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10 Ways to Decorate with Sea Glass
Make (or buy) this incredible candle holder made from sea glass. Not only does it bring in that great beachside feel, but it also adds so much color to your candle light! Add a bit of pizazz and style to your wine glasses by decorating them with sea glass. Be careful though, a little goes a long way when it comes to this design. You can just use the glasses for decoration, as well. Make a fantastic tabletop by incorporating some sea glass! It makes it pop with a fun touch of color and texture and turns it into a unique work of art. Let your creative side loose…
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25 Makeovers You Can Do With Spray Paint
Create a gorgeous mercury glass vase with some spray paint! Just take a normal glass vase or jar and use mirror effect spray paint to get a stunning mercury glass vase! If you like to decorate your home with pieces of nature (like a planter with some rustic branches), then try this. Take some branches from your backyard that you like and spray paint them gold, silver, or whatever other color goes well with your home décor. You can update your faucets way cheaper with some spray paint. Just remove the faucet, spray paint it the color you want, let it dry, and put it back! You can do…
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17 Crazy Fun Outdoor Games
You can paint colored spots on your lawn for a fun outdoor game of twister! You can even paint multiple boards and have teams compete against each other. Make this giant Ker-plunk game using some wire, sticks, and different colored balls. The goal is to pull the sticks out without having any balls falling to the ground. Such a fun suspenseful game! Make your own giant matching game with some cork titles. You can paint on any pictures you like and your little ones can help out! If you enjoy carnival games, this ring bottle toss will be such a fun game to play. The colors are perfect for summer…
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Creative House Number Ideas
We all know that the front of a house sends an immediate message. Dealing with the house number situation can seem daunting, until you check out a few of these unique and magnificent ideas. Let’s begin with Cassity. This is a more traditional approach, and this DIY tutorial will equip you in making this fabulous. This is one of my favorites from Wonderfully Made. What a cute way to signal a welcoming touch–a green welcoming touch! This is another exceptional one from Roeshel. Along the same lines (I just I’m just really partial to flower pots), but this approach is both darling and charming. This idea from Molly is more modern. It certainly has some class!…
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{Easy} DIY Patio Options
Patios are the perfect hangout location for the summertime. I know that my family and I eat out on the patio as much as possible before the winter months set in. There’s something about eating outdoors that is just good for the soul. However, this year we will need to redo the flooring of our patio, and deciding what we are going to use has been kind of tricky. If you’ve been pondering adding a patio to your yard, here are some DIY patio ideas to get you thinking! And fortunately, we’ve done all of the research and narrowed down some of the pros and cons of them all! {Easy}…
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6 Ways to Cozy Up Your Patio
Maybe it’s the winter chill setting in permanently that makes the idea of planning what my back patio will have come summer (you know, time to plan and dream and save and create…) but I have been thinking A LOT about my patio. I’ve come up with six ideas that I think every patio should have. What do you think? Fire Pit: For roasting marshmallows when driving to a campground or out into the woods is not possible or just seems like too much work. Fire pits are a great for family events or romantic evenings! And it doesn’t hurt that there are a plethora of styles to choose from.…
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12 Ways your Window Wells Won’t Be Eyesores
This is a note to anyone who owns a house with a basement. Especially if you rent out said basement. Take a look at these ideas for sprucing up a window well! It’ll help a lot in evading the “basement blues” and will help your house to look and feel a lot brighter and cleaner. Open It UP: You need a lot more natural lighting in a basement that isn’t a “walk out”. Open up the window well and add some low growing plants to really invite as much natural light in as possible. The Right Kind of Plants: I lived in a basement once and the window well…
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How To Make Your Front Porch More Inviting
I am a firm believer that every house should have an extravagant front porch. I love those big, southern, wrap-around porches! However, I’m also a firm believer that simply having a porch isn’t enough. If your porch is a leaf infested wasteland, your house won’t have that welcoming vibe we all strive for. I mean, it’s great for Halloween time but that’s about it. Anyway, here are six ideas to make your porch anything BUT an unwelcoming wasteland. How To Make Your Front Porch More Inviting Plenty of Gorgeous Seating If you don’t have a ton of space this can be tricky but a couple of Adirondack chairs or even…
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12 Outside DIY Weekend Projects
At my house, the weekend is the time to clean up and relax but the other day my husband asked me if there were any projects I needed his help with over the weekend. That got me thinking. I have a good long list of things that need to get done but what could be done in just a weekend? Well, here is my list of projects that we’ll be doing over weekends. I’m really excited about it! Outdoor Scrabble: It’s fun for anyone who can spell. We use scrabble as a way to teach the kids how to spell correctly. Who doesn’t like games to help them learn? Raised…
