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How To: Make Eco-hip Paper Ornaments
By ModHomeEcTeacher
STOP!! Don't even go down the cheapy Christmas ornament aisle. Look what you can make from paper. One is done by quilling, rolling and gluing pieces of paper.
Get 'em while they're young at Make it Ruby
By DIY Maven
My heart leapt with joy this weekend when I heard about a new online magazine called Make it Ruby. The magazine/website features DIY projects and games that are targeted to the tween girl audience, a segment of the population that has been underrepresented, according to Make it Ruby's creators, in the online DIY tutorial world.
How To: Diamond Tuft a Wall
By ModHomeEcTeacher
Photo Image: BHG
Interior designer Kerri Gutekunst and her husband decided to give themselves a padded room in their San Diego home. My guess is that the blue vinyl squares were marked, cut and painstakingly sewn together before taking a little diagonal turn for some mid century jazzy movement. » READ MORE
Hang Can Vases for Art
By ModHomeEcTeacher
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) of colo » READ MORE
Ikea Hack: The Gorm Shelving Bench.
By Chrisjob
The Gorm Shelving System from Ikea is a unique offering - it's made of real fir, rather than Ikea's might-as-well-have-invented-it laminate-coated compressed fiberboard recipe. Cool, but the downside? Sometimes softwoods simply ain't straight, and your Gorm ends up a little crooked.
No worries, says Randofo. I'll just make a bench outta it.
Elegant and Eclectic Thanksgiving Tablescapes You Can Do Yourself
By ModHomeEcTeacher
Photo Images: Bobbi Fabian
Look, Thanksgiving deserves its three weeks of November all to itself. Nobody's horning in on Christmas' time. Thanksgiving is a less stressed, better version of Christmas. It's like the delicious appetizer before Christmas. The decorating and preparation is calmer, more understated, elegant, dignified and poised. Erinn Valencich over on HGTV shows us that Thanksgiving decor has gone way beyond pilgrims and turkey statues. If you want to get in the mood, just take a look at these sophisticated tablescapes that will inspire you to get Autumny creative. I'm doing the top one with the white pumpki » READ MORE
Free EBook: The DIY Handbook.
By Chrisjob
An eBook is to printed books as an email is to snail mail: it's an electronic version that eliminates the paper and still provides all the info. With the imminent release of a new Curbly eBook (keep your eyes peeled), I thought I'd provide a free download to getcha ready.
"The DIY Handbook" from HandyManFixHomeRepair offers a stepping off guide for anyone wanting to tackle their own home improvement projects. The book hopes to empower the reader » READ MORE
DIY Modern Pop Pumpkin Centerpiece.
By Chrisjob
I love fall, but I simply can't get into acorns and dried corn husks in my home decor. So, 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.
Before/After: Greasy Green to White Matelasse
By ModHomeEcTeacher
In order to save big bucks this time around, one of my Beginning Upholstery students picked up this greasy green La-Z-Boy swivel rocker in hopes of transforming it into a pristine white matlasse' nursery rocker for her 2nd baby. She was well aware of all issues surrounding white, newborn baby and the amount of time spent in the rocker. See what you think of her first big upholstery project which she took home just one week before baby arrived. » READ MORE
DIY Headboard Ideas
By DIY Maven
Who says a headboard has to be a board? These alternatives to traditional headboards are totally do-able by just about anyone.
Sneak Peek Reupholstery: Desk Chair and Low Ottoman
By ModHomeEcTeacher
Will October and the Halloween hoopla ever end? I need to feel the pressure to get these redecorating projects underway. The top two priorities are the yellow Flexsteel office chair from the 1960's. Purchased at Goodwill Outlet for .99, it will be recovered in a nice little modern red-orange fabric. The ottoman will be torn down and redressed in another red-orange, but this time the fabric will be stitched into symmetrical squares, button tuf » READ MORE
How-To: Paper Silhouette Art.
By ChrisjobFrom TimeOut New York, these lively framed paper silhouette in series interact with each other and the wall. A perfect use for a collection of thrifted frames (paint 'em black), and a great way to honor your friends that hate to be photographed, just print 'em, trace 'em, cut and frame!
Materials
• Old photographs or a camera and printer to make new ones
• Black construction paper
• Scissors
• Tape
• An assortment of picture frames
Read m » READ MORE
DIY Thanksgiving: 15 Early House Prep Tips
By ModHomeEcTeacher
Don't get caught like this--table centerpiece is ready and the wall is still being painted--Yikes!
We're not even to Halloween and, from past experience, it's time get my Thanksgiving (House Projects) To Do list in order. Every year I'm caught at the last minute trying to spruce up the joint and make the most outstanding tablescapes (in the words of Sandra Lee) the world has ever seen.
We're five weeks out. There's plenty of time, if well planned, to whip the house into an entertaining mecca that will meet even your highest expectations. » READ MORE
DIY Photo Reflector.
By Chrisjob
At the rate folks are cranking out DIY photostudio equipment (here, here, here, and here), it's entirely possible to create a fully functioning and incredibly lit studio shopping only at home improvement and craft store.
So, add this one to the list. A DIY collapsable photo reflector that looks identical to those sold commercially. Whether its reflectivity is as awesome isn't clear, but I can't imagine that shininess is for naught.
8 Killer Halloween How-Tos!
By Chrisjob
So, I found this great collection of Halloween and Fall How-To projects, and at first, I was like "I'ma share the fondant pumpkins;" and then, "No, I'ma do those drilled LED pumpkins, or perhaps that crazy bat!"
Pattern Tape for Awesome DIY Picture Frames.
By Chrisjob
I don't know how it happened, but somehow, I ended up on the HappyTape blog, subtitled "pretty, pretty tape, imported from Japan." Apparently, some cats in Japan are making some amazing patterned, re-stickable tape, and it's going by the name...you guessed it, Japanese tape.
Pumpkin Carver's Panoply
By ModHomeEcTeacher
Individual photo credits here
How are you going to carve it? The question I always put to my brother as he plunged the knife into the top of the pumpkin, releasing the pent up aroma of pumpkin guts. Pumpkin carving has gone gourmet, so don't wait until the last minute to come up with your own inspired design. Flickr member Sound's Goods scoured Flickr in 2007 to come up with these designs and t » READ MORE
DIY Starscape Ceiling.
By Chrisjob
It's 2009, and glow-in-the-dark stick-em-up stars simply won't do any more. In the era of accessibility to LEDs, fiber optics, a quite accurate (albeit 2D) home planetarium can be had with a bit of wiring and alot of holes.
From Hack-a-Day: "[Mike Galloway] set out to install a lighted starscape in the ceiling of the baby room...This setup involves an LED based illuminator and bundles of fiber optics. [Mike] first mounted the illuminator in the » READ MORE
Paint a Floor Canvas.
By Chrisjob
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.
Bright, Cheery Glam Details to Make Your Kitchen Pop
By ModHomeEcTeacher
Photo Images: Kevin Oreck, Architect Inc.
It's all in the details. Yesterday CocoCozy, my west coast go-to blog, featured knock out photos by her buddy, L.A. architect Kevin Oreck in her Architect's Tour of a Hollywood Regency Home. Decked out cabinet door trim makes these cabinets supremely cool, the three simple white bowls with red fruit add a colorful splash of friction (other subtle red accents below) and that green upholstery on those Regency chairs...lovely!! » READ MORE
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