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before + after diy furniture housewares how-to materials for making space/home

HomeMade Modern: Smart Stylish DIY with a Mission

We’re smitten with HomeMade Modern’s stylish, DIY-able home goods — from beds to planters — and really smart, detailed designs that empower you to improvise.

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diy materials for making repurpose + reclaim space/home textiles walls + windows

Simplest Possible Curtain Tie (And Hotel Room Strategy)

We love this impromptu-looking curtain tie made of a strip of leather. Ribbon would be swell as well. It reminds us of our improvised hotel room strategy for calming down curtains with busy prints…

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diy how-to materials for making space/home storage

DIY Leather Cabinet Pulls (via Holton Rower)

For years, we’ve been amazed at the clever and imaginative solutions our friend Holton Rower has come up for his various spaces – both at home and work. Take the chic leather cabinet pulls we’ve been seeing around at high-end housewares stores, for $20 + a piece. Holton starting making leather pulls twenty years ago…

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