Whether you are tired of looking at the present contents of your book shelves or just want to shield your chosen reading material from prying eyes…
ordinary paperbacks can be easily transformed by glueing practically any type of paper directly to the exisiting cover.
These paperbacks were first covered with kid’s construction paper and then a [...]
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HGTV’s Front Door helps people sell their homes with smart staging and decorating tips. They also provide some invaluable advice and inspiration to people who are looking to re-do their diggs on a budget. Today we take a peek at a few of their kitchen makeovers. (It’s another one of those hold on to your butts [...]
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How cute is this teeny tiny Altoid Tin BBQ grill? The maker was inspired by the eBQ, but instead of using the standard rectangular tin, vmspionage used a Altoid Sours container.
Here are the materials used for its construction:
1 Altoids sours tin4x 1.5″ sheet metal screws with wide heads (or 4x washers to match)8x nuts to [...]
It’s State Fair time here in Frostbite Falls Land, which means it’s also time to shove stuff on a stick, cook it and eat it. So, loosen your belts, un-do that top button, sit back and get ready to indulge!
From The Food Network:
Salad on a Stick
Walleye on a Stick
Chocolate Strawberry Waffle Ball on a [...]
No kidding, my mouth is watering here at 8:11 am as I’m looking that these photos of Smitten Kitchen’s eggplant salad toasts. I know recipes aren’t really the Curbly thing, but I am seriously cooking challenged. It’s not that I can’t cook, it’s that I don’t want to cook. We’re having out-of-town guests this weekend [...]
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I just saw this on Design Sponge and it could be the answer to all my problems. It this doesn’t satisfy the lazy message leaver in your house, I don’t know what will. It’s absolutely brilliant. No pencil, pen or chalk needed. Here’s all you do.
Just use your finger to write your message in the [...]
If you are like me, you have a few postcards around. What do you do with them? Nothing much except move them from shoe box to shoe box or…
drawer to drawer. Why not make something useful with them, instead?
This little notebook has two postcards as the cover and is filled with pages cut from various [...]
Spice labels, pie charts, luggage tags, cookie sleeves, cooks’ helpers, luminaries, bookplates, gift cards and bags and dozens and DOZENS of others are included in Martha’s clip art round up. There really are too many to count!
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In some respects this is the granddaddy of all makeovers. Not in a ‘I can’t believe it’s the same room’ kind of way, but in a ‘it’s the freakin’ Oval Office!’ kind of way. At first glance it might not look all that different in the ‘after’. It was and still is pretty beige. (Perhaps [...]
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Easy, cheap, easily customizable and easy to change, you can’t go wrong with striping your walls. Take a look.
…too much.
If you need a little instruction to get started, the DIY Network provides a striping How-to.
Who doesn’t want their fur-children’s furniture to match their design aesthetic? Daniel and Valeria, for one…or two, rather. They decided to make their kitty, Lambi, a bed/cubby that would blend seamlessly with their flooring. The outcome is simple yet eminently stylish.
To hear how the couple made Lambi’s new hideaway, follow this link to Hindsvik.
Via 2modern.
Garish casino carpets are deliberately chaotic. And you thought they got a closeout deal at Carpet World, no sirree. These are custom casino style carpets you’ll only seen in Vegas and other casino joints. Now how bad can they really be?The ridiculous patterns and color combinations cover miles and miles of casino floors so guests [...]
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My favorite episodes of the Antiques Roadshow are the ones where somebody brings in something they bought at a rummage sale or found in the attic of a house they just moved into and discovers it’s worth a million damn dollars. My other favorite episodes include people who bring in something they THINK is worth [...]
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A motley stack of dogeared paperback books was transformed into a much more interesting collection by glueing a small strip from the same image to the spine of each book. How to do it:
You will need: Paper for covers Image for spines Stick glue Scissors Razor knife
Coat backside of the cover paper with stick glue [...]
As far as I know nobody but nobody decorates with shiny brass anymore. That means there’s a boatload of cast-off brass lamps available for transformation. Abby saw beyond the brass, got to work with some silver leaf, and spruced up this reject to a more understated elegance. Now it coordinates with another one of her [...]
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Love water; hate boats. Except houseboats. I ADORE houseboats, and as houseboats go, this one from Rost Niderehe Architects is one of the most spectacular I’ve ever seen. Located in the middle of Hamburg and surrounded by the Eilbek canal, the floating home’s interior echoes the clean [...]
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