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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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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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Lookin’ Good with Ready Mades So you found some curtain panels that you like and put them up and you are NOT happy with them. They really look amateurish, sloppy, or just not right, and you don’t know what to do to fix them. Here are some of the reasons that they don’t look/hang properly [...]

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Easy Sew Pleats and Gathers Rod Pocket Panels can be converted to pleats or gathers another way. This one is for those of you with access to a sewing machine and really basic sewing skills. At the Fabric Store, ask for pleating tape or shirring (gathering) tape. Then have them show you the appropriate hooks [...]

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Pile on the Pleats You can turn rod pocket panels into real pinch pleats, rather than fake it as I have described in “Easy Drapery Project“. You do need a sewing machine and some really basic sewing skills. As long as you are able to do some basic measuring and can sew a short seam [...]

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Get a pleated look from a flat panel Hang Rod Pocket (Flat) Panels to Look Like Pinch Pleats This ‘Decorating on a Dime’ project is dead easy and has an amazing effect. Give your flat panels the illusion of being pleated drapes. I am not crazy about rod pocket curtains/draperies in many cases, but they are [...]

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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, [...]

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No/Low Cost Mantle Decoration This pretty mantle decorating didn’t cost a dime, and yet is very striking and a little out of the ordinary. I started with the ‘snow’.  I laid down a layer of polyfil pillow stuffing, enough to cover the entire mantle. If you don’t have any new stuffing, just take apart an [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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