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I started down the road of DIY home decor armed with little more than a glue gun. Over the years, I have learned new skills that have really helped me up the ante on my projects. One of the most important things that I do on this site is share those skills and projects with you. For each project that I create, I generally post a detailed tutorial. From that tutorial, you can either replicate the project or use it to build upon for your next genius idea.
The following are some of the most popular projects at Makely:
During a windy afternoon when I was trying to get some spray painting done, I had one of those “A HA!” moments. When the lightbulb went off, I just knew that I had to share it with you guys.
In an effort to spray paint in the garage (thus avoiding the wind) but not cover the entire floor with paint, I laid down a few drop cloths. My back was kind of aching from painting the kids bathroom, so I set up two sawhorses and put a sheet of plywood on the top of them
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Since I’m working on redoing my kids’ bathroom, I’ve been in the market for some really fun knobs for their shared vanity cabinet doors. I considered painting the vanity, but it is in fabulous shape and is stained a gorgeous, deep color so I decided to leave it as is. So, the pulls needed to bring some much needed character to the doors.
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Over Mother’s Day weekend, I’m going to be doing what any DIY-lovin’ mama will be doing – getting the entire family to help with a room redo. This time, we’ll be working on de-beige-ing my kids’ shared bathroom.
So far, I’ve only updated one of the light fixtures. I’ve purchased a few more to install and we’ll get the ceiling and walls painted for the largest change. It’s not a very big bathroom, so any small change will end up having a huge impact.
I’ve put together an inspiration board with my kids bathroom ideas, and the style I’m going for is quirky, eclectic and fun. Well, duh! That’s the look of every room I’ve put together in my home.
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Love my new DIY planter? I sure do! But, this fun project certainly came from humble beginnings.
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There’s pretty much nothing in my house that is immune to my crafting and DIYing. While I take the time to plan and actually think about my living room redo (Not flying by the seat of my pants? Crazy Town!), I’ve been doing a few quick and easy things here and there.
The most recent victims were the soap dispensers in our master bathroom. That room has seen exactly zero change from the moment we moved into it’s blah blah builder’s beige glory, so it needed a little Lindsay-fying. And Oh, Deer! It got a little Makely touch.
These DIY soap dispensers were so easy to put together. They are probably a little over the top for some of you, but they are hilarious to me.
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A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon this hanging succulent garden on Pinterest. I pinned it. I Facebooked it. I obsessed about it for days. Yep, I had to make one, and it had to be done immediately.
The only problem was that I have two black thumbs and wasn’t willing to sacrifice the lives of a few dozen sweet little succulents for what would end up being a gorgeous, but temporary, display. Luckily for me, Hobby Lobby had all of its faux succulent picks for on sale for 50% off last week. I’ve already used some in my office, so I knew that they are very realistic looking – the only kind of fake plant I will allow into my house.
So, I built a display frame and added what seemed like eleventy billion fake succulents. The result was pretty awesome.
My faux succulent hanging garden took longer and cost more to complete that I was expecting. I put together a tutorial on the project as I was going along, and I will give you some tips on how to save money if you choose to put together your own.
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