Leftover fence pickets from an outdoor project gave one couple enough wood for another build. Instead of tossing the short pieces, they used them to disguise a flower pot that was already planted. Dee from Our Clover House came up with the idea after she and her husband had scraps left from building a fence-picket...
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Beige walls surrounded this powder room from the pale stone floor to a band of dark crown molding near the ceiling. A dark wood vanity, amber vessel sink, cream counter, and white toilet occupied one side, leaving a large blank wall opposite the vanity. Interior design firm Designer Details rebuilt the room around two interests...
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White rectangular tile already covered the tub surround in Brittney Smart’s bathroom, reaching from the bathtub to the ceiling. The remaining walls were painted drywall, leaving a large section beside the tile without the same surface detail. Instead of extending tile across the room, Smart kept the drywall and attached narrow wood strips over it....
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Burgundy has spent years appearing in interiors through cushions, rugs, and small decor, but these rooms give the deep red shade far more surface area. Walls, sofas, storage units, curtains, shelving, and upholstered beds carry the color across spaces built around dark wood, black, gray, pink, and pale timber. Recent design coverage has also put...
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Solid oak cabinets covered both sides of this kitchen, with honey-toned doors above and below the worktops. Gray subway tile, beige counters, gray floor tile, a black sink, and dark appliances surrounded the wood. Instagram creator @themobilespray kept the fitted cabinetry and changed its finish instead. The solid oak doors needed more than a coat...
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Wall art is not the only way to give a blank wall something worth looking at. Some furniture can take over that job, using shape, scale, material, or structure to create the focal point itself. That shift shows up across these rooms in different ways. Storage climbs toward the ceiling, books appear suspended between sheets...
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Massive granite slabs weathered by years in an abandoned Connecticut quarry became the starting point for this double-sided outdoor fireplace. Some pieces stand taller than the people who installed them, while one broad slab spans the firebox and other oversized pieces form the sides, base, and top of the structure. Instagram landscape designer @birchgrovect sourced...
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A bird of paradise reaching toward a vaulted wood ceiling is hard to miss. At about 16 feet tall, this one has leaves that tower over the furniture and spread across much of the living room. Its size created a much bigger problem once mealybugs appeared. Facebook group member Robert Seeley covered the floor with...
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TV furniture once meant a long cabinet placed beneath the screen, with the rest of the wall left open. These media units take a broader approach, extending storage and display space above, beside, and behind the television while treating the full wall as part of the furniture plan. Wood panels, suspended cabinets, glass cases, narrow...
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Small square tiles covered the vanity countertop and backsplash in this 1962 home’s primary bathroom, surrounding a single sink with rows of dark grout lines. A mirrored medicine cabinet filled the wall above, while patterned vinyl flooring and a beige tub liner added finishes from later renovations. Jess Bond of The Bond House and her...
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Built-in and undermount sinks make the basin part of the countertop, leaving much of its form hidden below the surface. Vessel sinks reverse that arrangement. The entire basin remains above the vanity, turning a plumbing fixture into one of the first elements you notice in the bathroom. These bathroom designs show how much that shift...
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Empty candle jars can look finished once the wick and wax are gone, but the glass container still has another use. Homedit craft and home decor creator Katie King found three ways to turn cleaned candle jars into fall pieces instead of tossing them out. Each jar takes a different route. Orange paint goes inside...
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Orange oak covered almost every cabinet front in this Maidstone kitchen, from the drawer stacks and tall storage to the unusual curved cabinets at the end of the sink run. White countertops sat above the wood, while large charcoal tiles covered the floor below. Instagram creator @renewingdecorating kept all of that cabinetry and painted the...
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Open most refrigerators and the view feels familiar: food containers, produce drawers, bottles, jars, and grocery packaging. Even a neat fridge tends to look like storage. Instagram creator @prettyflippedpieces_byrowana questioned why it has to. She wanted her refrigerator to feel less like an appliance and more like a styled cabinet. Her idea goes far beyond...
