Apartment Therapy Tagged: DIY

House Tour: Dan's Art Filled Animal House
Los Angeles

Name: Dan Rossiter, Camp Design Group Location:Long Beach, CA Size: 600 square feet Apartment style: Built-ins >>...

D.I.Y.: Textured Planters

We've been spotting some neat planters in stores lately and find them to be inspiring D.I.Y. projects. We really like the idea of using natural or structured materials as a base for a green plant. Pl...

Look: Pretty Ugly Furniture

We were faced with an awkward moment recently. Some friends of ours had bought a 1950’s dresser and painted it all kinds of horrible, added nasty modern handles and hadn’t scraped those stray bits...

Look! Apple Crate Shadow Boxes

We always seem to find inspiring and rustic home decor ideas on Anthropologie's showroom floor. Their visual displays are simple yet elegant - often integrating natural or organic textures. We stopped...

DIY: Candle Holder

We enjoyed a wonderful backyard barbecue this past weekend and spotted similar DIY candle holders to these pictured. Made out of empty coffee cans and a bottle of spray paint it's one of the easiest ...

Look: Shipping Pallet House
Austin

One thing people who love DIY projects have in common (besides the fun and thrill of making something yourself) is the money savings involved in taking on the task yourself. In a DIY project, the mos...

Look! Lucy's Yellow Stool

As a part of the casual summer cure, Lucy revamped a stool with some paint and some linen:...

DIY Letter Press Art

Grace’s post yesterday about letterpress coffee tables reminded us of a neat DIY project that’s simple and artistic. Framing letterpress materials in a shadow box. ...

Look!: Framed Coats

Frames are great when you want to highlight artwork or an antique picture but framing clothing? We thought it was silly too until we saw it in the flesh. This idea is great on so many levels... ...

Survey: Do You DIY?

Yesterday, Rebecca's post about the Piola Leaning Bookcase had a couple of readers suggesting that it would be an easy DIY. While we agree that it looks like an easy DIY, looks can be deceiving. We ...

Adding Fabric To a Bookcase

We have seen this idea a few times and are even considering it for our own space – adding fabric to a bookcases to create color, depth and texture. If you are looking for a ways to add an accent t...

Eleven DIY Headboard Inspirations

A few months back Abby posted a great list of bedroom headboard ideas via Flickr. We wanted to revisit the subject with a DIY perspective in mind, and have come up with 11 additional inspiring ideas f...

How To: Mask the Eyesore in the Room

More than likely when renters move into their new pad, they're likely to find that the landlord didn't provide them with the light bulb globes for the ceiling. To cover-up this huge eyesore, we've co...

Look: Craptacular Mirrors!
Melbourne

On a recent excursion to Melbourne’s South East we couldn’t resist the opportunity to have a poke around in some of the local charity shops and whilst the Featherston Contour R-160 Chair that we...

Mark Tuckey: Packing Crate Book Shelves
Melbourne

We really like the asymmetry of these book shelves by Melbourne based furniture maker/designer Mark Tuckey. Made from recycled packing crate wood, the different shaped boxes create a frame-like effect...

Look! Vibrant Post It Notes Wall

Post It notes have been shown to be a low cost and temporary way to transform any wall by readers and professional designers alike. Here's another example of using the ubiquitous office supply as a de...

Timeless Texture: Embroidery

This summer I’ve been seeing a lot of embroidered design in stores and on websites. It's great to see this timeless style is back in the mix. My grandmother did some amazing needle point in her da...

Flickr Finds: Knitted Lampshade

A few days ago, Adrienne, one of our Austin bloggers, made us chuckle with a lamppost she'd seen that had been guerilla knitted. Taking that concept inside, Linda N. , a Flickr member's replaced the ...

LA Good Question: Platform Beds

Dear ATLA, I was wondering if anyone knows where to get a platform bed with legs like this. Do platforms like this ever come with headboards? Alternatively, does anyone know a way to make such a bed? ...

Tissue Liberation
Australia

Until reading on AT about debranding your home it hadn’t occurred to me how many brands I was exposed to in my own home every day. As its winter here in Australia, everyone seems to have a cough, co...

How To: Make a Cork Lamp

We love cork lamps, like the one that Grace found for yesterday's LA Scavenger. Not only do they illuminate a space but, if used on a landing strip or in a home office, act as tiny bulletin boards, h...

DIY Impossible
AT Asia

Lately, we’ve been preparing our guest bedroom for a new arrival; today’s task was installing black out blinds and a curtain rod. Sounded easy enough. In North America, we’d always been pretty g...

Look! Guerrilla Knitting!
Austin, Texas

Adrienne is back with some investigative reporting on some rebellious diy activity in Austin. As always, let us know what you think in the comments! I've heard of guerrilla art, but knitting? I foun...

Inspiration: Sew Your Own Table

It being Bastille Day, we were poking around the Marie Claire Maison site and came across this table, put together by Paola Navone during her renovation, when her guests were on their way but her furn...

How: Not to Install a Ceiling Fan

A few months ago, when the weather was cooler, we moved our ceiling fan into the kitchen. We used it sporadically -- to disperse the smoke during stovetop grilling, to move the heat around the house ...

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