Dramatic Dining Room Centerpiece
Sarah the Thrifty Decor Chick came up with this great centerpiece idea. The base is a de-trimmed five dollar back-of-the-door mirror adhered to a piec...
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We're doing a transitional bathroom makeover, something low budget to tide us over until a dream makeover is in the budget. Goal = $500....
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Tree Branch Coasters
Curbly's ModHomeEcTeacher has a great idea for creating your own rustic drink coasters. She begins with an old tree limb sliced into 1/2" disks. Afte...
How-to Hold and Hammer Small Nails: 4 Ways to Save your Fingers
Whenever I'm holding the hammer, tiny nails inevitably lead to bruised fingers. Fortunately, this doesn't have to be the case. These are some of my ...
How we built our sun deck....
Having decided where we wanted the deck to go we had to clear the area of the gravel that was there, lift the membrane and then level the ground. Paul...
Large Vintage Dominoes
We started out with a 2x10 piece of lumber that Whitney purchased from Lowe's for $5.00. We marked off every 16 inches and began cutting with our circ...
Vintage Desk to Modern Beauty
When I was 10 my grandmother gave me my grandfather's old desk. He passed away before I was even born, so to own something that was his made me feel v...
Simple, Modern, and Totally DIY-able Pot Rack
This is so cool! I found it on Small Notebook. It's a simple, versatile pot rack constructed from two 1" x 2" pieces of oak, two 3/4" 10 gauge alumin...
How to create a Polaroid fall wreath
My friend Heather Crosby at inspiredbyeverything and I have creative chemistry. Whenever we get together we build on each other’s ideas until it becom...