To celebrate valentine's day this week, I thought I would add a little touch of love to our living room with a sweet little DIY valentine's day heart garland/bunting. I grabbed an old music book from the thrift store for 50 cents and then had the rest of the supplies on hand (scissors, cardboard template, hole punch, coloured paper, glue, and string). I cut out eight triangles of the ... View the Post
How to Paint a Patterned Ceiling
A couple nights ago I was at home by myself, vegging in front of the TV while surfing pinterest, and got a sudden burst of energy to paint our ceiling in our front hallway. So I wanted to share how it all went and show how to paint a patterned ceiling. How to Paint a Patterned Ceiling: I changed into my paint clothes, grabbed all the supplies from my stash of paint in the basement, and got ... View the Post
how to lay vinyl black and white flooring (in stripes!)
To cap off our kitchen mini-makeover (check out how we painted the cabinets and added hardware, we knew we had to do something about the floor. Enter: vinyl black and white floor tile. Here is the before... Remember that ultra-boring beige vinyl tile? It was clean and in fine condition, but it was just so dated and dull. Since we are saving up our pennies for a major kitchen rehaul ... View the Post
Kitchen Makeover: Updating Oak Strip Cabinets with New Hardware
We started our mini kitchen makeover the other day by painting out the dark wood trim of our cabinets (see that here). The cabinets didn't have any hardware - you pulled them open at the bottom (the area we just painted). Since we didn't want to get fingerprints all over the new white paint and since we wanted to make these cabinets somewhat more attractive (they're never going to be beauties, ... View the Post
How to Paint Ugly Oak Strip Cabinetry
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
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