My Experience with Radiant Heat Flooring using the Cozy Winters Rug Heater
Learn about the types of radiant heating and an easy way to add radiant heat to any room with a rug heater
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How to Add a Spice Rack to an Ikea Cabinet Door
Adding a spice rack to a cabinet door is an easy DIY home project, especially on an Ikea kitchen cabinet. It makes spices and jars easy to reach but hidden from...
2019 Home Improvement Resolutions
Our home improvement goal for 2019 is to finish all those to unfinished projects around our house and yard. This year we will get it done. Looking Back ...
Top 10 DIY Projects in 2017
Check out Simple Practical Beautiful’s most popular DIY Projects in 2017. A year of Do-it-yourself furniture, crafts, cleaning, succulents, and lots of projec...
Self-Watering Planter
Make a self-watering planter or wicking-bucket to keep your plants healthy and well-watered. Perfect for a patio garden or any yard.
I learned how to make a ...
How to Keep Brass Shiny
A few simple steps to keep brass shiny permanently. This process works for copper, stainless steel, and other metals too. Never polish metal again.
After res...
Kitchen Demolition
Our kitchen demolition and some of the lessons we learned while demolishing our kitchen.
I was so excited to demolish our old kitchen. The cabinets were fall...
How to Install a Bathroom Faucet
Install a new bathroom faucet in just four simple steps, or remove an old faucet the same way. Just be sure to buy a faucet that fits on your sink.
Our old ...
Midcentury Lighting: A Sputnik Chandelier
An affordable sputnik light is a fun lighting accessory to add to any mid-century room. It looks great and really lights up the room.
I love our mid-century...
Use Adobe Illustrator to Plan a Room Layout
Adobe Illustrator can create precise shapes so it’s perfect for planning a room layout, especially for a kitchen or bathroom remodel.
Planning the layout of ...
Restoring a Midcentury Table
How to restore a vintage wood table, a DIY tutorial explaining how to strip off an old finish, clean and repair the wood, then add a stain and protective finish...
Classy and Tasteful Halloween Decor
Halloween decorations don’t need to be expensive to look elegant, spooky, and bring the Halloween spirit to any room. Here’s a few tips and tricks.
This ...
Installing Dry Wall
We put up dry wall, mudded the seams, added texture, and painted our wall to make a beautiful new wall in our home. It’s work, but a great DIY project for any...
How to Replace Wood Paneling with Dry Wall
How we removed old wood paneling and replaced it with dry wall to create a clean, modern  wall around our fireplace.
One of my three goals this year was to ...
Updating a Large Clock
Update a large clock by replacing the face and refinishing the wood frame. Make the style of the clock fit with the style of your home.
I really like analog ...
How to Maintain and Refinish a Wood Deck
A wood deck needs to be well-maintained and refinished often. Make that job easier by using the right tools.
In my post on Reclaiming a Worn Out Deck, I told...
Reclaiming a Worn Out Deck
A wood deck that has seen better days can still be restored to a beautiful and functional space. With some hard work and the right supplies, you can make it u...
Adding Color to a Cabinet with Removable Wallpaper
Use removable wallpaper from WallsNeedLove to make the back of any shelves or cabinet more bright and colorful.
I have a vintage 1940s cabinet that I love. I...
Principles of Garden Design
Use the principles of design to make your garden look beautiful and well-designed. Create proportion, emphasis, balance, movement, rhythm, and unity in your lan...
Building a Sandbox and The U.S. Sand Sculpting Challenge
Inspired by the upcoming U.S. Sand Sculpting Challenge, we built a kids’ sandbox in our backyard. Read about the Sand Sculpting event and how to build your ow...
Saving an Ugly Wood Bench
Refinish an old wood bench with Varathane stain, and turn an outdoor eyesore into beautiful patio furniture. When we moved into our mid-century home, the...
PVC Curtain Hardware
PVC pipes and fitting painted silver make beautiful curtain hardware for these closet curtains.
I really like how the industrial pipe shelves in my son’s r...
