I Love My Green Planet

In NYC, every nook and cranny should be utilized!

As soon as you walk into this apartment, you’re smacked in the face with a long and narrow hallway to your left and the only bathroom directly in front of you. Where do you drop your keys? The mail? Your purse? We hate shoes piling up on the floor more than anything, so we knew we had to come up with something creative. We had a 14″ x 12″ corner full of valuable real estate, but we knew we couldn’t just install boring floating shelves or shop forever for a perfectly-sized, expensive piece of furniture. Reclaimed wood, old spindles, and plumbing fittings and piping would do just the trick. We created a tall corner unit with 5 shelves–perfect for catching those small everyday items that can otherwise make your entryway look cluttered.

Ugly, poorly painted,

but sturdy $50 Craigslist Dresser.

I was originally planning on keeping the door for access, but quickly realized it would not give enough access to the corners for cleaning or bunny wrangling.

The old carpet on my stairs was worn

out and stained. It’s time was up and it needed to go. I’d seen other projects of people painting their stairs, so this is what I did with mine.

Only tools I used for this job was a palm sander, a small nail gun, assorted pry bars/nail pullers, hammer, a putty knife,

a coping saw, caulk gun, and a paint brush.

Jos and I have recently fallen in love with the gorgeous

Dissolved lace mirrors over at Anthropologie. However we did not love the price tag. Here’s the $2000 version..

So, we did what any self respecting DIY’er would do, we went to the thrift store.

Below we will walk you through how to make your own Vintage Dissolved Mirror Iron Orchid Style!

Last year we created

a Sexy Master Bedroom. This year I wanted our bathroom to match!

I was tired of the boring vanilla bathroom and wanted to add some drama with a hotel feel to the bathroom.