DIY Decor Journal
Real room makeovers, weekend craft tutorials, thrift flips, and budget decorating advice you can actually do with your own hands.
Furniture & Upcycling
6 min readA round table with leaf is a round dining table that opens up in the middle so you can add an extra board, and that board is what everybody calls the leaf. With the leaf out you’ve got a small round table for four. Put it in, and the table gets longer and turns into […]
Blog
9 min readA table for four in a small dining room is a bit of a con. You pay for four seats, and you use two, and the other half of the top sits there holding the mail while you turn sideways to get to the fridge. That’s the problem a drop leaf table was made for, […]
DIY Projects & Crafts
9 min readIf you want light on your patio table and you’re tired of string lights or your phone flashlight, outdoor table lamps are an easy fix. They’re small lamps made to sit outside on a patio table, a balcony, or a covered porch, and they can handle wet air and wind in a way your living […]
Furniture & Upcycling
7 min readA California king bedframe is the longest standard US bed size. You get 84 inches from head to foot, which is four inches more than a regular king, so it’s the bed tall people end up with once they’re tired of their feet hanging off the end. It’s also the size people mix up the […]
Furniture & Upcycling
7 min readA cherry wood bed frame is not cheap. A solid one runs a couple thousand dollars for a queen, and you can get a decent-looking bed for a lot less. So the fair question is whether the extra money gets you anything. I think it does. Most beds look their best on day one and […]
Home Decor
10 min readMost decorative vases that look off at home aren’t ugly. They’re too small for where they ended up, and that’s a different problem. A six-inch bud vase that looked sweet on the store shelf becomes a speck on a five-foot console table, and stuffing more flowers into it doesn’t help; it just makes a small […]
Home Decor
7 min readWhen you start looking at all the types of bed frames out there, it’s easy to pick the one that looks nice in the picture. But the frame you pick decides a lot more than looks, like whether you need a box spring, if you get any storage under the bed, how high up you […]
Home Decor
7 min readYour bedroom is the one room guests hardly see, so it’s usually the last one that gets any money, and that’s why so many of them end up with a bare ceiling bulb, a small rug and a bed pushed against whatever wall it fits on. If you want to how to decorate your bedroom […]
Home improvement
11 min readIf your kitchen is small, your microwave is probably taking up the counter space you need most. A regular LG countertop model is about 21 inches wide and 17 inches deep, so it takes up a good part of the space where you would cut vegetables or set down a hot pan. A kitchen microwave […]
Home improvement
6 min readA light wood nightstand is one of those pieces that looks great in the listing photo and then gets to your house and looks a little orange. I hear about this a lot. People send me a picture of their master bedroom and ask what’s wrong with the nightstand, and most of the time, nothing […]
