Tag: January Jumpstart | Apartment Therapy

How To: Make a Shoe Cabinet Landing Strip

Time: A few hours each on 3 consecutive days. Cost: $175 Kate3 tackled the shoe clutter in her home's entryway by customizing an IKEA cabinet with some wallpaper and some unique quartz stone knobs, a...

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......

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: 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 ...

Laure's Project #1: Why Spraypaint is your Friend

Let's face it, we all have big dreams when it comes to our living spaces. We're going to learn to reupholster, to refinish that cabinet, to rewire the bathroom and demo the drywall too. But if yo...

January Jumpstart: Making Pillows

Wow. The holidays are...over? That sure went quickly. But now I feel squarely planted in the New Year, full of hope and promises to myself of what I'll do. And conveniently now that all my atte...