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How to Make a Sturdy Notebook With Postcards and Junk Mail

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...

Martha's Clip Art Roundup

Spice labels, pie charts, luggage tags, cookie sleeves, cooks' helpers, luminaries, bookplates, gift cards and bags and dozens and DOZENS of others are included…Continue Reading

The Oval Office Gets a Makeover

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 not to overpower the priceless artwork?) Anyhoo, on closer inspection we can see the sofas with the granny print have been replaced…Continue Reading

Wallpaper Alternative: Painted Stripes

Easy, cheap, easily customizable and easy to change, you can't go wrong with striping your walls. Take a look.

DIY Simple Cat (or Dog) Bed

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 …Continue Reading

7 Casino Style Carpets to Keep You Gambling

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?…Continue Reading

Antiques Roadshow 's 5 Most Valuable Finds

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 a fortune and find out it isn't. Oh, the looks on their faces! It's priceless. (Anybody remember the episode …Continue Reading

Transform Ugly Paperback Books

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:

Two Silver Leaf Lamp Makeovers

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 rescued lamp makeovers.

So these are the BEFORE pics.

One AMAZING Houseboat

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…Continue Reading