Thank you for the link! Your tutorial is so clear and thorough.
Great idea!
My little laundry area was dark and dingy but functional. If you have to do chores, shouldn't you at least be able to enjoy a bright and cheery space?? So after looking at a not-so-inspirational space for so long, it needed a change.
We just completed a makeover on a home near Nashville, Tennessee with Lowe's. It was a chance to give a home a fresh new look for spring after a very harsh winter.
The home owner was wanting to add new shutters to their windows, so we built them some board and batten shutters.
I just moved. We sold our home and moved across the state to be closer to friends and family.We looked for a home for a few months and finally found one suitable for our needs. Not all my boxes were checked. I STILL HAVE A LAUNDRY “ROOM” IN A CLOSET (bummer).I decided I should probably make the best of it. I spoiled myself and purchased a front loading washer and dryer (so far I love them). But, the purpose of getting the front loading kind was so that I could build a countertop workstation on top of them and have a place to fold laundry other than the floor or couch.
As we all know, decor trends are always changing. It's hard to keep up. Are you itching for a new holiday style, but worried about budget? You can create a whole new look for your Christmas tree using Dollar Store items for A LOT less than you would expect!
I hate carpet! So I ripped it up and installed Pergo laminate (LOVE!!). But what about the stairs? Installing laminate would have cost over $1000 (no thanks!) So I combined home-talkers ideas with a few of my own, and viola! Slip free, custom stairs.
Plants are a great way to add height and interest to a corner of a room, but tall plants can be very expensive. This DIY elevated planter raises a shorter plant to give it the impact of a taller plant!
Have you ever wanted something so bad you could taste it, but it was not going to work with your budget? When we made over our one Master Bedroom Closet into a separate His and Hers – I wanted a gorgeous, sparkly chandelier in my she-chic closet. However, it wasn’t in the budget. This was my solution!
Tracing directly on glass using only a sharpie? Yes that's right, just a sharpie and... a steady pulse!! :0) art
I am so excited to share this SUPER EASY DIY pallet coat rack with you today! Since we made the first one, we have had so much interest. It is way too easy {and cheap} to not share with you!
"OLD?" It's all in how you decide to "mature." Out of necessity, I removed the steps built by a Contractor and built new ones - the right way! In the process, I discovered that I LOVE building, and I'm excited to be starting more building projects - at 71 (and I'm a girl)! Here we go.... First pic is what the Contractor built for me.
When we moved into our home in 1992 we had no cabinets in our laundry room. We needed some type of storage, and what was current at the time, but probably on their way out, were these fantastic laminate and oak cabinets. You could wipe them down easily, they could be bought off the shelf at the nearby home improvement store, they could be hung easily and the oak at the bottom of the cabinet would match perfectly with our builder grade cabinets right around the corner in the kitchen. OK, now I just seem to be making excuses why we bought the same ugly cabinets that have overstayed their welcome.
We... the Pickle and I, have an ever growing list of home improvement/nesting projects that we're working our way through... to really make our house OUR home... We decided to start with the shiplap wall in our living room... it was one of the easiest of the projects on our list and a great place to get started.
Want to get the most amount of storage in a tiny bedroom? Learn how to make the built-in trundle bed and cabinets just like the ones we put in the modern farmhouse guest house. One of the cabinets is for the kitchenette and the other will house the composting toilet like you'd find in a tiny house. We built the bed and both of the cabinets for less than $300.
Are you one of those weird (oh, I mean, "perfectly normal") people who haunts the aisles at your local hardware store imagining all the wonderful ways you could reinvent some of the seemingly basic stuff?Well, don't feel alone because I too am one of those perfectly normal people. And it's thanks to my perfect normality (LOL!) that these super affordable, and totally do-able, DIY mini barn doors came into existence.Absolutely anyone can have a go at this project!I've summarised the tutorial slightly for Home Talk however you can find the complete how-to here on my blog.
Just before Christmas we started ripping the old carpet off the stairs and good riddance to it! It has long been on our list to rid ourselves of the carpet that starts on the stairs and continues for the whole second floor. We had no idea what was underneath, though I wasn't hopeful there would be nice hardwood.
This tutorial is about how to construct a Moving Dolly with some serious Locking casters that won't leave marks on your floors. The casters are rated for a 850 LB total load. The casters are made of a high quality steel with quality bearings and a Polly-vinyl tire, that swivels and locks.
Our fireplace gives off huge drafts of cold air in the winter. In order to help make our home a little more energy efficient, I created an insulated screen to cover up our fireplace when we're not using it.
Supplies Needed:SpindleTop Fence Post4 Ceiling Fan BladesItem For The EyesItem For The Antennafinial for the tailPaint
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