Easy DIY Blinds for Your Front Porch These roll up blinds make your south or west facing porch a lot more comfortable to sit on on hot summer afternoons. They add shade to the front wall of your house too, which helps reduce the heat inside your home and your (scary) air conditioning electric bill!! [...]
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Blinds for Your Porch
Posted in Curb Appeal and Gardens, Decor Tips, Drapery Panel Problems, Make it Yourself Decor Ideas, tagged Blinds for your porch. DIY simple blinds, shade for your porch on July 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tip: Hang up your Necklaces
Posted in Decor Tips, Make it Yourself Decor Ideas, tagged Hang up your necklaces, keep your necklaces untangled, make a decorative necklace hanger on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hang in there I previously described an organizer for your earrings in ”Earring Hanger You Can Make“ (Category: Make it yourself Decor Ideas) to keep those long, hook earrings easily accessable and in good order. Now it is the turn for your necklaces. Over the years, we accumulate quite the collection of necklaces. Some are good jewelry, [...]
Earring Hanger you can make
Posted in Decor Tips, Make it Yourself Decor Ideas, Uncategorized, tagged D.I.Y. earring hanger, hang up your earrings, picture frame earring hanger on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hang in There, Baby ! This useful decor ‘art’ is pretty as a picture’! I like to hang up my hook earrings and necklaces. I have always put a couple of nails or eyehooks in the wall and strung a piece of picture wire between them to hang up my hook earrings. It makes them [...]
Decor Tips – Refreshing Picture Frames & Mattes
Posted in Decor Tips, Make it Yourself Decor Ideas, tagged fixing old picture frames and mattes, painting picture frames, painting picture mattes, refreshing picture mattes on March 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Fixing up old picture frames and mattes: I inherited quite a number of original watercolours, framed photos and prints. The mattes and frames were mostly 30-60 years old with battered frames and yellowed or just plain ugly, out of date mattes. I also like to pick up old framed prints, at auction. Replacing mattes is expensive [...]
New kind of Wall covering!
Posted in Comments/Opinions, Decor Tips, Make it Yourself Decor Ideas, Shopping with Leslie, tagged design your own wallpaper, no stick wallpaper, wall decor, what is new in wallpaper on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Stop the presses! I just found a new kind of wallpaper that doesn’t use glue, it is a peel and stick that comes off as easy as pie without harming the paint. There is no glue, no mess and no damage to the wall. Every order is custom sized to fit your wall, so it [...]
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