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DIY Upcycled Utensil Holder
Hi! It’s Gilly again from Colour Saturated Life back to give your visual senses an onslaught of colour. I have another cool DIY for you, this time we are dressing up my kitchen and injecting some much needed colour. [left]If you are anything like me you spend a lot of your time in your Kitchen….cooking, baking, cleaning, […]
{Art Fix} DIY Marble Art
[left]Hi! I am Gilly from Colour Saturated Life and I am thrilled to be part of Ursula’s Creative Team and I am looking forward to bringing you lots of creative ideas to personalise your home this year. You will have to excuse any spelling differences as I am an Australian blogger so we do things […]
Secrets To Painting Free Hand
I’m a lazy painter, but I’m pretty good so I can afford to be lazy! I don’t always use a drop cloth to protect the floors, I rarely wear paint clothes, and I never bother with painters tape. Of course, this comes from years of trial & error, bad tape experiences, and practice. Today I’ll […]
Installing a Light Fixture – My Laundry Room Lightup
I have one final project to brighten up my newly updated laundry room, and it is installing the beautiful new light fixture I just got from Westside Wholesale! Isn’t she a beaut? Replacing the lighting in a room can be a quick and easy update that makes a big difference! So today I’m sharing how to […]
My Rather Alluring Floors
Whooohoo! Happy birthday to me! I just scored 3 boxes of Traffic Master Allure Ultra in Aegean Travertine at $58 a box, down from the regular $78 per box. I walked into Home Depot (my 2nd home), and there they were…right in the middle of the aisle with a big sign that might as well […]
Wallpaper, Wallpaper, On The Wall…
Mmmmnnnooooggrrrrbleghhh. Oh hey… sorry about that. I was just looking over the bathrooms in my house and eeeggghhh…huh there I go again. I’ve been putting off these two bathroom spaces for 2 years because of the wallpaper. No, it’s not that it will be that difficult to remove it, it’s just that I hate removing […]
Garden Fever Prt. 3: Building Raised Sub-Irrigation Beds
Why Raised? Why Sub-Irrigated? Do you really have to ask? My raised beds sit on my deck and are as work-free as a garden can get! They are self watering, requiring a refill once every two months, and they help extend my summer planting season. Oh, and as for weeding, well…what weeding? *swoon* I love […]
Garden Fever Prt.2: Container Gardening
True to Ursula fashion, each year I am all-over-the-place excited to start my garden in spring, then comes vacation time… inevitably, my overly large garden takes a hit that it never fully recovers from. Some plants struggle to stay alive while I am out of town, or those insidious weeds make a power play for […]
