Remodelista Favorites: Our Top 10 Weekend Projects - Remodelista
We’re not carpenters here at Remodelista, but we tackled each of these DIYs ourselves in response to a niggling problem, such as a front-entry shoe pileup, ugly electrical cords, and cheap-looking lamp detailing. Like Alexa, have you been sleeping in an unfinished bed? And to remedy the ugly cord issue in her apartment, Alexa strung her own Beaded Extension Cords. 2. Tackle Your Cord Tangle 3. Create a Rolling Mud Room After tripping over their shoes for too long, Dalilah and her boyfriend built this DIY: Shoe Rack Perfect for a Narrow Entry. 4. Turn Rope into a Doormat Erin admits that wrestling rope into a DIY Woven Doormat was no mean feat–but she did it. Sarah puts leather lace to all sorts of uses, from napkin ties to Shower Curtain Rings (to replace the plastic ones in her guest bath). 5. Tie Your Own Shower Curtain Rings Myles and his wife were “stoked” to finally have their own washing machine and dryer, but they didn’t want to look at it–so he built the $65 Laundry Closet, Renter’s Edition. 6. Rig Your Own Utility Closet 7. Upgrade an Old Dresser with Braided Pulls After our slew of posts on leather pulls (including a DIY video), Erin surprised us with her own version: see The Homemade Changing Table with $1.25 Pulls. 8. Use Color to Remedy a Rental Kitchen In her Small Kitchen Makeover, Meredith, our resident paint expert, made the eyesore faux mahogany cabinets almost disappear against a new gray palette. Izabella liked the look (and price) of her West Elm dining room lights, but not their white plastic cords and silvery hardware. 8. Transform Pendant Lights with Paint After seeing the price of the wallpaper that she wanted for her daughter’s room, Justine took matters into her own hands with an Economical Wallpaper Alternative.