“My happy place is in between recreating, updating, styling and DIY’ing”. – Tami Kraus
DIY bathroom update on a dime. The key word is update. To accomplish any DIY update on a dime it is important to understand you are updating not renovating. Renovating includes construction, and construction is expensive. For any home DIY update on a dime focus on small but significant changes to update a space. Stay …
After I’m finished packing away all the Christmas decor throughout the house I feel the house is almost “naked”. My favorite DIY home decorations are always the tablescapes. It’s too early to put up a Spring tablescape. Therefore, I decided to throw together a Valentine’s Day tablescape. My goal (always) is to not spend a …
For the past 15 days I’ve posted on my Instagram story (@tamiinbetween) one item every day of my favorite things I have, use and love. Great gift ideas and all items cost less than $15. Here, I have put together the entire list with details about each one. The list may provide some insight on …
I love to decorate, redecorate, organize and re-organize our home. Since I’m constantly tinkering and looking for ways to improve a space I don’t want to spend a lot of time or money on updating. I have four kids, a job, a website/blog and currently in the throws of holiday decorating and Christmas shopping. That …
The most recent DIY Weekend Room Redo was in the master bedroom. The main goal of this weekend redo was to lighten up the space. I only updated two things in the room. An accent wall and the fan light fixture. Those two updates made a big impact in the room to make it feel …
It’s easy to get overwhelmed around the holiday season. There’s shopping, cooking, cleaning, decorating, gathering and more shopping. You’re gonna shop cuz people need their stuff. You’re gonna cook, cuz people need to eat and you’re gonna clean cuz you’re not a slob. So don’t let your decorating be sacrificed for your other priorities this …
A couple weeks ago I updated my home office in a DIY weekend room redo on a dime (see post about it here and how I did it all for under $200!) My goal for the room was to lighten it up, make it feel bigger and have it be more functional of a space …
I’m constantly changing the way a room looks in my house. Whether it be as simple as moving furniture around or as elaborate as full on construction. I go from room to room and once I’ve made a full circuit I start back over again. Do other people do this? Do you also constantly want …
I’m always looking for ways to refresh and energize a space without having to purchase new furniture and decor which can be expensive. One way to do this that satisfies my persistent room tinkering is decorating using rugs or rug decorating. While I still fiddle with moving around furniture from room to room and will …
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With a blended family and four kids growing up in our house finding a space without 2-8 eyes constantly upon us was challenging. When the kids were young I created the “stop and hold at the threshold” rule. From the kids childhood to teen years they knew that once they hit the master bedroom threshold, …