DIY "Colour-In" Dress is the Coloring Book You Can Wear.
Turns out, you don't have to know a lick about sewing to create your own clothes...
All you gotta do in stay in the lines.
Fantastic Faux-Floor Illusions.
In his later years, my grandfather took to intricate wood carving and burning, and he used one of these magnifying headband visor to see all the details. The siblings and cousins and I would sneak into the workspace and put it on, and then look down at the floor with our skewed depth perception through and below the lenses, making a seemingly ten-foot vertical drop off, into which we… Continue Reading
Painting with Plants - The Living Wall.
Designer Kari Elwell Katzander has painted a wall for the PNC bank building in Pittsburgh...
and, it's alive.
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Color Therapy Shower Heads
We've been able to turn our showers into aromatherapy sessions for years, with the help of shampoos, soaps and body washes, but now we can turn them into color therapy sessions as well. These new spa shower heads from iB Rubinetterie, which come in a 280mm square design or a 600mm round option, have lights integrated in… Continue Reading
Hang Can Vases for Art
Photo Image: Easy DiY at Home
Blank walls sometimes make us so nervous that we run out to Pier One or World Market and buy generic pictures to cover the blankness. Ick! If you're scared to pick up a paintbrush and a blank canvas, this simple idea from Easy DiY at Home shows you a simple way how to add metallic shine and bright repetitive pops (sorry, I swore I wouldn't say that anymore)… Continue Reading
Transformations with Paint
Kati's Victorian home had a pretty ho-hum dining room, until she gave it a diy once-over. Out went the old carpeting and on went some paint and… Continue Reading
DIY Modern Pop Pumpkin Centerpiece.
I love fall, but I simply can't get into acorns and dried corn husks in my home decor. So, I'm digging on this pop-ish pumpkin centerpiece. A bit of paint, a bit of tape, a lot of autumn, and a bunch of fun. Try it this weekend, and it'll last you until Thanksgiving...I mean, as long as your pumpkins do.
Peep the full how-to from Happy Mundane.
Color Rules for Small Spaces
Are you under the apprehension that an all-white color palette will make a small room look larger? If so, it's actually a MIS-apprehension, according to Anne Krueger of HGTV. In her article, Color Rules for Small Spaces, Ann sets us straight about color choices for decorating rooms scant on square footage. Here's the thumbnail… Continue Reading
How-To: Blackboard Pumpkins.
Simply can't commit to how to carve your jack-o-latern this Halloween?
Don't have to. Just cover them in a reusable surface, like chalkboard paint. This way, you can begin garnishing your gourds now, and they won't be rotten come Trick-or-Treat.
Very Orange Rooms
Do you love orange but are intimidated by it? If so, you're not alone. Although orange is an exhilarating color, it's also intense! 2Modern gives us some ideas on how to tame orange… Continue Reading
Paint a Floor Canvas.
Oh my goodness, rugs are such a pain to purchase. They're either 1) crazy tacky, or 2) crazy expensive.
So, make your own. Begin with a preprimed canvas, and get creative. The result is a surprisingly durable floor covering that can be as graphic or demure as you design it.
How-To: Spraypainted Wall Art.
Krylon.com offers a great DIY project featuring some of their less Crayolaish colors. A bit of tape, some actual leafs to stencil, and the result? A very fine natural modern print with a bit of glam.
Materials:
Materials- Krylon Indoor/Outdoor Paint - Gloss White
- Krylon Indoor/Outdoor Paint - Semi-Gloss Black
- Krylon Indoor/Outdoor Paint - Ivy Leaf
- Krylon Brushed Metallic - Satin Nickel
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How To: Roy G. Biv Cake.
Kaitlin from WhiskKid has got a few things figured out: 1) cakes should always be created from layers; 2) the more thin layers, the better, as they allow for more frosting; and 3) if you're gonna have crazy layers to support the frosting, you might as well make those substrates… Continue Reading
Make Your Own Pixelated Portrait from Paint Chips.
Earlier this month, Apartment Therapy Chicago featured a home with a pixelated portrait of Lincoln, which the owners created "by pixelating a photo and boiling it down to 9 shades of gray (both done in Photoshop). [Then they] built the canvas, gridded it off in 2 inch squares, and mixed the different shades of paint. At that point it basically became a paint by number."
Then, some clever AT reader took the approach, and recreated the aesthetic… Continue Reading
Make Your Own Chalkboard Paint.
Historically, they were called blackboards, and then sometime in the mid-20th century, they became green, and thus chalkboards. Now, you can turn anything chalkable, but are mostly limited to the original black.
Until now.
"The Craft at Home blog has a recipe that makes any acrylic paint of your preference chalk-friendly, though darker colors are still more effective as an actual writing surface. That recipe requires powdered tile grout and… Continue Reading
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