Kristy Bowen

Looking for perfect game day foods for this fall and winter? Game days can be a time to gather and celebrate with family and friends while enjoying snacks and treats ideal for moving about and cheering on your favorite team. The competitive spirit can make guests particularly hungry.
What is the best thing to eat on game day? What food is good for a football party? We’ve rounded up a few favorites perfect for groups of any size. Whether it's a full-on Superbowl celebration or just an afternoo...

While they once had their heyday in home offices, metal stacked filing cabinets are often a forgotten relic of the paper-laden past, with most people now keeping large amounts of files stored in an electrical device. This means many cabinets wind up in landfills and in thrift stores, where they often sit untouched and unloved. Luckily, there is a DIY that details how to use these old cabinets for garage storage, presenting an ingenious idea that gives you plenty of space for large and ungainl...

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Have a jar full of spare buttons you are wondering what to do with? With their abundance of sizes, materials, and varieties, these small elements can pile up over time, whether you are an avid sewer or not. Vintage buttons, in particular, often sport very interesting materials and designs, so it's a shame to keep them hidden away. Rather than languishing in a drawer or sewing kit, these buttons can easily be repur...

Interior Remodel
Kitchen Remodel
Mina Starsiak Hawk is known for her impeccable but very livable style on the HGTV series "Good Bones." The team regularly takes older homes and modernizes them while still retaining and remaining true to the home's original bones and features. The Season 5, Episode 3 transformation on the series involved opening up the kitchen of a home to create a stylish open-concept living/dining/cooking space. With a beautifully neutral and classic base for the cabinets, c...

Egg cartons are something you can usually find in any fridge, which means in any given year, many homeowners easily go through several dozens. These cartons are usually made of sturdy cardboard, styrofoam, or plastic, making them excellent for fun and useful DIY upcycling projects like beautiful wall décor and stylish vases. One great reuse for egg cartons is to enlist them for easy storage for your craft room or studio, where they can be repurposed to hold everything from sewing thread to ha...

Ample and stylish kitchen cabinetry can go a long way toward making kitchens more functional and beautiful to use. While cabinet styles can vary greatly according to the aesthetic of any kitchen, they can often be expensive to remodel, especially when custom designed. This leaves many kitchens stuck with decades-old cabinets whose layouts and formatting are not always in line with today's needs. If you're looking for a budget friendly way to bring more storage and usability to your kitchen, t...

Looking for the perfect wedding favors for guests on your special day? Wedding favors are a great opportunity to not only give your guests a memento of the event, but also to thank them for their attendance. The variety of wedding favors for guests ranges from small inexpensive DIY gestures to luxurious hand-engraved and bespoke items created specifically for the event. Which fits your occasion depends on the style and budget of your wedding, as well as the number of guests you're inviting.
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Whatever the aesthetics of your home, the smallest details often have a large impact on setting the tone and style of any space. This is particularly true when renovating older homes — especially if you want to make the space feel modern but with a few details that nod to the home's original style and sense of age. In an episode of "Good Bones," hosts Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen Laine recently showed a dramatic transformation of an older Indiana home. The resulting renovation was a beautiful...

Vintage radiator covers and heating grates can often be quite ornate and beautiful in older homes, showing a craftsmanship not always found in new construction. The unique salvaged elements are also often very durable, made from materials like wrought iron and solid wood. They range from pieces designed to cover large freestanding radiators to box covers for wall-mounted units. There are also intricately wrought grates of various shapes and sizes that cover recessed heating and air flow ducts...

Fun word art signs for your home are a dime a dozen, ranging from handcrafted creations made by artisans with exquisite hand lettering to more manufactured signs available in all sizes from home and garden retailers. While the fancier your sign gets, the more expensive it can be, there is a great solution offered on TikTok from @craftsdirect that melds the ease of manufactured goods with handmade details and DIY spirit. These Dollar Tree galvanized metal signs, priced $1.25 each, in the shape...

Looking for a great way to upcycle those egg crate containers? While they usually wind up in the trash or compost bin, paperboard egg cartons are a great material for using as a DIY element for creating everything from sculptural planters and vases to distinctive and unusual floral wall decor. YouTube DIYer Parul Pawar recently showed off an amazing beginner-friendly DIY project that uses cut-out egg carton recesses to make beautiful blooms to string together for a garden-inspired wall hangin...

Creative and unique pieces of décor are often hard to find at budget-friendly prices. Unless, that is, you make them yourself. Numerous retailers are filled with aisles and web pages full of fun, sculptural vases that maximize unusual details and materials that add texture and dimension to any room. But you can also create similar DIY pieces using upcycled elements that are a great dupe for these more expensive ones, and sometimes, they're even more customizable and stylish than the manufactu...

Like other kinds of glassware and dinnerware, drinking glasses are one of the pieces that have a variety of uses beyond simply holding your favorite beverage. This is particularly true of vintage glassware, which often sports unique designs and shapes. If you are a collector or lover of vintage dishware, you may find your cabinets filled with more glasses than you have use for. Or you may have some old mismatched glasses hanging out that don't fit with your current dishware set, but are still...

Fun and easy doodles can be a great way to both explore creativity and practice your drawing and rendering skills. Not only is it as simple as grabbing a pen and some paper, it’s a low-pressure endeavor, meaning you can start at any point in your life no matter how much experience you have as an artist. It’s also a great way to practice your more advanced drawing skills and create fun pieces of art for yourself and others.
How to make an easy doodle? What to doodle when you can't draw? We’ve ...

Looking for some easy Thanksgiving decoration ideas? Thanksgiving is often a forgotten holiday when it comes to decorating your home. While you may gleefully gather around the table for a celebratory meal, so much attention each autumn falls on Halloween decoration ideas for the spooky season, with November often feeling like an awkward month that still embraces fall while getting ready for winter and Christmas decorations. This can mean Thanksgiving decorations are often a missed opportunity...