DIY
Meet our 80ies toilet!
Readers, we wanna introduce you to one of our rooms that you haven’t seen before, our rocking 1980ies toilet:
Don’t you just love the dirty- looking brown tiles in combination with the wooden toilet and the brass fixtures? Classy.
And to add to the claustrophobic feeling of this tiny space, there was a very dark wooden ceiling [...]
A diy Valentine’s day
Here is our diy Valenine’s day round-up to get your creative juices flowing.
Calligraphy Valentine’s day card (on the righ):
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If you are talented and patient, Im sure you could recreate this or at least something similar fairly easily but with stunning effects.
Sweet treats for your sweetie:
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Seed Valentines:
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Love, love, love the idea of giving seeds in handmade [...]
DIY inspiration
We constantly stumble upon ridiculously cool diy ideas that for some reason we don’t make ourselves. We do want to share them with you, though! One project I absolutely adore ist this starburst mirror:
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It is such a classic that could cost you quite a lot if you buy it. This diy version, however, achieves a [...]
Pinboard redo
For our office, which we’re currently working on, we have recently spruced up a standard magnet/cork board combination. Here’s the cheap office helper (only $ 4 at our grocery store!) before:
It was useful but just too boring. To make it a bit more interesting, we got out some leftover paint from this project. We made [...]
White repainted radiators
We have some amazing before and afters for you!
Last Saturday (another rainy day) we decided spontaneously to improve the look of our old radiators with a fresh coat of paint. So we headed to the nearest hardware store to buy medium grade sandpaper, paint brushes and radiator paint. Make sure to stick with a high-temperature [...]
Cheap and easy home décor
Decorating our boxes like they do in home and interior magazines and catalogs isn’t always that easy. Often these decorating ideas are costly or hardly found on the market. However decorating a home doesn’t have to be pricey, all it takes is a little creativity. Here is our way to spice up a boring corner.
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DIY picture frames
For a while now we have been obsessed with birch trees. We love their elegance and the pretty white bark. On a recent trip to New York we had seen lots of vases covered in birch bark, which inspired us to start our own diy project: birch picture frames.
For the birch bark we went to [...]
Branch coat rack
In our post on our hallway you may have noticed this:
It is a coat rack that we made ourselves out of a branch. We had gotten a few branches from an old tree that was cut down. The boy immediately got to work with his Swiss army knife and stripped the branches off their bark. [...]
