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Home Design & Decor on the Cheap
Only a couple of more weeks of school and it’s officially summer! I love dressing up my front door for the season, so I’m thinking of creating a new Summer Wreath. I’ve been searching the web high and low for some awesome ideas…. So today I thought I’d share with you my Top 15 Fabulous [...]
Today I’m guest posting over at Amanda’s blog, Serenity Now. Please stop by and say hello! OK, now onto the normal post. I’m a girl who likes change. Anyone close to me will tell you that I change the décor in my home every six months… or at least so it seems. That’s why I [...]
Since we’ve been spending a lot of time on the front porch recently while our little one plays outside, I decided it was time to spruce up our space. The old rockers we had on our front porch we purchased the day we moved into our home… over 6 years ago! Let’s just say they [...]
It’s been an amazing week unveiling my master bedroom makeover! Now it’s time to reveal where I purchased a lot of my goodies (in case you were wondering!). First up is the bedroom furniture. We purchased (ok, not we… my parents got this for us as a housewarming gift!) this bedroom set from Value City [...]
Yesterday I unveiled our master bedroom makeover! My favorite part of the room is definitely our accent wall. I found these 4x8ft sheets of this cedar MDF wall paneling from Lowe’s for only $14.96 per sheet. This paneling had the exact look I was going for: whitewashed wood with neutral tones of white, gray and [...]
I’m in desperate need of new flooring throughout my home. I meant it, desperate. My hubby and I know that we want to put our house on the market in the next year or two, but we can’t wait any longer to upgrade our 6 year old cheap carpeting. But to what? It seems like [...]
Well I just realized that I haven’t shown you my craft room in awhile. I think the last thing you saw was my stenciled yellow wall back in November and a couple of minor projects here and there. So, why haven’t you seen much from this room? Probably cause I hate it. Ok, ok… hate [...]
Only a couple of more days until Easter! I really didn’t do many projects this year specifically for this holiday (I think I’m still a little burnt out from Christmas crafts!). But while sitting home yesterday with a sick child and cleaning my craft room I noticed some materials that would be perfect for an [...]
IT’S OFFICIALLY SPRING! Oh, my favorite time of the year when the flowers begin to bloom, kids running through the streets again on their bikes, fire pits with the neighbors, LOVE IT! So let’s celebrate this season with new Spring Wreath! I gathered some supplies from Michaels: grape vine wreath form multi colored flowers jeweled [...]
I got some new curtain panels from Pier 1 Imports this past week. The peacock blue were just a little too drastic, even for my taste! I still have a plan for the old curtains (thinking maybe my home office), but I needed something more neutral for our living room/dining room. So what do ya [...]
Need a quick and easy way to add some chic décor to your home on a budget? Then you’ll LOVE these painted glass vases I created for under $7… TOTAL!! LOVE that (and the price)! Pin It And the best part? You only need TWO supplies: Clear cheap glass vases ($1 each from Dollar Tree) [...]
I really didn’t have anything to post today so I thought I’d show you a little project that I did for my Aunt’s front door. She was sick of her plain ol’ sidelights and wanted to spruce them up a bit. Yeah, sorry for the dead photo but it’s winter in St. Louis… well, kinda. [...]
A couple of weeks ago while checking out Rosy Red Buttons blog I found a clock that was created using family photographs…brilliant! While I loved the idea of this project, I thought I could create it much easier using a clock I found on clearance. So I got to work! Pretty cute huh? This quick & easy [...]
A neighbor of mine asked me to paint a mirror for her mother’s bedroom a couple weeks ago. I have to admit, I was kinda nervous about painting this gorgeous mirror (don’t mind the dog or mess in the photo)! It’s always hard doing a project for a friend, but I wanted to help! My “client” [...]
Two weeks ago I posted about using fabric to cover an old lamp shade to go with my new great room (aint’ she purdy? love the red swirls!). I had another old lamp shade sitting in the basement and really needed to add some extra light by my two red reading chairs. So here we [...]
