Since we moved in to our current apartment last February, I've been slowly filling our walls with photographs and art. Most of the artwork I put up Kayo and I made ourselves and a number are prints and postcards we've collected through the years. There are one or two wall spaces I'm still trying to decorate but my recent progress involved a wall in our living room area where there's a gigantic fuse box of an eye sore! Actually, when we have guests, that's one of the first things they see and they almost always wonder out loud saying, "What the heck is that?!" I guess when the building was Read More
DIY Patterned Cork Board
The other day, I was staring at the cork board hanging on the wall near our kitchen and thought it really looked...boring. I've had it since I was a teenager and it has moved with me and Kayo from our first apartment to our current one, so it badly needs a makeover. I was in the mood to paint so I thought I could easily make this board a little more exciting using some white paint I had stored. So I cleared my cork board and here's how I decorated it: 1. Using masking tape, I created a pattern on the cork board by making diagonal stripes. I created zigzags and triangles by Read More