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Restaurant booths solve a problem that dining rooms often handle with more chairs: fitting several people around a table without surrounding it with separate seats. These dining setups bring that idea home through curved banquettes, corner benches, upholstered settees, and long cushioned seats paired with conventional dining chairs. The result sits somewhere between a dining...
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Opening the downstairs fireplace wall in a 1966 Colonial exposed something no finished room would hint at: concrete blocks, broken masonry, and mortar packed around the firebox. Pieces sat at odd angles, making the hidden construction look more like rubble than part of a chimney. Homeowner and Reddit user u/Maximum_Problem7230 noticed mortar between the pieces,...
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Weathered boards, failing foundations, open doors, and a structure that had spent about a century exposed to the Quebec climate made this barn look closer to demolition than renovation. Architecture studio La Firme chose another route, preserving the hemlock frame and using it as the structure around which a new country home would take shape....
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Detergent bottles covered the washer and dryer while a large section of wall above them went unused. Reddit woodworker u/jlo575 filled that space with a cabinet system built around the laundry setup. Instead of one flat bank of storage, the project pairs enclosed cabinets with a deeper open shelf below. Detergent stays within reach, other...
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Dark honey-toned wood covered this buffet cabinet from top to bottom, including the glass-door hutch, small side cupboards, countertop, drawers, and lower doors. Strong grain patterns made the wood a major part of its original look. Instead of covering every surface, Instagram creator @farb.und.froh split the finish between deep blue paint and exposed wood. Patterned...
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Bathroom mirrors are taking on a job that once belonged to sconces and light bars. LEDs now sit behind the glass, follow its perimeter, or run through sections of the mirror, bringing light to the vanity without another fixture mounted above it. Removing that fixture changes what can happen across the rest of the wall....
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Fireplace demolition can leave behind a pile of bricks that seem destined for disposal. When Jenae from @build.n.blooms removed the brick hearth from her home, she saved the old material instead. Months later, those bricks resurfaced in the front yard. Rather than buying new pavers or landscape edging, she set the reclaimed pieces into a...
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Armchairs have a short list of expected parts: seat, back, arms, and support beneath them. These designs show how little those parts dictate what the finished chair has to become. Some expose frames that most upholstered chairs conceal. Others turn the back into a curved shell, replace padded arms with slabs of wood, wrap leather...
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The pumpkin shape comes from something that spends most of the year in a pool, not on a front porch. Cut into sections, pool noodles give a plain 5-gallon bucket the deep rounded ribs seen on the finished planter. Creator Alex of @alexmariecreates used three regular pool noodles and three thick ones, with each cut...
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A 1900 Upper West Side home already had exposed brick, wood floors, built-ins, and a fireplace, but its rooms had collected finishes that pulled in different directions. Cream kitchen cabinets met small backsplash tiles, the fireplace sat inside dark painted millwork, and the cellar relied on freestanding furniture for work, storage, and recreation. Designer Diana...
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Three concrete steps once connected the front door to the yard, with white metal railings enclosing the narrow route. Past the bottom step, the entrance stopped at a patch of lawn beside established ornamental grasses and shrubs. The homeowner, Reddit user u/mvmdl, removed the railings and used the open section of the front garden for...
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A plain wire wreath frame does not need ribbon or mesh to become fall decor. Three orange-and-black checked scarves can cover the metal while adding a bold pattern suited to the season. Debbie from Debbiedoo’s used the scarves as the main material for the wreath, wrapping them around the frame and leaving part of one...
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Food splatters can dry onto a microwave door, turntable, walls, and ceiling, making scrubbing seem like the first move. Homedit writer Brittney Smart tested a different order: use heat and trapped steam before reaching for a towel. The method starts with half a cup of water and one lemon. No soap or spray cleaner goes...
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Kitchen design can change through details that barely register at first glance. Familiar features such as refrigerator doors, sinks, islands, drawers, shelves, and appliance walls can take on another function once designers rethink how each part works. Some ideas reveal what sits behind a closed door. Others reclaim space around a sink, put dishes within...
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Oak cabinets covered almost every storage surface in this kitchen, including the island, refrigerator wall, pantry cabinets, and glass-front uppers. Black granite counters added another dark surface, while floral wallpaper, white tile, and hardwood floors remained visible between the cabinet runs. Instagram creator @pezzottipainting refinished the existing cabinets instead of replacing them. Sherwin-Williams Ripe Olive...