Yep, I’m giving my great room a mini-makeover. I needed to paint: something lighter, brighter and desaturated since I’m starting to add a lot more COLOR in the room. Whelp… Hee, hee. Can you tell I’m excited? This is a WORK IN PROGRESS, but I couldn’t wait to show you the difference a coat of [...]
Last week I posted about my Home Goals for 2012. The first thing I really want to tackle on my list? Start introducing more of my eclectic style in my traditional great room, which means a POP of color and some funky pieces. I recently added new lamps to my master bedroom and wanted to [...]
So the holidays have come and gone this year, and my house almost feels empty without decorations busting from the seams. I still wanted a little bit of winter flair so I decided to create a fun and festive Pinecone Winter Wreath using my favorite winter colors, silver & blue. Pin It First I gathered [...]
WOW, what a year! I went “live” with this little blog back on May 23rd as a way to record my DIY projects while my hubby was off working nights and weekends. I could have never dreamed that 7 months later I would have over 700 Facebook followers and a daily average of about 5,000 [...]
I first spotted this gorgeous flowered lamp shade below from Anthropologie a couple of weeks ago on Pinterest. Priced at $98, I knew I could easily create something similar for MUCH less! And I know just the place… my daughter’s plain jane pink lamp shade. First thing I did was gather my supplies. I purchased [...]
There’s a wonderful little antique and home decor shop called Willow Lake right up the road from my house. While grazing through their shop last month, I spotted a beautifully distressed green shutter for only $15. It’s been sitting aside for the past couple of weeks while I’ve been working on my home office/craft room transformation [...]
My good friend from J’Lynn Photography gave me this wonderful idea! In the past she printed some of her fabulous photos on decorative metal cutouts and used them as decor around her home. It got me thinking… I love how these puppies are versatile: hang on some hooks or a corner of mirror, display them [...]
My kitchen is definitely not my dream kitchen. For some stupid reason when my husband and I built our first home together 6 years ago, we picked out gray countertops and builder grade oak cabinets in the kitchen. Blah! The gray countertops against the orangish oak cabinets never made sense to me and I wanted [...]
I found this adorable fabric scrap wreath from One More Moore’s blog post she created back in November 2010. I thought this craft would be the perfect idea to add a little bling to my daughter’s bedroom door. So off I went to get my supplies! I purchased a metal wreath frame for $3, a [...]
My family finally got home from our Florida vacation late Saturday night and I already miss our lazy days at the beach. To remember our times in Panama City, I thought I would create something out of the seashells my daughter collected. So first up is a mini seashell wreath to hang on my fireplace just [...]
So, I’m still off on vacation, but thought I would post some little tidbits this weeks that I’ve had stashed away for a rainy day. Ok, so my great room has been decorated since we first moved into our home in 2006. My parents were nice enough to pay for our great room furniture as [...]
Last week while cruising through the clearance aisle at HomeGoods, I found a gold ornate mirror for only $8. I really needed something for above my daughter’s dresser in her newly stenciled bedroom, and I thought this could be perfect with some minor embellishments! I got an idea from Elements Interiors blog last week during [...]
I found these huge candlesticks at Goodwill last week for $9 total. I quickly fell in love because the small one is one foot tall and the larger one is about two feet tall. It’s hard to find large accent candlesticks for such a good price! While I loved the size, I didn’t think the [...]
I’ve been needing something new to put above my accent table in the kitchen that I purchased at Pier 1 a couple of months ago. I recently had a canvas painting of some fruit, but I’m really trying to phase out that theme in my kitchen (it’s a little outdated!). During a recent trip to [...]
While wandering around the DIY blog world last week, I found these awesome Scrabble tile boards from Shanks – Est. 2009. I thought I would give this project a whirl! So above is Shanks’ version, and here’s mine! First step was to track down my supplies. I headed to the nearby Michael’s and picked up [...]
