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I want my house to look like The Burrow or Monica's apartment. I just can't quite translate it to my own space, I need inspiration. Please give me your blogs on eclectic, quirky design. Especially ones for people with a DIY spirit and a non-existent budget.
I already saw all these posts and while I did find some helpful things I still want more. Especially stuff I can make instead of buy. I have a whole house that needs furnishing and $0 to spend.
I know the basics: Keep it neat. Paint the walls. Have a place to put a drink. Keep afghans around that can be used and not just looked at.
My problem is that my furniture is all crap and I have no budget to replace it. I want to know what to look for at yard sales and thrift stores. When I find a piece I like I want to know what to look for to see if it's good enough to reupholster. I know that the eclectic stuff is supposed to be things that I like tied together in a cohesive way, but how do I tie them together.
I think the way for me to learn is to look at lots and lots and lots of pictures of successful eclectic designs. I just need your help finding those pictures.
I like offbeat stuff, cob houses, English gardens, mid-century modern furniture, Bauhaus, the Arts & Crafts and the Art Deco movements. I hate shabby chic. I like cool blues and greens, but I hate hospital white walls.
I have three kids and two dogs, so knick-knack type things are a waste of time. I'm interested in furniture and design, not kitschy things. Blogs with home decor mixed with fashion would be okay. I'm also okay with looking at websites for stores if they have great pictures even if I can't afford to buy their stuff.
I want my home to feel comfortable, the kind of place where people come in, want to take their shoes off and stay awhile.
How do I balance the eclectic look and still keep things looking neat and tidy? How do I make cheap stuff not look cheap?
I love Ana-White.com and Apartment Therapy. Who else do I need to be reading?
I already saw all these posts and while I did find some helpful things I still want more. Especially stuff I can make instead of buy. I have a whole house that needs furnishing and $0 to spend.
I know the basics: Keep it neat. Paint the walls. Have a place to put a drink. Keep afghans around that can be used and not just looked at.
My problem is that my furniture is all crap and I have no budget to replace it. I want to know what to look for at yard sales and thrift stores. When I find a piece I like I want to know what to look for to see if it's good enough to reupholster. I know that the eclectic stuff is supposed to be things that I like tied together in a cohesive way, but how do I tie them together.
I think the way for me to learn is to look at lots and lots and lots of pictures of successful eclectic designs. I just need your help finding those pictures.
I like offbeat stuff, cob houses, English gardens, mid-century modern furniture, Bauhaus, the Arts & Crafts and the Art Deco movements. I hate shabby chic. I like cool blues and greens, but I hate hospital white walls.
I have three kids and two dogs, so knick-knack type things are a waste of time. I'm interested in furniture and design, not kitschy things. Blogs with home decor mixed with fashion would be okay. I'm also okay with looking at websites for stores if they have great pictures even if I can't afford to buy their stuff.
I want my home to feel comfortable, the kind of place where people come in, want to take their shoes off and stay awhile.
How do I balance the eclectic look and still keep things looking neat and tidy? How do I make cheap stuff not look cheap?
I love Ana-White.com and Apartment Therapy. Who else do I need to be reading?
You definitely want to think about colors, textures and proportions. One simple tip is pick a painting or print that you like-one with lots of color-and use those colors when you decorate the rest of the room. Make one or two of those colors the main thing and make one color an accent. For example, with cool blues and greens maybe just a bit of orangey red? Or yellow?
Make sure your furnishings "fit" the space you have them in-not proportionately too large or too small.
Pillows, throws, fabrics-make liberal use of these. Also, since you like Arts and Crafts, check out the Preraphaelite Movement in art-also check out the work of William Morris.
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 11:01 AM on November 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Make sure your furnishings "fit" the space you have them in-not proportionately too large or too small.
Pillows, throws, fabrics-make liberal use of these. Also, since you like Arts and Crafts, check out the Preraphaelite Movement in art-also check out the work of William Morris.
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 11:01 AM on November 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Oh, and one other color tip. Any color will go with any other color as long as it is the same intensity.
