Huwebes, Disyembre 31, 2015

Pantone Color of the Year 2016… x2

Every year, Pantone – color masters extraordinaire – unveils a color of the year. While other color experts (Benjamin Moore and Sherwin Williams, among others) also name a color of the year, Pantone’s is the gold standard. So the Pantone Color … Continued

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Great Organizing and Decor Projects + January Link Party

Happy New Year! We are ready to roll for 2016… as much as ever anyway! There were some great projects at last month’s link party — be sure to check them all out here, and we’re sharing our favorites below. And then link up your BEST projects of 2015, because we wanna see!

Organizing and Decor Ideas to Try This Year @Remodelaholic

Also in 2016 — we are looking for some GREAT contributors to join our team! We love our team and we love introducing amazing people to all of you readers,and helping talented bloggers grow. We are always looking for great DIYers, builders, and decorators (email us!), but for 2016, we have some exciting plans and are specifically looking for contributors to share beautiful printables (both decor prints and other types of printables). If you are a print designer or know a talented creator, please email us right away! Drop us a line at hello@remodelaholic.com to introduce yourself and show us some of your work!

Now, to the party features:

Great Organizing and Decorating Ideas

If decorating with more color is on your resolutions list, check out these easy geometric color block pillows at Plaster and Disaster:

easy geometric color block pillows Plaster and Disaster

Organizing? Polished Habitat did a great job of making her small entry a storage-stuffed space — this fresh take on a pegboard is great for holding hats and gloves!

A modern take on pegboard for a hook and clip rack for coats, hats, and scarves Polished Habitat

Add a bit of storage in an unused space with this small magazine or cookbook rack by White Tulip Designs.

small space saving rack on the side of the cabinet, for cookbooks or magazines White Tulip Designs

Take your lighting to industrial style with Two Feet First‘s diy pendant light tutorial:

diy industrial pendant light Two Feet First

If your bathroom is feeling a bit tired, see what Refresh Living did to give it an update, in just 6 weeks!

vintage rustic industrial bathroom makeover Refresh Living

We’ve shared it before, but I am so impressed with the style and storage in Blue I Style‘s laundry room! It’s a small space livin’ large!

organized small laundry room BlueIStyleBlog

Organizing DVDs and media is a task, but I love My Love 2 Create‘s reclaimed wood media console and just LOOK at all that storage!

reclaimed wood media console with awesome storage drawers, Mylove2create

Every family should have a command center of some sort… if you’re of the geeky persuasion, why not make it a Star Wars command center?!? Our Peaceful Planet created this one, complete with a lightsaber chalk holder.

Star Wars family command center Our Peaceful Planet

And, in case you didn’t see it on Facebook — Rae’s Nomady used our garden arbor plans to make a gate:

modified Gothic arch arbor with trellis gate, Rae's Nomady inspired by @Remodelaholic

If you’ve done something using one of our tutorials or inspired by something here, drop us a line, we’d love to see!

Link up here — show us your best projects from 2015!

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Step up to 2016!

Thank you for your support in 2015! The Stairporn crew

Miyerkules, Disyembre 30, 2015

Fabulous Folds: Origami Home Decor

Simplicity and intricacy meet in a single ancient art form. Origami is the art of transforming a single sheet of paper into a shape without cuts, markings, or other changes; one performs a complex series of folds to achieve the desired … Continued

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DIY Built-in Breakfast Bar Dining Table

Welcome back to our final Holiday Guest of the season! Our amazing guest today has a beautiful project to show you… she took out a wall in her dining room area and added in a table, but it’s bar-height on one side, table height on the other, and built on top of the remaining half wall. She calls it a “barble” and we couldn’t decide if we should call it a breakfast bar, or a built-in table, or just a rockin’ AWESOME place to dine… what would you call it?!?

16 Sunroom and dining room renovation, built-in table made of reclaimed wood, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic

Read below for all the details from Kammy, and if you’re looking for other built-in table or breakfast bar ideas, we found a few more we love, too:Built-in Breakfast Bar Tables @Remodelaholic

1: Table as island extension via Southern Living
2: Desk into table by Handy Father
3: Industrial live edge bar via LA Times
4: Half wall breakfast bar by My Fifties Kitchen Redo

Here’s Kammy with all the details of her breakfast bar table… barble.. beautiful whatever you want to call it!

