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While we love a stylish kitchen, a luxe living room, and a blissful bedroom, nothing compares to the peaceful respite a well-designed bathroom offers. It's a place of refuge where we wash off a hard day's work and beautify ourselves for the day ahead. It's a time for reflection and relaxation. (Who doesn't love a bath? Especially in a freestanding tub.) The most transformative tool in your decorating arsenal? Ready for a revamp?
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In one of my first posts, I wrote about my love of wallpaper. I was sufficiently inspired by some jaw-dropping inspiration I found online… But like most renters, I had to be careful of that bolded clause in my lease that says, “You’ll be in big trouble and owe us lots of money if you make any permanent changes to the apartment” (or something like that). Enter: CONTACT PAPER!! It’s temporary, repositionable, versatile, super cheap, and therefore – perfect! A little background on renter’s options before going into the details on this post. Merola Tile Braga Blue 7-3/4 in. x 7-3/4 in. Ceramic Floor and Wall Tile (10.76 sq. ft. / case)-FTC8BRBL. 26 Amazing Cleaning Products That People Actually Swear By. Online Home-Decorating Services. How great would life be if everyone had an interior designer as a best friend?
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How To Pick a Color Palette That Will Pull Your Home Together. (Image credit: Brittany Ambridge/Domino) You know the feeling when you walk into a space and something isn't quite right?
The furniture is great and the layout works, but it feels chaotic or piecemeal? Nine times out of 10, that feeling is due to the (lack of) color scheme: homes are often designed over time, and without a color plan to work from, can wind up feeling haphazard. It's one of the reasons restaurants and hotels can look so inviting: designers know there is nothing quite like color for creating a mood and a sense of flow. 22 Holiday Decor Hacks That'll Make You Say "Why Didn't I Know About These Sooner?"
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This time, I didn’t just wrap a tree in ’em, I wrapped myself in ’em! These Christmas light leggings are the BEST idea for those of you who have a new Christmas PJ tradition… ’cause they are PJs you can wear all day! Or at least, I intend to do so on December 25th…. Get the full tutorial (using the Cricut Explore!) Below! White or Light Colored LeggingsCricut Explore™Various Colored Cricut Iron-on Material (I used red, pink, green, yellow and black) Black Fabric Marker Iron Tea Towel or Scrap Fabric 1. Super Easy Way to Update Wood Stained Furniture - Artsy Chicks Rule® Do you hate sanding and staining to update wood?
I can safely say it’s not at the top of the list of my favorite things. So I’m going to show you a super easy way to skip those steps and still update wood furniture. Besides using Chalk Paint®, I’m going to show you how to either refresh a piece of stained furniture or change the color completely. …..and make it look like new—>without sanding. Ok, well, that is not entirely true. Turn Mismatched Chairs Into A Gorgeous Coordinating Dining Set. Ten Step By Step Wall Stenciling Tips (You Can Do It!) High Gloss Stenciled Wall and a Royal Design Studio Giveaway! - The Cards We Drew.
Simple Unfinished Dresser Upgrade Using Moulding. It’s remarkable how simple it is to turn a plain, unfinished dresser into a lovely piece of furniture just by adding a few strips of moulding.
This simple DIY project comes from Darnetha Myers of ChippaSunshine. We asked her to come up with a super simple, and super effective DIY project for our DIY Challenge series here on The Home Depot Blog. Our only requirement: The project had to make use of something from the Millwork Department at The Home Depot. Follow along with Danetha as she shows how she used moulding strips and an paint to transform the look of her unfinished dresser. Materials Step 1 – Prepare the Dresser. Kitchen And Bathroom Painting Tips. Painting Tips and Tricks For Successful Makeovers. Horizontal Stripes Painting Tips. 10 Things You Should Know Before Painting A Room - Freshome.com. Collect this idea Painting can actually be fun when you know how to do it properly.
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I originally shared this project on Décor Hacks, but this is the first time I have published the tutorial on Mad in Crafts. I had inherited a bedside table that was in desperate need of a facelift, but I didn’t have the budget for a major makeover. 23 Ways To Trick People Into Thinking You Hired An Interior Decorator. 27 Cheap Ways To Upgrade Your Home. How to Paint Wooden Furniture - The Frugal Girl. I know-this post has been a long time coming! After I wrote about my painted freecycle furniture, lots of you asked for a tutorial about how to paint wooden furniture and I’m finally getting around to it. While I’m not a professional painter and my paint jobs aren’t perfect, I hope that reading about what I’ve learned will be helpful to you. Before I start, though, I should probably warn old furniture lovers to leave until this post is over.
I don’t really have any qualms about painting old, beat-up furniture, and so the pictures here may be slightly horrifying to you. Ahem. Sanding. Eleven Ways To Update and Makeover An Outdated Or Damaged Dining Table. When I shared my cerused dining table makeover yesterday, I had several people comment and say that their own dining table needed a bit of an update as well. Since I know that probably not everyone wants a cerused dining table, I thought I’d bring you some other ideas (as well as helpful links) to get your creative juices flowing.
No need to live with an outdated dining table when there are so many options for updating and making over your table! Here are some of my favorite ideas… Idea #1: Paint the apron and base a solid color, and re-stain the top in a rich stain color, like this dining table before and after from Blue 11 Interiors. 3 Tips to Mix & Match What You Have to Get the Style You Want. Welcome! I'm so glad you are here! Sign up here to have your blog posts delivered right to your inbox to stay in touch. Mix & match what you have to get the style you want. Today’s post is inspired by a reader’s question on cottage style (and at the end of the post I’m linking to Layla of The Lettered Cottage who is answering her own blogger question about cottage style!) Dear Melissa, These Diagrams Are Everything You Need To Decorate Your Home. 7 Ways to Refresh the Look of an Existing (Old/Boring/Not You) Dining Table.
(Image credit: Chris Stout-Hazard) You are not stuck with a dining table you don't like, even if you can't afford to buy a new one or have to stick with the one you have for some reason. There are things that can be done, of the DIY variety, that can spice up a dining table and add a little delight to your dining room. Peruse this list of makeover options and decide if one might fit your dining style!
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(Photo: Courtesy of Kindred Black) Dildos designed to energize your chakras and vintage denim were topics of passion and conversation for the girls behind the e-commerce site Kindred Black, as they chatted with the Observer in the nook of the Bowery hot spot, The Smile. The wunderkind Tavi Gevinson was seated a table over, from the site’s founders, Alice Wells and Jennifer Francis, who were sipping on iced lemon beverages.
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One of the best things about being an interior-design-obsessed person is that you appreciate the small things in your home, from the crown molding on the ceiling down to the air vents on the baseboards. And if those air vents are the standard unattractive ones found in most homes, they might be driving you nuts. That was the situation for blogger Hillary of The Friendly Home. When repainting her home, she took the boring vent grilles off so she could paint behind them, and when she was done she couldn't bring herself to put them back on. Instead, Hillary decided to beautify her air vents. She purchased some sheet metal with a vibrant pattern on it, cut it to fit over the vents, painted it, and secured it. Take a peek at the before and after pictures below, and check out the complete tutorial on The Friendly Home. POPSUGAR, the #1 independent media and technology company for women.
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