DIY Drying Rack Tutorial

Laundry Room Cabinet and Remodel

How to recycle some ReStore (Habitat for Humanity) treasures into a darling and functional laundry room cabinet.

DiY Cedar Cube Landscape Lights

If you've ever bought inexpensive solar landscape lights from Home Depot or Lowe's, you're probably familiar with their Achilles heel: the cheap plastic spike that sticks into the ground. By tossing the spike and the shaft in their rightful place (the garbage can), you can get on with the business of making an elegant and durable solution.

Small Laundry Room Makeover!

Hi, and Happy January! This is always my month of organizing and refreshing, and today I want to share my laundry room makeover with you! In terms of home organization and life change, this is probably the best thing we've ever done for our home. I won't say it's my favorite room in the house... we are talking laundry here. But it makes me feel a little more organized and on top of my game whenever I walk past it! Okay, enough talk. Let's get to the makeover. Here's what we started with- but imagine it with dirty clothes all over the floor and piles of junk on top of the machines.

Making a Lampshade Out of an Antique Sieve / Strainer

We are in our 3rd Lockdown and Stay at Home orders here in Ontario Canada and that doesn't bother me, but it has made me have to become more creative in my diyng especially this time around as my go to Dollarstore is only allowed to sell essentials and hardware stores etc are all curbside. So it is abit more challenging to design anything but I love a challenge! It has also given me the opportunity to go through my " junk" I have collected and put it to use. And that's exactly what I did when I came across this antique sieve/ strainer, whatever you want to call it.

Mudroom Makeover

Hi friends!! I hope you’re having a wonderful day!Having four boys, it seems like it is a constant chore to keep all the backpacks, jackets, and shoes put away, so I decided to give my mudroom a little makeover to add a few more hooks for jackets/backpacks and shelves for shoes.Here is my mudroom before…

Sewing Stool Makeover

Do you have something covered in vinyl that could use a refresh? You might not realize that you can paint right over vinyl so today I’m making over a sewing stool with Fusion Mineral Paint! The best part? Hardly any prep necessary!For all my tips and tricks on painting vinyl, watch the video near the end of this post or continue reading the tutorial below:BeforeHere’s what we started with; a typical sewing stool with dark stain. Hubs went ahead and sanded the one on the right, while I was painting the top. Initially I was going to paint the base too, but changed my mind when I saw how good it looked in the end.

DIY Rotating Cooking Utensil Storage Rack

My kitchen has been in serious need of some organizational help. Click HERE to see all of my DIY kitchen de-cluttering organization projects.I love to cook and am on a mission to make it easier to store and find my kitchen supplies.

DIY CHANDELIER TUTORIAL

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!

DIY Wooden Hanging Pot Rack

When planning a kitchen one of the primary goals is to ensure that there is sufficient storage so that everything can be kept in its own place and the kitchen can function as well as possible. But sometimes kitchens are so tiny there simply isn't enough space to install all the kitchen cabinets and cupboards we’d like.

Tips for Applying Painter’s Tape | Laundry Room Refresh

Looking for some quick tips for applying painter’s tape to cabinets? Today, I will share with you tips I have used for years when painting!

Beautiful Hanging Hardwood Pot Rack That's a Great Beginner Project

This pot rack is a beautiful and functional piece of kitchen equipment that’s perfect for a beginning DIY’er. In fact, you can make this with nothing but a handsaw, a miter box and a drill, so it’s doable even if you live in a tiny apartment and don’t have the space or money for more tools.

DIY Range Hood Cover

Here is a great tutorial to build a cover over an existing range hood. In some homes range hoods can be dated looking, and take the look and feel of the kitchen space down. By adding a cover and some detail molding you can completely transform the look of your kitchen space, for a fraction of the cost of the expensive custom range covers and hood inserts.Our original space looked like this, certainly something that's still pretty and has character, however I personally always wanted more of a custom look for over our large stove. When we originally renovated this kitchen a custom wood vent hood just wasn’t in out budget, and this one work and has been great ever, but I’m always looking to make changes!

Rustic Hanging Pot Rack

To help with storage for our country cabin kitchen, I decided to make a hanging pot rack to match my stools (https://www.hometalk.com/44393073/rustic-stool-for-kitchen-island)

Making a Coat/ Towel Rack Out of Odds and Ends

When my sister in law and her husband were downsizing and selling their house I inherited alot of their stuff. One was a beautiful antique bed. There was a matching dresser and washing stand. They kept those but removed some of the pieces that were attached to it. So I brought them home. They have sat in my basement for two years. We lacked space to hang our towels etc on, every time we went to my mom's so I thought I would use these pieces to create this rack in our bedroom there as this is where the antique bed ended up. So it would be a perfect match.

