DIY Decor Journal
Real room makeovers, weekend craft tutorials, thrift flips, and budget decorating advice you can actually do with your own hands.
Home improvement
6 min readIf you’ve never organized anything yourself, these DIY home organization ideas for beginners are a good place to start, because none of them needs special skills or a big budget. Most of them use stuff you’d normally throw out. I mean shoeboxes, old jars and a cereal box. Only the last project needs a screwdriver. […]
Home Decor
11 min readWhen your place is small and money is tight, you might want to buy a bunch of bins first, and I get it, because buying stuff can feel like getting organized. But most small home organization ideas on a budget don’t need you to buy much at all. The shoeboxes, jars, and cereal boxes you […]
Home Decor
8 min readWhen a house gets really cluttered, the worst part is not knowing where to start, because every room looks about the same. You pick something up, look at it, put it back down, and then check your phone. Most advice on how to organize a cluttered home skips right past that stuck feeling and jumps […]
Home Decor
6 min readLast winter I lost my car keys for two days. Two days, in a house with three small rooms and a kitchen. They were in the pocket of a coat hanging behind the bedroom door, which tells you how well my system was working. That’s more or less when I got serious about how to […]
Furniture & Upcycling
4 min readI keep finding old chairs that nobody wants. Last month I grabbed two at a garage sale for $5 total. One had a cracked seat. The other looked like it came out of a 90s kitchen. Both were real wood, so I brought them home. I’ve been messing with different upcycle old chair ideas ever […]
Furniture & Upcycling
6 min readI had two old dining chairs sitting in the garage for months. One seat was cracked, and the other leg wobbled every time you sat down. I almost took them to the curb, but decided to make a bench instead. That’s how I ended up with a DIY bench from old furniture that now sits […]
Blog
9 min readI emptied a pickle jar of beach shells into my first shadow box coffee table, shut the lid, sat down on the sofa feeling pretty pleased with myself, and from there it looked like somebody had spilled gravel in a drawer. The box was five and a half inches deep, and most of the shells […]
Home Decor
5 min readA solid wood dining table costs much more than a veneer one, so make sure you’re paying for what you get. Tags don’t always help. Many tables sold as “wood” are a thin layer of real wood glued over particleboard or MDF, and from five feet away, they look the same as the real thing. […]
Home Decor
6 min readA regular dining table is 36 to 42 inches wide. Put one in an 8-foot-wide kitchen, and you won’t be able to reach the fridge when someone is sitting down. That’s why people look for a long narrow kitchen table. You lose some width, keep the length, and still get three or four seats plus […]
Budget Decor & Thrift
12 min readMost collections end up in a box, and I think that’s a bit sad, honestly. The wedding china, the trophies, and the three brass elephants somebody carried home from a trip all get wrapped in newspaper and pushed to the back of a closet, then sit there for ten years until somebody moves house and […]
