DIY / Home Decor

DIY and Home Decor

The DIY / Home Decor category is for projects for repairing and decorating a house into a home. There are posts about making projects from wood that includes signs, frames, shelving and furniture. There are posts about making projects from wood including signs, ladders and frames. Furniture building and refinishing is included as well.

The DIY / Home decor category posts are about gardening, decorating porches and decks. Outdoor displays and DIY signs and home tours are included in this category.

The DIY / Home Decor category has various home decor examples for inspiration.

How to Recover your RV Window Valances

Redecorating an RV Travel Trailer with DIY Valances My son Jared and his wife, sold us their RV for a fraction of what its worth, so we can escape some of the long Canadian winters. So exciting, pinch me. It’s in really good shape but I want to glamour it up and make it more personal, and I love the soft cream colour on the interior walls. My first project is recovering the existing…

Two large DIY farmhouse cushions made with drop cloth and sewn like a banner. Cushion making, DIY cushion covers, DIY pillow, making pillow covers, cushion cover making, sewing pillow covers, envelope cover, DIY Cushion Covers

Easy Layered DIY Cushion Covers

Farmhouse Cushion Banner DIY Cushion Covers Other bloggers inspire me all the time like Our Crafty Mom did with these farmhouse cushion updates last fall. The minute I saw these cushion banners I knew I was going to try my own version and yeah today is the day. These cushion cover banners are an easy way to update any cushion you have and I love how unique the idea is. These cushion cover banners…

How to bleach drop clothes. Bleaching drop cloth before and after photo.

Bleaching Drop Cloth without a Top Loading Washer

Preparing Drop Cloths for Home Decor This is my first time working with drop cloth material, talk about being behind the trend curve. You know why it took me so long? I needed to find a way to prepare the drop cloth without using a top loading washer. I didn’t want to damage my asthmatic lungs with bleach fumes, so the bathtub was out of the question and I didn’t want to pour strong…

DIY European Cushion Cover with Luxurious Inserts

European DIY Cushions for Cheap European cushions are gorgeous, they take a plain bed to a cozy haven to read or do girl primping. I am home alone most of the time and still snuggle down on my bed to spoil myself with girl time. I first noticed European cushions online three or four years ago, I bought a set for our master bedroom for way too much coin, and although functional and I…

A refinished vintage stool for a craft room. How to fix a vintage stool, repairing a vintage stool, upcycled furniture, furniture for cheap, craft room makeover projects

Refurbishing a Vintage Stool

A Garage Sale Vintage Stool gets some Love What’s your plan when you go to garage sales? Do you go looking or something specific or enjoy the prices, coffee in hand, and browse to see what’s available? When I go to garage sales I guess I do a little of both, right now I am hunting for vintage stools, milk glass, vintage fire king or pyrex. So far this Spring I have found two vintage…

A back yard deck with a pallet wood flower pox. A pallet wood flower box for the back yard, DIY Wood Planter Plan, DIY flower box DIY planter, mod podge projects, mod podge crafts

Scrap or Pallet Wood Flower Box

DIY Garden Projects with the Farmhouse Hens Today is our monthly Farmhouse Hens collaboration, this month’s topic is all about gardening and I am very excited to share what we have creat. My post is about a scrap and pallet wood flower box. The other farmhouse hen’s posts are linked after mine, check them out I am sure you will enjoy it. Our tiny backyard is a work in progress. As you likely know I…

Four hand made embroidery crafts, with lavender.

How to Make a Lavender DIY Sachet

Handmade Lavender Sachets Summer vacation season is coming up, RVs are being taken out of storage and cleaned, luggage is being pulled out and aired. It’s the perfect time to have a lavender sachet or several sachets to sneak into baggage, or drawers before you head out. Besides the practicality of the sachets, it’s so much nicer to sit outside crafting than it is indoors doing anything else. This post is starting with tutorials for the…

Easy to make wood working project, flower or herb drying racks. Small wood projects, easy wood projects, easy woodworking projects, simple wood working projects, simple wood projects, wood projects, woodworking projects, flower drying, herb drying, scrap wood projects, hanging herbs, hanging flowers

An Easy Scrap Wood Project for Drying Herbs or Flowers

An Easy Scrap Wood Project for the Back Yard It’s a little bit early to use these, the inexpensive herbs and last of the season florals are thankfully three months away. These little herb and flower drying racks began as simple scrap wood projects but were too clunky and boring, so I added the feminine touches of the vintage utensil hooks and the botanical graphics. How to Make DIY Drying Racks These super simple…