HerFixitUpLife
Theresa Clement, MyFixitUpLife Designer, is an artist, upcycler, certified color expert, Certified Aging-in-Place specialist, and yoga devotee.
The practical wisdom of integrity, patience, and diligence is consistent in everything we’ve seen him touch or say.
“Just because the frame of a house will eventually be almost entirely obscured by siding, roofing, and finished interior surfaces doesn’t mean that I’m indifferent to how beautifully made it is.”
“Why live in a drab world, when you can fill your room with the colors of a summer garden?” -Dorothy Draper
Saturated hues and bold statements are eye-catching online and in-person. It’s not a personal interior design choice for the faint of heart. It takes confidence and a love of high-energy style to select an oversized floral wallpaper with a dark background.
“The reason that an old building is interesting is because it has evolved over time. You got the different layers from the different periods. There is a danger here that if you take out all of the later stuff that you don’t like you’re going to be sort of falsifying history,” says Marianne Suhr during one episode.
Falling in love with a chandelier that goes with a design mojo can make it harder to move on when the chandelier doesn’t quite meet the practical requirements of the space. It’s important to think about the practical requirements first, so that you don’t fall in love with a fixture that won’t work.
Color analysts look at what you are wearing, buying, pinning, sharing, posting, and saying about those colors. When color experts get together to talk about color trends, we aren’t talking about selling anything. We talk about what’s happening in politics, environment, science, and the general mood of the country and the world. And colors are a physical representation of feelings.
While I’ve loved our house numbers, I have never been quite satisfied with the lack-of-background to make the numbers pop against the yellow house paint. So I decided to make a little flower box to display the house numbers.
If you need to remove rust from metal, I have two ways to easily get rid of it.
A little cabinet from Habitat for Humanity ReStore can have a new life as wall art. A little bit of paint, a few tools, and a shopping trip to Habitat for Humanity ReStore can be a magical combination for a creative DIY soul. The variety of items and the endless opportunities to create new uses for those unique treasures makes my heart happy.
When we moved into this home, the armchair was already here. It was the previous owner’s armchair, and her family had lived in the home since it was built in 1903. The armchair has a long history in this home.
I selected a material mix based on cat claw repellent nailhead trim plus claw-loving natural colored twine. And this time I chose a darker stain for the wood.
I love shopping Habitat ReStore for so many reasons.
The first is the amazing and unique finds, from vintage pieces to trendy new items from well-known stores.
The second reason is that the items are donated, so the money I spend goes to helping build homes for others. So I get a more awesome home, and so does someone else!
I shared this upcycle with Habitat for Humanity, and they shared it on the Habitat ReStore blog. I hope you’ll click below and be as inspired to shop, repurpose and make stuff as we are.
