Photo from The Meta Picture.

At my home, closet space is premium, so the idea of losing a place to put my coats just won’t happen under my roof. However if closet space is plentiful and you need a great place to put a kid’s computer or mini-work station, this closet conversion is fantastic!

From Whimages, take a look at this beautiful space,

This is the little sitting area off to the side.  The kids use it to pile in and look over each other shoulders when they are all on the computer.  I curl up here and hubby and I look at ideas for our next project!  We haven’t decided if we are going to put shelves in the “built in in a built in” yet there on the side.  I often have a tall pitcher of fresh flowers in it but these are from the wedding we just went to.

This really is stunning! Well done!

The photo frame wall clocks are just gorgeous!  What a great way to remember to spend your time wisely.

From Be Different Act Normal,

You should be able to buy clock hands at your local craft store or on Ebay.  If you just buy the hands and the motor you are going to have to make a mount for them that can hang on the wall.  The easiest thing is to buy an inexpensive modern clock that is just hands that will already come with a mount.

I love this idea and am now searching for the perfect wall to use!

One of the ugliest things – with no disrespect to waste management companies – around a house are the garbage bins that you roll out to the curb every week.  Whether they are blue or green or purple, they are not attractive.

Camelot Art Creations has great post about building a fence around the dumpsters, at least how the project was finished!

Built a little flower box out of pallet wood and attached it to the pallet, drilled small holes in the top and stuck some of my solar lights in them. Used my plant clippings to fill the flower box.

TOTAL COST:  $0

The single easiest and possibly most dramatic way to transform a room (or a house!) is to buy a can of paint and apply it to the walls. I adore painting.  I love taping to get a room ready, I love opening the can and putting the wooden stick in to stir it, then pouring it onto my paint tray.  But the magic truly happens when I roll that first coat on the wall.  That’s the point of no return and the point when you see how beautiful the new room will be.

Momma Schmitt is busy transforming her living room with paint.  It’s already looking fantastic!

And ignore the toys all over the floor, just keeping it real. If it’s between 8 in the morning and 8 in the evening, there’s no getting away from them. But other than those little details… isn’t it just a marvelous change? Come on say it.. Oh la la! The color we went with is Sherwin Williams 7534 Outerbanks. I love it, It just infuses light and warmth into the room.

From white walls with a red focus wall to a soft green all around is a perfect decision!  LOVE!

From our Shak to yours, wishing you a very Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Photo by simplyla.

Are you the kind of person who likes non-traditional Christmas trees?  Do you love reading and have a vast book collection?  If you answered yes to these questions, building a Christmas tree of books could be in your future!  From Jason Boog of GalleyCat, here’s an idea that looks creative, easy, and inspiring!

It is a simple but powerful way to show your support for print books and bookstores in this digital age.

What book would you put at the top of your tree? Mine would be Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey!

When I think of mirrored walls, all I’m able to muster is the walls on popular design shows that have to be taken down.  The 12×12 squares that sometimes have patterns around the edges must go!

However, there has been a resurgence in mirrored designs, according to 97Sullivan.

Mirrors really open up a space and reflect the light, which makes small spaces feel much larger and dark spaces feel much brighter.

Truly the images shown on the post are gorgeous.

When we finally tackled painting the huge job of tearing down the heinous wallpaper from my kitchen walls, I was determined to get a light yellow color, then hang a Tuscany-like framed picture and clock.  We bought paint chips and worked hard.  In the end, our walls were the EXACT color of the yellow post-it notes.

Nancy Mitchell also shares a cautionary tale about selecting paint colors on Apartment Therapy,

About halfway through, Rachel articulated a worry already taking shape in my own mind – namely, that the color was super, super light. “Is it supposed to look like this? I can hardly tell which parts of the wall I’ve already painted.” I hated to admit that she was right. The only discernible difference between the painted and non-painted parts of the wall was that the painted parts were shiny and wet. “Keep on painting!” I urged. “Maybe it’ll be darker when it dries.” My aqua dream died hard.

Where Nancy did repaint, our walls remain post-it note yellow!

Photo from New Life Office.