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Windmillerdg's ideas. You Rock! {Valentines Cards. South Shore Decorating Blog: paint colors. This is a follow up post to my last post about Benjamin Moore paint colors, called "The Top 100 Benjamin Moore Paint Colors.

South Shore Decorating Blog: paint colors

" (Catchy title, no?) It has been by far my most popular post ever, and the closest I'll ever come to going viral on Pinterest, so I decided to write another one. I tried very hard to make these all new colors. This will be the last one of these I think, because I am running out of colors to show you :) Like the last one, it is organized by color. I hope you enjoy it! How-to update a Dining room furniture. How to make a No Sew Window Treatment. How to Update a Hand Me Down Dresser. I love gift-wrap and I also love anything and everything having to do with typefaces.

How to Update a Hand Me Down Dresser

So it is no surprise to me that I have had my eye on this vintage typographer gift-wrap ever since Emily over at Jones Design Company posted about it as well as many other pretty papers she uses. I wanted to find a way I could use this gift-wrap where I could enjoy the pattern in my daily life instead of only wrapping gifts with it and giving it away. Interior Design Ideas, Interior Designs, Home Design Ideas, Room Design Ideas, Interior Design, House Decor. Dreamy Interiors Five contemporary home interiors based on the soft neutral color palette.

Interior Design Ideas, Interior Designs, Home Design Ideas, Room Design Ideas, Interior Design, House Decor

Clean Modern Decor A beautiful black and white interior of a modern home, featuring an open plan layout and large walk-in closet. Beach Color Home Accents Cheerful color stories for two modern apartment designs, incorporating tropical sea blue, sand and sunshine yellow. Bare stone walls in the bathroom. What do you think of some rustic harshness in your bathroom?

Bare stone walls in the bathroom

Bare stone walls work just fine with sleek concrete surfaces, creating a space that radiates an organic uniqueness I simply can't say no. Actually, it is the use of both antiquated and modern techniques that makes this style so appealing, and, taking it from photo no 3, adding a vintage piece like the large gilded mirror, a log and a few wicker baskets, or, like photo no 4, a stark, frameless mirror and inox fixtures, you can fine tune the atmosphere from total country chic to contemporary elegance. So, is bare stone something you'd opt for? Portable Whangapoua Beach Hut.

Imaginez, une plage de sable blanc en Nouvelle-Zélande et un petit nid douillé mobile.

Portable Whangapoua Beach Hut

Cette petite habitation écologique est une réalisation de l’agence d’architecture Néo-Zélandaise Crosson Clarke Carnachan. Paint chip calendar. A few weeks ago, I saw this paint chip calendar on my friend David’s blog Cheltenham Road and knew I had to make one!

paint chip calendar

It combines two things that I love…stylishness and organization. Crafts for Men « Keywords: home, veneer, diy, how-to. Wood veneer are thin pieces of full woodgrain, which are sold in flexible roles, so you can glue them onto core panels for the look and finish of hardwood grain pattersn without the expense of solid wood.

Crafts for Men « Keywords: home, veneer, diy, how-to

Because veneer is so thin (around 3mm), it's quite flexible and easy to work, which means you can create complete projects from it as well, like this wooden lamp shades for pendant lights. This project comes from the bright minds at Lowe's Creative Ideas, who show you how to shape the veneer around empty paint cans and use an iron to seal it together. They've stained theirs with translucent colors, but my vote is just to leave the wood grain natural, rubbed with an oil finish and a bit of paste wax.

Using CFL bulbs guarantees that you'll keep the heat down. Get the full how-to from Lowe's: Wood Veneer Pendant Lights. Vitor&Penha. What is it about Brazillian design that makes it so hot?!

Vitor&Penha

It's bold and brash, brave and beautiful. It's never precious but always fun. This is the portfolio of São Paulo architect Vitor Penha. Yes please&Joséphine! Fragrant Home: 13 Simmering Pot Recipes. Simmering potpourri is a lovely way to make your home smell warm and inviting, especially during the holiday season when you use fragrant spices like cinnamon and cloves.

Fragrant Home: 13 Simmering Pot Recipes

Cinnamon Sticks, Orange Slices & Spices How It Works: Just fill a pot with water, add your favorite ingredients and simmer all day. This also helps humidify the home a bit. The recipes below are just guidelines, you can use different amounts and mix up ingredients as you like. Save: Orange, lemon and lime peels, apple skins (dry them out first before storing in a container) and add assorted spices. Directions: Flickr finds -&lofts. Easy Chair on Industrial Design Served. Yatzer.

Desire to inspire - desiretoinspire.net. Glowing jar project - varázslat a lakásban (EN/HU) & from{panka}withlove. The Psychology of Color [Infographic] Download the infographic as a PDF Embed this image on your site:

The Psychology of Color [Infographic]

How To Make a Wall-Mounted Magnetic Spice Rack Reader Tips. Custom Furniture and Cabinetry in Boise, Idaho by J. Alexander Fine Woodworking. Welcome to the first in a series of posts in our Woodworking 101 category. Today we will look at the most basic skill all woodworkers have to learn and master, joinery techniques. As you will see below, there are dozens of different ways to join two pieces of wood together. Each with their own set of advantages and disadvantages. Box Joint The box joint, also called a finger joint, connects two boards at the corners. Butt Joint. You knew i was going to make one. - StumbleUpon. They are all over pinterest.... (i still am not signed up for pinterest because i don't have time for one more thing but browsing is fun!) So we made one. i took a box of 64 crayons and took out the blacks and browns.i used another small box and doubled up on the good colors i liked and hot glued them to the top of our canvas. then we turned our blow dryer to hot on high. not long after you set the hair dryer by the crayons they get shiny and then the wax starts to melt!

And it dries really quickly too. seriously. what could be happier than this?? GREAT project. StumbleUpon.