Save Money With Hugelkultur!

Today I am popping on to share how I fill all of my garden boxes. It saves us money because we have less soil to buy, plus it is AMAZING for the plants! Here is my finished planter box. You may have already seen it on my previous post, where I show you how to rust metal. This particular planter box is from DIY Cartel, and I absolutely love it! If you'd like more info on how I rusted it, see my previous post. If you'd like to know more about the box itself, click here-- it is a GORGEOUS planter box, and we get so many compliments on it!

Stunning DIY Herringbone Board and Batten Accent Wall - 804 Sycamore

How to Install a Killer Wallpaper Accent Wall

Slowly the laundry room is starting to change and I’m so thrilled. Without a doubt, adding the beadboard wainscoting and hooks dramatically improved the space. But today, I’m so delighted to reveal the full wall. Clearly adding a wallpaper accent wall is a game changer for this room.Now every time I walk past my laundry room, I have to pause and stare at my gorgeous wall! I think I’m going to have to replace the current door with a door with a window. It’s just too pretty to be closed off!When I started making plans for updating my laundry room, I began looking at wallpaper. I knew that a wallpaper accent wall would definitely add some pizzazz to my room. Perhaps, it would even make doing the laundry fun. 😉 One can hope right?So I was ecstatic to receive an email from Photowall wallpaper, asking us to try their wallpaper and share the results with our readers.This post is sponsored by Photowall, however all the comments and opinions are my own.

DIY Tablet Stand From a Paper Towel Roll Tube

Paper towel roll projects are the best aren’t they? Not only are they free, but you get to repurpose something that is just going to waste anyway. I’m sharing a fun DIY tablet stand from a paper towel roll tube. This repurposed paper towel roll craft that is actually pretty darn useful.I’ll be honest, this isn’t the prettiest DIY. I guess you could make it look good, but at the end of the day a paper towel roll is a paper towel roll no matter how much you disguise it.Now that you aren’t expecting anything too eye catching, I’m ready share this fun and useful project.DIY Tablet Stand from a Paper Towel Roll TubeSupplies:Paper towel tubesScissorsDecorating materials (I used peel and stick contact paper)Pencil or pen

Quick Spray-on Rust DIY!

For this tutorial, I'm excited to show you another way to rust metal! This method is great for large steel/metal objects that you cannot soak (see my other metal rusting tutorial for smaller items). I used it forthese AWESOME steel planter boxes from DIYCartel. They come in raw steel and are gorgeous as is... but you know me... I like everything rusted to perfection! Here's a picture of the "after", so you can see what I mean!

Unicorn Spit House Number

I have recently discovered Shou sugi ban, and I must admit I am totally loving the look. For this project, I wanted to use Unicorn spit to add some colour to the wood. I only used a green stain for this project but with the Shou sugi ban burning I ended up with so many cool colours.

How to Shape Resin Into a Bowl

Recently our international blogger group had the challenge to create something out of resin. This was my first attempt at the challenge. I wanted to try and shape resin around an object to get an interesting shape. I knew I wanted to make a bowl of some description but in the end, I was not happy with the colour. So it got chuck to the back of my shed. But every time I go in my shed it catches my eye and I think to myself, I loved the idea just not the colour. So I wanted to share the idea with you, you can just choose your own colours.

Faux Beam for Room Separation

Do you have a long wall that connects two rooms together in your home and have trouble defining the space? Living in a raised ranch, or split entry as some people call them, I find this is a problem between the living room and dining room.

DIY Wedding Arch

I built my daughter a custom wedding arch for her outdoor wedding. Being on a budget shouldn't stop you from building a custom arch that is affordable.

Simple Beaded Lantern Tutorial | Farmhouse Lantern DIY

I keep seeing all these beautiful and amazing lanterns online and in stores but I personally can't afford to spend $40 + on a lantern. So let's try to DIY one!The hardest part of this DIY was getting the skewers to bend. It took some brainstorming to figure it out.

Egg Carton Carrot

My Mom is a big portion of who am I today. She taught me soo many things but most importantly she told me how to think outside the box. I am so grateful for that. Trying to apply that all the time. I cherished my time with her and all lessons she gave me. We loved to create things together, we loved to share our ideas. We loved to turn every day items into fun seasonal decorations. Egg cartons projects were my favorite crafts! FIND THEM ALL ON MY BLOG HERE Today I like to attempt to make a carrot out of egg cartons. Have you ever made one yet? Shall we begin our fun of Spring Easter decor on the budget? I am so looking for fun tiered tray Spring decor accessory so that maybe it

Ethan Allen Chandelier Knock Off

I have never done one of these before…. A Knock Off Challenge is where you choose an expensive item from a fancy, high class store– then you make an inexpensive imitation. Now if you’ve read my blog for any length of time you know that my favorite words are “free” and “yard sale.” So I wasn’t sure what I would be able to find, that I could copy inexpensively.But I think I found a winner!!! I walked into my local Ethan Allen furniture store at the beginning of March 2020– just a few days before everyone in the world got sent to their rooms. Well, you know what I mean. So I was short on time in more ways than one. And guess what I found? I found this gorgeous Ethan Allen Orb Chandelier. Isn’t it fabulous?!Orb Chandelier from Ethan Allen

How to Stencil a Tile Floor to Look Like Faux Brick.

