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The Judges Choices: Rebecca Robertson Pasanella from Martha Stewart

To Contest Page Info and All Entries All day (and into the night) we're rolling out our judges choices. Now we're up to Rebecca Robertson Pasanella, Deputy Decorating Editor Martha Stewart Living. ...

The Judges Choices: Gregory Han - ATLA Editor

To Contest Page Info and All Entries All day today we're rolling out our judges choices. We start with Gregory Han, managing editor of ATLos Angeles. All his top pics are below the jump. The judge...

Gregory's Project: The Stereo Cabinet #7 - Moving On

Technically, I can no longer call this my January Jumpstart project, because it's now officially February...yet there's still so much to do! But I am very pleased with what I've accomplished from the ...

Laure's January Jumpstart #2: Making Pillows

The fabric is fresh out of the dryer and ready to be ironed So my January Jumpstart Project has hit a bit of a snag. And today being the last day of January, I thought I'd out myself....

LA January Jumpstart Judge: Gregory Han

Name/Title: Gregory Han, Apartment Therapy Los Angeles Managing Editor Location: Los Angeles, CA Introducing our second January Jumpstart Judge, Gregory. He'll be helping to award our six eBay prizes...

Gregory's Project: The Stereo Cabinet #6 - A Stain In the Neck

The last time I checked in with my January Jumpstart project, I was finishing staining the cabinet. Two days later after drying (the wet weather increased drying time to twice as long, even inside our...

January Jumpstart: Jon's Ikea Roger Chair Transformation #3

Here is the final part of my January Jumpstart! After some masking tape, light sanding, several coats of paint, and then a few coats of spray lacquer, I was ready for my unveiling......

Gregory's Project: The Stereo Cabinet #5 - House of Stain

Saturday morning we made our way over to the hardware store and got ourselves all the supplies we needed to get started in transforming the stripped bare exterior of the stereo cabinet into something...

January Jumpstart: Deadline Moved to Tuesday, 1.22.08

Hey all you DIY'ers out there. Since Monday is a blog holiday, everyone gets another day to finish their project and send them in. In addition, we've also got our shiny new CONTEST PAGE to show of...

January Jumpstart: Jon's Ikea ROGER chair transformation #2

So Part Two of my January Jumpstart continues... First thing I did was, well, open the boxes and lay everything out. I figured I should lightly sand all the pieces while they were still unassembled. ...

January Jumpstart Contest: Submission Form and Prizes!

Calling out all DIYers out there, we've finally got an official entry form for those of you are interested in joining us during our January Jumpstart month projects. eBay is providing a prize of $1500...

Gregory's Project: The Stereo Cabinet #4 - No Guts, No Glory

Yes, I admit it...I was glued to my favourite Mac websites this morning, greedily reading updates about Macworld annoucements like the little Apple cult member I am. But I had an ulterior agenda: I w...

January Jumpstart: Best of Martha's Craft of the Day

Still not sure what to do for your January Jumpstart project? We were going back through Martha's Craft of the Day projects and found enough ideas to last us at least until the end of the year. Ou...

January Jumpstart: Jon's Ikea ROGER chair transformation #1

Since Laure and Gregory have already shared their January Jumpstart projects, I thought it was time for me to get mine going as well! Ever since I first saw this Neptune chair at Anthropologie, I've ...

Gregory's Project: The Stereo Cabinet #3 - Enter Sandman

Armed with my neighbor's hand sander, some 80 and 100 grit sandpaper and a (fairly) steady hand, I got working on removing the thin layer of stained and damaged wood ontop and all around the stereo c...

Gregory's Project: The Stereo Cabinet #2 - The Strip Show

I decided while I dilly-dally about what I eventually want to do with my January Jumpstart, I might as well get started with the down and dirty business of stripping the unit of all its extraneous an...

Gregory's Project: The Stereo Cabinet #1

It's January 7th, time to kick off our January Jumpstart Contest across the country and around the world. The premise is simple: everyone has at least one home related project that's been gatherin...

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