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 11:03 AM on November 17, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 11:03 AM on November 17, 2010 [2 favorites]
Best answer: casasugar (home section)
design*sponge
curbly
ReadyMade (home section)
I also recommend taking your time as you add things to the house. Of course you need places to sleep and sit, but don't just buy something because it's cheap. Have a little notebook of things that you're looking for and keep your eye out. If you keep track of measurements and items that will with fit in your house, then you can find great cheap or free (elbow grease and paint will save almost any dumpster find) stuff at any moment.
posted by annaramma at 11:06 AM on November 17, 2010 [2 favorites]
design*sponge
curbly
ReadyMade (home section)
I also recommend taking your time as you add things to the house. Of course you need places to sleep and sit, but don't just buy something because it's cheap. Have a little notebook of things that you're looking for and keep your eye out. If you keep track of measurements and items that will with fit in your house, then you can find great cheap or free (elbow grease and paint will save almost any dumpster find) stuff at any moment.
posted by annaramma at 11:06 AM on November 17, 2010 [2 favorites]
Response by poster: St. Alia of the Bunnies: Thank you for your tips, but those are all things I've heard before. I want to *see* it in action. Pictures, I need pictures. I want to see these principles working in real rooms. I'm familiar with art, I'm good with color, I just need to see how those things have been put together in real rooms. (Or you know, fake rooms that look real....or magical rooms that I just wish were real!)
annaramma: That's exactly what I'm looking for!
The notebook is a great idea. Just to clarify: We have furniture now, but after 12 years of marriage, three kids and two dogs it's all falling apart. It was all hand-me-downs or cheap to begin with, so as I replace things I don't want to make the same mistakes.
posted by TooFewShoes at 11:19 AM on November 17, 2010
annaramma: That's exactly what I'm looking for!
The notebook is a great idea. Just to clarify: We have furniture now, but after 12 years of marriage, three kids and two dogs it's all falling apart. It was all hand-me-downs or cheap to begin with, so as I replace things I don't want to make the same mistakes.
posted by TooFewShoes at 11:19 AM on November 17, 2010
Best answer: I love this question so much and am stalking the answers.
Here are some blogs I like (although I think you and I have similar taste, and I've found it hard to find blogs that really push that particular button, so none of these are exactly right):
Desire to Inspire - a gazillion photos of a gazillion different interiors. Some of them are great.
Dollar Store Crafts - this isn't specifically decorating-related, and a lot of the crafts are too cottage-y for me, but occasionally they'll have something that strikes me as exactly right. (Also, thrifty.)
Crafty Nest - more crafts. A lot of it, again, is kinda cottage-y or Martha Stewarty, but sometimes it gets into Anthropologie-esque territory, so I scan it for ideas.
A Stitch in Dye - a quilt blog (wait, I'll explain): I am not a quilter, but I read a couple of blogs by what I think of as "modern quilters": their eye for color is really interesting to me.
I read a lot of craft blogs, is what I'm realizing as I write this question. A lot of the decor blogs are very Pottery-Barn-Catalog, matchy-matchy to me, whereas a lot of the craft/DIY blogs are kind of funky and strange in a way I like. Occasionally they'll feature some kind of decor tutorial, but (is this weird?) if you find someone whose aesthetic you dig, they'll frequently just show pictures of their house, which I will then ooh and ahhh over. Here are a few more:
SouleMama
Angry Chicken
WhipUp - a kind of tutorial collection. You have to poke around, but there's some interesting stuff.
posted by thehmsbeagle at 11:35 AM on November 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Here are some blogs I like (although I think you and I have similar taste, and I've found it hard to find blogs that really push that particular button, so none of these are exactly right):
Desire to Inspire - a gazillion photos of a gazillion different interiors. Some of them are great.
Dollar Store Crafts - this isn't specifically decorating-related, and a lot of the crafts are too cottage-y for me, but occasionally they'll have something that strikes me as exactly right. (Also, thrifty.)
Crafty Nest - more crafts. A lot of it, again, is kinda cottage-y or Martha Stewarty, but sometimes it gets into Anthropologie-esque territory, so I scan it for ideas.
A Stitch in Dye - a quilt blog (wait, I'll explain): I am not a quilter, but I read a couple of blogs by what I think of as "modern quilters": their eye for color is really interesting to me.
