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Buy vs. DIY: Upholstered Headboards

Posted by: thehomesnob on: October 27, 2008

Sometimes DIY doesn’t pay.  The Home Snob learned this the hard way a few years back, when she attempted to make her own upholstered headboard.
She succeeded, alright, but she couldn’t open or close her hand for a week and now shivers at the sight of a manual staple gun.
She had been trying to save money, [...]

She rested her head in a canopy bed.

Posted by: thehomesnob on: October 22, 2008

Last week’s visit to the Molly Brown House Museum turned the Home Snob’s mind to canopy beds.  There’s a striking one in Mrs. Brown’s house, in her daughter’s bedroom, known as “Helen’s Room.”  It’s not the bed, per se, that’s striking, but the canopy.  Its “ceiling” is made of cloth that’s gathered into a central [...]