Your grand ideas of using what you have won’t always work out.  Then you have a choice, you can enjoy the process and consider it a learning experience and an adventure.  Or you can give up and tell yourself to never try anything new again. It’s a lot more fun to live your life [...]

When I first saw this photo on pinterest, I thought how clever to use a old, empty ornate frame to frame to modern black and white photos.  I’ve seen so many stores mark down nice frames just because the glass is cracked.  I’ve seen so many people sell frames at yard sales because the glass [...]

apartment therapy happy home project nursery pinterest via one of each design sponge:: Kimi & Paul 79 ideas pinterest decor8 olive and love storage and glee Money really isn’t the issue when it comes to not creating a home you love. We like to blame it on money because then we can blame it on [...]

this is the fourth post in a series: Lovely Limitations, check out all the posts here. I was obsessed with this kitchen in the July issue of Southern Living. At first I though the before photo wasn’t that bad, but that’s plywood on the floor to the right there, not a rug. I still sometimes [...]

BHG Yesterday we talked about dressers with missing drawers and how they can be turned into a beautiful display piece.  What about if your dresser falls apart but you still have decent drawers?  Or maybe you come across a few spare drawers at a yard sale…maybe you even REMOVED a drawer from a perfectly good [...]

via My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia Say you are moving yet again and your old dresser just doesn’t hold up.  One of the drawers smashed to smithereens.  You could cry and whine and complain and throw a fit because you think you have to buy a new dresser.  Bad things always happen to you, right? [...]

Link up your 31 Day Series, you only need to link up ONE time on ONE host blog, your link should show up on each blog within a few minutes. DON’T forget to update the post at your blog you linked to-to add in each day’s new post  HELP your readers find your posts! Still [...]

Hi there, if this is your first time here, scroll down to read day one.  Otherwise, here are the current links to the rest of the series:: 31 Days of Lovely Limitations…. Day 2 Missing Dresser Drawers Day 3  Found Drawers Day 4 Use What You’ve Got Day 5 We All Have Branches Day 6 [...]