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The Smitty Baby Table Transformation

You remember the 40 week Pregnancy in 90 Seconds Don't you? Well Meridith Smith has been hard at work (sans video camera) on a terrific table transformation. The results are a breath of fresh air f...

Tasmyn's Bright Berry Bedroom

Speaking of bold color, we love the daring raspberry pink Yvette chose for her daughter Tasmyn's room. She painted it when "Tassy" was two and five years later they both still love it. Read on for...

Hudson Paint: Chalkboard Paint in 24 Colors

We're thinking about re-painting a small playtable for our son and remembered the fabulous golden yellow chalkboard menu painted on the wall of this play kitchen. Time to pay a visit to Hudson Pain...

Blackboard Pumpkins

When we saw these blackboard pumpkins we liked the instant drama they could add to Halloween decorating, but - even better - they're an ingenious way for even the youngest kids to safely decorate th...

How To Fix Your House with Color
House Beautiful

We love thinking about color and how it affects our moods or reflects our personality, and Fall seems like a great time to think about color in the home. Read on to find out what different colors bri...

Quick Tip: Stencil Walls With Joint Compound

We're always on the look out for design ideas that give our spaces a little extra "oomph." So when we stumbled upon the idea of using joint compound in combination with stencils, we were all ears! ...

The 8'x11' Nursery Makeover

For those with kids rooms that are feel like they only have space for the bare necessities, the super sized rooms that seem all the rage in the media lately, can feel more than a little extreme. Ma...

Inspiration: Scallop Border

We all know that paint is the cheapest way to freshen up a room and give it a quick makeover. Rather than paint the entire room, or walls, consider doing a detailed border....

Kid-Friendly Attic Conversion
The Daily Biff

After spotting Kelly Edwards' "geeking out" post on window seats (she featured one from Apartment Therapy and another from The Daily Biff, among others), we clicked over to the Biff to find a most a...

Found: Perfect Pastels

We mentioned the Tone kids chair awhile back, but that wasn't what drew our attention in this photo. Instead, it was the softly understated pastel background that makes you think of sweet dreams and...

Stripe Inspiration: Two Blues

Speaking of stripes, we spotted this beautiful, muted, striped wall on Cookie and loved the interplay of two similar shades of blue. When you find yourself agonizing over two shades of a color on a...

Try This! Glazed On Graphics

When we moved into our new space earlier this month we were pleasantly surprised to find skulls in our closet! But they aren't something you see unless the light hits the wall just right and the tre...

Alice Supply Co. Modern Toolbox

Every home should have a decent toolbox. Having a clean, organized box with everything you need makes tackling those everyday projects much less intimidating. Wouldn't you actually look forward to w...

Roundup: Striped Walls

If you're considering adding some stripes to yours or your kids' walls, it might help to look at some examples in real rooms. We've combed our archives and found fat stripes, thin stripes, one colo...

Stencilled Wall with Free Download

Wallpaper? Nope - painted wall stencils used in combination to give the effect of wallpaper which is probably about the same effort as putting up wallpaper and is certainly less expensive. We're a...

Marimekko Wallpaper

As a toddler, my younger brother had the entire Marimekko Bo Boo bedding set. He was a motor vehicle fanatic so all of the cars and buses on his bed linens really made his day (and night). We were e...

Before and After: Giant Whiteboard Table

Ohdeedoh reader Amanda loved the bones of her old kitchen table, but she wasn't such a fan of the table's finish. When its age started to really show, and the cracks and peeling finish got to be too m...

DIY Wallpaper: Drawing on the Walls

Drawing on the walls usually is not an activity parents encourage. But when the results are as impressive as what we saw at Coochicoos, you might want to re-evaluate. Jump below to find out how to c...

Red, White, and Blue Boys' Rooms

click thumbnails for larger pics There are many different ways you could go when it comes to boys' rooms and color, but we agree with "Simply Natural" that you can't really go wrong with red, white, ...

DIY: Colorful Mosaic Wall

This inexpensive, easy, fun creation via The Swell Life has us thinking a DIY parent/child project is in order. Any variation in size, color and shape of "tiles" will do; here, Swell designer Alexa ha...

Look! Mountain Mural

Talk about a great start to a nursery! Han-Mei and her husband Joe (secretly) painted this amazing mountain mural for his sister and brother-in-law's baby boy while they were attending birthing cla...

Painting Kids' Rooms (with Kids' Help)

The title of this post might also be called: "Loosening the Reins on Perfection" or "A Little Mess is Okay" or "Let Your Kid Help Create His/Her Own Bedroom." Of course, we're talking about the slight...

How Color Affects Us

Did you know a bright pink room might alleviate anger? Or that yellow could raise your blood pressure? We love thinking about how color affects us- our thoughts, behavior, and even our appetite. B...

IdeaPaint in Kids' Rooms

Magnetic paint and chalkboard paint may be getting nudged out of the way for dry-erase paint! When we came across this photo we stopped to check it out because of the beautiful tree mural, but when...

Paint Chip Projects

Whether we're actually looking for a paint color or not, we're always drawn to those paint chips in hardware stores. Sometimes we just pin a bunch of them up on our bulletin board to add some color,...

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