10 Great Tools (Found Cheap At Garage Sales!)
This post was originally published on DIY Network’s blog Made + Remade in June 2012. Some of the best garage sale purchases we’ve made over the last few years haven’t been …
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This post was originally published on DIY Network’s blog Made + Remade in June 2012. Some of the best garage sale purchases we’ve made over the last few years haven’t been …
This post was originally published on DIY Network’s blog Made + Remade in May 2012. I have a crazy penchant for touring springtime garage sales. With the change in seasons, they’ve …
This post was originally published on DIY Network’s blog Made + Remade in March 2015. The metal cabinets installed in our entryway were owed new handles as part of being refinished. …
It was exactly one week after my big win–the opportunity to get a set of vintage oak table and chairs from our local library–and almost two years after having learned that they were …
It was about two years ago that I began campaigning hard for a table and set of chairs from a local library. It was at that time that the library, …
Great furniture finds at ordinary garage sales make me want to fist bump everyone in my path, which is exactly what I did when I found these gems: I passed by them …
Unlike previous years where I hoarded up all of the cheap candles and rehab-able decor that I could find, my sights were more focused this year when we browsed garage sales on …
Hey, update alert! I've seen lots of other new parents following this same "informal" trend of using IKEA furniture as the base for a changing table. High-five for deciding to save a …
Rochesterians: Carve out some time in your day to check out this new mid-century amazing shop in the South Wedge. It's about time that you introduce yourself to Amanda and …
Hey! We moved the couch! That's good progress on our road to making this place cozy. I can't believe I live in a place with a room big enough to accommodate a …
We had our first yard sale of the summer over the weekend, smack dab in the middle of our new big driveway. Maybe if we had planned better and the weather …
It's always pretty impressive to look back into a company's history and find that not only are they leaders in the LED light bulb category as much as they're leading …
Now that everything's out in the open after last week's emotional tales, I'm ready to dish on other things. For one thing, I unleashed a new board on Pinterest dedicated to …
Did you know that you can find jute rugs as inexpensively as $1? Me neither, not even at the land of IKEA, where I thought all happy and inexpensive furnishings …
I spend a lot of time in salvage shops in town, often donating, often looking for new treasures that would fit well into our blossoming home. Recently, a round mirror …
In preparing for our wedding, I sourced local salvage shops with greater than normal frequency to find candles, votives, vases, trays, scrap wood, you name it, and sometimes, which, less …
Ahh, the beaming light shone from a brand-new-but-vintage-y filament bulb, it's the perfect finishing detail for my latest DIY project. Did you know they sold a brand of affordable filament …
I brought home a teak bowl set on a recent trip to our local Goodwill. It's nothing too out of the ordinary in design, a classic 1970's set with two …
It's been 2 years since I brought home a bargain-priced ribcage-like bentwood magazine holder from a garage sale. I had fine intentions of repainting it way back then since the …
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