How To Do Fall in Florida (Or Any Other Seasonless, Hot Place)
Making seasonal change in a place where the seasons shift subtly or not at all.
Notes for a Queer Homemaker: Polishing Silver and Panoptical Perches
This year, we’re releasing things that have held us back, things like heteronormative ideas about homemaking and domesticity.
Put On Your Bra-ssicas: You Can Still Plant Vegetables Now for the Fall! Here’s 14 to Try!
Did you know that some vegetables actually taste better after a frost? Here’re some fall gardening tips and what you can still plant in August and September and enjoy this very fall. It is in fact, not too late to have a vegetable garden this year, my busy queers.
Queer Design 104: Putting It All Together
Sometimes even when it feels like everything in a space should work, something still feels off. And if that’s the case, there are a few things that you can try to get your reality to align with your vision.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Spaces & Places: Team Fantasy Wishlist
In which our team names their wildest home decor dreams.
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.
Be Part of Autostraddle’s Spaces & Places Gallery!
Show us your favorite corner or room of your space. How did you put it together? Where did the pieces come from? Why do you love it? Share photos of your space and we’ll post them in a big gallery post, so that you can find inspiration and also share what you love!
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?
Spaces & Places: A Roundup of 30 Queer-Owned Houseware Shops
Whether you’re in the market for furniture, art, candles, planters, kitchenware, organizers, textiles, or little tchotchkes, these queer-owned shops have got you covered.
Editor’s Notes: On Spaces & Places
The ways that we allow ourselves to take up space, to make our homes comfortable and reflective of who we are, are gifts that we give to ourselves.
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.
Submit Your Questions! Into the A+ Advice Box: Spaces & Places
A+ Members! Have a space you want to fix up, but aren’t sure how? Fighting over space with someone else? Struggling to find the kind of space you’ve always dreamed of? Let us help you!
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!
Which Set of Goth Lesbian Girlfriends Is Going to Buy the Lizzie Borden House
Not one but TWO Lizzie Borden houses are on the market right now – who will snag the ultimate piece of Kristen Stewart memorabilia?
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.