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DIY Leaf Stepping Stones To Make Your Yard Feel Like A Fairy Garden
Distinctive garden elements can often be expensive and hard to find, particularly if you are looking beyond traditional rectangular and circular paving stones for something with a little bit more beauty and uniqueness. Internet DIYers, however, have been showing off easy and cheap projects to create DIY paver stones perfect for your garden footpath. These stones can be created from any large and thickly veined leaf and some simple Quikrete. Shaped like leaves and other botanical elements, the...
What Is A Sleeping Porch And How Can You Create One For Summer?
Summer in many parts of the country can be hot, bright, and scorching during the day and swelteringly humid even at night. In the decades before electric fans and air conditioning were an option, many homes featured sleeping porches. These were outdoor living areas, usually located on the second or third floor, designed for slumbering in the breeze to the sound of crickets and other nighttime wildlife.
Porches spanned the exterior of the home's upper floors on multiple sides and featured scre...
Light Up The Patio On Summer Nights With An Amazing TikTok Idea
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Summer is a season for outdoor enjoyment, bringing homeowners outside to enjoy evenings under the stars. While there are many ways to light up your yard at night, a TikTok user idea from @miolooks offers a great way to make even the simplest patio shine and sparkle using inexpensive LED light strips. The lights not only offer a cool space-age dance floor look to the patio but also provide enough light to easily move arou...
Turn A Glass Jar Into The Perfect Decorative Lamp With These Ideas
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Ordinary glass jars can be one of the most adaptable containers you can find in your home, filling all sorts of needs from food storage to household organization. The internet is overflowing with cool DIY lighting projects involving jars, where innovative creators turn rather boring glass cylinders into amazing creations like rustic chandeliers, outdoor lanterns, and hanging sconces. Jars also make beautiful bases...
Jeremiah Brent Reveals The Best Way To Decorate With Chrome And Metallic
Chrome and metallics are considered go-to materials when it comes to clean and modern contemporary design, often found as simple accents or fully covering hard furniture pieces like coffee tables, luxe vanities, and accent chairs. Designer Jeremiah Brent recently discussed his love of chrome and metallics in an Instagram post for @1stdibs, identifying it as a trend he adores, particularly when combined with a neutral palette. Brent says the elements can conveniently read both modern and tradi...
Simple Tips For Decorating Your Living Room With Metal Wall Art
Large blank walls can be every homeowner's challenge, raising questions about how to cover an immense amount of space without spending exorbitantly on large format artwork. A great solution, however, can be found in stylish large artwork and décor made entirely from various metals, one of the trendiest wall art ideas right now. Metal wall art includes everything from representational wall sculptures and simple panels to abstract pieces and functional clocks. With these pieces, you can add a l...
One Groovy Decade's Colors Are Trending Again And Here's How To Get The Look
The 1970s are a retro décor era known for its distinctive design trends, including warm, earthy colors and soft rounded lines. These details were punctuated by ample plant life, lots of rattan, bold patterned wallpaper, and fabrics like deep-pile shag carpet and luxurious velvet. The color palette itself is a memorable one, featuring lots of browns, greens, muted oranges, and mustard yellows. While trends for many decades' primary colors come and go, there's been a recent rise in designer int...
19 Ways To Repurpose A Paint Stirrer Around The House
Inexpensive sources of wood can be invaluable for smaller projects that don't require large amounts of lumber. This is particularly true for crafting and decorating. One great place to find smaller lengths of good quality wood may actually be closer than you think. Wooden paint stirrers, which can be purchased inexpensively at hardware, paint, and discount stores, are a budget-friendly solution if you're looking for smaller segments to work with. You probably already use them to keep track of...
Instantly Upgrade Any Glass Jar With These Simple Lid Swap Ideas
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Glass mason jars are some of the most adaptable items in your home. Many rely on them for their intended purpose of food storage, even more innovative DIYers use them for all sorts of interesting projects, from decorative items to functional containers for daily use. While the internet is full of craft projects that turn ordinary mason jars into home décor, there are also a number of great ready-made products that allow you to turn a j...
37 Awesome Bachelor Party Ideas in Denver for 2024
Looking for amazing bachelor party ideas in Denver? Bachelor parties are often known as nights of raucous celebration leading up to the main event, but can be great events all on their own, offering the groom and attendees a chance to kick back and make memories.
While there are many tried and true ways to celebrate the end of bachelorhood like Vegas weekends and strip club outings, other kinds of gatherings can be just as fun.
How do you throw a fun bachelor party? What is expected at a bach...
51 Cool, Easy Things to Paint for a Creative 2024
Looking for great ideas for things to paint? Painting can be a rewarding way to express your creativity and make beautiful pieces of art and decor for your home. While there are many different media and approaches, all help you see the world in washes of color and shadow that only the artist's eye can experience.
What is the easiest thing to paint? What objects can I paint on? We’ve rounded a few perfect ideas that are beginner-friendly and easy to master, using all sorts of approaches, inspi...
57 Festive, Easy 4th of July Crafts for 2024
Looking for some great 4th of July crafts to do this summer? Independence Day offers a great chance to enjoy summer while celebrating the history of the nation. There’s no better way to ring in the summer holiday than using your creativity and ingenuity to create fun 4th of July arts and crafts for adults and kids of all ages.
When should I start decorating for 4th of July? How do you throw a fun 4th of July party? We’ve rounded up a few simple and beginner-friendly ideas that are great for t...
Fixer To Fabulous Shows Us How To Turn A Vacant Barn Into A Luxurious Living Space
HGTV's Jenny and Dave Marrs quite often surprise audiences of "Fixer to Fabulous" with beautiful and innovative spaces that remain true to the architectural roots of the original homes and properties. In a recent episode, the couple took on a barn conversion for country singer Gabrielle Mooney that turned an ordinary barn into a unique and livable space. The challenge was to create a perfect in-law suite/guest house on the property that Mooney could live in while the main house on the propert...
Trendy Ways To Add Raffia Furniture Into Your Home For A Natural Look
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Raffia and other similar woven materials are a great way to bring natural elements into any space. Spotted in a variety of interior styles, including rustic, boho, coastal, and Balinese-inspired doses, it can be found in large and small doses. While popular in design trends over the last few decades, a more subdued and subtle version of the material that looks contemporary and crisp is emerging as a new favorite among designers, partic...
The Charming & Useful Cabinet Your Kitchen Has Needed All Along
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Kitchen storage can be a mixed bag, with some layouts allowing ample cabinets and spacious pantries, while others force you to make do with the limited space you have. A tried and true method for bringing in additional room for essentials is using a freestanding cabinet to augment existing storage space. It's an approach that once reigned during the 1800s when most homes favored stand-alone cabinetry over built-ins. One ...