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Category: DIY Home Projects on a Budget
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20 DIY Shelving Ideas for Any Budget
My first DIY shelf was a wine crate I found for free behind a liquor store, sanded down over one Saturday afternoon, and mounted with two brackets I already had leftover from a different project. It’s still hanging in my kitchen four years later, and it’s held up better than a genuinely expensive floating shelf…
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24 DIY Wall Art Ideas for a Blank Room
I stared at one genuinely blank wall in my first apartment for almost a year before I finally admitted the real reason nothing was up there: I kept assuming real wall art meant buying something, and buying something meant spending money I didn’t have yet. The piece that actually broke that wall’s blank streak cost…
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21 Dollar Store DIY Decor Ideas for Every Room
I used to be genuinely embarrassed by how much of my first apartment came from the dollar store, until a friend complimented my “vintage-look” vase collection and I had to admit it was six one-dollar glass vases and a can of gold spray paint from a Tuesday afternoon. That’s the actual secret to dollar store…
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23 Cheap DIY Decor Ideas That Look High End
A friend asked me last month where I got my living room mirror, guessed it was from a specific high-end home store, and genuinely didn’t believe me when I told her it was a $12 thrifted frame and a can of gold spray paint. That reaction — the slight disbelief when the cheap version actually…
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25 DIY Home Decor Ideas You Can Make This Weekend
My first attempt at DIY home decor was a Pinterest-inspired acrylic pour canvas that turned out looking less like abstract art and more like a science experiment gone slightly wrong, and I hung it up anyway for almost a year because I’d put actual effort into it. It wasn’t good. But it taught me something…