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The kitchen also features a $5 DIY "backsplash" idea that totally transformed the space.

If you're in the market for DIY colorful shape painting inspiration, this house is for you!

And all the changes were easy, budget-friendly, and landlord-approved!

The place was previously a rental and had beige walls, ugly wood kitchen cabinets, and Formica countertops... the remodel makes the place feel more updated while also maximizing storage and without breaking the bank.

Tall ceilings, original architectural details, and an incredibly bold & colorful palette... this recently renovated home is stunning!

You'll find mirrors on the ceiling, a collection of bottles on top of the cabinets in this first-time home buyer's transformed home. This "Supergraphic Regency" house does everything wrong, right.

The homeowner's creative solution for her ground-floor windows has become her main business.

There's a reason Lara Bezzina is called the "Gold Leaf Queen." Along with creative uses of gold leaf, her home also has lots of DIY and budget decor ideas!

This classic four-square house in Charleston was originally built in 1935 and before getting remodeled, needed a more efficient and open layout, and lots of love.

Julia Gorman Ioves anything with intense color or pattern, and she loves to throw them all together without any careful placement. It makes for a messy beautiful space!

Angela Wator, owner/designer of BASH Party Goods, has decorated this 1896 Victorian house in Chicago with color, pattern, and fun.

Apartment Therapy's Small/Cool contest grand prize winner has an Oakland apartment featuring smart small-space ideas. And one of the most organized pantries we've ever seen!

Hand-painted wallpaper, colorful art, and a rainbow array of cute home decor... Anna Jacobs' UK home is STUNNING.

This South Carolina condo looks AMAZING now.

"This is one of those neighborhoods where if you want to have a peacock, you have a peacock."

This wedding planner and her husband, a photographer, live in this open-plan Seattle loft home that they laid out brilliantly.

India and her partner Harry bought this 465-square-foot flat a year ago, completely redoing the kitchen and giving the whole space a fresh new earthy paint job.

Jessica Brigham has turned an already charming Craftsman bungalow into a "modern eclectic glamazon" home bursting with green plants and patterns!

This UK's home style is eclectic, but not in your face. Paolo loves colors, but in calming palettes. It's a stylish but subtle (and inspiring!) space.

This is honestly one of the most colorful and patterned home we've ever seen!

Artist Lani Kennefick made this small apartment her own by painting all of the walls—and most of the floors.

A restored garage space is color therapy for your eyes, an aromatic journey for your senses, and a calm vibe for your soul.

Lilly Garcia finds inspiration in bright happy colors, nature, as well as her Caribbean heritage and Puerto Rican upbringing, where color, greenery, and the ocean are the center of everything.

Kothney-Issa and Marek Bush of "Living Tiny With the Bushes" live in a tiny house that gives them the flexibility to meet their financial goals and dreams.

Lizzy Higham says this home was 50 shades of beige when she and her family moved in... but now it's filled with nearly every color of the rainbow!

Salvage material expert Joanne Palmisano and her husband did a lot of the work on this house transformation themselves, like laying the tile, painting, sanding floors, and much more.

Interior designer Gunnar Larson (one of the participating designers for Apartment Therapy's Small/Cool Experience) and his equally stylish wife Sara Larson share this small Brooklyn apartment with their kids, Ihlen and Royal.

"When we moved in, every single wall was painted canary yellow. We spent a few long days painting, which totally transformed the feel of the house and is ALWAYS worth the work!"

Rana Argenio is the founder of direct-to-consumer linens brand 10 Grove and lives in this industrial Tribeca apartment with her husband.

Lesley Robb, graphic designer and founder of Swell Made Co. and her partner put an offer on this house over FaceTime—sight unseen in real life.

Elena and her husband Christoph bought this fixer upper in 2015, and have been slowly transforming it into a gorgeous home since.

Apartment Therapy photographer Jessica Rapp shares this cute apartment with her partner Iain and their two cats, Pigeon and Jonjon.

Though only 300 square feet on the inside, this bus home has everything a "regular" home might have, including a washing machine, two custom log fireplaces, a full-sized tile shower, and more!

It's packed with genius small-space storage and living ideas PLUS has a very inspiring plant propagation wall!

This home's old kitchen was a sore thumb before its budget refresh: the backsplash was mismatched tile, the floors were dingy linoleum, and the entire space was dim.

