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Do You Have Open Shelving?
Americans are too attached to their kitchen cupboards. It's as if they'd never considered storage other than upper cabinets. Open shelving can actually make a kitchen feel open, relieving the tight, cramped feeling that many kitchens have, in addition to leaving space to display artwork and other decorative elements.
Six Makeshift Pantry Meals
You know the scenario: You arrive home late, need to put a meal on the table, and haven't gone grocery shopping. Rather than going out to eat an expensive dinner, stay home and whip up a last-minute meal from the ingredients right out of your cupboard! Here are six of our favorites.
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Before and After: A Traditional Swedish Clock Gets an Update
Su Casa member dezignerwannabe recently decided to update her traditional Swedish Mora clock. In case you didn't know, these Scandinavian floor clocks were created near the town of Mora, Sweden, around 1750, after bad farming seasons forced the Mora farmers to find another way to earn income. Many of the clocks were decorated with painted faces, but now, hardly any of the original artwork remains on the clocks, and most have been painted over with inferior, rosemaling-type designs.
Healthy To-Do: Toss Expired Food From Your Cupboards
Now that Spring is on its way, I'm sure you'll be enjoying all the fresh fruits and veggies in the produce section, which means you'll be eating less wintry foods. So this weekend, take some time to go through your cupboards and pantry to check the expiration dates on cans of soup, veggies, beans, and other items. It's not healthy to eat food that is past its prime, and you can make room for new food once you ditch the old stuff.
How-To: Go Subtle With Lavender
Earlier today, I showed you how to decorate with lavender walls. If you're not ready to make the commitment to that much lavender, though, you can always work with accents. Try using textiles in a lavender shade.
Before and After: A Change in Chelsea
Camila of High-Heeled Foot in the Door is at it again! This time the DIY expert and interior designer conquered her young sister's apartment in Chelsea, NYC, which is shared with two roommates. Communal living spaces often pose a problem, as each roommate has her own tastes, and recent grads often can't afford to be spending their hard-earned mula on décor.
Before and After: Lauren's Retro-Modern Kitchen
Craftster member Lauren is an amazing crafter, but she's been taking a hiatus from personal craft projects to work on a much bigger one: making over her new house.
Lauren writes, "We bought our house in mid-August and have been going to town on every inch of it. It is a 1931 cottage style 1 1/2 story house that we fell in love with on the very first round of showings.
How-To: Create a Craft Corner
A good friend of mine just sent me photos of her new house in Los Angeles, and I was excited to see that she made room for a craft corner. My pal loves to craft and sew, and now she has an established space for her handiwork (which is more than I can say for my own house).
There are many advantages to maintaining a permanent space for your crafting or sewing hobby.
Website of the Day: Not Beans Again
It could be the change in seasons that's making me want to hibernate and eat a little bit more, but I love today's website offering for its ability to spit out a recipe based on what I have in my cupboards, no additional shopping required.
Similar to another recipe finder I featured, Not Beans Again gives you a list of recipes based on your ingredient entries, but the biggest difference is that Not Beans Again includes user uploaded recipes too.
So really, it's a toss-up whether your food will be slammin' or not so great.
A Google For Recipes: Recipe Bridge
Don't ask me how it happened, but I have some weird and random food ingredients in my kitchen. Take the can of chickpeas that have been sitting in my cupboard for two weeks — after the urge for hummus subsided, they were left to sit and wait until I could figure out some other way to use them.
No need to wait any longer, little chickpeas, I've found Recipe Bridge.
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