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Renovating a kitchen inside an older home can erase the surfaces that show how the house has aged. This 1984 Colonial in Vernon, Connecticut, took another route. Its wide pine floors, exposed beams, posts, and braces remained while the kitchen around them was rebuilt. Reddit user u/JohnDeanCabinetry said the goal was to update the room...
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Pinecones make an easy fall display, especially when they are free from the yard. A bowl, basket, or centerpiece is usually where they end up once they come indoors. There is a reason to hold off before putting them on display. With one added ingredient and a sealed plastic bag, the pinecones can do more...
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Kitchen storage does not have to announce itself through rows of cabinet doors, handles, and exposed appliances. In this kitchen, much of it blends into two large wall installations that read more like architectural paneling. Dark wood covers one wall from floor to ceiling, while textured white cabinetry occupies another. Doors follow the same lines,...
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Washer and dryer doors sat close to the garage floor, while four wall cabinets occupied the space above them. Laundry supplies had no dedicated storage near the machines, and transferring clothes meant bending down each time. Reddit user u/iSniffMyPooper decided to raise both front-load machines on a wood structure instead of buying separate appliance pedestals....
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Cinder blocks became both the structure and the planters in this staggered garden wall. Instead of stacking every block into straight rows, Kate Simmons turned several outward, creating projecting pockets that appear to float from the face of the wall. Rather than filling the openings with loose soil, she pushed flexible plastic nursery pots into...
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IKEA’s TORNVIKEN kitchen island comes with two broad open shelves beneath a wood worktop. That leaves room for cookware and serving pieces, but no drawers for utensils or dedicated storage for bottles. Reddit user u/jamesgfilms found that another IKEA piece, the two-drawer EKBY ALEX shelf, was close enough in width to fit beneath the TORNVIKEN...
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Upholstery covers most of a chair in many living rooms, leaving the legs as the main clue to what holds it up. These chairs take another route. Wood and metal stay exposed around the arms, sides, and base, making the supporting frame part of the furniture design. At Homedit, we have covered furniture and interior...
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A wood writing desk with a drop-front work surface, three wide drawers, curved legs, and small storage compartments inside already had more going on than a standard chest of drawers. Its brown finish, however, covered every section from the outer case to the writing area. Instagram creator @ty_paent21 chose two colors for the makeover instead...
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A blue front door could have pushed this porch toward a cooler fall palette. Instead, Debbie from Debbiedoo’s kept the existing color and brought in the orange, yellow, and red tied to the season. The contrast begins at the entrance, where a leaf-filled wreath sits against the blue door. Matching white urns bring the same...
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An upside-down dinner plate seems out of place in a fall wreath project. Here, its rim provides the guide needed to build a round base without a foam or wire wreath form. Homedit creator Morena Hockley surrounded the plate with bark-edge wood rounds, then added a second layer to connect the pieces. Once the glue...
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Dark cherry cabinets covered the kitchen from the range wall to the sink, with more of the same finish across the island and a tall cabinet wall outside the main work zone. Raised-panel doors, glass inserts, a plate rack, and a paneled range hood gave the cabinetry several details beneath the dark red-brown stain. Speckled...
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Patchy lawn once ran from the house toward a weathered timber fence, with a sloped section taking up much of the back of the yard. A narrow brick edge followed the change in grade, but the lower section had no defined use. The homeowner, Reddit user u/Dazp84, replaced that slope with a row of huge...
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Books are climbing entire walls, floating across concrete panels, sitting between illuminated niches, and sharing shelves with art, plants, and objects. In some of these rooms, it takes a second look to find where the bookcase begins and the wall ends. That shift creates storage without adding another box-shaped piece of furniture. Shelves can follow...
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Black cabinetry stretches from the sink wall to the tall units surrounding the stacked ovens, while matching panels cover the island base. Long narrow handles keep the cabinet faces clean, and black metal stools continue the dark palette around the seating area. Black stone covers the counters, rises across the backsplash, and occupies the cooking...
