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5 In kitchen/dining

Rent Discontent

Are you renting and absolutely hate your kitchen/bathroom/bedroom/etc, but can’t do much about it, because, well, you’re renting?  Try this tactic: sweet talk your landlord into letting you change it by offering to do the labor yourselves.  If your landlord is especially cool, they might even provide you with materials to do the job. 

That’s what Nick from Lindauer Designs decided to do when he couldn’t take another day of bright orange countertops and the three clashing patterns of wallpaper that his kitchen was rocking. Looks like it paid off.  Take a stand renters!  You don’t deserve to live with cheddar-colored counters!











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15 In chairs/ottomans/seating

Pepto Dismal

Joy’s husband was terrified of this sickly pink chair she had lugged home from the thrift store one day.  She promised him it wouldn’t stay pink for long, and that she totally knew how to reupholster it.  Except she didn’t. 

So Joy googled and researched and bought books and tools and waited until her husband went out of town, which, in her words: “Gave me the freedom to cuss and scream and turn the living room into a craft room while watching all seven Harry Potter movies and drinking several bottles of wine and not have to ‘splain nothin’ to nobody.”

And everything turns out fantastic in the end!  Except Dumbledore dies.  Oooh, I hope that wasn’t a spoiler!  Check out the progress on her blog Girl v. The World.












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6 In outdoors

A Corny Post

I was hanging out with a friend and fellow leader at girl’s camp a couple of weeks ago, and somehow the topic of conversation turned to corn.  “I love corn!” she cried.  “I love it in all forms! I really do, I love every type of corn!”  Well, that sounded like a challenge to me.  So I for the next few days  obnoxiously followed her around, trying to think of a single type of corn that she didn’t like.  “Popcorn?  Corn flakes?  Corn grits?  Creamed corn? Corn fritters?  Caramel corn? Corn Pops? Cornmeal? Corn pudding? Cornbread? Corn on the cob?  Corn off the cob? Corn chowder? Canned corn? Frozen corn? Cornish game hens?  Corned beef? Corningware?”  She likes them all!

The joke continued after girl’s camp, and we emailed her a few more.  “Cornrows? Corny jokes? The band Korn?”  And finally, getting to the point of this entire post: “Cornhole?” As in, the game?    As in the game that consists of a little platform with a hole that you try to toss a beanbag into?  

The very next day I received a couple of cornhole game makeovers, if you can believe it.  A simple slab of wood into utter outdoor fabulousness! Even though this no longer has the slightest thing to do with corn, I’m totally adding it to the list.  From Angela and Debbie at Tres Chere.  (flowered one is HERE)


















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7 In bedroom

What a Genia-s!

Genia’s bedroom already had a lot going for it.  Great ceiling and moulding.  Cool light fixture.  But it was lacking in … shajazz.  Just like Jello, there’s always room for more shajazz, am I right? So she and her husband put up some board and batten, only it wasn’t quite board and batten, it was like board and batten’s hipper more modern cousin.  I love it! 

They used small strips of moulding, and in an especially genius move, used a single headless nail to hold each piece in place until they were sure the whole thing was perfect.  Those are the kinds of ideas I think up far after the fact as I’m prying out every single nail and crying.

Thanks for sharing Genia!  See more on her blog This Home of Ours.











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13 In tables/dressers

Rubbish to Resplendent

Stephanie is from Australia where they call things like this big, busted up and brown piece of furniture “rubbish” instead of “a hunk-o-junk,” like us Americans.  Or maybe that’s just me.  Still, Americans typically don’t say the word “rubbish,” which is a shame. It’s a fun word.  I’m going to start worming it in to my daily conversations:  “Hi sis, what’s new today?  Oh, the baby is sick?  What a fat load of rubbish!”  I might have to work on it. 

See the fabulous transformation up close on Stephanie’s blog Stephlee Photography.















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22 In living room

If living room ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.

Reach down and get a firm hold on your socks, because they are about to be knocked off.   Check out how Jodie’s living room evolved from looking like a sad, black-leather clad bachelor pad to … well … the total opposite. Sophisticated, bright, happy perfection!  If you have been waiting for a sign to convince you that you should go ahead with getting that entertainment built-in you’ve been dreaming of, this is it.  It will be like Prozac for your living room, truth! 
See more  on Jodie’s blog Jodie Okun Interiors.


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