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What if you could use your desktop space as a container garden? After all, the presence of plants in the home is known to offer good health benefits. Here's how to upcycle a reclaimed drawer unit into a DIY planter.

Can't swing a renovation? This budget-friendly home improvement will freshen up your space.  

To mimic icy branches, we used acrylic tubing and wintry blue beads.

These slide-in dividers — pretty as they are practical — help to neatly store your everyday items. They can be made to fit virtually any size of container. And when lined in soft lace-trimmed fabric, they cushion fragile pieces and prevent snags on accessories such as socks, linens, and undergarments.

Learn about your options before starting your renovation.

Never fumble for a mug again.

Here are three quick ways to rack up compliments in class (or in the conference room) this fall: Embellish basic fabric accessories with an appliqué trim in fresh colors.

Putting everything in its own place will make your mornings smoother.

Go glitzy instead of ghoulish this Halloween. We spritzed this black pumpkin with a coat of shimmery spray paint, then gave it a glittered top with silver accents: sequins, rhinestones, and crystals. In a word? Glamorous.

Spruce up doorways and flat-stock baseboard with oversize embellishments. Spacing out the upholstery nails makes the most of the contrast with the pale wall. Their oil-rubbed bronze finish also echoes the color of the trays on the wall and the early American–inspired light fixture in the adjacent room, smoothing the transition from one space to the next.