Ideas for a Beautiful & Smart Home
Category: Home Decor
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34 Upcycled Furniture Ideas Before and After That Look Way More Expensive Than They Are
The first piece of furniture I ever flipped was a $25 dresser I found at a church rummage sale, and one of its drawers stuck so badly I had to kick it shut every night for about a month before I finally did something about it. I sanded the whole thing in my parking spot,…
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30 DIY Wall Art Ideas for Every Room (Most Cost Under $20)
For the first year in my apartment, I had one piece of art on the wall: a framed poster I’d bought on impulse in college, hung slightly crooked above the sofa. Every time a friend came over, I’d say, “I really need to do something with these walls,” and then I’d look up the price…
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22 Dollar Store DIY Decor Ideas That Look Expensive (Most Cost Under $10)
A few months ago, a friend walked into my apartment, pointed at a cream-colored vase on my shelf, and asked where I’d found it. I told her it cost me two dollars and a can of spray paint. She didn’t believe me until I showed her the original: a bright blue, slightly warped plastic vase…
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20 Easy DIY Home Decor Ideas Anyone Can Make
I learned this the hard way in my first apartment: I bought a bunch of decor before I actually lived in the space, and half of it ended up in a closet. The room did not feel like home until I started with small, cheap projects I could actually finish in a weekend. Here is…
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20 Halloween Porch Decorating Ideas for Small Porches (When You’ve Got 4 Feet, Not 40)
My current porch is basically a concrete slab the size of a bath mat with two steps. For years I tried copying the big wraparound-porch Halloween photos I saw online, and every single time I ended up with a pumpkin I had to step over, a hay bale blocking half the step, and a mail…
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25 Front Porch Halloween Decor Ideas for Every Style (Spooky, Elegant, Cozy, or Minimal)
For years I decorated my porch exactly one way: a plastic skeleton, a fog machine, and every orange light string I could find at the hardware store. It looked like a haunted house exploded. Then I moved somewhere with actual porch space and realized I didn’t even like that look anymore — I wanted something…
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How to Hang Halloween Door Decor Without Nails or Tape Marks (9 Methods That Actually Work)
My landlord does a walkthrough every single fall before winter maintenance starts, and the first year I lived here I had exactly one nail hole above the door from a wreath hanger I bought without reading the box. It was a tiny hole. It still got flagged. That’s the year I started actually researching how…
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How to Make a Halloween Door Cover Without Damaging Your Door (Renters, This One’s for You)
I ruined a rental door once. Not dramatically — just a sticky residue outline from a dollar-store door cover that had been up for three weeks, right at eye level, that no amount of Goo Gone fully got off before move-out inspection. Cost me $40 off my deposit for something that took five minutes to…
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15 Halloween Hallway Ideas for Narrow Hallways (No Clutter, No Tripping, Still Spooky)
My hallway is about 34 inches wide, and the first year I decorated it for Halloween I hung a giant cobweb across the whole thing at head height. My boyfriend walked into it carrying laundry, and the next morning I found the web on the floor, the spider under the shoe rack, and one very…
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15 Halloween Entryway Decor Ideas for a Small Foyer (That Don’t Block the Door)
My entryway is about three feet wide, and last October I put a full-size skeleton next to the door because it looked great in my head. Then I spent two weeks turning sideways to get past it with grocery bags. The skeleton went to the balcony, and I learned the rule I now follow for…