Forget your iron? Dissatisfied with the harmful chemicals in commercial products? Then, mix up your own.
Add the ingredients to a small spray bottle and mix to combine. Spray and hang.
From Tipnut.com, via Lifehacker.
My intense allergies will never allow me to share my home with any fuzzy quadrupeds. But were I able, I'd love to create amazing meals just for them. So, pet-lovers, throw out your canned pastes, extruded hydrogenized goos, and recalled nasties and give some of these a try.
What do you do with an old coffee table with a dinged up or stained top? Turn it into a soft, lovely, upholstered bench for your hallway, end of your bed or as an upholstered ottoman in front of the sofa. This pine bench was $13.99 at Goodwill (a little overpriced in my opinion). With some fresh new fabric, supplies and these simple instructions, it morphed into a different creature.
… Continue Reading
One of the quickest and easiest ways to embellish fabric is by stenciling it. But instead of buying fabric stencils, I decided to make my own using one of my paper punches, and some address labels. The supplies include:
Pipes can be temperamental -they can leak, sweat, freeze, or make loud noises. But unlike electric work, many common plumbing problems can easily be overcome by the well-prepared DIYster.
This fun project sponsored by ApartmentTherapy was just what I needed to jolt me out of the winter blahs. For step by step instructions on how to turn a plain Salvation Army (I know, disloyal to my Goodwill) nightstand into an upholstered, colorful nightstand, check out www.apartmenttherapy.com January Jumpstart Midwest Project #14. The award post is under the East winners. For a few more before and after projects, check… Continue Reading
When I first started writing for Curbly, my biggest worry in constructing a how to was its translation. Would my readers be able to follow the steps? Would anyone be able to replicate the process outlined in the how to? To help alleviate my fears, I did what any novice blogger would do, I read other blogs. Although I discovered plenty of how-to-write-how-to’s out there, they weren’t specifically for DIY how to articles. Ultimately, I… Continue Reading
If you were to go to your local, well-stocked bookstore, and happened to find Issue 33 of Readymade magazine, you might flip it open and check out all the fascinating articles and some amazing how-tos. And if, in this process, you made your way to pages 58-59 and the "Ready-Whip" column, you'd see a how-to article entitled "Build You Own Butcher Block."
I happened to have written that article. Even more interesting, that's my actual piece in… Continue Reading
Ikea hacking goes commercial with the Moddi: a DIYable murphy bed made from 12 Ikea Lack side tables and a bit of hardware. According to it's website:
The Only Floating Murphy Bed Available
The Moddi murphy bed is attached to the wall with the a french cleat. A french cleat is a technique cabinet makers prefer when installing cabinets because it’s an easy way to mount something big and bulky. But the coolest thing about a… Continue Reading
Heather Smith-Prisco loved these 50's canisters when she found them online, so she decided to use them as inspiration for a makeover of her own set of vintage canisters.
Read her full how-to and see lots of step-by-step photos on her Flickr page.
Via Design*Sponge.
"Canadian Craftster" Kansas A offers an excellent how-to for hemming jeans. The thick denim and triple or even quadruple layers of seams can often lead to broken needles. She does use a serger, but that shouldn't limit you from giving it a try.
ABC.com highlights some helpful websites which "can help do-it-yourselfers with ideas, product suggestions and how-to guides."
They suggest:
Once you've mastered the tampon flower bouquet, and throughly appreciated the tampon chandelier, cruise on over to tamponcrafts.com for all sorts of how-tos and crafts using these apparently very maleable hygiene products. My faves include:
The Tampon Shooter
The Tampon Pan Flute
Tampon Ghosts
New York Real Estate agent Cynthia Kern offers some basic tips to nurture the natural human DIYstinct in each of us. No how-to's specifically, but loads of good suggestions for resources and motivation, like:
-
-
-
7280 views | Comments (2)