I read a lot of craft blogs, is what I'm realizing as I write this question. A lot of the decor blogs are very Pottery-Barn-Catalog, matchy-matchy to me, whereas a lot of the craft/DIY blogs are kind of funky and strange in a way I like. Occasionally they'll feature some kind of decor tutorial, but (is this weird?) if you find someone whose aesthetic you dig, they'll frequently just show pictures of their house, which I will then ooh and ahhh over. Here are a few more:
SouleMama
Angry Chicken
WhipUp - a kind of tutorial collection. You have to poke around, but there's some interesting stuff.
posted by thehmsbeagle at 11:35 AM on November 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Highly recommend the above-linked Design*Sponge "sneak peek" series. I have had to stop looking at them because I'm not doing any home improvement these days. But om nom, decor porn....
My problem is that my furniture is all crap and I have no budget to replace it. I want to know what to look for at yard sales and thrift stores. When I find a piece I like I want to know what to look for to see if it's good enough to reupholster. I know that the eclectic stuff is supposed to be things that I like tied together in a cohesive way, but how do I tie them together.
1. What to look for at yard sales and thrift shops: you want something with good bones. Solid wood, preferably with the original wood finish visible, as opposed to furniture that's been painted (usually is an indicator that it's K-mart junk with a coat of paint applied after it got too beat up). Even if it is cheap k-mart junk, you want the option of seeing what you're getting; if you like DIY you can paint or refinish yourself, to your own taste. Look for good workmanship, too - check out the joins. Are the legs finely turned or thick stubby blocks? If it's something that originally came from Ikea or West Elm or any of those cheap & cheerful flat pack places, has it been assembled well? Is it wobbly?
Of course you can afford what you can afford, and there's nothing wrong with buying a $10 Ikea coffee table - but again, if you're going that route, you want to know what you're getting into and make sure it's assembled well, at least.
In terms of aesthetics to look for: I love quirky pieces that aren't just like something that someone else has. A lot of people get caught up in the Midcentury Modern thing, or another style/period, and immediately approach it from a collecting standpoint, buying designer or major name-brand pieces from that period. It's actually a lot easier to get a similar, and even more interesting, look for much cheaper by not caring too much about the pedigree but just picking stuff you like in those styles rather than worrying about whether it's an original Noguchi coffee table or whatever.
2. Usually it's more expensive to buy a ragged chair and reupholster it than it would be to buy a new chair. This even goes for high end stuff. I once looked at an Eames lounge chair (my dream chair!) that had a lot of damage to the leather. I knew that even though the chair was selling for a tiny fraction of the usual price, I'd have to pay thousands to have it re-covered. Even if I decided to compromise and have it reupholstered in cloth rather than leather, it would still put me over my total armchair budget. So I moved on, and found a perfectly good equivalent item which was ready to go, and a lot cheaper (but not quite as high profile a design). Unless you want to reupholster your grandmother's old couch, which is available to you free, I would hit pause on that idea for the time being. If you do want to invest in reupholstering later when you have more money, the above rules apply - look at the bones and overall workmanship of the piece.
3. Tying it all together: sticking in the same family of wood finishes is good. In furniture, scale is also important - your living room will look silly if you have a huge puffy recliner next to a petite little side table, or a bunch of low-slung modern stuff next to an upright and proper chintz-upholstered wing chair. Upholstery gets more complicated, but the easiest way to do it is to keep the colors simple, but vary the textures a lot. So maybe you only have two or three predominant colors in the room, but those colors are featured on linen drapes, a kilim rug, a leather couch, bent plywood table, corduroy pillows, and a funny old needle-point ottoman. It looks cohesive, but also visually complex.
posted by Sara C. at 11:49 AM on November 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
My problem is that my furniture is all crap and I have no budget to replace it. I want to know what to look for at yard sales and thrift stores. When I find a piece I like I want to know what to look for to see if it's good enough to reupholster. I know that the eclectic stuff is supposed to be things that I like tied together in a cohesive way, but how do I tie them together.
1. What to look for at yard sales and thrift shops: you want something with good bones. Solid wood, preferably with the original wood finish visible, as opposed to furniture that's been painted (usually is an indicator that it's K-mart junk with a coat of paint applied after it got too beat up). Even if it is cheap k-mart junk, you want the option of seeing what you're getting; if you like DIY you can paint or refinish yourself, to your own taste. Look for good workmanship, too - check out the joins. Are the legs finely turned or thick stubby blocks? If it's something that originally came from Ikea or West Elm or any of those cheap & cheerful flat pack places, has it been assembled well? Is it wobbly?