The builder-grade home got a gorgeous modern update.

Kayla is a “more is more” kinda girl, so she's filled her South Carolina home to the brim with things that make her happy.

Christiana Paoletti, head farmer at The Backyard Farm Company, lives on two beautiful acres with her partner Kodiak Drewry.

The apartment is just 600 square feet, but the 13-foot ceilings and white wooden floors make it appear much larger. And there are exposed beams, soaking tub, and working fireplace in this remodeled space.

Tiara utilizes mirrors, tall ceilings, a lofted bedroom, and other smart decor choices to make her small studio apartment feel much larger than it actually is.

"Aesthetic goals are cute but a home filled with good energy and things you genuinely love is even cuter."

Cookbook author, holistic nutritionist, and food stylist Kirsten Buck's 700-square-foot apartment is full of inspiring renter's solutions and ideas.

Ella Khan found this apartment listing on Craigslist for a 800-square-foot space: a spacious unit in a former elementary school that was built in 1915.

Robyn Blair Davidson's small NYC apartment has one of the cheeriest work-from-home spaces we've ever seen.

New York-based makeup artist Kim White completely transformed her teeny Brooklyn studio apartment with IKEA hacks, contact paper, and smart storage ideas.

The small peek of this renovated UK home is worth seeing thanks to the homeowners' DIY ingenuity, refreshing modern style, and their fun use of primary colors throughout.

A small half bathroom got a beautiful makeover thanks to some William Morris wallpaper.

Honestly the whole home is pretty gorgeous.

Over time this townhouse has taken on a well-traveled, layered, and “internationally eclectic” feel.

Before remodeling, this house had old mustard-colored carpet, a micro-sized kitchen, and peeling linoleum throughout. It had been abandoned for several years, and was in need of some major TLC.

Our News and Culture Editor wears rainbows, sports rainbow hair, and even has prisms in her windows that throw rainbows all day.

Everything in the apartment was built by Jack and his roommates—like the walls, rooms, even the kitchen island—all to precisely fit their needs.

See why this apartment was nicknamed the "The Lavender Palace."

Spoiler alert: There's some of the best wallpaper and fabric patterns in here ever! You'll be inspired to play with print in your own home.

Keeping the furnishings minimal makes this small rental apartment feel quite airy and spacious.

This small Chicago bungalow is quite literally bursting with life.

The house was an unkempt labyrinth.

Amanda Wolters shares this 380-square-foot tiny house called "Ladybird" with her two pups, Barb and Vera.

The master bathroom is pretty dreamy, too!

There's a gorgeous yellow sofa in the dining room, five coffee tables in the living room, and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in three rooms!

From moody hues to cool furniture to great art, this Victorian house in the UK has something for everyone.

There are smart storage ideas... as well as one of the cutest jewelry storage ideas maybe ever.

A neutral color palette, multi-purpose furniture, and prioritizing how the space NEEDS to function are the design tools self-help author Karen Salmansohn used to make her 650-square-foot apartment work for her and her young son.

It's only 330 square feet big, but this New York City studio apartment is INCREDIBLE.

This senior editor at "Garden & Gun" magazine lives in a STUNNING studio apartment with no less than NINE stained glass windows (plus a whole lot of charm).

Chelsea and Warren's home—a two-story apartment in the Olde Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia—is perfectly reflective of the merging of their two lives.

What a kitchen island!

Noah Marion power washed, painted, scraped, and replaced light fixtures, fans, appliances, toilets to reveal this Austin house's beautiful bones.

Name: Freddy Grant, with Burt, my husband, Grungle, our Jack Russell, and Totoro, our giant Maine Coon.Location: Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, Australia Size: 1600 square feetYears lived in: 2.5 years, owned This house has been my latest outlet for my creativity; hunting for things and putting them together with your lifetime of mementos to make a space you love, full of memories and meaning.

Traditional and modern pieces are placed side-by-side in an unexpected meeting of styles in this adobe-style house.

Originally the cabin was one large room with a stone fireplace and only 545 square feet big. After several changes through the years, it's now a dreamy and magical second home.

This 1988 Airstream Limited went from being full of junk and brown recluse spiders to a warm, cozy, minimal home on wheels.