quickies

This is a repost from January 2009.  I enjoyed reading it again and I think you will too.
Sometimes the things that make the biggest change in a room can take just minutes. You don’t have to purchase new furniture. Just make sure you are using what you already have to it’s fullest. [...]

Why did I think that angle would be appealing?  I’m getting seasick just looking at it.
I thought it would be fun every now and then to talk about a quick little task we can do in our homes that can add beauty, order, or sanity.  This week’s task:
SHINE YOUR SINK
I am not the originator of [...]

Sometimes the simplest way to make something…is to drive to IKEA and buy it ready made for $25. But thanks for all of your ingenious ideas on how to make my own.
Have you ever sat out to make something only to find it much easier just to purchase?

Using items I already had I incorporated:

Layers
Texture
Contrast
Color

It looked like this last week. But it was missing some umph.
It started out with a pretty but pipsqueaky little raised embellishment. So I made a tiny nail hole and hung a wood carving over it to bulk it up a little.
Here’s the before.
Here’s what I added. [...]

Blog Polls
There’s a poll embedded in this post about sofas and how much yours was so click over and enter if you are reading via a feed reader. I’d love to hear what you spent! Tomorrow, I’ll start pricing my space. And the Price My Space party is Monday!
Anyone know why my [...]

Photo Country Living via Old Post Road–thank you! I LOVE this pot rack!
Our ceiling is begging for a pot rack. I loved ours in our last house that we owned but we left it with the house. Wouldn’t it be great if I could make one myself?
I found a Ten Dollar Pot [...]

I have 18 lamps in my house. Some women collect shoes and bags, I collect lamps and pillows. Correctly placed lamp light can transform the mood of a space, make you look younger, help accentuate the positive in a room and eliminate the negative and look pretty while doing all of that. [...]

I’ve always wanted to use the word finale.
Here we are. You’ve been telling me for weeks about all the fast fixes and minute makeovers you’ve done. This is your time to brag. I mean share it with us. Go for it! New around these parts and wonder what in the [...]

This is the fourth post in a series where we are exploring all sorts of quick and easy ways to spruce up your home. The idea is to focus on a few things that you can change right now to make the room just a little more inviting. Check out Family Rooms , [...]

For the next 4 Mondays I’m going to attempt to do a series exploring simple things that you can do right now to make a room better in both form and function. We’ll be covering:

Family Room
Master bedroom
Bathroom
Kitchen

{now it’s later and I came back here and made all those blue words above into links so [...]