design Style
When I found myself facing the blank walls of my new room, I had a minor moment of panic. Has the same thing happened to you?
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Spaces & Places: Team Fantasy Wishlist
In which our team names their wildest home decor dreams.
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I’m Finally Taking Up Space In My Own Place
On putting the safe decorations in the closet and letting my home reach its full gay potential. On taking up space in my own space.
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Queer Design 103: Where To Find Original Wall Art That Fits Your Style and Budget
Let’s get some interesting, original things on your walls!
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The 11 Queerest Episodes of HGTV
I’m a home improvement gay, determined to watch enough HGTV to one day level up. Thus it just leaves me with a lot of ideas but lacking the capacity to bring any of them to fruition. I can talk a good game, though!
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Queer Design 102: Figuring Out What Your Space Needs
Even if you don’t have the budget or permission to do full-scale renovations, there are so many small tweaks and adjustments you can make that will still create substantial change.
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Making Accessibility Part of My Home
Because the thing is, of course, that my feelings about all the accessibility stuff aren’t really about the stuff at all; my feelings are about the disabilities themselves.
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Lez Try It: Flower Arranging á la “Imagine Me and You”
there’s a lot of talk in the film about what different flowers mean, as Luce is repeatedly confronted by emotionally unstable customers demanding the perfect flowers for very specific occasions. I was intrigued. Could I make my own bouquet and send it to somebody? Is this something I could do from the safety of my own home, because there is still a slow-burning apocalypse going on outside? Turns out the answer to these questions was yes.
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The Queer Gardener’s Almanac: What You Need to Do as Spring Turns Into Summer
The moral of our queer tale in our gardens is the same as it is our lives: just keep fucking planting until something survives.
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How to Move During a Pandemic
Moving during a pandemic is hard, but you can do it and we’re here to tell you how! We love you! Be safe!! WEAR A MASK!!!!!
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The Queer Gardener’s Almanac: Winter
Autostraddle’s giant survey last year showed that queers will make the most of even the tiniest outdoor patches they can get their green-fingered mitts on. It’s time we celebrated the wide open spaces of our rural and suburban queers too, imagining the possibilities for the expanses we inhabit today or dream about tomorrow.
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For Your Consideration: Buying Another Houseplant That You Know Will Die
Nothing lasts forever.