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Here is where you will find any post pertaining to home styling, interior design, DIY, upcycling, thrift flips, furniture refinishing, and more. If it has to do with beautifying your home – it’s here.

 

The Best Storage Solutions for Your Tiny Rental Bathroom

Rental bathrooms. *sighs* They can often be small, inconveniently laid out, and lacking storage options. And bathroom items, though obviously essential for hygiene purposes, personal upkeep, and general beautification, aren’t always the prettiest to look at. Time to get creative! Apart from the cabinets under the vanity, this bathroom has no closed storage at all;…

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3 Easy DIYs That Will Elevate Your Rental Kitchen

Rental kitchens are often not the most beautiful on the day you move in. And let’s face it, after putting down all your rent deposits, there aren’t loads of disposable funds available to spruce up your kitchen with the most high-end of accessories. Including thrift flips and low-budget diys, this post outlines three easy projects…

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DIY apothecary-style spice jars

How To Make These DIY Apothecary-Style Spice Jars

I asked my sister for all her kids’ empty baby food jars. And these DIY spice jars are why: budget-friendly and eco-friendly, this is an easy how-to on making your own custom, retro, apothecary-style spice jars using old, empty baby food jars. I have always had the kitchen-dream of having an aesthetic spice display. You…

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Here Is How To Style Your Kitchen Peg Board

The beauty of peg boards is that they’re modular. They are adjustable and customizable, meaning you can tailor them to your particular needs. This allows for endless possibilities, which can be both exciting and a little daunting. Keep reading to learn how to strike the perfect balance between visual beauty and practicality in order to…

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A bed dressed in wrinkly linen bedding

3 Easy Projects To Make Your Bedroom More Cozy

Brief story time to kick off this DIY process: I lived in this apartment alone before Chris and I got married. I slept in a twin bed that was shoved into the corner of the room so as to gain as large a footprint as I could to do my furniture refinishing side-hustle in the…

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Rattan tissue box holder

How To Make The Ugly Items In Your Bathroom Look Cute

We all have ugly items in our bathrooms. The mouthwash bottles, the budget hand soap, the bulky hairdryer, the tacky tissue boxes; and not every rental bathroom offers the option of hiding unsightly items in closed storage. So, if they have to be on display, the very least we can do is make those ugly…

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Before and after of an IKEA couch upgrade

How To Upgrade Your Worn Down IKEA Couch (With BEMZ)

Couches are expensive. So many people buy IKEA couches because they are a semi-affordable option. But sometimes, the affordable options don’t give you the exact look you want. What if there was a way to customize and upgrade your current IKEA sofa? (Hint: there is!) About a year ago, I scored this (discontinued) IKEA Karlstad sofa through…

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Making ugly bathroom items look cute.

How To Style Your Small Rental Bathroom On A Budget

No closed storage + tiny confined space = EVERY. DETAIL. MATTERS. Each element you add to your small bathroom should strive for its full potential in terms of fashion and function – especially when your space is tiny and has no closed storage. And you don’t have to break the bank to do it! Here…

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An introverted, detail-oriented, and meticulous creative: documenting the slow, intentional, and realistic process of DIY-ing an apartment into a home — within the limitations of a rental.

If you dig home styling, thrift flips, DIYs, vintage finds, handmade goods, coffee, vegetarian food, knit grandpa sweaters, dark academia aesthetic, shopping local, Boy Meets World, Dr. Martens, 90s grunge and mid-2000s emo punk music — or the fact that writing this biographical blurb is clearly making me uncomfortable so my solution is to endlessly list increasingly obscure things: then I’m positive you’ll find something here that resonates with you. Stay a while and make yourself at home!

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