Most Popular Home Decor Trends of 2018 We spend a lot of time clicking around for inspiration on Pinterest. It's good to know that with 175 million active users per year, I am not alone in my LOVE for Pinterest!! With over 50 billion total pins, home decor encompasses 14 billion of the Pinterest platform. And that number is increasing by 75% every year!! Wow!! We do love making our houses our homes. If you need more proof, pinners spend 27% more money on home decor than non-pinners. Pinterest ... continue reading...
How to Board and Batten Cheap and Easy
Board and batten is one of the cheapest and easiest ways to makeover a room. With just a few materials and tools even a novice DIY'er can transform a room over a weekend. My goal is to eventually have board and batten or shiplap covering all of my wall space. It makes such a statement in any room. My latest addition of board and batten ties in very well with the farmhouse guest bathroom I remodeled a little over a year ago. Some things to consider before adding board and ... continue reading...
How to Shiplap Walls Using Pinewood and Why I’m Not a Fan
I'm a sucker for wall treatments and shiplap walls are my biggest crush. Throughout my home I have added both board & batten and shiplap here and there. As I talked about in my last post, there are so many ways to get the shiplap look. My latest shiplap wall technique tackled (now that's a tongue-twister) was using pinewood. After starting this project, I had some mixed feelings about it right out of the gate. But having already bought all of my wood, I was committed. CLICK HERE FOR A FULL ... continue reading...
How to Achieve the Shiplap Look
Is shiplap here to stay or is it just another decorating trend? Here today, gone tomorrow. Well, as most people know, shiplap didn't make it's first appearance on Fixer Upper. It has been around for many years. So what is shiplap? Great question! Often times, shiplap is confused for tongue and groove. However, it is actually a piece of inexpensive wood, between 3" to 10" wide with a 3/8" to 1/2" rabbet on opposite sides of each edge. Are you still with me? Don't worry, there's a picture ... continue reading...
How to Create A Pallet Board Wall-Tutorial
Pallet Board Wall Tutorial Last summer a friend of mine posted that he had a bunch of old pallet boards he was wanting to get rid of. He had big plans to turn them into a wall treatment, but time had gotten away from him and they were just taking up space. Having played around with pallet boards before, when I built an industrial farmhouse coffee table out of them, I jumped on the offer and knew they would come in handy at some point. And last week they did. I drug them down, from the top ... continue reading...
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