Want to make your entryway more functional? Here are a ton of DIY entryway bench ideas for your home!
This has actually been done for a couple months but like I said here ... sometimes life slows you down! I really and truly couldn't lo...
This has actually been done for a couple months but like I said here ... sometimes life slows you down! I really and truly couldn't lo...
Discover the emerging trend of dark green mudrooms in this blog post. Explore the blend of sophistication and practicality dark green brings, and find inspiration for your own mudroom makeover!
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Hello friends! I have been looking forward to getting this post together for you all for quite some time. I have to say nothing else on my Instagram page gets more questions than that of the changes we made in our mudroom and how we made our Ikea Hemnes mudroom storage unit. Here I will walk you through what we did in this shared laundry/mudroom post, and how we did it on a low budget to make this a much more functional and useful space. Now, I can actually look forward to coming in here and doi
Closet spaces can be beautiful and organized! Organizational systems can lighten our load and provide a little eye candy! Here are 19 closet spaces that you can create for your own home! You'll find 19 cool closet organizers ideas as well as beautiful ways to arrange them! We've taken away all the guess work on how to organize a closet with these incredible tutorials. For even more ways to organize it Tip Junkie's Creative Community has over 155 How To Organize ideas. You can always search there if you're looking for more storage solutions with step-by-step instructions. {wink} Do you have a craft room organization tip? If so, add
The most important part of my Garage Mudroom Makeover (check it out HERE) was definitely the DIY Lockers. Honestly, even when our home was being built, and all we had were studs, I was envisionin…
The home was designed in 1969 and completed in 1970 by Fred Blecksmith, and some of its original details include a built-in vanity and light fixtures in the bathrooms, a hidden closet and bar, and gorgeous old growth redwood paneling.
A new and quirky hotel in upstate New York aims to coax visitors — especially city folks — into a chill state of mind. Think Scandinavian decor that perfectly frames views of the outdoors, including the Windham Mountains.
Finally done! The recap post for the finale of Season 1 of Makeover By Monday! This post has been sitting in my… Read More
I am very happy to report that the coat closet makeover is DONE!! Do you remember how it started? I gave a little background on how my coat closet was my craft closet here and how it sadly had turned into the kids favorite place to shove everything! So it had to move. A while back...Read More
The remarkable craftsmanship and attention to detail by Humphrey Munson has really brought this kitchen to life with an incredible cooking run featuring an enormous chimney surrounding the 1500mm Lacanche Citeaux range cooker.
First impressions are everything and hollow core bi-folding doors are not the feeling I was after for the first impression upon entering my home. Removing the…
A midcentury house renovation in Boise, Idaho by designer Jessica Luque. A Modest midcentury home has been brought back to life thanks to smart design choices.
How Shelley from the "House of Smiths" blog turned her home's standard coat closet into a charming entry nook that acts as a mudroom for her family.
Thank you all for voting and participating in Blog Madness last week! We’ll be back Wednesday to announce the ULTIMATE 2018 TREND and lay out all of our 2018 predictions, but today we’re back to our regular DIY content. And it’s exciting because in a wholly unprecedented move for me, I am actually ahead of where I planned to be on a DIY project: I’ve
How to make DIY grooved cabinet doors using just a table saw! Beginner-friendly tutorial with tips and tricks.
We have a very small front entrance when you enter our home. To the left of the entry door is another wall, which made for some very cl...
A tour, plus 3 kinda brilliant kitchen features we're obsessed with.
