Category: Play
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I used plantation shutters to hide a TV hutch in the wall. You can also create a faux window with plantation shutters. I put together a few ideas in this article. Here's the basic ste...
Category: Play
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I used triangular (corner) wood trim and paint to hide TV wires dangling along the wall. It was fun and easy to do, and the wire is invisible now. Here are the basic steps. For a more complete t...
Category: Live
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I love wall plaques that display something special to me and my family, like an old letter or someone's image. Here's a wall plaque I created with a special quote. I describe the steps...
Category: Live
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Every bedroom in my home has a theme. Asian, Moroccan, Victorian bedrooms... It's really fun. I put the ideas together in this article. Here I'll share my idea for creating a Vic...
Category: Live
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As everywhere else in my home, I used paint to refurbish my floors, counters and ugly wallpapered wall in my bathroom. In this article I talk about my paint decorating ideas for my bathroo...
Category: Live
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I found different ways to use decorative wood or metal shelf brackets in my home decor. I created a display of sailing ships on my dining room wall. I added support to my ornate living room mirr...
Category: Live
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For four years I refurbished my old house, and paint is probably the thing I used most. So I put some of the ideas together in in this fun article Here I'll talk about how I used pain...
Category: Live
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I had an ugly banister that was too curvy for sanding and re-staining. Instead, I removed it and created a sleek banister. There are endless varieties to how you can make your new banister look,...
Category: Live
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I had a long, dark hallway that needed some serious help. I created the illusion that it was shorter by cutting the visible space with base molding (I describe how I did it in in this article...
Category: Live
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I love to maximize the artistic effect that mirrors have. Especially in dark areas, mirror wall art creates spots of light.Using a cheap, frameless mirror, I built a frame for it, then used Rust...
Category: Live
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I had a high window in my living room that looked beautiful with the trees and sky outside. But it also looked plain without a window treatment. So instead of blocking out the beauty with a regu...
Category: Christmas
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Christmas is the best time of the year! And it's so much fun to create a dazzling Christmas table, filled with decorations I make myself. Like red apple glass holders or a homemade candelab...
Category: Valentines
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Here's a unique valentine that you can make yourself. It's the perfect way to show your love in an original, beautiful way. Please read my step-by-step instructions for creating a v...
Category: Live
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It's a really fun way to celebrate Hanukkah by creating decorations yourself. I find dreidels to be the most fun aspect of this holiday of light... well, and Sufganyiot too, of course. So I...
Category: Work
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A wall divider is better than just using a screen, because a wall divider runs from ceiling to floor. When I needed to create a home office in a small house, I create a simple wall divider, to s...
Category: Live
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Over the 4 years when I remodeled my old home by myself, I discovered a lot of easy solutions to big problems by just using paint. So I wrote an article with all 10 paint ideas. I hope you�...
Category: Live
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I created a chalkboard for 5 rooms in my house. Each chalk board is very different and fun. For the kitchen I created a message center, for the dining room a country menu, for the office an idea...
Category: Live
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Faux painting is a simple way to add elegance and sophistication to your walls. I did it in my bedroom, to make it a romantic, warm room. I know that you can buy special rollers and kits that mi...
Category: Play
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Magnetic paint is a great way to turn a wall into a giant magnetic board. It's a great way to encourage learning in kids through tactile lessons. Kids can play with the alphabet as they for...
Category: Live
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By creating a chalk board wall in your kids room, you can encourage creativity and learning. Studies have show that kids communicate at first through drawing, because they still lack the words t...
Category: Work
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I had a small office with no window, no view. I missed looking up and seeing the world outside. So I created a fake window for it with a view and fake sunlight. It was easy to do with a wooden f...
Category: Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving is our first holiday meal for the season, so creating a festive, beautiful table setting is all-important. Best of all, creating crafts for a gorgeous Thanksgiving dinner table sett...
Category: Live
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My front yard looks great, and I feel it's time to turn my backyard into a private sanctuary. I've collected a bunch of neat, cheap and easy backyard ideas in an article. Here I...
Category: Christmas
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With all the Christmas glitter and sparkle, much of our Christmas decoration pleases the eye. But what about our other senses? You can read my full article with many ideas to really make your...
Category: Live
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My old kitchen cabinets had ugly, plastic hardware. I thought of replacing it, but I would have had to buy around 30 handles, and the cost really started to add up. So instead, I spray painted t...
Category: Live
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Flower window boxes are a perfect way to add beauty not only to your home's facade but inside your home as well. Here's a picture of the flower window boxes I put up on my home. You ca...
Category: Live
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I came up with five beautiful ideas to create modern wall decor myself, because modern art is just so expensive to buy. Anyone can do it, really. You can see all my ideas in this article . My...
Category: Live
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Curb appeal is important to me, because I like to get that warm feeling in my chest every time I return home and glimpse my house from the street. Here are a few simple ideas that I implemented ...
Category: Live
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I had an old soot covered fireplace, with ugly wood trim going up to the ceiling. I used RUST-OLEUM paint to created a textured clean design on the bricks. Then I covered the old ugly wood trim ...
Category: Live
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f you have ugly old kitchen cabinets, there is a way to change them into beautiful painted kitchen cabinets with very little effort and even less money. By using RUST-OLEUM primer and paint, you...
Category: Live
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Change your plain bathroom mirror into an elegant, modern mirror by giving it a frame. For a step-by-step explanation of what I did, please read my full article.
Category: Live
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We all have left over paints in the house that just take up space in the garage or the kitchen. Put that old paint to good use by using it for popcorn ceiling removal. It's so much easier t...
Category: Thanksgiving
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Okay, so this recipe isn't about paint, but it's about color and it's fun to do with your kids. I'm posting it here for all Mom's who want their kids to help prepare the...
Category: Live
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It's expensive to throw away your old doors and buy new ones. And it's hard to get the measurements just right. Instead, add panels to your old doors and paint them, for a new, modern ...
Category: Live
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There are things you can do to make your bedroom a beautiful, relaxing space. Paint plays a major role, as color affects how we feel. Here are some ideas. And more even more ideas, like what to ...
Category: Live
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Want the elegance of a tray ceiling on your flat ceiling? Want to make your ceiling look higher? Here's how I created a visual illusion with PAINT. For step-by-step instructions, please ...
Category: Live
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This is a fun and easy project. If you have large plain windows, or a glass porch door--you can turn them into modern-looking French windows. All you need is RUST-OLEUM FROSTED GLASS SPRAY PAINT...
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