Apartment Therapy Tagged: DIY

Restyle a Basic Wooden Dining Table
Five Ideas

Sick of your plain wooden dining table? Before you consider shopping for a new one, think about how you can work with what you've got to make something new......

Ways to Use Slipcovers
Quick Change on the Cheap

When we think of slipcovers, we usually envision stretch-to-fit sofa covers for a beat-up old couch. The standard stretchy version can come in handy, but there are many other looks you can get with ...

The $3 Mirror Project

We double plus, love crafty creative projects that look fabulous and don't take up that much of our hard earned cash. This project is a great accent to the entryway of this home and is made of woode...

The Makings Of A Mid Century Modern Path

Mid Century enthusiast Jenn Ski wasn't fulled settled on having the traditional straight and narrow front walkway. Instead she turned to decades past for inspiration when it came to pouring her own c...

Paint the Backsplash
Fast & Easy DIY

We love the bright orange backsplash in Lisa and Jeremie's Parisian Open Space, one of our Small Cool 2009 contestants. In their gray and white kitchen, it adds some colorful balance. If you've got ...

Look! DIY Wine Rack

This wine rack was built by Lauren and Eric Wendlandt of Framework Design. We toured the exterior of their home during this summer's My Great Outdoors event, and couldn't wait to take a look inside....

Eddie Ross DIY's Halloween

By now we probably fall into the category of internet stalker when it comes to the stylings of Eddie Ross. We read the blog, follow the Twitter and are signed up for a floral class closer to the hol...

Quick Tip: Clean Oil Paint With Dish Soap

We've lived in older homes for many years now and anytime we've needed to do a quick paint touch up, 9/10 times it's oil paint. The bummer is, 9/10 times we're out of turpentine (to clean our brushe...

7 Ways to Use Rope Light

What's not to like about rope light? It's cheap, easy to install, and available in energy-efficient LED format. If you're looking for a way to light your kitchen cabinets, add some ambience to a bed...

Furniture From Scaffolding
Inspiration

Benches, chairs, beds, tables, decking and more has all been made out of ordinary construction grade scaffolding. It's not a set of materials most would chose to work with, but the looks, especiall...

Possible DIY? The See-Saw Bookshelf

There's a certain twinge of pride that comes with seeing a designer product and knowing you could make that at home for far less (or even at all). Often times those projects are shelving (hey we'r...

10 Ways to Use Tin Cans

We always forget what a nice, industrial look tin cans have when they're stripped of their labels. Before tossing them into the recycling bin, think about repurposing a few of them for a project......

10 Home Repair Tips & Tricks
Clip File

With fall officially in full gear, home owners start the mental check list of all those repairs on the summer to-do list that didn't quite get finished. After the jump we've brought together 10 hom...

Jason & Michael's Beautifully Structured Bohemian
House Tour

Name: Jason Loper & Michael Schreiber Location: Rogers Park, Chicago Size: 800 square feet Years lived in: Purchased 2 ½ years ago You might have heard us mention the name Jason Loper around the p...

What is Your Craft of Choice?

There is always a basket kicking around in my living room with a knitting project in it. Sometimes I'm working on it nearly everyday and then there are stretches where I'm too busy (or too distracted)...

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...

Before & After Umbrella Stand

Jenny, over at Little Green Notebook and owner of Pearl Street Interiors, has done a bang up job on this marvelous monogram project. All it took was a little paint and some freezer paper! Details ...

Displaying a Leaf Collection

With fall right around the corner, we've got leaves on the mind lately. It's true that the last time we pressed leaves was in a high school biology class, but we just might break out the skills agai...

DIY Inspiration: Bulletin Boards from High Street Market

Over at Etsy shop High Street Market, we spotted these charming tackboards that could easily inspire a DIY project. For product info, or ideas for making your own version, click through......

Colorful Vinyl Tape Striped Stairs by Jim Lambie

We've been inspired by Jim Lambie before on Apartment Therapy - our posts on his installations at MoMA and the Museum of Fine Arts showed him creating his signature patterns on floors and walls, respe...

From Milk Carton To Faux Bois Bookends

Jenn Draper over at 10th Muse Studios has been hard at work, making fabulous bookends, with the help of a few household items. Designer bookends can often break triple digits when it comes to price,...

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......

Roundup: 20 Posts We Keep Coming Back To

There are literally thousands of posts in our archives to help guide you along your path to a healthy and happy home. But there are some resource filled posts that we find ourselves coming back to f...

5 Great Repurposed Home Decor Ideas

We're all for recycling and repurposing, especially when the results are as fabulous as this. See what each of the above items is made from (a few even surprised us), after the jump! ...

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