Our tiny kitchen has been screaming for attention since we bought our house, but we kept putting it off because it just seemed like too big of a project to tackle. This room needs a major gut-and-reno job (and therefore some serious dough). However, as I stood in the middle of our kitchen looking around, I realized that there were a few things we could do to spruce it up without breaking the ... View the Post
DIY Art: How to Paint a Chevron Canvas
I'm always on the hunt for some new DIY artwork ideas, so when I got my hands on a big canvas recently I decided to try out a chevron pattern. So here's how to paint a chevron canvas...How to Make a DIY Chevron Canvas: My canvas was about $15 from my local art supply shop.I cut out a chevron template out of cardboard (a leftover cereal box), which I used to pencil the ... View the Post
How to Make an Easy DIY Wooden Headboard
We have been working on making over our office/guestbedroom and decided to tackle a DIY wooden headboard. Since I wanted the bed to look more like a daybed, I figured a length wise headboard would do the trick.How to make a DIY Wooden Headboard: So out came some wood, stain, and varathane.The wood (9.5 inch wide boards) came from Home Depot, where you can have the wood pre-cut to size. ... View the Post
Making a DIY Office Desk out of Wood
After painting and stenciling our office walls (check that out here), next up was to start to move some furniture back into the room and I wanted to start with my DIY Office Desk.The original desk was not only less than beautiful to look at, but was way too deep for our double-duty office/guest bedroom. We needed something that would be nice and narrow, offering plenty of desk space for our ... View the Post
Stenciling A Wall: Tips and Tricks
Stenciling A Wall: Tips and Tricks - One room that we have neglected up until now has been our office-slash-guest-bedroom. Our house is 3-bed/2-bath, but since we rent out the basement as a 1-bedroom apartment, that second bedroom upstairs has to do double duty.Here's the room (sorry- ultra messy) pre-makeover. It had been the place for all of our old furniture and a too-bright turquoise paint ... View the Post
make this: fabric covered bulletin board tutorial
Since moving back to our pad in June, my jewellery storage (and specifically my necklaces) was pretty lack luster. Case in point:Yep, my necklaces were hanging from some random nails on the walls. It was looking uuuugly. So when I spotted a few DIY cork boards up on the blogosphere -- like this one by Aubrey and Lindsay and this one by Jen@RamblingRenovators -- I was inspired and kicked my ... View the Post