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Wood-and-gray cabinets filled the wall around the television, with storage running above and below the screen. The built-in sat beside a brick fireplace and firewood niche, but its mix of finishes broke the TV wall into several sections. Reddit user u/cordcarpentry built the cabinetry for a customer and used this project for his first attempt...
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Burnt oil had been collecting on this Cuisinart pan for close to a decade. Brown stains and black deposits covered the base, rim, and curved stainless steel sides. Reddit user u/_take_me_away said the buildup had reached the point where it discouraged them from using the pan. Rather than replace it, they set out to remove...
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Live-edge wood once brought to mind thick dining tables set on dark metal legs. Homedit has seen the material take on a much broader role in contemporary furniture, pairing uneven edges, splits, knots, old timber, and exposed grain with glass, sharp geometry, upholstered furniture, and modern interiors. Some designs preserve most of the original slab....
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White cabinets, white subway tile, and pale walls once put most of the visual weight on this kitchen’s brown-speckled granite. The cabinets were still in good condition, so changing the room did not require new doors, new counters, or a new layout. Compass Blue (MQ5-54) by Behr replaced the white across the upper cabinets, lower...
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Most garden paths create one continuous surface from one end to the other. This garden takes another approach, leaving gravel exposed between individual stones instead of filling the route with concrete or tightly fitted pavers. Irregular stepping stones create the walking line while the gravel fills the gaps and bends around moss-covered ground. With no...
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Dark blue square tile covered the floor, walls, tub surround, and shower partition in this primary bathroom. A large built-in tub occupied much of the room, while the same navy finish connected almost every major surface. Reddit user u/Fit-Olive-4680 spent seven months remodeling the space. The project went over the original estimate, cost more than...
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Gray cardboard egg cartons rarely look like craft material once the eggs are gone. The molded wells, rough surface, and bulky shape seem better suited for the recycling bin than a spot on a shelf. Homedit contributor Brittney Smart saw another use for those individual sections. She cut apart the carton, reshaped the wells with...
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Old sweaters and dated throw pillows do not look like parts of the same project. Here, both were taken apart and combined, with the old pillows providing the filling and the sweaters becoming their new exterior. Homedit contributor Brittney Smart started with two thrifted floral pillows and two cream knit sweaters. Rather than buying new...
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Some furniture shapes become so familiar that it is easy to forget someone had to design them first. The molded shell lounge chair, the S-shaped plastic seat, low wire-base coffee table, and sculptural plywood chair have all inspired versions that now appear across furniture stores at every price point. These photos, taken at Vitra, bring...
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Dollar store fall decor does not have to start with a wreath, vase, or plastic pumpkin. A glass cake stand with a dome can become the container for an entire miniature fall scene, while the serving piece itself stays untouched. Homedit contributor Brittney Smart used the glass stand as the base for a small pumpkin...
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Bookshelves once followed a familiar formula: two vertical sides, rows of horizontal shelves, and a rectangular frame. These designs treat that formula as a starting point rather than a rule. Curved frames replace straight sides, glass shelves hang from cables, storage wraps around a lounge chair, and long wall systems mix books with cabinets, lighting,...
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After finishing a kitchen remodel with dark green cabinets, white quartz countertops, a farmhouse sink, and a new backsplash, Reddit user u/AdhesivenessFun4075 still felt something was missing. The post shared in r/kitchenremodel asked one question: “Something is missing in our kitchen.” Hundreds of replies followed, and while people suggested different solutions, most identified the same...
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Kitchen storage does not always have to come from another row of cabinets. Several areas left blank during a kitchen design can hold dishes, cookware, bottles, books, or ingredients without taking space from the main work surfaces. These kitchens use narrow gaps beside appliances, cabinet tops, peninsula ends, backsplash niches, and space under worktables. Some...
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Bathtubs once depended on the bathroom wall for both placement and plumbing. These bathrooms break that connection, pulling the tub into open floor space and bringing the faucet with it. Floor-mounted fillers make the shift possible. Instead of choosing a tub position based on a wall-mounted faucet, designers can place the bath between fixtures, in...
