How to turn your bathroom cupboard into a cat box
Behind that door is a cat box. This bathroom cupboard didn’t have any shelves inside. So I put a piece of carpet down, added a cat door and the cat box is inside!
Home decor lessons I learned from Burning Man
Whatever you may think of Burning Man, the way it creates a There out of Nowhere is truly remarkable… and there are lessons to be gleaned.
We used stripes to turn our garage into a beachy Mexican backdrop to the patio
We chose one of the hottest days of the year to paint our garage. And not just to paint our garage, but to paint it with four different colors of stripes.
Lemme tell you, I’ve got stripe-painting skillz.
Use your scanner to make art
Homie Leah had blank walls and a cheap scanner/printer for free when she bought her computer. So she used it to make scanner art.
Library furniture in the living room and boosting your wifi with something from your fridge
Every Monday we do a roundup of reader photos and interesting links from across the web.
In the Clicky Links this week, you’ll find a trailer for a documentary about cosplay, a way to combine an appliance and closet door to up the storage space, and a designer’s idea to make a table out of anything.
Aerial landscape rugs of the US, Europe, and Africa make it easy to pretend you are a giant
Have you ever pretended you were a giant? Bring that dream to life with new rugs based on aerial landscapes from around the world.
How to keep a bed from dominating a mixed-use room
I live in half-a-house, sealed up and separate from the rest. The other half is occupied by my dad. As a space that wasn’t really built as an entire house, it’s a kooky space, but it’s fabulously cozy. The back “room” is our study/music room/art studio AND guest bedroom.
I have a king bed in a pretty prominent corner. How can I make this look less like a bed that got lost on its way to an ACTUAL bedroom, and more like some sort of daybed situation?
A seashell grotto in the front lawn, a Piet Mondrian front door, and a lavender house in the south
Come in and see Fresh-from-Florida’s shot of something called a “cracker house.” It’s a thing. Anyway, it looks like a house from True Blood to me.