22 White Kitchens that ROCK… First things first, Now, don’t ask me why, but I’ve always had a strange love affair with white kitchens. There’s just something so classic & glamorous about a clean, white kitchen. Don’t get me wrong, I have an appreciation for dark wood kitchens too, but bright white kitchens truly inspire me.
Whether your looking for a industrial chic white kitchen to a french country kitchen, or a beachy white kitchen to a rustic cottage white kitchen, the next stunning 15 kitchens will surely inspire you. 22 Amazing White Kitchens… Loving the copper and gold tones blended with pures white in this country chic white kitchen This white kitchen was designed for style & comfort, custom sewn seat covers turn these cork screw stools into inviting places to plop and chat with the chef This white kitchen illustrates a beautiful concept, absolute contrast. I love the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside using a bank of corner windows in this upbeat, coastal white kitchen.
I’m seeing a trend here! Upcycled Crafts and Projects - Easy Upcycling Craft Ideas. No-Sew DIY Curtains and Shades. How To Achieve a Well Styled Bookcase. There is truly nothing like a well styled bookcase filled with books, accessories, collectibles, and photos that add warmth, intrigue, and uniqueness to a space. I’ve been doing some styling lately for a few clients, and it’s been so enjoyable to start with a blank slate and build from the ground up by adding different elements and layers to create an engaging and interesting composition.
Whether built-in or freestanding, bookshelves can represent and showcase you and your families passions, interests, and hobbies. They can make a bare wall go from blah-to-beautiful and make an overall space feel larger and taller. No matter your budget, a well-styled bookcase can be achieved using random accessories from around your home, discount store finds, collectibles, and do-it-yourself creations. The key to the overall look is how to pull the accessories together to create an aesthetically pleasing result, yet not add too much so it looks cluttered and not add too little so it appears bare. Parham & Co - Vintage Pedal Car. Mixing patterns : tips + tricks for fabric. A sweet reader named Amanda sent me an email the other day. It went a little something like this: I loved your last post on fabric sources and tips for shopping for them. Have you written a post on actually combining fabrics?
This is where I am usually stumped. I’m just not sure I have ‘an eye’ for it? Do you have any tips or rules of thumb that you like to follow on this? So I started thinking about it all, and while there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to decorating your own home, there are a few little personal tricks I like to follow every now and again, and I thought I’d share them with you guys today!
First things first: Just in case we haven’t formally established this: I’m a big believer in learning how to sew. 1. I have a little bit of a method to my madness when I apply three play-it-smart concepts to my fabric selection process: b. 2. Organic vs geometric: Simple vs complex: Light vs dark: 3. 4. 5. Fabric letters, Think beyond the typical, and have fun!
[pinit] Mirror Frame Tutorial. Just like I promised here is the tutorial on how to make a custom looking frame around your bigger then life mirror your builder put up in the bathroom. Are you ready for probably a more detailed tutorial then you ever thought you would need and more pictures then you care to see? Well here goes. Now we are not professional...by any means. I have never used a miter box nor have I even sawed anything myself before this weekend. So if my mom and I can do this in a weekend. After you have measured your mirror to know how much trim you will needo to home depot or lowes or where ever your little heart desires to get your trim. Pick out the trim that you think would make the best frame for you. Mom wanted a fairly thick frame since it is such a big mirror so the mirror wouldn't swallow the frame. So she picked out two trims to pair together. You can piece together a bunch of different trims to your liking.
There really is an endless amount of combinations you could make. If you are not so lucky. House ideas - Misc. For the Home / Like the in wall ...... How to Reupholster a Chair. Step 1: Gather materials and prep the seat board If you have upholstered chair seats that are stained, worn out or just plain ugly, there's no need to call a pro. You can do a first-class upholstery job yourself, even if you have zero experience. Don't worry about making mistakes; you can correct them by prying out staples and starting over. If the chair is fairly new, you can simply cover the existing fabric with new material. But it usually makes sense to tear off the old fabric and replace the foam padding, since most foam has a life span of only five to 10 years.
Turn the chair upside down and remove the screws that fasten the seat to the chair frame. Step 2: Reupholster the seat 1 of 4 Photo 1: Cut the foam, batting and fabric Cut the foam about 1/2 in. larger than the wood seat. 2 of 4 Photo 2: Staple the fabric Staple the fabric at the middle of each side and work toward the corners, stretching the fabric as you go. 3 of 4 Photo 3: Gather curved corners 4 of 4 Photo 4: Fold square corners.
How to make your cricut mat sticky again. Do you feel like your cricut mats loose their "stick" rather quickly? Here is a quick and inexpensive way to "re-stick" them! You will need a repositionable spray adhesive, I used Krylon. DO NOT use permanent! Tape, my favorite is FROG tape, and a scraper. First scrape any excess paper or residue from your mat to clean it. Then using the green edge of the mat as a guide, tape off all 4 edges. Then simply spray your mat! How to reupholster a wingback chair. Disclaimer: I'd never reupholstered anything before this chair, but I had the gumption to take on the project anyway. There is not a lot of extraordinary skill involved, just patience and determination. Nothing difficult, just a little time consuming.
But, the recognition at the end (when people comment that the job looks professional) is worth the effort. Go for it! Upholstered chairs are built like an onion. **After each piece is taken off, label it with its location and number. Here's what I started with: Lay down the sheet, and turn the chair so the legs are in the air. This is the most tedious and heartbreaking part of the process. Remove cardboard and piping (if you have it). The best way I can explain it is to use your screwdriver between the edge of the fabrics (on the sides) and pry the tack board from the chair. Continue working on the layers you can see. Now you're going to work on removing the sides.
