Crafts | DIY | Decorating | Renovations
The pillow covers I ordered from etsy’s diypillows arrived in the mail today. Brilliantly packaged in one of those plastic mail envelopes! Our room of course isn’t finished, but I couldn’t wait to share the pillow pics. Just for fun here is this space before we redid anything (before we even had bedroom walls!): [...]
Back when we used to have a serious primitive country bent to our decorating, we had a list a mile long of little web shops that sold country home accents; barn stars, pip berry garlands, grungy candles, etc. (Don’t worry if you have no idea what I’m sayin’…just follow along, k?). So when I wanted [...]
As Design Bloggers, Hubby and I were blessed to be given two Trade Day tickets for this year’s Interior Design Show. So this afternoon we got a sitter, drove downtown and wandered. Part of the fun for us was driving by old haunts that made us think of good times with some old friends. And of [...]
When PK over at Room Remix announced that she was going to have a Paint Party, I started thinking of all the paint projects we’ve done in the past year and a bit. You know, since we bought this bungalow and started to pretty her up. Um, there have been just a few. Who am [...]
You’re singing that song now, aren’t you? Come on, I know you are. (I admit every time I read this blog post title, I started singing it!) I recently stumbled on an old treasure. Well, it’s not THAT old. But it is a treasure. To me anyway. Because… My Mom actually hand made this [...]
As promised, this post is about the redone mirror that we redid for our Master Bedroom. Can’t break a promise, now can I? When we did our buffet and hutch revamp project, we were left with some unnecessary mirrors, seen here in the original buffet (masquerading as a dresser) kijiji photo. After pondering what to do with [...]
We’re still working away, little by little, on our Master Bedroom. Since this room was essentially created from our war-era bungalow’s original living room, there are many many projects to completing it. Most of you have already seen our flower sunburst: The headboard – albeit not finished entirely – is now mounted to the [...]
Kristine from The Painted Hive (we’ve featured her home before) recently made over some plain ol’ sliding closet doors (imagine her calling them Robe Doors, with an Australian accent!). And she turned them into something, well, much more stylish. Check it out. Now those are some great ‘robe doors’! If you go visit Kristine [...]
{aka}|design has always been about thrifty chic home decorating. If you’ve read our blog for long, you know we love a stylish home as much as any designer. And you also know we think it can be done on a (sometimes very small) budget. Designer style doesn’t have to mean designer prices. One way to add some pop [...]
What light fixture do we choose to hang over our (Idomo) farmhouse table? It’s not about the name because we may just DIY a fixture. It’s about something creative. Inspiring. Stunning. This Pottery Barn beauty, the Exeter 16-Jar Pendant, retails for $399. Too steep for us. BUT, Lauren and her hubby at Our Hiding Place recreated [...]
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