Headboard Love

 The other day on HGTV's  Interior Therapy, I saw Jeff Lewis create a headboard design that disguised the fact that he had lowered the height of the bed in a redesigned master bedroom. The wife had wanted the mattress to be nice and high. The husband wanted it as low to the ground as  possible. Jeff's headboard solution made everyone happy. 

It was a simple "wow" moment.

It's not a Raindrops On Roses kind of love, 

but these are a few of my favorite headboard ideas:

       This one is a D-I-Y:

D-I-Y instructions here

  Especially in that last image, I think it's amazing 

how headboards can really make a room.

 I  highly recommend the new Bravo TV show, Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis !

Have a great day!

xo

Valerie

PS -- Dick Clark, who died yesterday, introduced the world of Rock and Roll to millions... He was always grateful, always hardworking, and always kind. My heartfelt sympathy goes out to his family. Today, I think a lot of us feel that he was family...

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Rustic / Industrial Kitchen Styles

The  Designs in these kitchens are either Rustic, or a Rustic/Industrial mix. 

They range in style from Luxurious to D-I-Y.

All pleasing, stylish, gorgeous.

 So many ideas in these rooms!

 It's hard to choose just one, so I don't.  I pin, blog and tweet my way

 through all of the delightful beauty out there. 
Have a great day!

xo
Valerie


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Smart and Easy DIY Design Touches

This is a D-I-Y post. 

                                                                                                       

But not because I think crafts is fun.                                   

Sometimes there is a need for simple beauty...

                                                                                       Instructions for lightbulb vases here

For me, the arts and crafts world is beautiful, impressive, and often terrifying. I was never the kid whose projects got put up on a wall or won awards. W hen talking about my artistic "abilities" my mother was usually reduced to telling people that I was "imaginative", and simply needed to express myself in a different (read, messy) way. Many have tried to teach me. Alas, I will never own a sewing machine or knit for anyone...

However, these are projects that can be really wonderful interior design elements. AND, amazingly, they are easy enough for me. So I KNOW you can do these and similar projects to make your rooms cooler and lovelier.

Of course, only the Easiest D-I-Y s possible are in my collection. 

And they must actually fill a decor purpose in a room.

 I have to have a NEED. 

But these are fun, fast, hard to screw up, and 

-- Ta-Da! --

 they WILL look great in your rooms.

Sharpie on a lamp shade:

         Scrabble drink coasters:

 Use carpenter’s glue to adhere the tiles to a piece of cork. Once dry,  cut the cork pieces to size and coated the surface with two layers of Mod Podge, which helped to fill in the cracks between the letters. I used an acrylic spray to seal the coasters, and give them a bit of extra gloss.

twigs + coffee can + raffia = vase

Old chair becomes bathroom shelf:

This hearkens back to my post yesterday:

Hang a sheer fabric across the pillow area of the bed:

                                   

Are you allergic to sewing machines like me? I absolutely cannot paint a wall, although I was told that anyone can do that... I do not knit, crochet, make jewelry, scrapbook, etc. So you can imagine how special these DIY's are to me. I can actually do them. Well. And pretty quickly!


Thank goodness for all the crafting and art pinterest boards and blogs...They are wonderful  resources for clever and easy.


Have a great day!
xo
Valerie 













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