You'll find stuffing, most likely also stapled to the frame. Naked chair. How to Decorate Series {day 3}: Leaning, Layering & Stacking by The Inspired Room. Most (all?) Of you probably don’t need me to introduce today’s blogger, but it’s my privilege to do so anyhow! Melissa from The Inspired Room is amazing and has more than enough decorating tips, tricks, and secrets on her blog right now to write a book. I highly recommend you check out her Best Of page as well as her How to Decorate page for an additional 50+ links covering this topic. And if you want 153+ more ideas on how to create a gallery wall, she’s got you covered there too in her Gallery Wall Party post!
Melissa is brilliant at “making plain” the creative process involved in decorating and is generous in sharing it all with us. Today Melissa will teach us how to lean, layer, and stack. Hi! I love keeping things simple and doable, so the topic of “Decorating 101″ is right up my alley. If you are like me, you need to decorate with what you have. So how do I pull together a room of accessories and decor gathered over time? Books can be used for more than just filling bookshelves. Pauline Esdale's Festive Home. Recycled Craft Ideas - Crafts from Recycled Materials. How to Build Kitchen Sink Storage Trays.
Getting the right stuff 1 of 1 Figure A: Sink cabinet tray detail Sink cabinet tray detail See the Materials & Cutting Lists in the Additional Information section below for measurements Have you finally had it with that dark and dingy, I'm-not-sure-what's-there storage space under the kitchen sink? Well, these two types of roll-out trays, which ride on smooth-action ball-bearing drawer glides, will get everything out in the open and let you find exactly what you need at a glance. This project isn't difficult. In fact, there aren't even any miter joints. In this article, we'll show you how to measure your sink base and custom-size and assemble the wood trays. Before you get the materials, scan this article and see if you can build all the trays or only a few of them.
In the hardware department, look for ball-bearing side-mount drawer glides. Then follow the photos for the step-by-step measuring and assembly instructions. Photo 1: Measure your cabinet opening Screw the partitions to the base. Cabinet DIY completed and tutorial. OK ladies and gentalmen the day I have been waiting for!! A completed product! It is full installed. Isn't she lovely!! There are a few kinks I am working out and a finishing touch still waiting to happen but she is functional! Heres a run down how we did this baby. I measured and taped on the wall, where I wanted each shelf to fit all the cans I wanted into it. Husband comes in and measures from the top of the fridge to the floor takes into account the casters we bought and cuts the wood (shorter than I wanted!). We called a friend to router the front and back pieces so we can use either side, 20min later he returns with beautifully edged wood.
Then we built the box. The outer box is the only thing we screwed, just to give it a little extra stabilitystability. I will cover these wholes with little furniture buttons as soon as I can get into town to get some. I then measured out where I wanted the shelves. We then drilled whole for the dowels to set in. We used a template for this. DIY Window Shade. The shade in my kitchen window has been driving me nuts ever since we moved in, about 5 months ago now.
I have been meaning to replace it but didn't want to spend the extra money. Then I remembered an awesome window treatment my friend Amber made for her bathroom a while back, so I decided to give it a try. I'll be honest, I am NOT a sewer, which seems kind of ironic. I mean, you would think an interior design major would be a able to sew herself a nice throw pillow or something. With that in mind, Let it be known that I sewed this shade all by myself! I really like how it turned out, and I REALLY like that the total cost for the project was under $10! My husband even made these fancy pulls in place of the plastic ones that come with the blinds, aren't they fabulous? Click below to get the full Tutorial! Ps. DIY Window Shade Before You Begin: Measure the size of your window so you will know how much fabric to buy and how large your blinds need to be. Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Easy no sew Roman Shades.
I'm so happy today! I just finished hanging my new Roman Shades in my kitchen! The windows in there had been bare for years and honestly, my neighbors were starting to complain. You see, when you look out of my kitchen windows you see my neighbor's house and driveway. There's no buffer zone between our homes. My house is literally on the boarder of their property, so there's no privacy, but I grew up in the middle of no where, where trees hid our windows and allowed us to walk around in our underwear anytime we wanted....ah those were the days!
Well sometimes I forget that I don't live in the woods anymore and sometimes I might walk through the kitchen past the windows to my laundry room in nothing but a towel...hence my neighbors complaints...oops! Time to cover them up! Finally, I got up the courage to begin the project. In this post I'm going to show you how I did it, because I did tweak it a bit to make it easier for me.
First I started with cheap mini blinds from Walmart. The House of Smiths - Home DIY Blog - Interior Decorating Blog - Decorating on a Budget Blog. I've seen lots of great framed out mirror's lately! And I wanted to share mine that I finished a few weeks ago, in the girls's bathroom. I LOVE the way it turned out! Here's how we did it! Without ANY nails... As far as the wood supplies, we bought some thick baseboard (I think it was about$10 or $11 each... we used 2 pieces) And some corner round molding. (4 pieces @ about $3 a piece, I think) Cason cut a frame, after measuring the mirror... using 45 degree angles Does it fit???
Yes... Whew... lol. After we made sure that the frame fit well, together, we used liquid nails to adhere the 4 pieces. We used some masking tape to keep the frame tight while it dried a paint can on one side. lol. The one piece of wood was a little bowed, so we needed something heavy to keep it down in place, until the glue was set. Okay! Enter: No shower, no makeup, molding-adder-worker-er... Yours truly! While Cas was at work, I attached the corner round to the edges of the frame with some wood glue ta-da! So easy, right!? K!