Of course you can afford what you can afford, and there's nothing wrong with buying a $10 Ikea coffee table - but again, if you're going that route, you want to know what you're getting into and make sure it's assembled well, at least.
In terms of aesthetics to look for: I love quirky pieces that aren't just like something that someone else has. A lot of people get caught up in the Midcentury Modern thing, or another style/period, and immediately approach it from a collecting standpoint, buying designer or major name-brand pieces from that period. It's actually a lot easier to get a similar, and even more interesting, look for much cheaper by not caring too much about the pedigree but just picking stuff you like in those styles rather than worrying about whether it's an original Noguchi coffee table or whatever.
2. Usually it's more expensive to buy a ragged chair and reupholster it than it would be to buy a new chair. This even goes for high end stuff. I once looked at an Eames lounge chair (my dream chair!) that had a lot of damage to the leather. I knew that even though the chair was selling for a tiny fraction of the usual price, I'd have to pay thousands to have it re-covered. Even if I decided to compromise and have it reupholstered in cloth rather than leather, it would still put me over my total armchair budget. So I moved on, and found a perfectly good equivalent item which was ready to go, and a lot cheaper (but not quite as high profile a design). Unless you want to reupholster your grandmother's old couch, which is available to you free, I would hit pause on that idea for the time being. If you do want to invest in reupholstering later when you have more money, the above rules apply - look at the bones and overall workmanship of the piece.
3. Tying it all together: sticking in the same family of wood finishes is good. In furniture, scale is also important - your living room will look silly if you have a huge puffy recliner next to a petite little side table, or a bunch of low-slung modern stuff next to an upright and proper chintz-upholstered wing chair. Upholstery gets more complicated, but the easiest way to do it is to keep the colors simple, but vary the textures a lot. So maybe you only have two or three predominant colors in the room, but those colors are featured on linen drapes, a kilim rug, a leather couch, bent plywood table, corduroy pillows, and a funny old needle-point ottoman. It looks cohesive, but also visually complex.
posted by Sara C. at 11:49 AM on November 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
If you're handy, and you aren't doing something insanely ornate, reupholstering's a skill that you can pick up pretty easily. My ex and I bought a book and completely gutted an antique chaise lounge. The only thing we paid a pro for was to pleat the bottom skirt, and the labor for that only cost forty bucks or so. Do you first practice piece in super-cheap fabric, so that if you screw up it's not such a big deal. (We didn't do this, and got lucky, but it's still a good idea.)
posted by cyndigo at 12:06 PM on November 17, 2010
posted by cyndigo at 12:06 PM on November 17, 2010
Best answer: Making It Lovely is nice, uh lovely.
I usually find a blog I like and follow the links to more links to more links to more links. Of course, sometimes I totally lose track of where I was but there are so many blogs to read. I find good links in the Apartment Therapy comments too on ocassion.
posted by vespabelle at 1:26 PM on November 17, 2010
I usually find a blog I like and follow the links to more links to more links to more links. Of course, sometimes I totally lose track of where I was but there are so many blogs to read. I find good links in the Apartment Therapy comments too on ocassion.
posted by vespabelle at 1:26 PM on November 17, 2010
Best answer: Knack Studios is great for inspiration if you want to paint/refinish old furniture.
posted by logic vs love at 2:09 PM on November 17, 2010
posted by logic vs love at 2:09 PM on November 17, 2010
Best answer: I redecorated most of my apartment last year with mostly thrift-store stuff for very little money, in a very eclectic style that I really love. Probably not to everyone's taste but it creates a mood that appeals to me by using colors & symbolic objects that I'm drawn to. My Virgin Mary collection gets on just fine with my owls, my rosaries, Frida pics, and roses. The main thing is to have fun and buy stuff that really appeals to you or tickles you in some way.
My walls are unfortunately apartment white (except for my "rebel wall" in the dining room that is painted a vivid turquoise, landlord be damned) but after creating a gallery-style art wall and hanging shelves of knicknacks alongside pictures, the white doesn't look nearly so blah as it did. (Unless your kids are really hell-bent on destruction you might find wall shelves to be your ticket to safely adding a bit of kitsch... my cats & husband are stuff-breaking machines but so far they've never managed to get to the stuff on the walls.)
