How To: Stock Your Bathroom for Guests
Nothing revives a tired traveler more than a good sleep and a shower. If you really want to make your guests feel welcome, spend a little time prepping your bathroom for their arrival....
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How To: Catalog Books with Your iPhone
We just discovered a way to painlessly make a digital catalog of our book collection using our iPhone to scan bar codes, which are usually embedded on the back of a book. To learn how, click below....
Easy To Clean & Make Placemats
We love a good DIY project, especially when they require very little work on our part. In this case, all that's needed is a trip to your local Fed Ex Kinko's and a simple download. The best part i...
Make An Umbrella Stand From Bathtub Feet
An umbrella stand isn't one of those things that's at the top of most people's to-buy list. But they're super handy to have around and can make the rainy months on either side of old man Winter a ...
A $2 DIY Ornament
This scale-textured ornament sparkles and shines perfectly for the holidays. Its metallic armored look is achieved with - wait for it - flat-headed metal thumbtacks......
Grommets: A DIYer's Best Friend
When we spotted these tea towels from handmade shop InkLore, we were struck by the brilliant simplicity of the corner grommet, which makes these easy to hang on nails in the kitchen. Moreover, gromm...
DIY Thrifty Burlap & Freezer Paper Placemat
We love a good DIY project as much as the next person, but what we love more than simply doing it yourself, is when those results look like super professional. We ran across this easy DIY placemat ...
Before & After: Anne's File Cabinet Makeover
Have one of these office basics hanging around? Not many of us would think of them as a decoration "plus" in their usual state, but Anne changed all that when she pulled off a remarkable transformatio...
How To Make A Sideboard From Stock Cabinets
Some have been lucky to find a fabulous sideboard or credenza from a sale or off Craigslist, but for those who have come up empty handed, no despair, just make on yourself. This Old House walks us ...
High & DIY: Upholstered Folding Chairs
Make Them Before Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving is coming up quickly and If you are hosting this year, chances are you'll need some more spots to seat guests. Anthropologie makes some great looking but pricey ($198 each) upholstered fo...
Upholstery Inspiration: Patterned & Colorful Seats
Recovering a detachable chair seat is one of the simplest upholstery projects you can undertake. We’re far from skilled upholsterers, yet we’ve pulled off this project on a few different occasio...
How To: Shop the Globe without Going Far
By now, you've probably heard about the Sundance channel's new show, Man Shops Globe, with Anthropologie's Keith Johnson, whose fantasy job sends him around the world in search of unique objects. Al...
Morgan's DIY Plumbing Pipe Shelving
Morgan of The Brick House is undoubtedly talented: a stylish home, really excellent blog and the creation of a wonderful, DIY bookshelf pulled together for - get ready - around $200. This wall-size un...
How To: Balance Color In Your Spaces
Have you ever had the feeling that your space feels unbalanced when it comes to color? When you feel like you have all the pieces there to make a room work, but something just feels off? Click thro...
How To: Deal with Simultaneous Home Surprises
It never fails that when things break down, stall out, confuse or otherwise throw us off our daily routine, it happens in multiples. This week, it's been: a gas outage in our neighborhood (temps have ...
How-to: Clean a Painting
...with a Loaf of Bread?
When researching how to clean watercolor or oil paintings yourself at home, we were surprised to find this method that involves a loaf of bread......
How To: Stencil a Repeating Pattern on a Wall
From Ed Roth of Stencil1
We've written before about our love of stenciled walls (not so much the sponge-painted, ivy-patterned kind, but simpler styles), so we were super excited to see Stencil1's Ed Roth demystify the proc...
Pixelated Artwork Made from Paint Chips
Apartment Therapy Reader Project
Nite saw our recent how-to post on creating a pixelated painting and it inspired an email to us with some photos of an amazing bit of DIY artwork that he made from paint chips......
DIY Tufting Inspiration
Many who try their hand at a reupholstery job or retro-inspired detail go for tufting. While some of our favorite sofas are tufted, the projects shown here (throughout Apartment Therapy) show a head...
The Best Way to Wash Your Windows
A Compendium of Tips, Tricks, Advice & Info
Let the sunshine in! Not all of us have such lovely large windows like these (from Meg & John's place) but that doesn't mean that we get out of the much maligned chore of window washing. It's getting ...
10 How-Tos for Organizing and Displaying Collections
Collections almost always look better when they're organized. Strewn haphazardly around the home, they can be mistaken for clutter. Purposefully displayed, they look like art. For step-by-step tutor...
How To: Transform Your Closet into a "Dressing Room"
Most of us don't have the space for a real, old-school dressing room, but that doesn't mean we can't treat our closets with the same care that goes into designing a grand walk-in. For tips on transf...
Printable Checklists from MarthaStewart.com
Browsing the Martha Stewart website today, we noticed a new (or at least new to us) feature: the "Checklist Center." For those who love to-do lists, this might be your dream come true......
How To: Keep Floors Clean
Without Cleaning Too Much
We dread vacuuming, sweeping, and mopping, but in our quest to avoid these tasks, we've found a few ways to keep our floors cleaner for longer. In our experience, a little preventative care goes a l...
How To: Pixelated Painting
There are so many great details worth revisiting in Kevin and Dop's Playful Uptown Loft, but we (and several readers) are quite smitten with the pixilated Abe painting......
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