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If you hate the look of a bare concrete floor, no matter how practical it might be, here’s an idea — why not stencil the concrete to look like a luxurious carpet?

Perhaps not as comfy as a fine oriental rug, but certainly more durable, is this concrete “carpet” created by faux finisher Kim Longo. Inspired by an aged tile look she saw in villas and palazzos in Italy, Longo has used templates and trowels to create unique patterns in concrete surfaces.

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Real-World Renovation: 1920s Prairie Box: Painting the Living Room

Real-World Renovation: 1920s Prairie Box: Painting the Living Room

Renovation adventures make for lively reading — it’s all the fun of a full-blown home makeover, only someone else does the work and pays the bills! Somewhere out there in rural Indiana, USA, a 1920s foursquare house is getting a major makeover. Although is is in very good shape structurally, the previous previous owners (PPOs) [...]

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Sun Room Decor: Bringing the Outdoors In

Sun Room Decor: Bringing the Outdoors In

Sun rooms, three-season rooms, Florida rooms, whatever you want to call them, more of us are finding ways to bring a little outdoors inside. Fancy iron-work (think French cafe style) or comfy cottage wicker are popular furniture choices, with a pillow-heaped day bed for lounging with a lemonade on a hot summer day. Now, imagine [...]

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Painting a Victorian Church Birdhouse

Painting a Victorian Church Birdhouse

Okay, now I may be just bragging: Look, Ma, I painted this cute little birdhouse all by myself! This church-shaped birdhouse was a gift for an elderly friend, made following a pattern in Making & Painting Victorian Birdhouses, which I picked up for $5 last year, during an excellent Amazon sale. My friend’s son did [...]

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