With no way to replace flooring, I decided to paint my tile floor to look like faux brick.We’re coming into week 4 of the $100 Room challenge and this week I’m taking on faux brick! (FYI There isn’t a week 3 for me because I took that week off.)I introduced my laundry room and the dilemma of the cracked tile floor. I already have practice since I stenciled my office flooring. This time, I wanted to try my hand at a faux brick pattern stencil.

Easy Rag Puff Quilt in a Weekend

Make this Easy Rag Puff Quilt in a weekend! You create the puffs as you sew making it oh so easy!

Vertical Gardening: Amp up Your Garden With This Tepee Trellis Idea

Summer is in full swing and the garden is finally starting to grow. If you are like me and tight on growing space, this post is for you. Cucumbers and Pole beans are some of my favorite things to grow, however they tend to easily spread and take over everything.This year, I have decided to add vertical gardening to my skill set and let the beans and cucumbers climb a trellis. This is not just any trellis, however. This is a tepee trellis.Yep, not only are we going to have a great climbing garden, but also a fun hangout for the kids.This cucumber tepee trellis is incredibly easy to make. If you already have cucumber seeds, it is basically free.Check out the best way to start seeds here. This post contains affiliate links. Please see our disclosure for details. Here is what you will need to make a Tepee Trellis: Branches or Bamboo TwineDirtCompostSeeds or Plants How to make your own Vertical Gardening Tepee Trellis: After gathering your supplies, Draw a semi-circle in the soil where you will be adding your tepee trellis. Your trellis can be whatever size you would like. If you are planning on making it so people can enter, be sure to make it wide enough for them to fit.

Rusty Can Door Hanger

I wanted an inexpensive door wreath that could be used for more than one holiday or season and that would be shallow enough to fit in between our seasonal door and front door. I prefer floral wreaths, but finding one that fits is always a challenge. I decided a door vase would be a perfect solution. Using a rusty can and mostly Dollar Store supplies I had on hand, I made a hanging door vase that will hold inexpensive seasonal floral bouquets.

DIY Barn Door

Is there anything better than a sliding barn door to finish off a space?I absolutely love the look of barn doors and got a vision in my head so went with it. A wooden framed door with a plexiglass insert and a curved detail.Material list:(1) 1"x12"x8' - top(1) 1"x16"x8' - bottom(4) 1"x6"x6' - sides(2) 1"x3"x6' - middle support(3) 1"x2"x8' - supportsCurve detail was cut from leftover 12" and 16" pieces.The finished door size is 39" x 85.25"

No Sew Upcycled Denim Coasters

I love to repurpose and upcycle my old jeans into things around my home and have made loads of things. Not only that I love to use all the parts of a pair of jeans and not all my projects require sewing either, like my very popular denim waistband rug.For my latest denim upcycle I have used the seams and hems from a pair of jeans.

The Simplest Art Project

When searching for the perfect art work for my living room, I struggled. I knew I wanted something super simple. No matter how hard I looked, I just couldn’t seem to find one that I loved and that wasn’t hundred of dollars.So, naturally, I decided to use my DIY skills and make one on my own.Follow along with me and I will show you how I created this super simple, yet gorgeous art piece.

How to Bleach Wood | Beachy Dresser Flip

If you have a piece of furniture you would like to bring back to it's natural beauty, you may be interested in using bleach to remove stubborn staining. For this dresser makeover, I needed to remove the residual orange staining to get the lighter coastal vibe I envisioned.

Easy DIY Farmhouse Style Cake Pan Tiered Tray

Reuse an Old Mattress for a Hanging Bed in the Back Yard

My son had outgrown his twin size bed and was ready for a new one. I decided to build an outdoor swinging bed that the family could enjoy on a cool summer afternoon. Below I'll show you how I built it.

DIY Herringbone Accent Wall

We recently finished this accent wall in our guest room and I’m so excited to share it with you. We were a little intimidated by the herringbone pattern at first, but once you get it started, it’s a pretty easy process. The hardest part for us was all of the cuts around the windows. If you have a full wall, this would go much faster. Let’s dig into how to do it!