Do you have a room in your house that is full of mismatched furniture?  Our guest room has been a room of hand-me-down furniture.  It’s all in great condition but between the wood tones on the floor, the dressers, and the headboard, it was too much variation for me!  We have matching twin beds to the dressers so we don’t want to paint over them.  And the floor isn’t going to change anytime soon, so updating the headboard was the next best thing!  Here is how I made a DIY headboard slipcover.

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I love when the opportunity comes up to make something that I can’t find in stores.  This is exactly what happened when I decided I wanted an ottoman for a reading nook in my office.  I had an old chair that rocked and swiveled and didn’t look like a nursery chair.  But it’s old, like 30+ years old, and that made it short.  Any cute ottoman found at Target or Home Goods would have my knees higher than my chest and that just seemed a tad uncomfortable.  I’ve always looked longingly at the different furniture legs at Home Depot and I knew just the project I’d use them for; my own DIY ottoman.

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