Something to Consider Before Painting Woodwork
If you ever have a hankering to paint your home's beautiful woodwork, remember this. Just a Girl and Her 1911 Craftsman Bungalow took it upo...
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Thrift Store Desk... Redone
The House on Red Hill knows that a little paint and ingenuity can go a long way towards taking something from trash to treasure. The DIY'ers...
Salvaged Windows, Two Ways
Monica from CraftyNest has two great ideas for repurposing salvaged windows: Wallpaper Frames In the first project, she takes free wallpaper...
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 ga...
Newspaper Boxes Converted to Planter Boxes!
More guerrilla gardening fabulousness! Take a neglected newspaper box, combine with a sheet of plywood, potting soil, plants.... and just ad...
Cork Bulletin Board
File this under DIY disaster! I made this bulletin board out of a 2' x 2' sheet of mdf and some of those cork squares from whichever office ...
Simple & Dramatic Skylight Accent Lighting
The fellas over at San Francisco Victorian have a great idea for adding drama to your skylights. They begin by installing crown molding insi...
Scrap Metal Fireplace Surround
I have no idea what this sheet of scrap metal used to be (for some reason it reminds me of an airplane fuselage) but using it as a fireplace...
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" di...
Lesson for the future
Note to self: Put the material onto the cardboard BEFORE taping them together. As it was my first run through, I taped all my pieces of card...
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