1. Revive Your Rooms With Paint

While you don't need to be a star to figure out how to paint like one, there is something else to a decent paint work besides slathering some variety on the divider. See our how to guidelines to cover your dividers masterfully in one end of the week, from the main scratch of the post sander to the last plume of the brush.

2. Add Crown Molding the Easy Way

Crown forming comes to the highest point of most rebuilding records since it increases the value of a home, not on the grounds that individuals appreciate spending a Saturday try­ing to get the corners perfectly. Fortunately, there's a straightforward method for beating miter-saw dissatisfaction.

3. Introduce a Low-Cost Stair Runner

Need to get a decent hold on tricky steps? Attempt a DIY sprinter. Subsequent to getting a statement of $2,500 to cover her hazardously smooth oak flight of stairs, TOH peruser Jaime Shackford assumed control over the venture. Utilizing only two off-the-rack woven sprinters ($125 each) and supplies from a home community, she gave her steps a non-slip overhaul.

4. Introduce a Dishwasher to Conserve Water

That old dishwasher could be unleashing ruin on your electric and water bills. Time to change it out for another Energy Star-qualified dishwasher, which can save you more than $30 a year on power and very nearly 500 gallons of water. In the event that you don't have a dishwasher by any stretch of the imagination, you're utilizing 40% more water washing the hard way!

The greatest expense saver of all? You can introduce a dishwasher yourself in an evening. No handyman, no electrical technician — and no concerns that you're wasting your retirement cash on a heap of clean dishes.

5. Overhaul a Vintage Entry Lantern

Many draping lamps from the main portion of the twentieth century were modest by configuration, looking as though they'd been made by metal forgers as opposed to machines.

Promoted by tastemakers of the time, for example, Gustav Stickley and the Roycroft crafters, these provincial lamps exemplified a straightforward plan reasonableness. On the off chance that you've scored one such find at a yard deal or have one reserved in the loft, you can welcome visitors to "enter" by returning to support a one of a kind light. It's a simple, reasonable occupation once you get the parts.

6. Recharge Old Flooring With Paint

The burgundy red floor in the main room of Sara and Andrew's Massachusetts farmhouse didn't fit the new and vivacious character of the love birds. Be that as it may, revamping wasn't a choice on a restricted spending plan. So to refresh the space, they painted the floor in a light really taken a look at design, utilizing beige and white to heat up their cool blue dividers.

Here we show how a little estimating and two or three layers of solid floor paint can add a ton of character to a space at a little cost.

7. Make Shade and Add Privacy With Interior Shutters

Daylight spilling through windows can be an irritating interruption. Also the neighbors who have additional night hours to investigate your splendidly lit parlor. You could introduce shades to thwart meddlesome eyes, however swinging wood screens would be more lovely.

Inside shades were the first "window medicines," ordinarily utilized in Southern and metropolitan ho