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Cutting into a pumpkin usually means a carved face is coming next. Homedit contributor Brittney Smart took a different route, keeping the orange shell intact after opening it up and removing everything inside. The empty center becomes the working part of the project. A candle wick goes into the base, soy wax melts in a...
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Deep grooves, raised trim, curved corners, and small stepped edges cover the doors of this wood cabinet. Removing an old finish from a flat tabletop would be one job. Getting it out of every recess on these doors creates another problem. Instagram creator @the_brush_up was working with more than 40 years of finish and wanted...
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Patchy grass occupied most of this small front yard, squeezed between the sidewalk, front steps, house, and narrow path leading to the side gate. Brown sections had spread through the lawn, while the foundation offered no planting to connect the yard with the tall brick facade. Rather than reseed the grass, the project removed the...
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At Homedit, we have been covering furniture and interior design since 2008, including the materials and construction details that can turn a basic piece into part of the room’s decor. Wood grain is one of those details, and it does not have to sit behind paint, heavy stain, or upholstery to work. Across these furniture...
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Dark honey-toned oak covered almost every cabinet surface in this kitchen, from the long run around the sink to the cabinets surrounding the refrigerator and microwave. The raised-panel doors, crown molding, counters, backsplash, appliances, and cabinet arrangement were all already in place. Instagram creator @duartpainting changed the room by working with those existing cabinets rather...
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Weathering steel starts at ground level in these gardens, then keeps going. It borders flower beds, holds water, crosses gravel in narrow channels, rises into walls, and bends overhead into garden structures. The brown-orange surface ties those features together without making them look alike. Some pieces almost disappear among grasses and flowers, while others become...
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Long kitchens can leave an awkward pocket of floor space once the cabinets, range, and sink have claimed the main walls. At the 2022 Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach, that leftover area was put to work with two upholstered benches and a compact table, creating a breakfast nook within the kitchen footprint. The...
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Orange-toned stain covered these two pine bedside tables from top to bottom, including the drawer fronts, molded bases, and round wood knobs. They were not a matching pair either: one had four drawers, while the narrower table had three. Instagram creator @ontheflipside.kb kept those differences and changed how the wood itself was finished. She stripped...
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Rows of small drawers turn storage into part of the furniture design. Instead of hiding everything behind two cabinet doors, these pieces divide the front into compartments sized for smaller items, with pulls, label holders, metal bins, and wood grain giving each section its own presence. The format takes cues from card catalogs, workshop cabinets,...
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Concrete paving covered almost every part of this 4-by-4-meter courtyard in Utrecht, Netherlands. Apart from narrow timber sections beside the house and greenery along the fence, the compact space offered almost no ground for a garden. Reddit user u/carlosadmoura had promised his girlfriend a garden in what he called her “dead patio,” so the existing...
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A washer, dryer, boiler, exposed pipework, outlets, and cleaning supplies competed for space inside this narrow utility room. Standard cabinet sizes were not an option, since new storage had to fit around equipment and service points while keeping the central aisle open. Instagram creator @casa_bespoke shared the solution: custom units built in place around the...
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Cork sold in a roll starts as a plain sheet, but a leaf template changes what it can do on a fall table. Instead of cutting the material into standard circles or squares, the cork follows broad leaf outlines that remain visible around serving dishes and bowls. Homedit contributor Chelsea Mohrman created the project with...
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Back-to-school supplies tend to focus on what goes inside a backpack, while books stacked across a desk still need support. Homedit contributor Brittney Smart used two metal bookends and a plastic dinosaur to turn that basic shelf function into an optical trick. Cutting the dinosaur through its torso lets the head sit on one bookend...
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Paint one wall a different color or cover it in wallpaper, and you have the standard formula for an accent wall. These rooms show another option: leave the wall surface alone and build the focal point on top of it. Metal discs spread behind a console, upholstered blocks climb above a bed, mirrors form wall-size...
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Wood cabinets filled both levels of this kitchen, extending from the sink and peninsula to the tall pantry and refrigerator surround. Instead of painting every cabinet the same color, the existing cabinetry was split at counter height during a makeover shared by Instagram creator @jvprofessionalpainting. White now covers the upper cabinets and tall storage, while...
