Tag: ottoman

Easy DIY Ideas: Folk-Art Style Living Room

Many households include needlework, ceramics, paintings and other utilitarian or decorative items once carried over borders or across oceans by your or your neighbor’s ancestors. And the creative…

Easy DIY Ideas: Decorate with Pom-Poms

Decorate pillows and a place to put your feet. Tack pom-poms onto a plain pillow cover. Treat your tootsies to a soft landing spot by covering an old…

Easy DIY Ideas: A Petal Patchwork Living Room

Bring your living room into bloom with these petal-perfect patchwork projects inspired by vintage floral fabrics.   Feedsack fabrics fuel the remake of this formerly blah living room….

Easy DIY Ideas: Design a Beautiful Boho Bedroom

Channel your inner hippie: Layer vivid hues, piles of patterns, far-out forms, and handcrafted accents to build a striking Sixties-hip boho chamber.   Wonderfully eclectic, cheerfully chic, and…

Easy DIY Ideas: Burlap Projects

Rugged, chic, and versatile, nubby burlap fabric has earned a well-deserved place in home design. Utilitarian and economical, burlap comes in many weaves and colors. Use looser weaves…

DIY Makeovers: A Living Room Update

By asking herself how she really wanted to use her underperforming living room to function, a homeowner creates a multipurpose space that becomes central to the house.  …

Easy DIY Ideas: Make a Corner Library

With a lining of bookcases and a comfy reading chair, an unused space transforms into a cozy, clubby DIY library.   Once a blank wall in a large…

Easy DIY Decor: Redo a Rental

This apartment called for a new lease on life, but a strict rental agreement made redecorating and giving it personality a real challenge. We made it feel like…

Crate Ideas: DIY Furnishings for a Garden Room

Use vintage and handmade crates as repurposed furnishings to add character to your porch, deck, or patio.   A crate made from pallet slats fashions a sturdy base…

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…

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…