Using curved upholstery needles.
If you’ve ever covered a piece of foam over a plywood seat hospital-corner-style, you’ve probably ended up with corners looking something like this. Oh, sure, it looks better than the original fabr...
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Top 15 Eco-Friendly Building Trends
This month’s installment of REALTOR® Magazine Online includes the top fifteen green home building trends. In no particular order, they are:Copper Roofs. Copper roofs and their alloys can last 100+ ...
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Red, White and Booze: DIY Cocktail Ideas for July 4th
Let’s face it, the Fourth of July is less about independence than fireworks, food and adult refreshments. For the sake of my digits, I’ll leave the pyrotechnics to the professionals, and as I’m...
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Houseplant Make-Over Tips
My Snake Plant (aka Mother-in-Law’s Tongue) started looking a little sad. After some consideration, I decided to give it a make-over rather than replace it. MILT’s have shallow roots, which is why ...
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How to Make a Designer Key Rack
So last week I was searching for cool things to post on Curbly, when I came across the Marvelous Key Rack by Tomke Biallas and Grisella Kreiterling. The designer version is made out of a slab of oa...
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This story could save you thousands of dollars in real estate commissions.
Once upon a time...a handsome young man went to an open house. The real estate salesman, Hank, welcomed the man in. "It’s a fixer upper," said Hank of the one hundred and eighty nine thousand dolla...
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An argument for making cloth napkins. (How to included.)
According to Seventh Generation’s website "If every household in the U.S. replaced just one 250 count package of virgin fiber napkins with 100% recycled ones, we could save: *1 million trees *2.7 m...
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It’s Raining Owls
Look what dropped in our yard: a baby Great Horned Owl. Actually there’s two of them back there. Their parents set up housekeeping several months ago, so we weren’t surprised with the outcome of th...
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Solar Powered Umbrella
Just in time to light up your warm summer nights is the solar powered umbrella. Its solar panel, which screws to the finial, powers 18 white LED lights that are fixed to the ribs of the umbrella as...
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Soap Carpet: Lovely or Loogy?
New from Scandinavian Design Center is the Soap Carpet. This collection of bubbles is made of 100% hand-tufted wool and is 220 centimeters in diameter. Besides green, it comes in white too. I just ...
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How To Make An Upside Down Tomato Planter
Have you heard the buzz about these upside down tomato planters? You can buy pricey containers and plastic bags in an effort to try this inverted growing technique, but here’s a really inexpensive ...
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My Craft Room: Arty Abacus
What, you might ask, does an abacus have to do with a craft room? Nothing, really. If any ciphering is going on in there, it’s on a calculator. But I digress. The abacus idea came from a basket of ...
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My New Craft Room: How to ‘upholster’ a tin can.
This is a fun and easy way to make an ordinary can look fabulous. All you need to do it is a bit of fabric, a scissors, an iron, a hot glue gun and a can. First cut your fabric to fit the circumfe...
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My New Craft Room: Comfy chair make-over and the importance of piping
So after the walls and work station, I needed something for me and my assistant to sit upon. Luckily, I had an old café chair found at a charity rummage sale a few years back. Although, at the time...
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What’s your ‘it’ room?
The May issue of REALTOR Magazine, includes a trend report about the ‘it’ room. The ‘it’ room is the next big thing in residential construction and it’s based on builders’ best guesses. Popular and...
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Better Surf Than Sorry
If you’re a surfer, or even if you’re not, check out Better Surf Than Sorry’s website for everything surfboard-er-y. Of special interest to the Curbly crowd is their surf-style home decor, of cours...
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Clever Window Cling
Strössel Design’s window cling, available in four patterns, provides privacy and style. In rolls of 34 x 98 & 48 x 120 cm (for 20 to 27 bucks from Scandinavian Design Center), the decorative fi...
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A Peek Behind the Curtains: An Interview with Stephen Barikian
Recently, I had the opportunity to present a few questions to Steve Barikian, Assistant Prop Person of the touring company of Matthew Bournes’ musical adaptation of Edward Scissorhands. As you’ll s...
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Assembling “It’s a Wonderful Life†Housewarming and Wedding Baskets
A few years ago, I heard Martha give a tutorial on how to assemble a housewarming gift based upon the basket given to George and Mary Bailey in "It’s a Wonderful Life." Basically, you find a lovely...