Updating your old kitchen? Heaven help you. As if the cost of new, era-appropriate flooring weren’t enough to completely floor you, six weeks’ worth of takeout will surely send your remaining savings swirling down your shiny, newly updated drain. Here are a few strategies to get you through (from someone who has so been there): Spice of life Above all, remember: There is no one answer to the kitchenless conundrum. I’m offering several strategies here ...

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Next in our series on creative new uses for old-house items and materials, I'm tackling my personal favorite among the piles of discards in the architectural salvage yard: windows. Wallpaper frame When I saw this in Apartment Therapy I just couldn't wait to tell y'all about it. Monica Ewing at Craftynest--a crafter, Web designer, and former designer for O and Real Simple--turned an old window into a great little piece of wall ...

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Every weekend, Better Half and I take a break from fixer upping to haunt our friendly neighborhood architectural salvage yard. I especially love to linger around the various piles of woodwork remnants. Ever since I painstakingly rehabbed every last stick of wood on our entire second floor two summers ago, I’ve been pretty protective of the stuff—can't stand to see all that beautiful old craftsmanship lying around, en masse, unused, ...

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