DIY

There’s a lot to love about the industrial look of schoolhouse-style light fixtures. Throw in a colorful stripe, and I am over the moon! Mary …

Draven of Draven Made found a budget-friendly alternative dishing out $1,000 for a wood and metal bookshelf from Restoration Hardware. The answer came in an inexpensive metal shelf frame from IKEA. Draven simply traded out the existing glass shelves for wood ones she had cut at Home Depot. Unless you are into welding, this is a great starting place for creating a custom metal shelf. As Draven says, “You could Krylon-spray paint the metal any color, add crown molding to the edges of all the shelves, build a wood base if you don’t like the exposed legs…”

I know we all love DIY art, especially easy, cheap, and gorgeous DIY art! Cassity from Remodelaholic shares how she made a stunning mosaic from scrapbook paper. I love the colors and am simply blown away by how much Cassity’s mosaic looks like glass. Crazy to think all it requires is cutting and gluing!

Cate from StyleMutt loves campaign-style furniture – but not the price! When Cate found an old flatware/silver chest at a thrift store, she began hunting …

Traci from Beneath My Heart had been planning a makeover for her well-loved table for quite sometime and knew exactly the look she wanted – a zinc tabletop with distressed base. Traci did an easy update to her existing table base with some chalk paint and then got creative with the zinc tabletop, covering a piece of MDF with steel and aging it with muriatic acid. I love that you can use these steps to completely transform any old table or desk!