(And don’t miss the other amazing projects she’s doing in her house, too!)

Amazing half wall breakfast bar table @Remodelaholic

DIY Built-in Breakfast Bar Dining Table
by Kammy from Kammy’s Korner

1 half wall dining table made from reclaimed wood, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic
Hello, Remodelaholic readers!  My name is Kammy and I blog over at Kammy’s Korner.  I was going to tell you that the focus of my blog is about redoing a huge old home we bought spontaneously on an online auction – and while it is now – it sure didn’t start out that way!  I started out hardly knowing what a a blog was, and not knowing a thing about how to take a good photo.  I wanted a way to share with my family back in Iowa the way I transformed a nasty piece of furniture I picked up on the curb, or how I manage to spend $200 a month on groceries feeding a family of five.  And then one day my hubby came home and said “I set up a blog for you, I called it Kammy’s Korner”, and now here I am blogging about upcycling, refurbishing, and repurposing everything I can find to make our home look like a million dollars on a nickel. Perhaps the best example of that would be the window seats we made out of an old plank walkway we found in the rafters of the corncrib!
2 Sunroom renovation, window seats from reclaimed barn wood, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic
Since buying our old historical “mansion” in Michigan a year and a half ago, we have put plenty of blood, sweat, and YES tears (just ask the electrician about when he told me to tear down my newly painted wall) into our home and today I’m going to share with you how my dream of the “barble” came to be!
Curious as to why Kammy’s Korner is such a conversation piece?  Have a little look-see at it’s grandeur:
3 Historic mansion renovation, by Kammy's Korner on @Remodelaholic
Check out all of the exterior updates it took to get it’s present state (click here.)

So today I’m going to talk to you about our “barble”.  What the heck is a “barble”?  Someone recently told me they thought they had an extensive vocabulary and couldn’t believe they had never heard the word.  Well folks, that is because it is totally made up.  It was born out of trying to describe the vision in my head to my husband and dad, who would be wielding the hammers. My hubby is an electrical engineer.  He says my ideas aren’t logical and make no sense to him.  I wanted a kitchen bar…. but  a table.  A permanent table that sat on the wall.  But we’d have to tear down half the wall of course… to table height… so in combining the words “bar” and “table” you get “barble”.  The table top is also made out of boards from the old barn floor, so I guess the “bar” could also be for “barn”.  Now if I haven’t confused you enough, let’s just get started with some photos.

Here is what we started with.  This is what the eating area looked like when we bought our home a year and a half ago.:
4 Dining room remodel using reclaimed wood, before, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic
And yes, that really is layer upon layer of wallpaper, not just on the walls, but the ceiling as well!
Pay attention to that wall on the left.  It is about to be (partially) history.
5 Full wall to half wall with built-in table, dining room renovation using barn wood, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic
Well what do you know – an old sunroom was hiding behind that wall and through that little pocket door! Oh joy – sunlight!  Macaroni and cheese tastes so much better with the suns rays beaming down upon you.
Here’s an angle from the sunroom:
(Note – there was a closet where the ladder is.  And a whole lot of support in the closet wall holding up the cast iron bathtub in the room above!  There was so much more to just taking down half the wall but space does not allow for the novel I could write!)
6 Farmhouse renovation, dining area and sunroom, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic
So now that we are getting ready to cut down those 2×4’s and secure a table top, we need to go out to the barn to find the table top!
And here’s where we go to find the first two boards – on the floor of this dilapidated corner of the barn:
7 Reclaimed barn wood for kitchen table, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic

There were years and years of old manure and dirt on those floor boards.  But nothing a whole lot of sanding and polyurethane can’t take care of!  Up came two of those big planks!