My color scheme includes various shades of green and turquoise accented by deep reds & spice orange. I've also got a mixture of wood colors and modern black/chrome furniture elements. Pulling this all together was a challenge, but the trick turned out to be echoing the various elements & colors in various spots in the room. That makes the potential "sore thumb" pieces look more at home.
We have this wretched old coffee table, woodgrain with a parquet top, very country, that I just could not find a replacement for. It drove me crazy the whole time I was getting the rest of the room together because it just didn't seem to "go" with anything else in the room. As I went along, however, I eventually added other wooden pieces to the room, and one day I realized that the table didn't seem all that out of place any more. I still don't love it, but it's not killing me like it was.
I've got a wooden mail sorter on the black and silver Ikea table I use for a computer desk. Elsewhere in the room I've got black next to wood... a brown wooden shelf next to art with black frames, an old brown wooden sewing table topped with a black silk rose-print scarf holds my printer, a wooden owl sits on a black shelf, a goofy black wooden cat statue sits on a brown wooden plant stand. It's kind of become it's own minor theme in the room.
The point being, unless you have some commitment to having every piece in your house meet some sort of quality standard (everything has to be antique or vintage or a "good" brand) I wouldn't worry too much about what kind of pieces to look for. Find things you like the look of and if they don't go, add other things that echo the color or design or material until it all fits. Just don't give up if things look awkward for awhile, you'd be amazed at what elements you can eventually pull in and make work.
Our couch was ten years old and hard used--still relatively sturdy but the fabric was trashed--and I had no money to replace it. I got a sage green couch cover from Sure-Fit that was kind of meh on its own, so I bought a heavy cream-colored blanket from a thrift store and folded that up over the seat. I bought black velvet and burgundy satin covers for my throw pillows and sewed two more simple pillows using bright green batik-print pieces of fat quarter fabric I picked up for just a few dollars in Walmart's fabric area. The blanket and pillows made this dumb old couch with its blah cover suddenly look really cozy and colorful and now it's one of my favorite elements of the room.
Mismatched chairs for the dining room are cheap and easy to find at thrift stores. You can either look for one element that pulls all the chairs together (same color wood, different styles, for example) or go for broke and make them as mismatched as possible. For extra fun add a colorful tablecloth that picks up the various colors of your chairs and suddenly it all looks planned and clever rather than "too poor to buy decent furniture."
Anyway, that's my thrift-store-decorating on a budget story. I got a lot of my inspiration from decorating books, most of which I picked up used. Here are my favorites:
Welcome Home by Kaffee Fassett is just about the neatest eclectic decor book ever, if you like color and pattern. His place is just gorgeous.
Apartment Therapy Presents Real Homes Real People. I spent hours looking through this one.
Style By The Aisle
Home Cheap Home
Decorating Your First Apartment
The New Apartment Book
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 2:12 PM on November 17, 2010 [6 favorites]
My walls are unfortunately apartment white (except for my "rebel wall" in the dining room that is painted a vivid turquoise, landlord be damned) but after creating a gallery-style art wall and hanging shelves of knicknacks alongside pictures, the white doesn't look nearly so blah as it did. (Unless your kids are really hell-bent on destruction you might find wall shelves to be your ticket to safely adding a bit of kitsch... my cats & husband are stuff-breaking machines but so far they've never managed to get to the stuff on the walls.)
My color scheme includes various shades of green and turquoise accented by deep reds & spice orange. I've also got a mixture of wood colors and modern black/chrome furniture elements. Pulling this all together was a challenge, but the trick turned out to be echoing the various elements & colors in various spots in the room. That makes the potential "sore thumb" pieces look more at home.
We have this wretched old coffee table, woodgrain with a parquet top, very country, that I just could not find a replacement for. It drove me crazy the whole time I was getting the rest of the room together because it just didn't seem to "go" with anything else in the room. As I went along, however, I eventually added other wooden pieces to the room, and one day I realized that the table didn't seem all that out of place any more. I still don't love it, but it's not killing me like it was.
I've got a wooden mail sorter on the black and silver Ikea table I use for a computer desk. Elsewhere in the room I've got black next to wood... a brown wooden shelf next to art with black frames, an old brown wooden sewing table topped with a black silk rose-print scarf holds my printer, a wooden owl sits on a black shelf, a goofy black wooden cat statue sits on a brown wooden plant stand. It's kind of become it's own minor theme in the room.