Most often we don't pay much attention to our closets. We just stuff them full of junk and close the doors. Usually we complain that we don't have enough of them, or that they're not big enough, but lately I have been thinking about closets in more unconventional ways. It started with a brilliant front-entry closet to mud-room style nook conversion that I saw from House of Smiths and replicated for a client of mine who had a very narrow entryway, and didn't really need a front closet, but did need a place for visitors to sit and shed their coats and shoes. Click here for tutorial The fact of the matter is, sometimes, depending on your needs in a particular space, a closet can be better used for something other than a closet. One of the things that really bothered me when we first moved into our house was the upstairs hallway. It was straight, narrow, dark, and full of doors. 30 years ago the builders of my home sought to try and include everything a family would need into the space available and for the most part I am happy with that, but in the hallway, it just felt like they were trying to cram too many things in. My small hallway contained: 3 bedroom doors, 1 bathroom door, 1 small coat closet, 1 narrow broom closet, and the most ridiculously undersized linen closet I have ever seen. Broom Closet BEFORE Functionally, these 2 skinny little closets just weren't working for me. Sure they existed, which I guess was better than nothing at all, but the narrow size coupled with bi-fold doors limited what could actually be stored in the closet in the first place and made it very difficult to put things in and pull things out. From a design perspective, I had a rectangle full of rectangles. It was too much repetition. It felt crowded. I couldn't stand it. But what to do about it? Kinda-Custom Storage Cabinet First, I needed to create a different storage solution that worked better for my linens and cleaning supplies. This is when I came up with my Kinda-Custom Storage Cabinet which gave me all the storage I needed and more. With my stuff out of the way, I could concentrate on improving the aesthetics of my hallway. I had 3 main goals in mind for my hallway: light, space, and variety. In order to create some more breathing room between all those rectangles crowded together, I took out the broom closet. I dry-walled over the existing closet opening in the hallway, but didn't eliminate the closet all together (because, I do need some closets). (New tutorial coming soon: How-To Drywall) Instead I cut a hole in the side of the closet which then made it a much needed bathroom closet instead of an impractical hall closet. Eliminating this impractical closet from the hallway cut down on the number of rectangles crowding my hallway, and created a little more open wall space for artwork which will bring more variety and balance to the space. Broom closet AFTER Next I replaced the trim and doors with brilliant white, which automatically lightened and expanded the space. I chose a 3 panelled door, instead of the pre-existing flat doors, which brought more lines, shapes and interest into the space creating more variety. (New tutorial coming soon: How-To Replace Doors) Next on my hit-list was the skinny linen closet. Like the broom closet I had considered removing this closet from the hallway as well and using the space to expand my daughter's bedroom closet, but it didn't quite lend itself as well to becoming a closet in a different room like the broom closet did. Besides, I had another problem to solve. We had a fair number of books that had no official home. My children's bedrooms didn't have space for bookshelves, so their books just got tossed into their closets with their toys. My husband and I ended up keeping our books in our nightstands (which we were increasingly running out of space). My empty linen closet was looking more and more like a built-in bookshelf. It was a super-simple conversion. The shelves were already in place. I just removed the doors and hardware, filled the holes, and painted the closet interior white. I could have just re-used the existing shelves by painting them white, but I wanted them to come all the way to the edge of the opening, so I bought some slightly wider shelving material, cut new shelves and put them in. The only part that was a little tricky was the bottom. Without addressing the bottom, it did just kind of look like a closet with the doors removed, and I didn't really want to put my books right on the floor. So, I built a 4" kick out of scrap lumber and custom fit the bottom shelf around the closet opening. I eliminated another blank rectangle from my hall, added variety, and solved my book storage problem. Win, win, win. Love it!
They say first impressions are everything. I used to think the entryway of a home served one purpose—a place to toss your shoes and coats. After living in and renovating a few homes myself, I soon began to realize it’s a little more than just that. A front entrance of a home should first and foremost, be practical for everyday living. Making sure it works for your lifestyle is key to any successful space! However, we tend to overlook this nook when it comes to style. No matter how small the space (just see my previous home) infusing a little personality into it goes a very long way! After all, it is a visitor’s first step into your home. Today, I’m excited to finally share the first Before + After post from The Mod House Project! (. . .the first of many more to come!) This tiny front foyer was the perfect blank canvas to have some fun. I took a modern yet youthful approach to this design which all began with the flooring. When we purchased the home, we had an abundant of white square tiles everywhere. Although it does not look that bad in the below images, they were actually stained and ...
Name: Toby Shawe and Samy Badawy Location: Roxborough – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Size: 2300 square feet Years lived in: 18; Renovated 2008 – 2010 “Space becomes more an exciting entity that is allowed to exist purely for the pleasure of experiencing it.
This organized goodness from "the good fairy" makes my heart go pitter-patter. Then the pretty blue and white decor for Christmas makes me smile. images above by the good fairy Today I'm loving the cute, clever scene by Amy at Sweet, Sweet Life and this holiday home tour by Old Brand New (who can do no wrong in my book. I adore every way this home is styled!). Here's a beautiful mobile by Old Brand New. image via old brand new Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!! ~ sunny
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I am very happy to report that the coat closet makeover is DONE!! Do you remember how it started? I gave a little background on how my coat closet was my craft closet here and how it sadly had turned into the kids favorite place to shove everything! So it had to move. A while back...Read More
