Decor To Adore

I try to begin my day with ten minutes of peace. This is achieved by taking a relaxing bath. When we remodeled the master bathroom our contractor installed an inconvenient towel bar on the side of the shower. It has remained empty. This is the view I have "enjoyed" while taking my soaks for the past two years. A tub with a view. A tub with a view Recently, while I was redecorating Sweet Boy's bathroom I attempted to use what I already owned to fill up his towel bar. I selected some vintage ... View the Post

In the last post, I showed you the Fashionista's new apartment. That was the good. Just so you could appreciate what we did a little bit more I thought I'd give you some ugly. The first thing to greet us was a screen door with no handle. How to decorate your first apartment on a budget. How to decorate your first apartment on a budget But don't worry, much of the missing hardware was found in a cupboard. Like ALL of the cupboards in the apartment, it had cow print contact paper. Nice. I ... View the Post

We bought a two-bedroom condo near ASU in August. The Fashionista now lives in it and we hope the second bedroom will soon hold a roommate. It was a foreclosure that had sat empty for 8 months and it had been a rental property before that. So in one word it was: DIRTY! With a little elbow grease and creative decorating it has turned into a pretty cute casita. When I think about what my own first apartment looked like, (couch pulled from the dumpster, tiny black and white tv set on an overturned ... View the Post

A few weeks ago I wrote a post on a few projects I created with vintage rick rack and seam binding. The madness continues. Rick Rack Attack. I have continued working on the Fashionista's apartment. We had an extremely low budget (think: none) to decorate the space. It has two sets of windows in the living and dining areas. When I found this stack of linen Pottery Barn drapes at Goodwill it was like discovering gold. Rick Rack Attack I transformed the beige color with a few bottles of ... View the Post

In the last post, I showed you some artwork that I made for one wall in the newly decorated front bathroom. The final cost was under $3.00. Decorating a bathroom on virtually no budget. Decorating a bathroom on virtually no budget Last year I found these great Martha Stewart shadow boxes on clearance for $1.00 each. I didn't have a project in mind at the time but snapped them up. Fast forward a year later. I took a hot glue gun and a scrap of leftover shower curtain fabric to conceal ... View the Post