Ephemeral walls: No-damage decor to make your walls less boring
Living in a dorm room, renting with rules against nails and paint, or just a plain old small, boxy, white walled living spaces? What is a person to do in such boring living spaces (and with very little money to decorate)? Well. I welcome you now to Pinterest — land of wishful thinking and endless creative ideas. Here’s a plethora of inspiration to get you thinking, including Post-It Note decorating, the wonder of fabric, and things you might not have thought to do with your photographs.
Monday Moment: vintage radio-infused color makes me want to dance
The moments in your home don’t have to be a large area (a la my living room moment or Caroline’s vanity). They can be just a small grouping of objects that, when placed together, make each object even more special.
Awesome decorative dog kennels and stylish pet beds
My husband and I have two rather large (a pit bull and a bull terrier) and rather old dogs. How on earth do I give the dogs their “comfy spots” without making it look like the living room revolves around pets, not people?
A happy yellow, green, blue and teal nursery with DIY touches and hand-me-down toys
We wanted a bright and cheerful room for our child’s nursery, and it definitely needed to be fit for a boy or girl. Instead of building the room around a theme we built it around color, and as you’ll see there’s DEFINITELY a lot of it in there!
How to make a large L-shaped couch take up less space in a room
My cousins recently moved from California to Texas. They say “everything’s bigger in Texas” but that wasn’t true for their living room. The large L-shaped sofa that fit perfectly in their last living room was taking up the ENTIRE living space. Luckily for them my interior decorator mother lives near by, and she came over to see what could be done about the situation, without having to buy a new couch.
Scandalize your cat by using a fireplace as a headboard
If you have a fireplace you don’t use or happen to salvage a fireplace mantle, you can totally re-purpose it as a headboard! Flickr user Jennifer is utilizing the awesome molding (and perfect width) of her salvaged fireplace as a headboard for her charming-as-hell bed.
Monday Moment: an impractical nook turned design moment
Drew’s new apartment came with neat little nook that was too small to be fully functional but to big to be ignored. So he created this awesome moment, complete with unusually rockin’ “flowers.”
Reuse wine crates as shelving
If you have access to wine crates (you just might if you’re planning a large party, work for a restaurant, or enjoy buying wine in bulk) you have access to awesome modular shelving units that work wonders in a few key spaces.