8 Barn wood salvaged for kitchen table, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic

And in another part of the barn – we find some the same height here on this work bench.  My Dad and I scoured all the old buildings, measuring tape in hand, to find boards long enough and with equal height, so we wouldn’t need to plane any.  I wanted to preserve the rustic hand sawn grooves already on the wood.
9 Barn wood planks made into built-in table by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic

After collecting them all, we measured and cut each board to be 102 inches.  We quiet often have extra people around our table so I wanted it big!

10 Barn wood recycled into dining table, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic
Then my dad, bless his heart, took all five planks five hundred miles back to Iowa where he cleaned, sanded, and put them together using wood glue and angling screws.  Being a man, he did not photograph this process.  A month later, in pulled his big truck with the “barble” top in the back.
My mother and I layered about eight coats of polyurethane on the top, lightly sanding between each coat.
11 Polyurethane to finish reclaimed barn wood table top, by Kammie's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic

So what to do with those old knots in the wood so food didn’t collect and be a royal pain?  We put stainable wood filler in cracks, holes, and knots, and then using a black Sharpie permanent marker, we drew lines to mimic the wood’s grain.  Then we put a dark stain over top and you can’t even guess by looking at the table which is the “real thing” and which are our little “fixes”.
12 How to fill knots when reclaiming barn wood, stainable wood filler and sharpie, by Kammie's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic
13 Rustic table built from reclaimed barn wood, historic farmhouse remodel, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic

Then using lots of screws and some more cut boards, my Dad secured it on to the half wall:

14 Supports for built-in table in sunroom dining room renovation, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic.com

The rustic ship lap wall you see is original.  We did not know it was there when we started taking off old paneling, plaster, and other layers, but were so pleasantly surprised to uncover it!

15 Built in table over half wall, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic

Here is the final result!  As you can see, there are benches on one side and barstools on the other because the sunroom is a sunken room.  There is a step on the end of the table in the doorway, which has surprised more than one person.  I may need to invest in some yellow caution tape to avoid a lawsuit!

16 Sunroom and dining room renovation, built-in table made of reclaimed wood, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic
17 4 Dining room remodel using reclaimed wood, after, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic
18 Barn wood built-in table, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic
19 Dining room, sun room renovation using old barn wood from historic mansion estate, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic

20 Step-down sunroom, built-in breakfast bar made of reclaimed wood, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic

21 Table top hand-finished out of reclaimed barn wood, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic

22 Breakfast bar from reclaimed wood, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic

23 Sunroom and dining room renovation, built-in table, by Kammy's Korner featured on @Remodelaholic
 
There isn’t much to list for the price breakdown since we
 used salvaged items but here are our expenses:
Polyurethane from Lowes – $12
Kreg Pocket Hole Screws –  $10
Grand total – $20
Non barble-related items of interest:
Triple Pendant Light Fixture was purchased at Menards.com
Rustic Metal YUM letters from Custom Cut Decor on Etsy.
White paneling on the ceiling – Lowes  0 4′ x 8 ‘ panels for $15.97 each
Barn wood door – taken off an old barn in Iowa
Arch window frame – $5 from a thrift shop
faux wood beam – found in barn
Thanks so much for stopping by and I if you like what you see please follow Kammy’s Korner on Facebook where you can see all of our latest projects and repurposes!
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Kammy, your transformation is amazing! Can’t wait to see what you do next in that beautiful home of yours!!

Remodelaholics, hustle over to Kammy’s Korner to see more — start with her home tour (and the kids reading area) and don’t miss seeing how she painted her bathtub (inside AND out!)

