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Wallpaper Headboard Photo: WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ
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Wallpaper Headboard

Buy all the fancy linens you want, but nothing completes your boudoir like a headboard. The store-bought kind can be expensive and bulky, so try this shortcut.

Headboard How-To
Concealed Office Photo: ERIC PIASECKI
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Concealed Office

This wallpapered sliding door cleverly hides a shelving unit fit with a home office. When not in use, the door is a beautiful, colorful accent to any room.

Office Door How-To
Covered Closet
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Covered Closet

Vintage wallpaper is ideal for enhancing household nooks that are frequently overlooked, such as a closet.

Closet How-To
Custom Clock
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Custom Clock

Making your own clock requires little more than an inexpensive frame and a simple motor. To personalize your clock, cover the front with decorative paper, a color photocopy of a favorite wallpaper pattern, or fabric

Clock How-To
Papered Switch Plates
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Papered Switch Plates

Sometimes a switch plate is best when painted to blend with a wall. And sometimes a room gets a lift if you make one stand out: Cover with extra-wide ribbon, wallpaper, sheet music, or map of a favorite place.

Switch Plate How-To
Tray Protector
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Tray Protector

Simple mats cut from wallpaper remnants or sheets of decorative paper work magic on serving trays

Tray Cover How-To
Wallpaper Sconces Photo: WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ
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Wallpaper Sconces

Steal a cool, modern motif from a piece of wallpaper and cut it out to make easy backing plates for your sconces.

Sconce How-To
Wallpapered Door Photo: WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ
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Wallpapered Door

Liven up a door's wooden personality with colorful insets. If you have commitment fears when it comes to bold patterns, this is a fun way to give one a try.

Door Inset How-To
Photo: WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ
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Craft of the Day
Photo: WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ
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Organizing Tip of the Day
Photo: WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ
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Decorating by Room
Photo: WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ
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Scrapbooking Ideas
Photo: WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ
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Color Combinations
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esthersadowsky

30 Jul, 2009
Great ideas! As an Interior Designer, I often have leftover pieces of wallpaper, trims and fabrics and I make room accessories from them. It adds that unique, custom touch to the room and you have spent a cent.

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