We recently tried out a bent wood technique to see how it would work out and used it to build a small side table. Here is how that went. We used 1 inch dowel for the four legs and 5/8 dowel for the cross support under each table ...

With the green guest bedroom finished, let me tell you about how I made the fabric for the bed upholstery. I'll show you how I set up the pattern in Illustrator before diving into what sort of color accuracy you can expect. I'll s ...

You know when you buy a new old home there are actually quite a few 'overall' big decisions you have to make such as oh, do all the utilities work? Do we have the right utilities? What color scheme do we want, what style? Should a ...

During our almost 20 year of marriage, Frank and I have moved a LOT. In fact 8 times in the past 16 years while Frank and I have lived here in the States. We moved here from Denmark in 2000. You would think that I hate to move by ...

We are in the process of making over our home office. We have made several DIYs that I am excited to share with you soon as well as of course some room reveal "after" photos. Today I am sharing how we untangled and cleaned up our ...

Shift Ctrl Art is now mobile friendly! I switched over to the new design a couple of days ago and I am still tweaking here and there.  I am trying out a new blog design without a left or right hand bar to really have a minima ...

With the walls prepped for wallpaper, and lining paper attached to the wall, we set out to put up the actual wallpaper. I chose a dimensional vinyl wallpaper from Wallpaperdirect called High Leaf by Anaglypta. I'll be the firs ...

Aside from scoring some great deals this weekend, we finished putting up shelving and trimming out the master closet. It's ready for paint next. I bought a haz-mat suit. It's going to be awesome. I also mudded and taped and mudde ...

Phase 4 is well underway: Shower prep and drywall. In fact, all drywall and Hardie Backerboard has now been installed in addition to the pan. To install the Hardie, we got a diamond blade for our skill saw and a diamond hole ...

Last time we had just completed demo of the old master bathroom and it looked like this: Next we started taking apart the left shower wall to get more light into the shower. We want to put some glass there. The old shower was s ...

As of last weekend our kitchen has been outfitted with a TV. Dh is fine with whatever brand of TV we get as long as it's a Sony. So that's what we got. This one is 22 inches - a dying breed. Everyone is all about the huge screen ...

For our outdoor make-over we made this simple and inexpensive planter box for our patio table. I chose to paint it turquoise to go with our wicker chairs, which we spray painted turquoise a while back after buying a spray gun. ...

Edited: This post was missing content, so here it is again, this time in it's full version. Sorry for the inconvenience. This is what the table used to look like after about five years of weathering outside. It's the Äpplerö ...

This is what our entry hall way looked like this Monday. There is of course a story of how we got to that, because it started out as a yellow box, like all the other areas of our home, but that is for another day. Including the ...

Our kitchen is over on HouseLogic.com at the moment! I am in the same article as TheLetteredCottage.net... weeeeeeeee ----- So last week I showed you our outdoor patio dining area. We hung up some globe lights over the dining ta ...