Apartment Therapy Tagged: DIY

DIY Lighting Inspiration from Studio Mesila

Studio Mesila is a Tel-Aviv based design collective that specializes in sustainable design and creative reuse of materials. Their lamps use buttons, ribbons, leather, woodscrap and clothespins to dr...

How To: Carve a Tin Can Pumpkin
Guest Post from Wary Meyers

For times when you don't feel like dealing with all the goop, or just as an extra bit of spookiness. ...

Painting IKEA's Frosta Stool

IKEA's Frosta stool, a $12.99 version of an original Alvar Aalto design, is by now known to most as an affordable and versatile seating/side table option. It comes in a clear lacquered birch veneer ...

Cheap & Easy Upgrade: 1x2 Molding
Guest Post from Wary Meyers

A few years ago a friend asked us if we could decorate her apartment in Brooklyn. She didn't have a whole lot of money to spend on it — which was fine as we didn't like to spend people's money...

IKEA Hacks from Elisa's House

Miss Elisa was kind enough to share the updates she did to two pieces of her IKEA furniture. Take a peek to see how small changes to nondescript items can make them fit into a highly personal style ...

How To: DIY a Faux Fireplace
Before & After

Hi! My husband and I just made a faux fireplace on our new loft. The top piece is sustainable salvaged maple from our local re-use shop. We cut it in half (going to make a coffee table out of the ot...

Jennifer's DIY Workspace & Home Office
Before & After

We've featured Jennifer Levy's smart solutions before — she repurposed a Marais stool as a sink pedestal. Jennifer has sent us pictures of her office makeover which she completed using a combi...

Collection Wrapping Paper as Decor

Here at Apartment Therapy we're always looking for thrifty ways to beautify our spaces. When I came across this kooky wrapping paper featuring different collections by Cavallini & Co., I immedia...

DIY Dog Bed in an Art Deco Fireplace

Hi guys, I just wanted to share my dog's new bed I made last weekend — we have a disused fireplace in our living room and I thought it would be charming to make it into a doggy bed for our Shi...

Inspiration: DIY Decoupage Furniture

I adore Josef Frank textiles and furniture but since my budget does not allow for buying furniture via Christie's Auctions, I always just figured owning one of his decoupage dressers would remain a ...

How To: Make Your Own Glasses from Bottles
Makezine

More crafting! Here’s a project that’s about a 5 on a 1-10 difficulty scale. Actually, it’s not that tough, it just requires some precision and a few tools you most likely don’t have around ...

Getting Crafty with Pipe Plumbing

In the spirit of Arts, Crafts & Collections Month here at Apartment Therapy, how about finding new uses for everyday objects? Pipe plumbing is super inexpensive and can be found in most hardware sto...

How To: Antique a Ceiling Fan

Ceiling fans are a hot topic on Apartment Therapy. For such a common home item, it can be tough finding a style you can live with. One solution I came across was to antique a store bought fan for an...

Making Old New Again: Creative Lampshade Frames

Old lampshades have wonderful bones. The sculptural steel frames are great for DIY craft and decorating projects — a simple coat of paint is sometimes all they need. The armature is also a gre...

The Painted Couch: Art or Trash?

Seems like everywhere you look something new is being used as a canvas. So it’s no surprise that the next big thing to hit the streets comes straight from your living room — the Painted Sofa...

Allison & Mike's Contemporary Townhouse
House Call

Name: Allison & Mike Location: Hillsborough, New Jersey (about an hour from Manhattan) My husband and I live in a 1980's contemporary townhouse — approximately 1,300 square feet. When we...

Patchwork Walls: Creating Wallpaper One Piece at a Time

Patchwork walls can be an easy and relatively inexpensive way to decorate a space. Whether your personal style leans towards wallpaper scraps or paper and ephemera — these images should inspir...

Inexpensive Task Chair for This DIY Desk?
Good Questions

Q: I just hacked this IKEA Vika table into a wall-mounted desk, and I'm desperately looking for an office chair or stool to go with it. Unfortunately, my sub-$100 college student budget is limiting m...

How To: Create an Aviary from an Armoire

We have plenty of projects for dogs, cats, and even for bunnies, but finally here's one for the birds — an aviary created by using a old tv storage armoire!...

How To: Hang Your Artwork and Not Screw It Up

A number of years ago a friend gave us a great tip that to this day has made picture hanging a simple, pleasurable task. The tip was to always hang your art at 57" on center. "On center" means that t...

4 Desks Made from Hollow Core Doors

Hollow core doors are strong, readily available and — most importantly for a do-it-yourself-er on a strict budget — cheap. Here, we take a look at four nice desks made of doors......

Tree Ring Paintings by Tracy Melton

We spotted these fantastic paintings on one of our favorite reads, of paper and things. Tracy, who is based out of Knoxville, Tennessee, uses the wood from dead Red Elm trees to create the discs tha...

Can I DIY a Sliding Door?
Good Questions

Q: My bathroom is very narrow. I want to replace the existing hinged door and instead install one of the new blue glass PAX wardrobe doors. The glass door will be about 6" taller then the door openi...

How To: DIY a Moroccan Pouf

The pouf seems to be a design trend that has some sticking power, but no one is really interested in paying top dollar for the designer version. First, we found a source for cheap Moroccan poufs (ma...

Knitted Chairs: Crafted Cozies for Plastic Chairs

Yuvinia Yuhadi is out to reclaim the potential of the ubiquitous plastic lawn chair — as the cheap patio chair "infects the globe" she has started a movement of crafters and knitters that are ...

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