How To: Get Rid Of Your Lawn Signs
So it's a week past the election and you're still looking out the window at your lawn sign. Recycle? Save for posterity? Re-nest offered a few ideas, but now you've got one other option -- get it ou...
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How To: Have a Boutique Hotel-Feel Bedroom
We know it's Dining Room Month at AT, but bedrooms are on our minds, too, especially now that nights are longer and colder. So we were interested to read James Lohan's tips on what ideas to bring fro...
How To... Commit to a Magazine Clip File
Purging magazines is difficult for us, especially since we're constantly going back to old issues and seeing something new or in a new way. But it's also time consuming to dig through issue after is...
How To: Create an Inviting Environment
Inviting is the word we'd most like our guests to use about our house. One of our fail-safe tricks to achieving this in the fall and winter is to fill the air with season-appropriate scents. No toxic ...
How To: Re-Use Vinyl Shower Curtains
We replaced our vinyl shower liner with a new curtain, but we felt bad about just chucking the old one in the trash. We decided to keep it to use around the house because it seemed like something that...
How To: Make a Jack o' Lantern sans Pumpkin
If carving pumpkins is not your thing, Martha Stewart offers this technique for recycling empty soup or coffee cans into passable luminescent Jack o' Lanterns....
How To: Make a Folded Paper Lamp
We love the look of this folded paper lamp, and were pleasantly surprised to learn that it can be done on your own. All you need is just a little patience......
How To: Choose Mismatched Chairs
For dining rooms, the easiest (and fastest) way to decorate is to get a set. You know everything is going to work together, and in one purchase you've got the room almost complete. But if that idea so...
How To: Reglaze a Window
We consider ourselves to be pretty handy, but replacing window panes is never something we thought we'd attempt on our own. After checking out this tutorial from Benita, however, we may attempt it the...
How To: Make Your Own Cardboard Furniture
Learn how to make cool functional furniture with cardboard! Gomi Style is a DIY lifestyle and design show created by San Francisco Bay Area makers, artists and engineers using found objects, recycled ...
How To: Bargain When Buying Used Furniture
The grim outlook of the economy calls for pinching and saving where ever possible. But while in many parts of the world you can talk the price down on almost anything, around here there's a time and a...
How To: Pick the Perfect Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin
Halloween is still weeks away, but it's pumpkin season and we can't help but feel the itch to carve a jack-o-lantern. We'll be patient and wait a couple of weeks, but just in case we end up pulling ou...
How To: Make a Glittering Lightscape
Glow and Behold. We first saw this sparkling lightscape last year in the now-defunct Blueprint. It's a lovely neutral and crystalline color palette. Click below for details on how to do this proje...
How To: Paint Cabinets
Insert heavy sigh here. We could have really used a great "How To" on painting cabinets when we re-did the ones in our old apartment a few years ago. Instead, we could write a great How Not To......
How To: Make a Platform Bed on the Cheap
This is an oldie, but a goodie. Back when Berkeley-based ReadyMade was still just a gleam in Meredith Corp's eye, Shoshana Berger made a splash with a preview issue that included instructions on how...
How To: Photograph Your Home
SF House Tour: Rebecca and Roger's Relaxed Wabi-Sabi Modern It's not as easy as it seems to take good photos of homes. If you're taking pics sometime soon for the Fall Colors Contest, you might find...
How To: Change a Light Fixture
Renters are often frustrated by the oppressive ugliness of a landlord's taste in light fixtures. So, we've come up with some good resources on how to take matters into your own hands... without elect...
How To: Display Items on Shelves
We've always wished we had the knack for knowing how to style things, how to make things on shelves and mantels look, well, good. Luckily for us, Benita Larsson does, and she recently blogged some gr...
Upholstery Calculators and Tips
beforeIt seems there has been no shortage of "before and after" shots of reupholstered furniture on the design blogs lately, and we are all for it. There's nothing more satisfying than turning someone...
How To: Light an Outdoor Party
Battery-powered white paper lanterns saved our wedding reception. It was held outdoors in a Point Reyes Station garden patio and, being city folk, we hadn't anticipated just how dark it would be aft...
How To: Make Album Cover Wall Organizers
Funky album covers find new life in this creative and incredibly simple how-to from Paper and Stitch. Since album covers are already constructed as sleeves, the only materials necessary to turn them...
How To: Put Together a Wall of Frames
One of our favorite bloggers has posted step-by-step instructions on how to decorate a wall with multiple frames. Yes, Dooce is not just for laughs, you know. We can also learn a home improvement thi...
How To: Make a Captain's Bed on the Cheap
This is a small space DIY that's clever, easy, and cheap. AT:SF reader Killorn wrote to us and told us how she turned an IKEA LACK shelf into under-bed storage....
How To: Make a Flowering Outdoor Umbrella Stand
With all the end-of-summer clearance sales, now’s the perfect time to pick up an outdoor umbrella. But even if there’s room for shade, there’s not always space for a bulky stand or table. Enter ...
How To: Create a Vintage Suitcase Table
Seeing AT:Chicago's post yesterday about vintage suitcases on Etsy reminded us of the tables we recently came across at an Anthropologie in New York. With the addition of a set of table legs, the su...
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