FUN PROJECTS
- 1. How to Build a Simple Indoor Swing (for Winter): This project is great for kids who've been cooped up indoors and need to burn some energy.
2. How to Make a Reading Nook: Tips on setting up a comfortable corner in your home for down time.
PROJECTS FOR YOUR BEDROOM
- 3. How to Make a Great Side Table from IKEA Frosta Stools: An inexpensive IKEA hack that makes a great bedside table.
4. How to Make a Raw Felt Headboard: This is one of the easiest headboard projects out there, and it's particularly well-suited to cozy winter bedrooms.
CLEANING AND ORGANIZING
- 5. How To Clean Your House in 20 Minutes a Day for 30 Days: A month-long workout schedule to get your home into shape.
6. How to Tackle that Closet Organization... Finally: Tips for letting go of your perfectionistic tendencies and grappling with a chaotic closet.
PROJECTS FOR YOUR BATHROOM
- 7. How to Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet: One of the best places to start fresh is right here, where an hour or two of cleaning can get you ready for the year ahead.
8. How to Make a Soothing Bath Soak for Sick Days: If you've got the winter grunge, here's a low-energy project that could make you feel better.
HEALTHY HOME PROJECTS
- 9. How to Donate and Recycle Common Household Items: Tips for what to do with all the junk you might be sifting through this time of year.
10. 5 Ways to Insulate Your Windows for Winter: If you've got drafty windows, now's the time to take care of them.
(Originally published 1.3.11 - JL)
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Where can I find that wine rack so subtly displayed in the swing photo? From the small glimpse of it, it looks fab!!!
Someone likes champaigne. ;)
Also, where can I find that awesome Next Generation address book?
This isn't the one from the pic (as I'm sure that one is $100 or more), but we bought this one over the summer (sprayed it white) and everyone always asks where I got it! Plus, in our tiny apt it's uber practical:
http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Mounted-Wine-9-Bottle-Capacity-Black/dp/B001EMDFH8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294107902&sr=8-1
When I was growing up my cousins had a swing in their basement and I thought it was the coolest thing ever!
That tiny portrait in the reading nook photograph......! Where can I find it?
i love the swing..
@small space pro...thanks!!! thats cool
I'm opening a new studio (hoping all you Chicago readers will take a weekend upholstery workshop) and my designer (The Brick House) has added included two indoor swings hanging from a beam. What a way to clear the head and get creative?!
How is the swing holding up? She's four years older. Does she still use it? Did you have to make it bigger?