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Use color to make working from home more productive
More casual than most home office fantasies, the chalk board is practical. I can't say how many times my son has walked off with my note paper and pen.

Your home office should reflect the kind of work you do, and what colors and materials inspire you in your work.

Make this DIY desk organizer. It’s a great gift idea or home improvement
diy desk organizer

Within 3-minutes of having my DIY desk organizer on my desk—admittedly an archeological dig of notebooks, 24,000 receipts, bills to pay and cords all over…

New! Write on your countertop, walls, and more with Formica’s new Writable Surfaces collection

One of my favorite new home products is the Formica Writable Surfaces collection. Yes, whiteboards and chalkboards have been popular for a long time in…

How to: Make a barn door or ‘hidden door’?
how to make a barn door

Kevin saw MyFixitUpLife’s Facebook post showing a bookcase hidden door and, question: I have my DIY head wrapped around how to make a barn door….

FixitUp Find: Formica Corporation’s Steel, Fabric, & Wood Looks
Formica Graphite Twill

  We love using unexpected materials and textures in our designs. We love being on-trend—and trend-setting—and depend on materials that keep pace. For on-trend surfaces,…

Powered-Up Solution: Leviton’s USB/Receptacle
Leviton-USB-Receptacle

  Full disclosure: Our kitchen counter, office desks, and several outlets NOT behind a couch are a tangle of charger cords and transformer cubes. Kind…

Formica Corporation Designs: Zelig-Style
Formica Anniversary Collection

Zelig? ZELIG!! Zelig is a character able to be completely at home in any setting, any place. It’s a primo one-worder for Formica and it’s…

How do I vent my roof?

Hi guys, I enjoy the show and wish my old American Four Square’s projects moved along as rapidly as yours. I’d like to insulate my…

Theresa’s blog: MyFixItUpLife…Motherhood & Work

Today I’m juggling my home improvement photography job–shooting my favorite carpenter demoing our front porch–with my mom jobs of taking care of the kids and…

The Attic: Could there be more angles to deal with?

Our home’s attic has functioned as an underused, disorganized storage-only treasure-in-the-very-rough for its first 100 years. We’re taking the attic into the 21st century as…