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Jul
DYI - Do It Yourself, Living Spaces, Small Space Design Ideas, Thrifty Solutions, Unique Spaces // No Comments
Want to Extend Your Living Space? A Three Season Porch is a beautiful way to add to the small living space of your home in an affordable and easy way. A porch is very different from a sun room as it doesn’t add a room (as in square ft that can increase taxes, require permits [...]
19
Jul
"Green" Spaces, DYI - Do It Yourself, Playing Spaces, Small Space Design Ideas, Thrifty Solutions, Unique Furnishings // No Comments
Try This: Tiny-Footprint Garden Bench This bench is made with used inner tubes and standard 2-by-2-inch plastic lumber balusters, widely available at hardware and lumber stores. This charming garden perch is made from recycled-plastic lumber that looks and works like wood, except that it was manufactured from old milk jugs. The seat is woven from [...]
17
Jul
"Green" Spaces, DYI - Do It Yourself, Living Spaces, Small Space Design Ideas, Thrifty Solutions, Unique Spaces // No Comments
Look What I found! – Tiny Texas Houses As the owner of Discovery Architectural Antiques in Gonzales, Texas, Brad Kittel hated seeing piles of excess building materials go to waste. When he started putting them to use creating one-of-a-kind tiny dwellings, Tiny Texas Houses was born. At their Luling, Texas, headquarters, Kittel and his team create houses [...]
15
Jul
DYI - Do It Yourself, Playing Spaces, Small Space Design Ideas, Storage Spaces, Unique Spaces // No Comments
Outdoor Toy Storage – What are You’re suggestions? No matter how small your backyard green space is, using the right kind of outdoor toy storage can help reduce or eliminate clutter outside your home. Here’s how to get started to get rid of outdoor toy clutter: Sort your children’s toys by type Get rid of [...]
06
Jul
DYI - Do It Yourself, Small Space Design Ideas, Storage Spaces // No Comments
A Photographer’s Dream -Concealed Cabinets Photos are made for displaying but wall space can become the enemy. How to display your work and utilize that same wall space for another project? Luckily Innovators Intelligent Living has come up with the concept of Concealed Cabinets. These cabinets resemble the basic medicine cabinet installed in the wall [...]
22
Jun
"Green" Spaces, DYI - Do It Yourself, Small Space Design Ideas, Thrifty Solutions, Unique Furnishings // 2 Comments
Using The Imagination to Make Garden Furniture for Any Size Garden This is great for DYI –er’s. Have an old tree that needs cutting down? Then don’t turn the entire trunk into fire wood. Grab some old chairs from a second hand store. Make sure they are of an all-weather material or treat the finish [...]
15
Jun
"Green" Spaces, DYI - Do It Yourself, Living Spaces, Small Space Design Ideas, Storage Spaces // No Comments
Storage Seating Around a Tree in Your Back Yard Designing a functional area outdoors can be a challenging project, so much more when space is at a premium. For entertaining outdoors, it is important to take into consideration the comfort of everyone by providing enough seating for mingling, eating food and enjoying each others company. [...]
11
May
DYI - Do It Yourself, Eating Spaces, Small Space Design Ideas, Unique Furnishings // 5 Comments
Picture This! And Eat On It! Picture this! – A great way to enjoy art and have a sit-down meal. If space for a kitchen table is an issue, then this clever picture table design is a beautiful solution—and one you could certainly do yourself. The folks at Ivy Design don’t offer any specific schematics, [...]
