Inspirational DIY Projects

I am knee deep in Thanksgiving Day recipes, Holiday Decorating and doing some awesome Style Boards.

I realize that I am using some amazing inspiration that I've gleaned from other awesome bloggers over the years, and that I should take a moment to share my favorite DIY Blog posts. I hope someone out there can use these posts to help spiff up a room for the holidays.

First, a few ways to fancy up that old dresser you have sitting around.

Jason from Retrograde did a great Ikea-hack:


And Kate at Censational Girl did a really fancy pants version right here:


Of course, the masters at Young House Love (I used this as inspiration for my own project that I've yet to post about- bad blogger) did an awesome redo of a Craigslist dresser for their nursery:


Moving on to curtains. I've discovered two rules, whereever you can (1) curtains should be floor length and (2) the higher you hang them, the taller a room will feel. Personally, every window in our house (except the one in the bathroom- cause that would be weird) is covered with an Ikea Shear. So cheap and easy. Speaking of cheap and easy- check out this AWESOME curtain update from High Heeled Foot in the Door. LOVE the added pop of color:

Finally, dresser tops. I knew the rule of odds (grouping things in odd numbers looks the best) but I didn't know the whole height ratio aspect thing, but now that I've done it, it totally works. Check out Kate from two Bower Power's post:

And here is how I tried to put her words of advice in action at the Sugar & Spice household:


Whew, that as a lot of DIY inspiration. I really hope this helps some of you my lovely readers. And please, let me know if you try out any of these fancy pants ideas. Ok, now that you know where my inspiration comes from.... more style boards.