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Easy Paint Projects: Geometry Lessons

A whole new look for walls, furniture, and accents is often just a paintbrush away. For our mini makeovers we chose a primary palette of sunny yellow, deep…

Easy Paint Projects: Geometry Class

Rejuvenate your walls and furnishings with paint, tape, and fabric in a perky palette of primary colors and geometric shapes. Here’s how we added playful pattern and punchy…

Outdoor Living: An Instant Patio Makeover

Even the most uninspiring concrete slab can become a lively and welcoming outdoor room overnight with a cheerful infusion of color, character, and comfort. Talk about a blank…

Decorating in Three Easy Stages

No matter what your personal taste and design aesthetic, unless you have a firm design eye and a healthy budget, the best way to transform a room to…

Budget-Friendly Makeovers: A Small Dining Room Redo

See how a savvy homeowner turned an underused pass-through space into an inviting and functional dining area. In Jade Fox’s small home, the front door opens into one…

A Light & Bright Small Kitchen Makeover

With buckets of paint, boxes of tile, and a countertop camouflage, this creative kitchen facelift transforms small and dark into roomy and light.   Elementary school teacher Jade…

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…

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 Paint Makeovers: A Country-Style Kitchen

A lackluster kitchen gets a fresh and fabulous new face with cosmetic updates and vintage farmhouse details. This galley kitchen layout was roomy but the dark finish of…