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Rugs can transform a mediocre space into something more special but it's not always easy to find one you love on a tight budget. While nothing can compare to that rug you've been saving up for, this DIY is a great option for areas that need a little pick me up such as a studio, a guest room, or your front porch.
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I took a little stroll through Design Public this week to pick out a few high-design items for ogling. They have SO MUCH cute junk, and some especially great pieces for the space-crunched. I picked out some artsy odds and ends, fun seating, great rugs, privacy ideas, and ways to organize that look pretty while they work. Let's shop! 
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Vintage snack: Shag carpets in a kaleidoscope of colors and a range of furriness.Ah, 1949-1985. A time when the carpet industry raked in the benefits of new polymers and a spendy populace. A time when it became vogue to cover floors — and sometimes walls — in long, luxurious carpet. Let's look back in wonder at the days of the shag rug. 
This doesn't happen often, but sometimes we have some extra money to spend on the house. A few hundred bucks for new speakers, or a grand for a couch. Each time we have a windfall we can put into our home, we stall with anxiety. Scott and I have been living together a long time, and out of our parents' homes for a decade, and just like most people in their late twenties, money like this needs to be used carefully. We can't just whittle it away on hookers and beer — we'd like a sensible piece of furniture good for a lifetime. But that anxiety! What if we choose a couch we hate or our car breaks down the week after we paint the living room and then we wish we hadn't dropped $400 on the job? 
Joshua Ben Longo makes monster rugs. They're about $3000, so start saving now. Made with felt, stuffing, and polymer clay, these pieces make me feel more imaginative about my entire home. Like, what if I do something CRAZY with the linen closet? kind of imaginative. 
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Five ideas to soundproof so you can turn video games up to 11 without waking the deadEveryone needs a little soundproofing knowledge now and then, but nerds more than most. Here are our solutions for soundproofing your space. 
We are apartment-dwellers, which means we have shitty carpet. Maybe some apartment managers put in nice, expensive flooring that looks awesome after ten years, but our landlords didn't. After ten years of parties, dogs, and one wild child, the carpet in our place is spotty, threadbare, and wrinkled in places. When we made over our eight year old's room recently, one thing we really wanted was a big area rug. Unfortunately, rugs are expensive. Lucky for us (and you), making a rug is easy and cheap! 
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Aerial landscape rugs of the US, Europe, and Africa make it easy to pretend you are a giantHave you ever pretended you were a giant? Bring that dream to life with new rugs based on aerial landscapes from around the world. |
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