So, you want your kid to have a bedroom that’s decorated to match his dreams — but you don’t want to spend much money? Well, here’s one incredibly frugal solution to that decorating dilemma: Block Posters lets you send any image from your computer (up to 1 MB size file), slice it up, print it out, and turn it into a giant wall poster — free!
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As for decorating your place for Halloween on the cheap —
“Decorate your home and yard with everyday items and almost-trash, like leftover candle stubs and toilet-paper ghosts,” the glossy magazines tell you.
Right. Not.
Who was the genius to suggest that lighted candles and paper products were a good mix? Now throw in gangs of rambling trick-or-treating kids wearing capes and robes and all manner of flammable costumes? Uh-uh.
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You know how the other day I went on quite a bit about personal taste in decorating? And about how some people manage to pour all kinds of money into making their home look… well, quite hideous, really?
Cartoon: Robert Weber
The New Yorker, April 3, 1989
by permission
That whole discussion of “good taste” in the [...]
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You know how real estate agents are always rattling on about their professional expertise in showing off a home to its best advantage?
Curb appeal?
Staging a home so it looks good to potential buyers?
I’d always half-suspected that they were just putting fancy names to common sense, to encourage home sellers to hire them. [...]
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by guest on March 17, 2008
If you’ve been following along with “Educator” Dan’s home renovation adventures, you’ll know why I keep threatening to drag him out east here and put him to work at my house: This man knows his way around a sheet of drywall — and now, as it turns out, he’s got a bit of a [...]
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