DIY Project: Hanging Copper Chandelier By: Grace Bonney

I love decorating for the holidays and always find myself exploring Pinterest for hours to get ideas. I happened upon an image of a gorgeous copper chandelier that felt like the perfect thing to light up a low-key holiday table. Inspired, I decided to figure out how to build it myself using supplies from my local hardware store, and the end result will last well beyond the holidays. To give this a little extra holiday flair, I cut a few short pieces of greenery and wired them to the base of the pipes. Simply remove the greens after the holiday to keep this look year-round. Ready to make one of your own? Keep reading for my step-by step guide, or to see this project take shape in real time, check out the how-to video on the One Kings Lane Style Blog! —Megan

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White and black crochet chairs By: Maria Corcuera Atienza, from Creativipy.com

Materials: Roger chair and Lenda white fabric

We have updated some old Roger chairs from ikea.

We changed the fabric. We choosed Lenda white fabric from Ikea.

We painted the chairs in white colour.

We gave them a simple, modern twist with thick black crochet.

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The Importance of Customer Holiday Greetings By: Caitlin Kelch

The holiday season is right round the corner and while you may be dealing with mundane details like turkeys and last minute travel arrangements, it’s important to take 30 minutes to review those amazing moments and clients you’ve collaborated with over the past year. Not only is this a generally pleasant experience, but it also gives you a free-form way to visualize the types of work and relationships you want to focus your energy on in the coming new year.

A really wonderful and thoughtful way to reach out to those valuable customers and clients you’ve worked with is to create a holiday greeting that goes above and beyond the typical professional holiday card and chocolate bar with your logo on it. Taking the opportunity to create a “year-in-review” greeting that reminds your clients of all of the great collaborations you’ve done over the last 12 months is not only thoughtful, it’s just plain smart.

Image above: The cover of my client holiday + project review Booklette™ by Minted

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This post was created in collaboration with Minted. We’re so happy to discover their Booklette™!

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Hemnes built-in shoe cabinet for entryway By: Donna

Material: Hemnes shoe cabinet 601.561.21

We expanded our bathroom by stealing space from our foyer coat closet. What is pictured is the place where the foyer closet used to be. You can see the trim outlining the old closet. We had just enough depth for a Hemnes shoe cabinet so we could store shoes by the door.

The top of the Hemnes was removed and replaced with a curved shelf made of paint-grade wood.

The legs were trimmed a bit.

Wood panels were used to fill in the sides and bottom around the edges, since the old closet opening (about 48″) was larger than the Hemnes (about 42″).

The pulls were replaced with vintage pulls purchased on ebay.

Quarter-round molding was used where the piece meets the floor.

The entire piece was sanded and painted to match the walls.

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Thanksgiving DIY Projects: Sun-Print Place Cards By: Grace Bonney

One of the greatest joys of living on the east coast is experiencing the changing seasons. While I love and miss my home state of California, there’s nothing quite like the explosion of colors autumn brings. It seems almost ceremonial to walk through canopies of yellow-, orange- and red-topped trees and kick up crunchy leaves. The other day while walking through the city, yellow leaves were raining down on me for blocks. It felt otherworldly and wonderful.

This Thanksgiving, I want to bring that feeling indoors and to my table, while adding another striking complementary color, Prussian blue. Using a sunprint paper, much like the 19th century cyanotype, we’ll make place cards that are miniature works of art and also gifts for your guests to enjoy throughout the year. -Jessica Marquez

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Let there be Light! (Backlit Photo-Frame) By: Zickenfluesterer

Materials: BAS-Collectors-Box (13×18), Nyttja Photo-frame (13×18), or Ribba-frame, Sardal-Led-Chain (24 elements)

Get some plywood and cut it to fit into the box.

Drill holes (8mm) into the piece of plywood, as many as your LED-chain has. For my box I had a 24-light-chain.

Put the leds into the holes.

Drill a hole into the back of the BAS-box (14mm) and put the cable with the small plug through it.

Press the plywood as far as possible down to the bottom of the box. To keep it in place, fix it with some small screws at the sides of the box.

Reattach the screen of the box.

Disassemble the Nyttja-frame and pull out those little pieces of metal, that keep the back in place. The card back and the pieces of paper, that come with it, are not used here.

Lay it down, face down and put in the glass again. Put on it a photo of appropriate size or a sheet of printer-paper with some text or graphic on. I took a print on an overhead-projector-foil (Hewlett-Packard InkJet Transparency Film, HP3835A) with some piece of printer-paper behind it do get a diffuse light.

Put the box onto the frame, screen down.

Fix the frame to the box with picture-hangers, so it can be opened without tools.

Hang it to the wall, place it on a desk, put the plug into the wall: Let there be Light!

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