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Easy DIY Ideas: Entertaining for Easter

Create a lighthearted ambiance for Easter entertaining with inexpensive supplies and an eye for color. A watercolor tablecloth brings a spring-like palette to your dining table. Gather your…

10 Timeless Flea Market Finds

The popularity of and interest in vintage collectibles follows fashions like almost everything else but among the thousands of items on offer at even the biggest sale, you…

How to Update a Sofa

Change the look of your living room or den with a quick update of your sofa area. Before our update, the space has all the right elements in…

How to Style an Entry Table

Make your entry area functional and inviting by creating a thoughtfully arranged landing place for purses, mail, sunglasses, and keys. Step 1: The first step is placing a…

How to Style a Mantel

A fireplace is automatically a focal point in any room. Sheer size alone usually gives it pride of place so that’s where eyes will gravitate. Make it stand…

One Shelf Five Ways

A basic shelving unit can increase your style and storage potential in any room. Put it to work as a dining room sideboard, a potting station, a room…

Budget-Friendly Makeovers: Thrift Store Artwork

Make your own artwork by refinishing and hanging old frames and filling them with whatever grabs your fancy. Multiples in paintings provide punch. Take the same approach with…

Budget-Friendly Makeovers: Thrift Store Gallery Wall

Give old frames new life. This entire wall of art was created for under $50, including the paint! Shop for interesting picture frames at yard sales, flea markets,…

Budget-Friendly Makeovers: The Bathroom

We took a stuck-in-the-seventies bathroom and gave it an affordable update with better flooring, pretty cottage patterns, new paint finishes, and beach-hued tiles.   This dark and dizzying…

Budget-Friendly Makeovers: The Guest Bedroom

Lively layers of dynamic color, vintage finds, and space-stretching strategies reanimate a sleepy guest room without breaking the budget. Neither warm nor inviting, this guest bedroom needed a…

DIY Projects with Vintage Photographs

Blow the dust off those boxes of old photographs and craft some engaging accents and sweet gifts for family and friends while celebrating times past. Scan and print…

Decorate a Lovable Mug for Valentine’s Day

Looking for a cute and quick, but useful Valentine’s Day gift? Decorating a ceramic mug for a friend or lover is doable for even the most craft-challenged artist….