Kammy's Korner, great room with beautiful mantel Kammy's Korner painted claw foot bath tub

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Chocolate Tart Recipe

Chocolate Tart Recipe - The Inspired RoomHappy New Year, friends! I was recently invited by Samsung to make one of their Club des Chefs recipes by Eric Frechon (a 3 Michelin-star chef and holder of the prestigious MOF title, which is a rare and supreme honor attributed to only the profession’s most talented chefs). I’ll admit I was a little intimidated at the thought! But […]

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By Matthias Bauer called Haus H36 in Stuttgart 2012 via Subtilitas

Martes, Disyembre 29, 2015

Project nv De Scheepvaart

Project nv De Scheepvaart

Hoewel nv De Scheepvaart velen onbekend in de oren klinkt, speelt dit overheidsbedrijf een zeer belangrijke rol in ons dagelijkse leven. Deze naamloze vennootschap van publiek recht werd in 2004 namelijk opgericht om een gezond, dagelijks beheer van de Vlaamse waterwegen voor haar rekening te nemen. Daarnaast doet zij dit ook voor alle watergebonden gronden. In praktijk staat nv De Scheepvaart in voor een duurzaam, dynamisch en commercieel beheer van niet minder dan 316 km kanalen, 47 km Maas, 45 sluizen en 172 bruggen. Van deze verantwoordelijkheden zijn sommige gedeeld met de Waalse tegenhanger, met name de ”Service public de Wallonie, Direction générale opérationelle de la mobilité et des voies hydrauliques”.

Meer info at gebroedersjanssen.be

5 Inspiring Organizing Projects to Jumpstart the New Year

Organized Laundry Room - Shelf Above Washer and DryerCountry Living Hello, friends! I hope you are enjoying a little in-between the holidays downtime, I sure am! It’s been so nice to just be hanging out with my family, resting and even starting to dream a little bit of 2016! Today I thought I would pop in with a few organization project ideas that might help put you (and […]

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Repurpose Old Ceiling Fan Blades into a Decorative Airplane

I love a good upcycle (that’s actually what I started this blog to share, back in the day) — especially when it’s something random that would probably be junked, that can be saved and made into something new. Our next Holiday Guest repurposed old ceiling fan blades and some other “junk” into…

20 Build decorative airplane from repurposed ceiling fan blades, front view 6, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic

an amazing decorative airplane!

Read below for the details of Keri’s upcycled “junk” airplane and keep an eye curbsite for these other things you can upcycle:

books (with no damage to classics!)

upcycled-book-shelf-apieceofrainbow2

old chairs

Great upcycle! Make a table from cast-off broken furniture -- an old director's chair -- and an old cassette tape organizer

and of course, old windows (see this here)

bathroom storage cabinet collage

Here’s Keri to knock your socks off with her creative skills!

26 Upcycled old ceiling fan blades repurposed into decorative airplane, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic

Repurposed Ceiling Fan Blades into an Airplane
by Keri from Repurposing Junkie
1 Repurposed ceiling fan into decorative airplane, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic

Hi! I’m Keri, blogger at Repurposing Junkie. I love repurposing and refinishing different projects. Everything I see takes on a different shape and idea of what it could be. In other words, I see potential in things. Some of my projects include, turning a faucet handle into a towel holder, repurposing a variety of materials into a toilet paper holder, and an early project on the blog- repurposing an electric guitar.

