DIY Tutorials

My favorite time to beach comb is right after a big storm. After a storm, the shore is littered with new driftwood, beautifully sculpted by …

This custom tablet cover DIY was born out of necessity and experimentation with a similar method I’ve used on paper journals. I’ve been a consistent …

  Poking through a small flea market seemingly a million miles off the beaten path, I stumbled across a cache of stationary, pens, and notepads …

In this article, we’ll talk about cheap and easy ways to provide sound dampening in rental spaces like apartments and offices. Although you may have …

If chandeliers were a love language, it would be the one I speak most fluently. I love chandeliers and have always gravitated towards them (going …

  I’ll confess, I get most of my lampshades from thrift stores or secondhand shops. With patience, it’s easy to find just about any shape …

Whether you’re in the investigation/planning stage of installing a doggie door or if you’ve already installed one and discovered the freedom a doggie door gives …

  When I lived in downtown Seattle my apartment building shared a total of two basement washers, two dryers, and zero elevators. This, combined with …

The Internet is filled with tutorials for fixing scratches on leather chairs and sofas- I know because I read at least a half-dozen of them …

Classy floor lamps are expensive –like, very expensive.  As I priced sturdy lamps for my new Seattle apartment, I couldn’t find a single sturdy tripod-style …

One of my most-read posts – and the post that really got me taking my blog more seriously-  is my tutorial on how to convert …

It would be fair to say that my timing for this project was less than ideal. Although I picked up these BED|STU boots up a …

I’ve always been partial to phone cases with the highest impact resistance, with style as a secondary consideration, but recently a new wave of phone …

  Blundstone is an Australian company that makes a line of books originally marketed as equestrian boots, but now in style as popular, multifunction boots. …

1. Get Permission to Paint an Accent Wall Some property managers will give a green-light to requests to repaint a room or a single wall, …

  Living in Seattle on a grad school budget meant having to sometimes settle for a lifestyle very different from the one I lived in …

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