A colorful home tour designed by twins who mix high end with low end & DIY projects…

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Twins Teman & Teran Evans (HGTV’s design consultants for the show High/Low Project) live together & collaborated to create a home that effectively mixes higher end pieces with lower price point retail chain stores. Covering a living room wall with … Continue reading 

Use bellman luggage carts as clothes racks….

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You ever blog hop? I was on A Slice of Glam‘s site when she mentioned Stephanie Sterjovski Life & Style who mentioned Lovely & Chic. I was immediately drawn to the clothes wardrobes until I realized they were nothing more than luggage carts that you use at hotels. What a great way to repurpose. iWant!!!

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Tuesday’s Tips: consider a curtain, scarf or sheets for dressing a tablescape…

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From bedroom interior to tablescape. Yes I know it’s not the same blanket. However the purple hue made me think how easily we could use a scarf, sheets or curtains with a bold pattern for transforming a tabletop.

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Have you repurposed something for dressing a table?

See how hardware can change the look of inexpensive ikea closet furniture

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For the record I love Ikea. Since Milwaukee doesn’t have one I am forced to visit the one south of Chicago..two hours away. NOT convenient so I can’t wait to hit them up in a few weeks when I go to Atlanta for my birthday. That said,I am not the designer that frowns upon their stuff. I think most is stylish and best of all, affordable. Not everyone can go out and hire custom closet designers. SO when I see people like Jen Ramos style closets fabulously while making them appear more high end by doing minor changes, it makes me happy.

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First when using double sided tape, Jen added oompf to the drawers with leopard wallpaper. See how wallpaper doesn’t have to be strictly for walls. You can repurpose them for multiple uses..

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Next she used some sleek and modern knobs from myknobs to up the look a notch. It’s something I recently blogged about on ways to transform old dressers.

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Tuesday’s Tips: Diy Malachite boxes, a framed magnetic wall spice holder & under bed storage from old drawers

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{Addicted 2 Decorating}

I am so gonna steal this entire look for my next client. It’s not only functional but this magnetic chalkboard framed spice rack looks nice enough to be wall art for the kitchen

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Have an old dresser and not enough storage? Place casters on the bottoms of the drawers & roll them under the bed for some easy to reach storage. Use for out of season clothing or paperwork…

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My girl Jessica has yet another fab diy project (another fav of mine is her leopard drawer liner tutorial). She made a convincing malachite pattern for some decorative boxes…

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