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Truth is, I always thought it would be rather difficult to change the fabric on a piece of furniture. Turns out, it's WAY simpler than I thought!

The eye-sore: Our cheap kitchen chairs

Currently, our kitchen table set is a starter set I picked up when I moved to Wisconsin to live with my then-boyfriend-now-husband. Three years later, it's still holding out, but the chairs have always annoyed me.

Chair Problems

Covered with a creamy tan fake suede, they're difficult to clean, attract pet hairs that refuse to come off, and the padding's thin and shifts everytime the sitter wiggles. After three years, it's normal to be sitting mostly on hard wood, not cushiony-softness!

As I dove into garden-planning season, I came across this breathtaking flower: the Black Parrot tulip. Now, I know it's too late to plant tulips, but that doesn't stop me from fantasizing about these.

Happily, the Black Parrot led me down a rabbit hole of other dark plants — the kind of vegetation that might convince even the palest of goths to slather on sunscreen and get into the garden.

Christmas comes but once a year so I have to share ANOTHER dark Christmas tree from a reader — even though we already showed one gothy purple one! Whatever. I really doubt you guys are going to complain that we have too many AWESOME VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS PHOTOS.

Juniper Zombie started my unusual Christmas tree hunt on the right foot when she pinged us about showing off her mad rad purple and black tree. We've got pics of it, more ideas on ways to recycle your wedding stuff.

Remember the brick-ceiling Spanish apartment of Clarisse, her partner, and a friend?

I've been thinking about ceilings a lot because sometimes, when I can't sleep, I stare at the one in my bedroom and wish there was something interesting up there. This is what I've found in my research of alternatives to the rough plaster ceiling.

I found an incredible chair at the library — and now I've got my eyes peeled for one I can put in my home office! Get in here and see what I'm flipping out about.

I sorted and sorted through Flickr and found all these houses — SO MANY HOUSES — of a different color. And, surprisingly, so many really mean comments. I had to give these houses their time in the sun.

Hexotica runs a lovely gothic fashion blog, and shares with us today this mini transformation of a creamy, curvy table into a glossy piece which fits more comfortably into her gothiness.