home renovation

You can pin pictures of puppies, wedding gowns, and mouthwatering cookies, but if you are looking to better organize your design-centered Pinterest boards, it helps to have some quick tips to keep you organized and focused.

Here are some interior design board themes:

• Home redecoration: Create boards for each room you are redecorating, and post pictures of furniture, paint colors, and designs you love to help you visualize your project.
• Fantasy dream homes: Perhaps you will never be an owner of a ski lodge or a beach vacation home, but that doesn't mean you can't dream about them via the Internet.
• Seasonal: Whether it's a season like Winter or Summer or a specific holiday like Valentine's Day or the Fourth of July, create a board to inspire your seasonal decor or decorations for an upcoming party.
• Mood or color themed: Pick a mood like romantic or a color like blue, which beautifully and instantly unifies pins under one theme.
• DIY heaven: Replicate beautiful crafts like a decorative chalkboard cheese plate or simply view the DIY photos in awe.
• Shapes and styles: For smaller items like furniture or coffee table decor, go with items that have the same shape or same design style.
• Random but cute: Whether it's a board of dogs sleeping on sofas or quirky decorative trinkets, anything goes (decor-wise) on Pinterest, so find a unique way to share photos that are already circulating.

For virtual pinboard bliss, remember the number one Pinterest rule: source all the photos you pin. Follow CasaSugar on Pinterest to see what boards we've created and what furniture, art, and designs are catching our eye.

Source: Saipua and Style By Emily Henderson

Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member Funkytime from the Su Casa group:

Since we moved to our new place a month ago, I've been pretty overwhelmed with the amount of work that the place needed! We had so much stuff that I couldn't find a place for. We downsized quite a bit to be able to live in the city again, but it was well worth it. I am just not a country girl at all! Lucky me, I had some good friends and great helpers to get me through the chaos. After moving boxes and furniture from one room to the other, back and forth for days, we finally started to tackle the dining room. Angela, my awesome friend and paintress stood by my side, and we did our down-and-dirty best to make this room livable again. Are you ready?! It's not pretty!

This room was used as a bedroom before. It actually doesn't even have a door. It also looks more like a sunroom or a closed balcony and is pretty narrow. It has a window on the left side that leads to the living room and two different sized windows on the right side. The pictures were taken when the old tenants still lived there.

Continue reading to see more of this dining room makeover!

Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member daisy doodle from the Su Casa group:

We recently bought a bank-owned condo that needed some work to make it feel like home. Here is the before, during, and after. We painted, put in new floors (carpet in the bedrooms and Pergo to replace the stained carpet in the living areas), and completely gutted and replaced an old bathroom. I hope all the interior designers/decorators out there approve.Continue reading to see more before and after photos!

Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member Angie Ohman from the Su Casa group:

We recently remodeled our master bedroom/bathroom. (Actually, we're remodeling the whole house, but this is finished!) I wish I had before photos. You wouldn't believe it. This bathroom used to be a very small green-tiled room from the 1950s! You know, the ones that look like a closet (toilet and bath in line with each other and a shower in the tub.) I don't know how my boyfriend got all this space; it's such a tiny house. He busted out two linen closets and my bedroom closet, and built on five feet. Quite the undertaking! Oh yeah, he also raised the ceiling in the middle.

I know it's a bit dark, but I think it makes it feel like a spa!! It's hard to tell the color of tiles: they're an earthy, brownish gray. Hard to describe. It also has slate tile and floor. Not sure if you can tell from this photo, but there is a sunken Jacuzzi tub with a bridge across it leading to the outside. That glass wall completely opens! Also, to the left of the tub is a glass-enclosed shower/steam room with benches.

Continue to see more photos, and hear more details!

Here's a post from OnSugar blog House of Anais:

What do you think about this transformation of a Swedish house? From drab to fab, I would say!

This house was before a mustard-colored box with no defined floors in its façade and tiny windows. The after state gives a promise of country romance with its larger paned windows and that grand entrance with double doors and mansion-like columns. There are also those lovely side additions of covered porches on both sides. I would declare this transformation as a total success!

Want to see more? Start following House of Anais or start your own OnSugar blog! Maybe your posts will be featured here, too!

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Last week, I gave you a preview of Rust-Oleum's new Cabinet Transformations, an easy, affordable product which beautifully and durably refinishes cabinetry and furniture. I tested it out myself on a recent trip to New Orleans, and I'm convinced it's the greatest thing since sliced bread for those who are looking to affordably update kitchens. But where there are avocado-colored kitchen cabinet doors to update, there's usually ugly laminate countertops to boot. So Rust-Oleum has also introduced Countertop Transformations, an equally simple and inexpensive way to transform your worn, damaged, or, more likely, dated countertops.

Considering that the average age of the American home is 35 years, there's about 1.4 billion sq. ft. of laminate in the country. Unfortunately, laminate isn't quite à la mode. In a survey, Rust-Oleum found that granite (followed by quartz) is the countertop material most coveted by Americans. So they created a DIY-friendly product to help homeowners get the look of natural stone for only $250. It's really fascinating how this product works, so read on to hear more about it.

Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member ella1978 from the Su Casa group:

We are nowhere near working on our kitchen, but it is definitely time to do our homework for the project. The planner in me says so! One of the major renovation components and expenses is refinishing the kitchen cabinets. On our blog, I take a step-by-step look at how to properly refinish our cabinets. Here is a quick outline of the steps.

1. Empty all of your cabinets.
2. Remove all the doors.
3. Remove all hardware.
4. Clean cabinet doors and frame.
5. Sand cabinet doors and frame. Continue reading for the rest of the steps!
6. Add holes for new hardware.
7. Fill in dents and nicks.
8. Prime doors and frame.
9. Apply the first finish coat.
10. Add the second/final finish coat.
11. Reinstall.

Check out our blog post to get a step-by-step explanation of each step. We'll update the blog whenever we are able to get the funds to undertake the project! Until then, I hope that this inspires someone else to make over their cabinets!

Have you done any home renovation projects lately? Share your photos and tales in the Su Casa group!