Distressed furniture? Why would someone want to put their furniture to distress? In the decor world, the word doesn’t have it’s more like destress and is a way to lend a weathered, chippy look. And why on earth would one distress a perfectly painted piece of furniture? Because imperfections are beautiful. It is imperfections that…
How You can Distress Furniture Easily at home
Breezy & Knotical: DIY Fisherman’s net lanterns
Woman! I wish I could immediately talk to you about this beautiful fisherman’s net DIY tutorial and how super cool it looks but man am I a slave of my feelings. How do these websites do it? Jump straight into “here’s what you need to know” in under 20 words? 20 words would be me…
DIY How to Repurpose old Pajamas to Tote Bags
A DIY, repurposed, Pajama Tote bag is adding spring to my step today, and a what a fabulous way to use up those old, faded PJs. Who knew! Welcome to Trumatter, and also to this week’s #LeaveItBetterThanYouFound it- a series that we started a month back to showcase how simple hacks can instill fresh lease…
How to make soap at home and 2 DIY Soap Recipes
How to make soap at home, 2 lovely soap combinations and why making soaps at home makes a lot of sense. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the discussion in here today and I feel sooooo good to be back in this space. Seriously, the entire week last week I suffered from a really bad muscle…
Leave it better than you found it: DIY homemade handwash soap to refill empty bottles
Allow me to indulge you all in a DIY Handwash in this episode of #leaveitbetterthanyoufoundit because A- It is incredibly better than the store bought handwash & B- It lets you reuse the plastic container without another refill pouch or worse- another container. But I’ll have to be honest, I didn’t do this as a…
Leave it better than you found it: Plastic Bottle to pretty planter
Recycle plastic bottles to planters if you want a quick and cozy weekend project. For the lot, this may be a frivolous DIY project undertaken by some who has not much to do in life. But for me, this is where you start implementing those ideas that’ll leave this world a better place. There is…
Holiday Cheer in a Bowl: DIY Pomanders
We have a DIY pomander in the house, a blizzard whooshing its way past on chromecast (outside it must be some 29 but why should I care) and a lovely pot (transferred epithet for the win) of coffee brewing in our kitchen. As my husband would put it, these two months are the weekend of…
DIY Dessert Bowl Floral Arrangement
If you own a few footed dessert bowls my darling, you have won in life. From serving ice-creams and desserts to creating stunning centerpieces- it’s all a piece of cake for you. But just in case you don’t, no stress. I’ll link to some of my favourite dessert bowls at the end of this blog…
DIY Upcycle a plastic bottle to a Planter
Saying hello to you this Tuesday with a recycled plastic bottle planter, Because firstly, we have only 10 years to sort this mess we have made. Secondly, now that I have shifted to all glass bottles at home, I was wondering how to reuse the plastic bottles. Though we can recycle the lot, fact is…
How to make a Light Bulb Vase
How to make a light bulb vase, re-use a broken bulb and eventually help save the landfill. Sounds audacious? Trust me when I tell you, it’s the little right steps you take that matter.
DIY Faux Fireplace with storage
A DIY faux fireplace, some progress in the winging out section and living on the edge. Haha, that’s me making the topic of the blog super clear in case you want to see Netflix instead. But in case you are interested in these kinda things, replete with the soppiness of it all, hang in here…
DIY Storage Boxes With Recycled Box + Contact Paper
DIY Storage boxes are life and you don’t need Marie Kondo to tell you that. Though I absolutely adore Marie Kondo and her Konmari method and I’m going to be using a few of those layout boxes for my drawers soon and yet- simple boxes {with or without layers and stacking} if recycled and utilized…
(The perks of hanging a) Kitchen wallpaper
This Kitchen wallpaper thingy has been on my mind for quite sometime now and I wanted to address the zebra in my head {let’s just start a new word which means the nagging tug in your head which must be absolutely done. Like they say elephant in the room? oui?} right at the beginning of…