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After looking at some of the tools needed for basic upholstery last week, you might want to try your hand at your very own "Before and After" upholstery project. To help guide and inspire you we have gathered some great tutorials and inspiring posts from around the Internet. Happy re-upholstering!

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Got an outdated white Apple MacBook? Here's a surprising customization project utilizing RIT fabric dye to give the MacBook's polycarbonate case a whole new colorful life. Considering how expensive professional custom paint jobs cost and the outdated state of these models, we're pretty impressed with the project's results... More

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Brook has an exceptionally organized, delightfully kid-friendly craft room, and she has graciously allowed us to take a peek inside, down to the last detail. More

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I tend to take on ambitious DIY projects and I often look for information that will help me get the project done. Here are four DIY desk project patterns that will help you know which materials to buy, which tools to have on hand and provide assembly instructions. More

2012_02_13-mchin01.jpgIf you are keen on asking someone to be your Valentine, but haven't gotten around to procuring a card? Then this handy DIY could be the perfect project for you! Turn a leftover wine cork or two into stamps for a one-of-a-kind card, perfect for your sweetheart. More

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Ursula's amazing nanny of over four years is starring in a new show on Cinemax called "The Girls Guide to Depravity," from which comes the memorable line, "The best way to get over a guy is to get under a new guy." It was a good reminder to me that amidst all the politics of dating, as an apartment therapist, I think that the BEST way to catch the person you want is to have a fantastic bedroom. Your bedroom is the clearest expression of how you are feeling about yourself right now and is bathed in your pheromones. Are they hot or cold?
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020912-embroidery.jpg At this point in the game it seems that everyone is up for purchasing an old piece of furniture and giving a makeover a try. We've painted them, we've stained them, we've antiqued the hell out of them and the list goes on. So what's next? How about embroidery? Yes, I think so. More

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Ombre is all the rage and we've seen it work well using paint in a nursery before. But what about using 3 tones of fabric and some cotton batten?

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Sometimes hosting overnight guests requires a complicated bedroom shuffle that can get even more complicated when factoring in the special needs of a toddler. It's a simple problem many parents run into when living in small spaces; finding a way to turn a day bed into a toddler haven without hearing bumps in the night. More

Sausha Before.jpgWhen Sausha first encountered this hutch she thought it was too far gone to be worth refinishing. It had been repainted more than ten times and was in need of a major sanding effort, among other things. But instead of trashing it, she took it as a challenge and made plans to repurpose and refinish the piece... More

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