The project I’m sharing with you, Remodelaholics, started out when I took down some ceiling fan blades, from a fixture in our kitchen, and stashed them away waiting for inspiration. It wasn’t until I saw my daughter playing with a toy plane, that I knew those ceiling fan blades were destined to be repurposed into an airplane.
2 Old Ceiling fan blades upcycle, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
I looked for things that would work together to make an airplane. I found a gutter piece that was perfect for the body of the plane. My husband bent it on one end to make it look like the back of a plane.
2a junkie upcyle ceiling fan blades to airplane, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
A piece from an old antenna was used for the back wing.
3 repurposed antenna used to create decorative airplane, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
A cap from an old chandelier was used for the front of the plane.
4 junking, repurposing parts to build decorative airplane, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
This piece of threshold trim was used as the front propeller.
5 Upcycle old parts to build airplane, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
Most of the pieces were painted red.
6 Gloss Red for decorative airplane from junked items, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
7 Junker builds shiny red airplane by recycling old parts, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
Two pieces from an old post were used as tires. Another piece of threshold trim was ripped and used to make the landing gear.
8 Upcycle junk to create decorative airplane, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
Now that I had all the pieces it was time to construct the airplane. I attached the threshold trim to the chandelier cap, using a 1/4″x 2″ bolt and 1/4″ nut, to make the front propeller piece,.
9 Repurposed parts into decorative airplane, propeller, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
My husband drilled through the back of the gutter, and attached the back wing to the body of the plane, using a bolt and wing nut.
10 Recycled parts to build airplane, back wing, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
I screwed the wheels to the trim pieces to make the landing gear.
11 Upcycled parts to build decorative airplane, wheels, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
Before the wings could be attached to the body of the plane, I had to drill into the fan blades to make the existing openings 1/4″. I also measured, marked and drilled two more 1/4″ holes on the outer portion of the fan blades.
My husband measured and drilled 4 holes on each side of the gutter for the wing attachment. Four 3/4″ hooks were screwed into the gutter piece on both sides and locked on with a nut. Then a 6″ x 1/4″ bolt was threaded through the inner part of the fan blade, a nut was then screwed on until it reached the bottom of the top blade to keep the bolt in place. A nut and washer were put on the bolt, then the bolt was strung through the hook, then a washer and nut was put on to cap off the upper wing attachment. Another nut and washer was threaded on to the bolt, the bolt was put through the lower hook, and another washer and nut was screwed on to cap off the bottom wing attachment. A nut was put on the bottom of the bolt, then another fan blade was put on the bolt and capped off with another nut. This step was repeated 3 more times until the wings were attached to the body of the plane.
The outer portion of the wing was a bit easier to fasten together. A bolt was put through the top fan blade, a nut was threaded onto the bolt. Another nut was put on the bolt just enough to allow the bottom wing to be put on the bolt. Another nut then screwed on to cap off the outer wing system. This step was repeated 3 more times until the outer portion of the wings were secured.
12 Upcycled parts into airplane, wings, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
My husband drilled 1 hole on each side of the gutter. The landing gear was then attached to the body of the plane using a bolt and nut.
13 Recycle parts into decorative airplane, wings 2, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
Another piece of threshold trim was painted red and fastened onto the top wings, with a bolt and nut system, to act as a brace. A wooden block was placed in the front of the gutter piece to give the body of the plane a little more weight. Then the front propeller piece was hot glued on the front of the gutter.
This project only took a few days and that’s off and on as we had time to work on it (we have 3 little ones and a house remodel underway). The only thing we purchased were the hooks, nuts and bolts and paint, a total of about $15. I also referenced a book, The Color Encyclopedia of Incredible Airplanes by Phil Jarrett.
14 Upcycled parts into decorative airplane, top view, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
Here’s the final result:
15 Build decorative airplane from repurposed ceiling fan blades, front view 1, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
16 Build decorative airplane from repurposed ceiling fan blades, front view 2, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
I love how it turned out!!
17 Build decorative airplane from repurposed ceiling fan blades, front view 3, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
18 Build decorative airplane from repurposed ceiling fan blades, front view 4, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
19 Build decorative airplane from repurposed ceiling fan blades, front view 5, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
20 Build decorative airplane from repurposed ceiling fan blades, front view 6, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
We’ll hang the plane from the ceiling in our home, so those fan blades can fly once more. :)
21 Build decorative airplane from repurposed ceiling fan blades, side view 1, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
22 Build decorative airplane from repurposed ceiling fan blades, side view 2, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
23 Build decorative airplane from repurposed ceiling fan blades, front view 7, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
24 Repurposed ceiling fan blades made into decorative airplane, junker hobbies, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic
25 Recycled junk built into decorative airplane, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic

Thanks for letting me share this repurposing project with you Remodelaholics!! :) Feel free to stop by and say “Hi” at Repurposing Junkie.27 Recycle old ceiling fan blades into decorative airplane, by Repurposing Junkie featured on @Remodelaholic

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Keri, thank you so much for sharing with us! Your vision was amazing and it turned out AWESOME!

Remodelaholics, head over to Repurposing Junkie to see more from Keri (including more uses for ceiling fan blades!), and don’t miss her chalk painted upholstered bench!

Want to be featured? Link up here and submit your best project here.

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