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Set on a ridge in Brazil’s Mantiqueira Mountains, this 48-square-meter (516-square-foot) guest cabin by Gil Barbieri Arquitetura and Silvia Acar Arquitetura divides its rooms between two separate volumes instead of enclosing them under one compact floor plan. A covered wood deck fills the gap between the two sides. The living room and kitchen occupy one...
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Low headroom did not stop this attic from becoming a full bathroom. The roof drops close to the floor at one end, yet that same section now holds a walk-in shower with dark green tile, brass fittings, and a built-in bench beneath the slope. Before the renovation, red walls, exposed insulation, bare flooring, and a...
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After caring for the same houseplant for about a year, Facebook user April Harbinson spotted something she hadn’t seen before. A pale, pointed growth was pushing up between the stems, but it didn’t look like the colorful leaves the plant had been producing. “What is this growing from my child?! I have never seen this...
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Most mirrors follow the furniture beneath them. A wide vanity gets a wide rectangle, a narrow console gets a smaller one, and the frame becomes another set of straight lines on a wall already shaped by cabinets, counters, doors, and trim. Changing the mirror shape can change that entire arrangement without changing the furniture. A...
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The solid oak cabinets were not the problem in this Chapel Hill kitchen. The raised-panel doors, crown molding, drawers, and cabinet boxes were still worth keeping, but the orange-brown oak finish covered almost every wall and set the color for the entire room. Instagram creator My Renewed Cabinets was behind the transformation, keeping the existing...
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Hanging rods can take up most of a walk-in closet before shoes, bags, folded clothes, jewelry, and smaller accessories have a place to go. These closet designs show what happens when those items are considered as part of the layout instead of being fitted into whatever space remains. The solutions go beyond adding another shelf....
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Thrift stores can make good furniture hard to see. A solid wood cabinet may sit behind stacks of dishes, an old worktable may hold dozens of small decorations, and a set of wicker chairs can look less impressive surrounded by unrelated pieces. The pieces worth a second look tend to have something new mass-market furniture...
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Solid wood cabinetry filled this kitchen with inset doors, exposed hinges, fluted columns, paneled sections, and trim, but much of that detail blended into the natural wood finish. Replacing cabinets built with this much detail would also mean losing the original craftsmanship that made them worth keeping. Instagram creator @wesprayupvc was behind the transformation, spraying...
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Vent hoods almost always have a range or cooktop beneath them, which makes the setup in this butler’s pantry hard to miss. The wood-clad hood hangs above an uninterrupted stretch of stone counter filled with cutting boards, fruit, serving pieces, and bar tools. There are no burners anywhere below. Much of the room is built...
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Vintage grain sacks are known for their simple stripes set against coarse linen or canvas, a combination that also fits fall tables filled with natural textures and muted seasonal colors. Homedit contributor Brittney Smart recreated the look on plain linen napkins, turning a basic table staple into something suited to fall gatherings and Thanksgiving dinner....
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For decades, the standard living room formula put one coffee table in front of the sofa. These rooms take another approach, using two or three tables across the same seating area. Some tables overlap to create a larger surface, while others sit apart near different sections of the sofa. Mixing round, square, glass, stone, and...
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Yellow paint covered the curved drawer fronts, broad top, center cabinet, and low base of this vintage dresser, with chips and worn spots exposing parts of the surface beneath. The finish needed work, yet the wave-shaped drawers, framed center door, original brass hardware, and wide storage case gave the piece features worth keeping. Instagram creator...
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Rows of white cabinets filled both sides of this long kitchen, but replacing them wasn’t part of the remodel. Reddit user u/Andrameda69 kept the existing cabinetry and used deep green paint to change the feature that covered the most wall space. White countertops, wood-look flooring, a black faucet, updated appliances, under-cabinet lighting, and a green...
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A room can have good furniture, expensive finishes, and plenty of decor and still feel unresolved if nothing tells the eye where to land. Sofas, side tables, lamps, artwork, rugs, and accessories can all compete at the same level, leaving the space furnished but without a clear visual hierarchy. The rooms here take a different...
