How to: build a black side table with bent wood edges
We recently tried out a bent wood technique to see how it would work out and used it to build a smal ...
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How to make your own upholstery fabric - from sketch to color accuracy to fabric textures
With the green guest bedroom finished, let me tell you about how I made the fabric for the bed uphol ...
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Our new old home - fixing some whole house utilitiy things and picking finishes for the overall style
You know when you buy a new old home there are actually quite a few 'overall' big decisions you have ...
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How to move in one week - and pack your house in 7 hours
During our almost 20 year of marriage, Frank and I have moved a LOT. In fact 8 times in the past 16 ...
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How to: Organize a tangled mess of cables under your desk
We are in the process of making over our home office. We have made several DIYs that I am excited t ...
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Hide the cables behind a wall mounted TV
Shift Ctrl Art is now mobile friendly! I switched over to the new design a couple of days ago and I ...
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Tags: How To | Master Suite
How to: wallpaper - a beginner's guide
With the walls prepped for wallpaper, and lining paper attached to the wall, we set out to put up ...
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How to: age brass hardware instantly
Aside from scoring some great deals this weekend, we finished putting up shelving and trimming out t ...
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Master bath - Hardie backerboard installed - how we did it
Phase 4 is well underway: Shower prep and drywall.
In fact, all drywall and Hardie Backerboard ha ...
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Master bath - plumbing, electrical and new construction
Last time we had just completed demo of the old master bathroom and it looked like this:
Next we ...
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Our kitchen has a TV
As of last weekend our kitchen has been outfitted with a TV. Dh is fine with whatever brand of TV ...
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Build a planter box for your outdoor table
For our outdoor make-over we made this simple and inexpensive planter box for our patio table.
I ...
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Tags: How To | Outdoor Living
Painting the outdoor furniture - how I got that barnwood color
Edited: This post was missing content, so here it is again, this time in it's full version. Sorry ...
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Let's get Frog Taping! Entry hall reveal!
This is what our entry hall way looked like this Monday. There is of course a story of how we got ...
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How to: hanging globe lights over the patio dining area
Our kitchen is over on HouseLogic.com at the moment! I am in the same article as TheLetteredCottage. ...
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