Real Life Products 36A TRiCC Utility Cover: Patio, Lawn & Garden. ♥ White Ironstone Cottage. 10 Ways To Get the Canopy Look Without Buying a New Bed. Maybe you love the look of a canopy bed, but can't afford to buy new furniture. (Hey, beds are expensive). Or maybe you really like your current bed, but want to give it a bit of a romantic makeover. Here's an Apartment Therapy guide to DIYing your way to canopy bliss. An easy way to get the canopy bed look is to hang curtains from an L-shaped drapery rod that's been mounted to the ceiling. In this case, the curtains can't be drawn around the bed, but you definitely get that romantic look.
I love how, in this example from the HGTV Dream Home, the ceiling above the bed (and the wall behind the headboard) have been painted to contrast with the rest of the room. It creates a sort of optical illusion where the ceiling above the bed becomes the canopy. Here are a few more variations on this look. There's also the option of hanging curtains only over the head of the bed.
From Country Living, a clever idea for bedrooms with sloping ceilings. Yes, You Can! How to Remove Wallpaper from Unprimed Drywall. Is there anything more satisfactory than removing a strip of wallpaper in one long piece? When we bought this house, we didn’t notice how many rooms were covered in wallpaper. “Oh, it’s only a few walls…” When it came time to actually do something about it, we couldn’t believe how much wallpaper we were looking at.
I pulled a sheet of the original forty-year-old wallpaper just to see what we were dealing with. The top layer pulled away easily, but it left the soft paper underlayer, and under that was unprimed drywall, which is exactly what I did not want to see. Unprimed drywall is sheetrock without a paint coat, so the top layer is just a sheet of paper. Before you apply wallpaper you’re supposed to first paint a priming layer over the drywall so the wallpaper can be removed later. Was I doomed to spend the rest of my summer pulling tiny strips of wallpaper off the walls in the back bathroom, just to end up having to spackle over all the gouges in the walls? I just could not do it. Benjamin moore's color chats. Image: Flickr Between the mental check list of repairs, the anticipated expense and time, not to mention choosing the best colors, painting the exterior of your home can feel like an insurmountable task.
Whether you are a DIY-er or hirer of others, you will need money, patience, the right products, and inspiration.… Continue reading Images: (top); (bottom) Stop! Thief! Too late. Image courtesy of Frank de Biasi Interiors Pink for Guys ( was one of my favorite blog posts, and I felt the time was ripe for a sequel. The shades-of-gray living room of fashion designer Jason Wu (aka, ball-gown creator for FLOTUS), who considers gray “the most soothing color of all.” For a while now, gray has been the It color, the plucky “new neutral” in design speak.… Continue reading. Painted Formica Countertop. Painted Formica Countertop My UGLY formica countertops were just SCREAMING for an Ambush Makeover! But since I could not take them on a plane to the Today Show so Kathie Lee and Hoda could work their magic, ultimately, the responsibility fell to me! Yikes! I removed the purple, green and plaid wallpaper – actually it wasn’t as bad as you might think. Here is what I was faced with: Not completely horrible I am totally thinking Nate Berkus would just be brought to tears.
Well I came upon this group of people at ThriftyFun.com who had PAINTED their formica to look like granite. Ok, so you can see the before and after pictures, but what about the dreaded “in-between”?? Firstly, I removed the wood backsplash and washed down the countertops so they were very clean. Gray primer just rolled on. Spray painting in the kitchen… BAD IDEA! Just sponging on silver metallic paint – its almost impossible to mess up! Then came the step which had me a little nervous. Try it! Waterfall Ruffle Duvet Cover. 1246 rue Sainte-Catherine O. Montréal H3G 1P1 (514) 874-0063 HEURES D'OUVERTURE: 10h00 - 21h00 Lundi au vendredi 10h00 - 19h00 Samedi 11h00 - 18h00 Dimanche 509 rue Saint-Joseph E. Québec G1K 3B7 (418) 529-2647 HEURES D'OUVERTURE: 10h00 - 21h00 Lundi au vendredi 10h00 - 20h00 Samedi 11h00 - 19h00 Dimanche 4301 rue Saint-Denis Montréal H2J 2K9 (514) 844-5944 HEURES D'OUVERTURE: 10h00 - 20h00 Lundi au mercredi 10h00 - 21h00 Jeudi et vendredi 10h00 - 17h00 Samedi 11h00 - 17h00 Dimanche 9200 Boulevard Leduc S-3 Quartiers Dix Broussard, QC J4Y-0B3 (450) 656-1197 HEURES D'OUVERTURE: 10h00 - 21h00 Lundi au vendredi 9h00 - 17h00 Samedi 10h00 - 17h00 Dimanche Des contraintes linguistiques nous obligent présentement à fermer notre site Internet au Québec.
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Perhaps you have settled on a 42" HD Sony Bravia LCD, or a Panasonic, Pioneer or Samsung Plasma TV. Here are a few things that you need to know, and more importantly budget for if you are not a very handy person. Where are you going to install your Flat Screen? Will you put it on a TV stand? But what if you plan on hanging your TV over the fireplace? Now my friend you are getting into a little trickier installation. 1) Do you have an electrical outlet over your fireplace to plug your TV into? An electrician can install that for you. 2) Do you have a TV outlet over your fireplace already? Before you say yes, and think you are out of the woods—there is something that you need to know. Imagine if you will your existing TV set up. Here’s the question nobody ever thinks about… If you hang your TV over the fireplace with a standard cable TV jack installed there— What about all of those wires that we just talked about?
F. Wall painting stencils: Elegant wall stencils, stencil designs, stencils for walls. Cutting Edge Stencils. Distressing Painted Furniture. So I’ve had a friend ask me if I could write a blog on distressing furniture. This is an art that I have come to love, first of all I have always loved the shabby chic/cottage style that it creates, but also because with my somewhat imperfect ( I know, me??) Paint jobs, it helps to disguise them and also hides all of the extra “character” that the kids may so sweetly place on the furniture as well!! Seeing as though I love my home to be functional and lived in, I would hate to have to cringe every time a tractor gets driven across my coffee table or a cupboard gets hit with a plastic mallet, you get the point.
So, these are Allie’s guidelines to distressing, which I have to admit, I have just experienced and this is what I found….not necessarily professional in any way:) 1.) Also, my table next to it isn’t distressed so I wanted to keep the look. 2.) I fell in love with this blue and bought this dresser at our local Little Red Hen shop, which buys furntiure, paints it, and resells it.
"Summer Social" Guest Project -- Make DIY Concrete Countertops!! {tutorial} <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered wpgb_shadowed"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><img class="enable-pib-img-under" src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon" data-recalc-dims="1"/></div>Thanks for coming by! I try to feature a new creative tutorial every day -- and I'd love to have you follow along: <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to my email updates</strong></a> or <a href=" rel="nofollow">come follow along on Facebook</a>. <div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> I am thrilled to be guest posting here today and sharing a tutorial on our new concrete countertops! The all important before and after has to come first:) Here is what our kitchen looked like when we bought our house two years ago: And here it is today {with our shiny new counters}: Step 1: Build forms.
Lucky for us, we know some people with some big tools.