The point being, unless you have some commitment to having every piece in your house meet some sort of quality standard (everything has to be antique or vintage or a "good" brand) I wouldn't worry too much about what kind of pieces to look for. Find things you like the look of and if they don't go, add other things that echo the color or design or material until it all fits. Just don't give up if things look awkward for awhile, you'd be amazed at what elements you can eventually pull in and make work.
Our couch was ten years old and hard used--still relatively sturdy but the fabric was trashed--and I had no money to replace it. I got a sage green couch cover from Sure-Fit that was kind of meh on its own, so I bought a heavy cream-colored blanket from a thrift store and folded that up over the seat. I bought black velvet and burgundy satin covers for my throw pillows and sewed two more simple pillows using bright green batik-print pieces of fat quarter fabric I picked up for just a few dollars in Walmart's fabric area. The blanket and pillows made this dumb old couch with its blah cover suddenly look really cozy and colorful and now it's one of my favorite elements of the room.
Mismatched chairs for the dining room are cheap and easy to find at thrift stores. You can either look for one element that pulls all the chairs together (same color wood, different styles, for example) or go for broke and make them as mismatched as possible. For extra fun add a colorful tablecloth that picks up the various colors of your chairs and suddenly it all looks planned and clever rather than "too poor to buy decent furniture."
Anyway, that's my thrift-store-decorating on a budget story. I got a lot of my inspiration from decorating books, most of which I picked up used. Here are my favorites:
Welcome Home by Kaffee Fassett is just about the neatest eclectic decor book ever, if you like color and pattern. His place is just gorgeous.
Apartment Therapy Presents Real Homes Real People. I spent hours looking through this one.
Style By The Aisle
Home Cheap Home
Decorating Your First Apartment
The New Apartment Book
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 2:12 PM on November 17, 2010 [6 favorites]
Best answer: The "saucydwellings" community on LiveJournal has been a surprisingly rich source of decorating inspiration to me.
posted by Sidhedevil at 3:23 PM on November 17, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by Sidhedevil at 3:23 PM on November 17, 2010 [2 favorites]
Best answer: Not sure if it's been mentioned elsewhere, but check out theselby.com. It's got photos of very eclectic living spaces.
posted by cleverevans at 3:35 PM on November 17, 2010
posted by cleverevans at 3:35 PM on November 17, 2010
Best answer: I trawl the streets on 'bring out your dead' weeks, especially in the posh suburbs of my city. I have found awesome things like armchairs and floor cushions that I have stitched into op shop Moroccan rugs, lamps, artworks, awesome picture frames that I've put my own things in, ephemera for little vignettes etc etc. You'd be surprised how much a good cleaning and polishing of things can change the whole dynamic of a found piece of furniture or a piece of art. And changing the handles on found objects instantly changes the piece. Op shop art pieces are cheap as chips. The Brick House blog features lots of tips for adding glory to found objects and the finer arts of trawling estate sales [nothing in her house is over 100 bucks, although I don't know whether you'd like her Modernist vibe overall, she has some great tips.]
I also enjoy Bloesem and Oh, Hello Friend for inspirations on 'curating' odd finds. Sibelia Court's book Etc is a definite must read for how to assemble rooms with simple objects - she shows you ways to use loved items in a classy way.
posted by honey-barbara at 4:36 PM on November 17, 2010
I also enjoy Bloesem and Oh, Hello Friend for inspirations on 'curating' odd finds. Sibelia Court's book Etc is a definite must read for how to assemble rooms with simple objects - she shows you ways to use loved items in a classy way.
posted by honey-barbara at 4:36 PM on November 17, 2010
Best answer: What about Young House Love?
Right now, it's all new house+babies. In the archives, however, you can find out how John & Sherry did up their house for very little. They also have mood boards and before&afters that might be helpful.
posted by onegoodthing at 5:19 PM on November 17, 2010
Right now, it's all new house+babies. In the archives, however, you can find out how John & Sherry did up their house for very little. They also have mood boards and before&afters that might be helpful.
posted by onegoodthing at 5:19 PM on November 17, 2010
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posted by CharlieSue at 10:42 AM on November 17, 2010