Closet Curtains Made from Sheets
We made simple closet curtains from bed sheets for my kids' closet so they can easily get into their closet and easily close it up again. Either way, it looks n...
How to Replace an Old Fixture with a New Light
or Installing the Death Star Light from Ikea
This weekend we added a new piece to the Star Wars nursery: the light. This meant taking out the original ligh...
Beautiful Vintage-Style Pendant Light for Above the Sink
We got gorgeous new pendant light, and I'm sharing step-by-step instructions of how we installed it.
As part of our kitchen remodel, we planned to hang a pend...
A Drip System is an Easy Way to Save Time and Water
A drip system is the most convenient and efficient way to water plants and care for a garden. A drip system is also very easy to install.
I love drip system...
How to Choose and Lay Sod
The final part of putting in our lawn is installing the sod. Most of the work now is preparing for the ground for the sod.
If you haven't already, take a lo...
Small Frames with Flower Photos
This post is part of Hometalk's DIY My Spring Blog Hop. Look at the end of the post for more details.
I love how similar small frames look when they are all...
How to Install Irrigation Valves: Part 1 of the Sprinkler System
Installing a sprinkler system for a lawn and other landscaping requires connecting to a water supply, adding a backflow prevention device, and installing valves...
How to Take a Soil Test
We are putting in a new lawn soon and other plant in our backyard. To prepare, we need to get the soil ready, but how do we know what our soil needs? We take a ...
Cutting Board Refresh
Refreshing an old cutting board is easy with a little food-safe oil, but why not add an interesting new design feature while your at it? Here's how.
My favor...
DIY Balloon Shades
I made some simple balloon shades for my daughters’ room. It’s just one piece of fabric, no lining, and some ring tape and cord. The hardware is pretty si...
Brushed Metal Bowl
I took an old, stained metal bowl and gave it a brushed metal finish to hide the flaws and give it interest.
When I got this great metal bowl second hand, I ...
DIY Bathroom Drawer Organizer
It's easy to DIY a custom drawer organizer to keep everything neat, organized, and in its place.
My daughters’ bathroom was a disaster, to say the least....
Home Improvement Resolutions
Home improvements are so much more fun than improving myself, so this year all of my New Year’s resolutions are goals for my home. These are the major proje...
DIY Leather Furniture Pads
A simple and effective way to make your own leather furniture pads and prevent scratches on wood floors.
I love our beautiful hardwood floors. They were the...
My Experience Refinishing a Bathtub with Rust-Oleum Tub and Tile
Our bathroom is 1950’s mint green. The tiles are mint green, the sink is mint green, the bathtub is mint green. Or was. It was too much. Walking into the bath...
Star Wars Nursery Wall and Art
This weekend we finished the star wall in our Star Wars-themed nursery. We placed vinyl dots on a deep blue accent wall to look like stars, then hung conceptua...
How to Install a Smoke Alarm: It’s so easy!
I think our old smoke alarm might have been original to our 1950’s house. It was pretty bad. The alarm sounded almost every time I would use the stove. I donâ...
How to Reinforce an Old Park Bench
Today, I’m excited to share a project from my good friend, Marci. She and her husband rescued a very cool looking old park bench and made it useable. The b...
How to Build Industrial Pipe Shelves
As part of our Star Wars nursery, we wanted some shelves that are reminiscent of spaceship part, so we decided to DIY some industrial pipe shelves because they...
My Sewing Closet: Storage
Like many sewist, I have a lot of stuff. My machines, tools, notions, patterns, supplies, etc. all need a place. Here’s how I organized everything in my sewin...
My Sewing Closet: Lighting
I’ve been sewing clothes and home decor for more than 20 years, and I’ve had my sewing space everywhere from the kitchen table to my own sewing room. Sadly,...
How to Fix a Leaky Toilet Valve
Our toilet valve was leaking, which sounded like the water was always running and slowly, but constantly refilling the bowl. Luckily replacing the toilet fill v...
How to hang a bicycle lift
This weekend we spent a couple hours installing bicycle lifts to store 2 bikes in our garage by hanging them from the rafters. With a pulley and catch system, t...