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HeadboardBeauty-Shot. 11 DIY Upcycled Lamps Made from Bottles, Cans, and Jars! Curbly-Original We're putting our upcycling pants on and lighting up the Internet today with 11 awesome DIY lamps made from bottles, cans, and jars (oh my)!

11 DIY Upcycled Lamps Made from Bottles, Cans, and Jars!

So sit back, get inspired, and let us know which is your fave! 1. DIY Glass Water Bottle Chandelier (from ReadyMade: How to Make [Almost] Everything: A Do-It-Yourself Primer) 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Tagged : Curbly-Original, How-To, Inspiration, Roundup Material : glass & ceramics, paper, plastic, recycled Design Style : colorful, contemporary, eclectic, rustic. Awesome Rooms « JinSpiration. DIY Headboard With LEDs. How to Make a Loft Bed.

Making a Loft Bed. DIY Loft Beds for Adults. 3154805959_1330359621. Anna's Table. The free content provicded by this website is made possible by the following current sponsors.

Anna's Table

Double loft / desk combo with storage ladder. The free content provicded by this website is made possible by the following current sponsors.

Double loft / desk combo with storage ladder

Queen Loft Bed. Queen Loft Bed. The free content provicded by this website is made possible by the following current sponsors.

Queen Loft Bed

Build a Storage Bench. Build a How to Build a Loft Bed. PDF version A loft bed that works with an entire system of plans to get your teen more space and storage in their room.

Build a How to Build a Loft Bed

Special thanks to Anne for sharing her photos from this plan. Handmade from this plan >> Dimensions Dimensions: Fits standard Twin Mattress. How To Build A Hanging Desk In 15 Minutes. My dorm-design philosophy is this: things that touch the floor are bad.

How To Build A Hanging Desk In 15 Minutes

Now, while that’s not to say you should attempt to create a Swiss Family Robinson-style treehouse in your room, it’s pretty easy to agree that anything that sits on the floor takes up valuable space that could be used for yoga, stationary cycling, or counting laundered money. Therefore, things like combination refrigerator-microwaves and stackable containers are a godsend to the college student who’s been forced to get in touch with his inner sardine. However, there is one dorm staple that beats the pants off of all other items when it comes to space saving – the loft bed. Though it may make you more susceptible to the old alarm-clock-and-ceiling one-two punch, a loft bed frees up approximately 21 square feet of floor space in your room. Winner winner, chicken dinner. Build a Brookstone Desk Hutch. PDF version A simple but very functional hutch that works with the Brookstone Desk.

Build a Brookstone Desk Hutch

Features three large cubbies, to shelf, and ample room for a computer inside the hutch. Handmade from this plan >> Dimensions Dimensions: Dimensions shown above. DIY Dresser Dress-up! 15 DIY Ideas. Posted by ScrapHacker.com on onsdag, april 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment Storage in our homes is often a challenge…and finding storage options that are both practical and personal even more so!

DIY Dresser Dress-up! 15 DIY Ideas

Old dressers and chests are abundant in attics and thrift stores, but more than often dingy and uninspired…This post features 15 doable D.I.Y ideas & tutorials on the crafty tricks that will dress up any old dresser into the Cinderella of your home – Enjoy! Sizzling Ikat turns an old dresser from drab to fab, by Kim of OfAllTheFish, featured on DesignSponge, TUTORIAL HERE! DIY Industrial Dresser, check out the awesome rope knobs! By ‘Me & Jilly’ – TUTORIAL HERE! Via here The DIY Decoupage Chest from Martha Stewart is all about Cut, copy & Paste! Masking tape, paint and statement knobs and you might end up with something like the smashing Chevron dresser above (spotted via here)

Wednes-diy. UPDATE: This post originally ran on March 23 2011, but with summer winding down we wanted to bring it back up for some late summer inspiration!

wednes-diy

A fellow fp girl sent this to me a couple weeks back and i’ve been thinking about it ever since! I can think of a million reasons why these would be awesome… as apartment décor, as outdoor party décor, and – wouldn’t they be the best thing EVER for camping in general or at a festival? Just let them sit in the sun all day, and they’ll last all night! I am absolutely going to make some to bring with me to bonnaroo this year. A Beautiful Mess: DECORATE. A year and a half ago we signed a bunch of papers and unlocked the door to our 100-year-old, yellow house for the very first time.

A Beautiful Mess: DECORATE

It's been a trip. If you would have asked me on that day how long I thought it would take to get everything "decorated" I would have said three months. Our closing date was in August, and I was pretty sure that by Christmas it would be perfect. I have friends and family with "finished" homes. They moved in, decorated for a couple weeks, and have lived there happily for many years without so much as moving a picture frame. Fast forward a year and a half, and I'll tell you one thing I know for sure—nothing is ever perfect. Unrealistic expectations? DIY! 7 new stylish ways to de-clutter your beauty closet.