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    21 stylish home decorations (you already own)

    By | Work + Money – Fri, Mar 11, 2011 8:20 PM EST

    Create great new uses for things you already own with these easy and fun DIY home projects.


    Reinvent a desk
    With a few style tricks, give an old, scuffed, and tarnished desk a colorful reboot.
    > Get the how-to


    Make a memory box table
    Turn a deep photo frame and similar-sized side table into a venue for celebrating treasured keepsakes.
    > Get the how-to


    Books become art
    Make your literature work for your aesthetic. Try taking the sleeves off hard cover books and arranging the spines by color.
    > Get more ideas for stylish shelving


    Mirrors become headboard
    Arrange small light weight mirrors grid-style for a glamorous regency-style look in the bedroom.
    > Get more ideas for creative headboards


    Turn CD cases into frames
    Castoff CD cases are the perfect size for creating a quilt-like grid collection of landscape photos.


    > Get the how-to


    Wrapping paper becomes placemat
    Often think wrapping paper is too beautiful to recycle? It's easy to turn the prints into placemats (or desk blotters!) with a copy shop laminating machine.
    > Get the how-to


    Plates become wall art
    Celebrate a mismatched but beloved collection by arranging them in an asymmetrical wavelike pattern on a plain white wall.
    > Get tips on decorating with plates

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