Add a little green life to your indoors with a mini terrarium of succulents. This photo from our Yahoo! Homes Flickr group submitted by Brooklyn Botanic Group shows a few different types of succulent plants in a glass container.

These terrariums need little water, so they’re perfect for people on the go. Plus, they look great!  If you have a favorite item at home or DIY home project photos you want to share with us, join the Yahoo! Homes Flickr Group.

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The beauty of origami is that it is something you can make – and display. The flowers in this photo taken by My Bohemian Summer are all hand-painted origami. And we bet these flowers will stay around a lot longer than fresh-cut ones.  If you have a home craft project or home décor photo you want to share with us, join the Yahoo! Homes Flickr Group.

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Over on Yahoo! Screen, an episode of "Broken News Daily" features one of the market's more attention-getting real estate listings: a one-bedroom, one-bathroom, 484-square-foot home offered by Sotheby's International for $2.5 million.

Of course, there's a little more to the story than those numbers would imply. For one thing -- and OK, we admit, it's a pretty big thing -- you get 20 acres of land on Hawaii's Big Island. Still, we like that the Realtor gamely also touts the "full kitchen and bath," not to mention a carport that fits not one but two cars!

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Maybe better than anyone, renters know how hard it can be feather a nest without a lot of scratch. So the good folks at ForRent.com have compiled a list of useful tips for scooping up the best thrift-store deals, how to craft a color scheme (complete with mathematical formula) and where to find free (free!) furnishings.

(Courtesy of ForRent.com)

We do love a nice infographic here at Yahoo! Homes. If you do too, feast your eyes these:

• What color to paint your rooms, and why
• Rental costs, city vs. suburbs
• Monopoly in the real world: property values for Broadway, Baltic and more

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2012 was good to Elon Musk. Among other achievements, his company SpaceX launched the first commercial cargo flight to the International Space Station, while his company Tesla released its first all-new electric car to rave reviews. He even unveiled an ambitious vision for a space ferry to establish a colony on Mars.

Back down on Earth, though, it appears Musk is settling in a little.

The Silicon Valley billionaire had been renting a mansion in Los Angeles' ultra-ritzy Bel Air neighborhood for three years, but he recently made his residence official by purchasing the estate, according to the SFGate.com blog On the Block.

The seven-bedroom, 13-bedroom, 20,000-square-foot estate is perched on a private knoll overlooking the Bel Air Country Club, the address's Zillow page says. The mansion is pictured here at center left; visit the Zillow page for more pictures.

Redfin records indicate that it sold on New Year's Day for $17 million.

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Nearly every couple planning to have kids has the same conversation at some point: Do we raise our kids here, or move somewhere else? That’s especially true if you live in a big city, since the cost of living is generally higher and the quality of public education tends to be more varied.

According to Rent.com, which surveyed 1,000 parents from all over the country, 34 percent are raising their kids in the city and would do it again. Easy access to a wide variety of foods, people and art, combined with a more diverse population than most suburbs, are the main reasons most parents chose to stay in the big city.

The same survey revealed that 56 percent of parents are concerned with safety when it comes to raising kids in the city, and 23 percent of parents find city living cost-prohibitive. With those concerns in mind, Rent.com identified the top rental markets for raising a family based on inventory of apartments, cost of living, violent crime rate and graduation rate.

In alphabetical

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Click on the photo to go to a slideshow. (Photo courtesy of Sally Forster Jones)[Editor's note: This post was written by Yahoo! editor and blogger Mike Krumboltz.]

The odds of you living in the White House are rather slim, especially if your last name isn't Bush, Clinton or Obama. But that doesn't mean you can't live in the home of a former president -- provided you have around $5 million to spare.

A "Mad Men"-style midcentury California home that once belonged to Ronald and Nancy Reagan has gone on the market. The four-bedroom ranch house in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades area has plenty of swanky features: a beautiful swimming pool, midcentury-modern design, and amazing views of Southern California. And don’t forget that the guy who stood toe-to-toe with Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Bonzo the monkey used to call the place home.

The home was given to Ronald Reagan by General Electric, according to CNN Money. Reagan hosted "The General Electric Theater" anthology TV series in the 1950s, and it was such a success that the good folks at GE gave the Gipper a

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If you’re living in a small space or without a garage, it can be tricky to park your bike when you get home. That’s why when we saw this photo in our Yahoo! Homes Flickr group by stncilr, we wanted to share it with you. This wall-mounted bike storage was all DIY and cost about $10 according to stncilr.  Share your DIY home projects with us by joining the Yahoo! Homes Flickr Group.

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