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Posts tagged “easy”

Burlap Room Divider at Ahead of the Curve

When we attended the Ahead of the Curve event a few weeks ago, we spotted this neat room divider idea and wanted to share it with you. Instead of using a large screen, the showroom used......

DIY Dorm Room
Daily Danny

We've kept this image from Danny Seo's blog in our archives for a long time just waiting for the right moment to use this bit of inspiration. We love that Danny was able to transform a dorm room into...

10 Inspiring Small Space Balcony Gardens

A small balcony can be the best little hideaway as long as it isn't just a forgotten chair and a dead plant or two. Yes even a really tiny outdoor space has the potential to be a refuge from the re...

5 Messy Chic Bouquets

At this point in the summer we've haven't got any more energy for anything fussy or proper or...time consuming. So we love the idea of having some fresh picked messiness in our bouquets. They're e...

10 Cheap Summer Party Ideas

Earlier this week we highlighted some simple decoration ideas for throwing together a simple summer party. We want to take advantage of the longer days, the warm evenings and the feeling of being on ...

7 Easy Decorating Tricks For Simple Summer Shindigs

We've been planning on having people over this summer to enjoy the complex's pool, eat some food, hang out, maybe play the wii and just enjoy summer time. We haven't actually made it happen yet. S...

12 DIY's To Add Pizazz to a Generic Space

Sometimes we looks around our space and want to change everything. We're starting off with beige wall to wall, beige walls and those awful vertical blinds so there's plenty of room for improvement. ...

The Lazy Gardeners Solution

There comes a time when you realize that people are coming over and you have done nothing of what you had planned for you garden. You would like to have plants. You do not have time to spend plantin...

D.I.Y. Painted Cork Coasters

February is do-it-yourself month at Apartment Therapy and we wanted to include some small accents too. We spotted these modern number coasters over at Modern Cottage and thought they were an affordabl...

Finished! Revamped Patio Furniture

Earlier this summer we posted AimmeeRoo's progress on revamping her patio furniture, well she's finished and we're happy to say that we're totally jealous. Amazing what some paint and fabric (and har...

Update on the Bare Lightbulb

Thanks to everyone's suggestions for the bare lightbulb in my kitchen. I checked out all of the ideas you guys had and finally settled on one. It came in the mail yesterday, I put it up and I love ...

Casual Summer Cure

If you're looking to conquer some paperwork, work on the garden, finally clean out the kitchen, or just figure out a way to make your space feel better without spending any money, check out the LA Cur...

Best Self Watering Solutions for Container Gardens

This morning we talked about expanding crystals to help save water while keeping plants alive in the heat. We thought we'd delve into the archives and round up our favorite self watering products so ...

Better Homes and Garden's Parkway Plan

There were mixed reactions to the idea of planting the parkway, but you can apply the same ideas (and plants) to any part of a garden. We even found a plan that walks you through how and what to plan...

Do One Thing Today

Sometimes the smallest things make the biggest difference. Choose something to do today that you've been putting off. Do you have a bag of donations in your trunk that you've been meaning to drop of...