Home Decor Projects

In July we moved house. The previous house we were renting was quite small but came fully furnished. This one is much bigger but unfurnished. So we scrambled to furnish it and managed to do so quite well with the help of scrounging stuff off kind-hearted family members, some church members and some great garage sales. I love to have art work on my walls, but I'm not willing to pay hundreds of dollars for it, so I often make my own. We have a spacious dining with one big empty wall. This room also houses the piano. Rachael showed me an idea for some art work that she saw on someone's blog (don't remember where) but it is made from cutting pieces of artificial fruit in half and gluing it onto old style paper.

So this is what we came up with: fruit on old style sheet music, to go in our musical dining room.

It's certainly a conversation piece!

I really miss having a Deseret Bookstore conveniently down the road from us! I was looking at deseretbook.com and drooling over some of the cute home decor stuff that they have. I could order it and have it shipped, but ouch again to the cost!

So again I improvised and made my own piece of inspirational decor. This is a ceramic tile with stick on foam letters.


A church member gave us a couple of storage cabinets. But they looked like they would just love a make-over

Lately I am in love with the colour "apple green" as an accent colour. So here is the made over cabinet which stores DVD's and video games.