Real Decorating for Real People
There are always rooms in your home that don’t require expensive pieces of art, and for those spaces, let’s get creative. For instance, guest bedrooms, bathrooms, basements and children’s rooms can benefit from adding something interesting to the walls, it just doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg! Calendar Art Calendars can provide…
You can use both spray paints and paint pens to dress up your clay pots to match or coordinate with your outdoor furnishings. One of the fastest ways to do any type of painting that I know of is spray painting, especially for craft projects. For this project we are using Design Masters Color Tool Sprays. …
Most homes actually do need a storm door because it gives such great protection for your entry doors and it is another line of defense in your family’s security. Well, if that’s the situation, now what do you do? The answer is easy if like Matt and I, you know the folks at ProVia Door. I…
Having lunch at school is very convenient but there are days when the cost of lunch makes me think my son needs to start packing his lunch! Here are some tips to stretch your lunch dollars. Lunch this year at our school costs $5.00. I decided that although there will be days when buying is preferred,…
Duvet covers offer so many options from the added warmth of the actual insert to the comfort of using the light duvet cover alone. Plus, make several so you can change up your bedroom for the seasons! A bedroom should be a retreat, a place to let daytime worries fade away. One way to create a warm and inviting…
No color adds as much drama and sophistication as the color black. Try adding touches of it to bring depth to any scheme. When I get started on a room, if the homeowners mention they are looking for drama, I know right where to start. A recent kitchen redecoration is a good example. As with any decorating…
There are so many rules when you live in an apartment it can be difficult to experss your personality without the help of paint or wallpaper, but fabric can help! Decorating an apartment is possible despite popular belief. I know that more often than not, you aren’t allowed to do any painting. Often times, putting holes…
Instead of putting those great vacation photos into an album in the bookcase, how about framing the best ones and making a vacation memory wall for all to see! Boy was I into scrapbooking a couple of years ago. I think I’d still be into it if I had the time. Let’s hope those days…
Who doesn’t want to spend time learning all about food and how to plan meals, prepare and preserve the foods we’ve made? Probably our kids, but too bad, they need to learn it sometime and we’re the ones to teach them! This article is the third in a series that talks a little bit about…
Meatless meatloaf gets it’s meaty flavor from vegetable protein crumbles, walnuts and mushrooms and it’s not too bad! Well, it’s been about two years now that my husband and I, along with the kids on occasion became vegetarian. My husband leans towards vegan, and I do the best I can at mealtime. I have sorted…