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Walnuts tend to end up in the bowl during fall, then in the trash once they have served their purpose. Brittney Smart found another use for a few of them, turning whole walnuts into tabletop holders sized for small photos, cards, and children’s artwork. The project needs little beyond walnuts, wire, a drill, pliers, and...
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The narrow galley already had cabinets, counters, and appliances arranged along two walls, but dark wood cabinetry, brown floor tiles, and several competing finishes made the limited width more apparent. The renovation keeps the same basic footprint while changing how those surfaces meet across the room. Shared by Instagram creator casa_bespoke, the Wood Green, London...
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Fall decorating does not have to begin with pumpkins, leaf garlands, or a box of seasonal decorations pulled from storage. Some rooms already contain the colors and materials associated with the season through furniture, textiles, wood, and paint. Burnt orange, olive green, mustard, brown, walnut, and amber appear throughout these spaces, often against darker walls....
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Moving houseplants outside for summer gives a collection far more room than most homes can provide. Grace E Allen is now facing the other side of that arrangement as temperatures begin to fall: all of the plants spread across her covered outdoor spaces need to come back inside. “I have to bring all of these...
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Kitchen cabinetry often uses every available inch of wall, with upper cabinets extending toward the counter or leaving one continuous backsplash below. This kitchen takes another route, carving out wood-lined niches between sections of dark cabinetry and the white countertop. Those openings give appliances, flowers, jars, and serving pieces a defined place without turning the...
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Renovating this third-floor bathroom meant dealing with more than dated finishes. According to Reddit user u/Mysterious_Rise_432, the bathroom had not been functional for decades, the water had been off for an estimated 20 to 30 years, and the toilet occupied a raised platform that took up much of an already cramped room. New pipes, a...
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The brown Tuscan-style tile covered a large part of Brittney Smart’s kitchen, running behind the sink and stove with decorative inserts, a dark floral border, and a framed tile design above the sink. She wanted the backsplash gone, but replacing it gave her a chance to choose from plenty of newer tile styles and layouts....
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Two laundry machines can take most of the usable space in a room this narrow. Reddit user u/stump36 faced a bigger challenge after his wife wanted to switch to an all-in-one washer/dryer. Since the room had space for two units, they chose two. That decision meant adding a second 15-amp circuit and changing the water...
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Kitchen cabinets can fill an entire wall and still leave knives, jars, appliances, and cooking tools competing for counter space. Adding another cabinet may create storage, but it can also take wall space, increase cabinet depth, or make an island larger. The overlooked space often sits on parts of the kitchen already built. Cabinet ends...
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Sideboards are getting harder to mistake for basic storage cabinets. Rounded walnut corners, woven cane doors, stone-covered fronts, glossy color, ribbed wood, and exposed metal legs are changing a piece of furniture that was once easy to overlook. Some of these designs reshape the cabinet itself, while others keep the long rectangular form and put...
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Grass covered most of this backyard, while a small square of concrete pavers near the house provided the only hard surface for outdoor furniture. A sliding door opened onto two temporary wood steps, leaving the rest of the yard without a defined place for dining or seating. Reddit user u/tuuluuwag replaced that setup with a...
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More pantry shelves do not always mean more usable storage. In this walk-in pantry, the upper half relies on adjustable wood shelves, while the lower section switches to pull-out mesh baskets that bring stored items forward instead of leaving them near the floor behind another row. The surrounding shelves use a different organizer for each...
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Replacing a two-car garage door for its appearance alone can turn into a four-figure project. Debbie from Debbiedoo’s wanted the carriage-door look but had a standard white metal door that still worked. Her solution left the door, panels, tracks, and opening mechanism in place. Two Crown Metalworks decorative hardware kits cost $18.97 each, bringing the...
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Kitchen design spent years hiding cookware, flattening cabinet fronts, removing decorative details, and turning islands into large blocks of matching cabinetry. Some of the features pushed aside during that shift are showing up again, from work tables and pot racks to wallpaper and glass-front cupboards. The return does not mean recreating a kitchen from another...
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