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Eco-Chic Home: Rethink, Reuse and Remake Your Way to Sustainable Style
By DIY Maven
Designer and author Emily Anderson of Eco-Chic Weddings fame turns her attention to interiors with her new book Eco-Chic Home. In its pages, Emily tells us how to embrace sustainability stylishly. It starts with imagining all those cast-offs as something else, something useful and--yes--even pretty.
Room by room, the Emily tackles fun and easy projects that re-use hand-me-downs, thrift store and garage sale finds and everything in between. » READ MORE
Before and After Chalkboard Chair Makeover
By DIY Maven
Welcome to a new feature here on Curbly! It's called...drumroll, please....Make Over Mondays!! (Okay, so you could figure that one out by the totally awesome banner above.) Anyhoo, Mondays are going to be devoted to fabulous befores & afters. So if you like a good makeover (and who doesn't?) make sure you visit every Monday for your makeover fill. And if you've got a good makeover of your own to show off, don't worry, Tuesday through Friday are still available*.
And now for the make over....chairs!! But not just any chairs. » READ MORE
8 Uses for 1 Sock
By DIY Maven
What happens to all those missing socks? Does the washer eat them? Do one-footed fairies snatch them from the dryer while they're still toasty warm? Whatever the reason for their disappearance, they leave behind partners that require new jobs. Re-nest complies 8 ideas » READ MORE
How to Make a Beautiful Folded Rose
By DIY Maven
No, it's not origami. It's quilling, and our instructor Ann Martin of All Things Paper tells us it's not that difficult either. Here's what she suggests we » READ MORE
More Gorgeous Air Plant Displays
By DIY Maven
A couple of weeks ago we considered the beauty and growing techniques of Tillandsia, aka 'air plants'. That post sparked fellow Curblier thyrza to share some gorgeous pictures of air plant displays. The top image, which utilized silver chains and hoops is an original creation of thyrza's. I'm totally digging the alien/pod » READ MORE
Is that a boulder in your living room or are you just happy to see me?
By DIY Maven
Gibson Architects were faced with a monumental task. Their building site for this Colorado home was at an altitude of 8500 feet on a granite outcropping. But a bunch of ginormous boulders weren't going to stop them. No, no, no. They just incorporated the rocks into the home's design. The result is nothing less than amazing. Take a look:
» READ MORELaced-Up Stools = Bench
By DIY Maven
Design studio Superfolk has done something that makes so much sense, I'm wondering why (if)) nobody else has thought of it before. Their latest collection, that will be launched at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, includes chunky wooden stools that can be laced up to form a bench » READ MORE
How to Turn an Old Skirt into a Rose Pillow
By DIY Maven
Why a skirt? I'm guessing because that will afford you the quantity of fabric you'll need to make this baby. Besides the second-hand skirt--a big full one--Re-Nest says we'll need this stuff to » READ MORE
25 Biggest Renovating Mistakes
By DIY Maven
HGTV asked their experts and they have spoken. These, ladies and gentlemen, are the 25 Biggest Home Renovating Mistakes renovators make. From least biggest (?) to the biggest of the big, here they are:
25. Gutting Everything
24. Buying Cheap Materials
23. Excessive Use of Duct Tape
22. Inaccurate Measuremen » READ MORE
'Slim' Bookcase Turns Books Into Art
By DIY Maven
As the saying goes, you can't judge a book by its cover, but sometimes the covers are so pretty. For the amount of effort that goes into producing such things, it really is a shame to hide them on traditional book shelves. With the clear acrylic Slim bookcase, available at Yanko Design, we can now flaunt all those covers. Yes, it's a bookcase, but it displays titles in a way that transforms them into wall art. » READ MORE
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