My hallway is long and narrow like this one. I’ve painted it and love the color, but it still needs something. The above picture is the result of a hallway makeover on The Devine Home. I’m not sure it is exactly what I want, but I do love how it really gives the hallway style. We plan to replace the carpet in the hallway with laminate flooring when we do the living room.
2010 – for me at least – will be a year full of decluttering, organzing, and doing many home improvement projects, large and small. Painting almost every room, replacing the flooring, changing the kitchen cabinets, lots of decor changes & additions, etc, etc.
Kim will also be doing lots of projects throughout 2010 & we will also be posting fabulous ideas we come across and great frugal finds that help us stretch our home improvement dollars! We welcome you to join us & we’d love to hear about YOUR home projects as well.
Here’s to an awesome, improvement-full new year!!!
During a routine upgrade, some data and recent posts were lost on this blog and on sister sites. This is quite a blow and all possible will be done to rectify the situation and hopefully prevent this from occuring in the future.
I found this little thing at Goodwill for 49 cents (I’m not sure what I’ll do with it yet):
I also picked up a pair of Old Navy jeans and Children’s Place jeans for Lil Roo and a ziplock baggie of clear beads for my niece-in-law, all $1 each!
I’m starting with the bathroom, but thoughts are churning like crazy about the kitchen. I was flipping through a Woman’s Day Kitchens & Baths magazine (vol XIX No. 2, 2009) and saw several ideas that I would like to incorporate – or at least consider doing so. We’ll see once I get going on it what I’m able to do frugally – after all, it will be a ton more fun and interesting that way!
Just the other day I was thinking of adding a small shelf under the cabinet between the stove and fridge (possibly for trays, etc). This is similar to what I’m thinking of:
I saw this and just. love. it. I’d love to replace our stove exhaust with something like this (though it may prove to be more than I’m currently willing to invest) and I love the idea of open shelves over it instead of regular kitchen cabinets.
Speaking of open shelves, I’m wondering what the possibilities would be of taking a partial wall that creates the doorway to the laundry room, removing the sheetrock and adding narrow shelves the depth of the wall (am I making sense here?). It would be more for décor
than anything else, but even space for décor is hard to come by around here. It wouldn’t look like this picture, but this pic is what triggered the idea:
Lastly (for now), I would like to add a narrow, pullout cabinet between the fridge and wall next to it. We do not have a pantry, so anywhere I can add space for food items is a plus. These are lower cabinet pull-outs, where-as I’d want something as tall as the fridge.
We’ll see how expensive it is when I get around to it and go from there on whether it happens or not.
Phase One of my bathroom makeover project is all prep work. Getting everything out, cleaning, and preparing to paint. Phase Two will be walls, mainly painting. Here are some “before” shots as I get this project underway (notice I started tearing away at the wallpaper border before I took these shots and before trying to do it the correct way – oops!):
How cool is this revamped staircase from the Centsational Girl? This would also work well for a long hallway (which I happen to have and which needs a little something!)
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