Those of you who like to cook know how hard it is to fit all cooking equipment you use into a contemporary kitchen. Lots of us live in apartments which usually have quite small kitchens. There isn’t enough space for all modern appliances, kitchen utensils, sauces, spices, dry ingredients, grains, root veggies and other stuff....
Vintage things are so fashionable and that’s why they are expensive. But you can make one yourself. To make a vintage stool you’ll need one or more stools with flat wooden tops, paint if you wish, sticky back plastic or wallpaper, mod podge, vintage or self-printed decals. For the top, you can use either sticky...
Decorate your table to make the meal joyous and cheerful! Let’s make fun cascading pinwheel table runner as an alternative to flowers on your tables. You’ll need 8.5 X 11 sheets of paper, scissors, double sided tape, cardstock, hot glue gun and sticks. Choose the colors you like and begin. Fold a piece of paper...
Let’s make a vintage wallet of an old map, you can use it yourself or give as a great gift for anybody. You’ll need a map or some other pretty paper, transparent self-adhesive foil, a ruler, a pencil, a sewing machine. Start with drawing the rectangles on your paper; take the self-adhesive foil and put...
A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a house and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. Such windows can usually be found in quite old buildings but some people use them in contemporary homes too. There are different ways to use this...
Have you ever thought of wood as a decoration or wall art? I haven’t, so that’s why I was so surprised when I saw this wall map on wood pieces. So how to? After giving the strips of wood a rich, deep red oak stain you’ll have to trace and paint in a graphic map to add...
Vases are nice accessories; they not only help to create the atmosphere but also may be used to show the flowers or dry plants. This idea of a vase is the best one for any type of interior as an accessory. What can be more simple and genial than an enamel painted vase? You’ll need...
If you like soft and cozy things, you definitely make crafts of yarn or fur. This yarn pot may be used for pens, pencils and other accessories. You’ll need yarn, Elmer’s glue, and piece of cardboard. Take your cardboard and start with the end of your yarn and glue it down. Cover the whole square...
When it comes to kitchen storage there are a lot of options to organize it. That’s great because as small as big kitchens need it. You need to find a place for pots, skillets, tableware, spices, sauces, tools, appliances and other things that can be found on modern kitchens. We already showed you a large...
Is it possible to make a cool and original open drawer unit of a usual plastic box? Sure! Take branches (cotton wood gives the blonde wood effect), spray paint, cork sheets, chop saw, ruler, pencil, hot glue gun and table legs. Drill in the table legs to the bottom of your box. Hot glue cork...