Where TV Trays are concerned, you don’t have many decor options. Let’s face it, they’re mostly utilitarian. You pull them out when you need a little extra table top space. Then you tuck them away back in a corner and hope that no one notices how fugly they are. But there is really no rule that they have to be…
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Just because you don’t have a desk or an office at home, does not mean you can’t keep your current office essentials organized and in a place that you can easily find them. If you put together your own portable office organizer you can pull it out to work at your dining table, in your family room, or basically wherever…
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Where does almost every party end up? In the kitchen. I’m not sure what the philosophy is on this, but my stomach tells me it’s because that’s where all the food is. Whether you’re entertaining or just planning to do some cooking or baking, use these simplified tips to declutter your kitchen for the holidays. 7 Tips to Organize and…
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I’m not sure if it’s the temperature of the air this time of year, or the fact that it’s just getting darker every day. But when I sit on my back porch after dinner, my imagination can really get the best of me. Normal sounds can take on a creepy element. For example, my neighbor was collecting brush in his…
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Sometimes it takes a lot of gumption to tackle a bigger project, like refinishing a dining table. To start with one would most likely anticipate the process of removing the original finish. This step alone could deter even the most enthusiastic diyer. Now, I know that there are some people who can work their wood stripping magic, and they don’t…
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You know it is fall when there is a spider poised, in his web, over your doorway. And he’s looking to pounce on his next victim at any moment. I haven’t had the heart to ask Ken to “remove” him from his perch, but I just keep hoping that victim isn’t my head. And hello to you, too, Fall! I…
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One of our goals for the townhouse basement update was to avoid using drywall or paneling on the walls. This, of course, meant we would be working with the long ago painted concrete walls. Instead of just repainting over the concrete, I decided to add a knockdown texture to the walls. I was aiming for the look of a craggy…
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Has this happened to you? You finish painting a room and the new paint color looks too blue, or too purple, or too…off somehow. The paint doesn’t look like the color you thought you chose. We finished painting our living room over a year ago. However, once it was done and we put all the furniture back, I just shook my…
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