Custom Closet Designs: 7 Details to Consider
Continue ReadingCustom closet design isn’t for the faint of heart. It takes time to itemize your belongings and create an efficient and organized wardrobe. The best approach is to assess your storage needs before meeting with your designer. Here are seven guidelines to follow if you’re lucky enough to be piecing together a new dream closet.
9 Gift Ideas for New Homeowners on Your Holiday List
Continue ReadingBuying a home is a big deal, whether it’s your first one or your fifth. There are so many things to buy, clean, paint, remodel, and more. If you have new homeowners on your holiday list, you might be thinking of ideas of ways to give them what they actually might need.
Winterizing Your Home to Save Money On Your Energy Bill
Continue ReadingThe first freeze over here is a sign that winter is definitely coming. ‘Tis now the season to crank up your thermostat. Unfortunately, this might even cost you more than normal. This year, Americans will supposedly pay 15% more for their heating expenses than the last year. Here is our guide to help you winterize your home for the season.
The Best Holiday Recipes for Thanksgiving or Christmas
Continue ReadingLooking for the best holiday recipes? You’ll find all the ingredients and directions you need below to make the perfect Holiday Meal. If you need some help, there are some videos you can watch as well. Let us know if you’ve got a great holiday recipe that we need to add! At LystHouse, your home is our passion.
Tips for Selling Your Home During the Holidays
Continue ReadingIt is snowing outside, temperatures are dropping, the neighborhood is in a joyous mood— and you are Googling tops tips for selling your home during the holidays.
It is the time of year when calendars are crammed with holiday parties, gift-giving constrains budgets and the roads are either littered with fall foliage or freshly fallen snow. Alas, it is not the best season for selling your home. Nevertheless, the heartening news is that the few gallant house-hunters who do look out are serious about purchasing a house, and an attractive piece of real estate will make them want to embrace the Thanksgiving, Christmas, or the New Year holiday in your home.
Home Remodeling – DIY or Hire a Pro?
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to investments, it’s hard to find something as important as your house. It’s likely your biggest investment, but it’s also the one where you live and spend so much of your time. Keeping your home in good condition carries many benefits.
That means remodeling and renovating your Dallas home can provide benefits to you and your family. However, this is a major undertaking that could backfire if you’re not careful. (Consider what a failed remodeling project to your kitchen will cost to repair.) In addition, you have to decide whether to do it yourself or hire professionals instead. Which is best? It depends on you and the project you’re tackling.
The Best DIY Halloween Decorating Ideas
Continue ReadingIt is finally here – Halloween is almost upon us, my dear spooky friends!
Whether you catch the DIY Halloween bug from designing homemade costumes for your children, putting together funky home decor pumpkins, or getting crafty for the first time, the following Halloween decorating ideas make it simple to inexpensively trick out your house for the holidays without looking tacky.
Boo Bottles
You can make cute glass bottles in four easy steps: first, use empty bottles after removing labels and caps (I use Perrier ones). After that, spray-paint them white, and draw ghost faces on them with black marker. Lastly, to add more gloss to this inexpensive Halloween home decor, throw in colorful straws for artful centerpieces.
What you will need: Spray-paint ($4), colorful straws ($3)
Cobweb Coasters
Cups will look creepy when sitting on your eerie cobweb coasters. To make this DIY Halloween decoration, attach five bobby pins onto a small flat metal washer, and then, enfold twine around and string through each bobby pin. Also, spray-paint everything white for a ghoulish look, and disperse small toy spiders around the table. It is a fantastic idea to have fun crafting with the family without breaking the bank.
What you will need: bobby pins ($4), Spray-paint ($4), small Halloween spiders ($2 for 10)
Vampire Napkin Rings
A make-believe chomper will make your dining table look scary yet cute. Therefore, splash red Kool-Aid on white cloth napkins, arrange a white twist tie through a set of fake vampire teeth, and secure a twist tie around the center of the napkin.
What you will need: plastic vampire teeth ($1), Kool-Aid ($0.50)
Creepy Wall Hangings
The Graphics Fairy makes decorating for Halloween simple with three free printable items and easy technique to transfer images directly onto fabric through your regular printer. (Make sure your black cartridge is high on ink). You can use wooden embroidery hoops to hang the printed fabric. However, if fabric-hanging home decorating idea does not resonate with you, put pictures into the frames and hang them up around your home.
What you will need: Wooden embroidery hoops ($2)
Decorate Lanterns
It is got to be the most straightforward DIY Halloween home decor concept: all you need to do is to cut cute faces out of a black paper and glue them onto a strand of white lights with paper lanterns.
What you will need: lanterns ($11), black paper ($3)
Festoon a Pumpkin
You can add a touch of sweet in the mirage of all things spooky by adding freshly cut blooms to a blazing pink squash. It is permissible to snip stems about two inches from buds, drill tiny holes in the painted rind, and stick in the buds. You can keep the centerpiece fresh for the guests by periodically spraying water on it.
What you will need: pink spray paint ($8)
Dish Out the Punch
Convert a hollowed-out pumpkin into an organic punch bowl by filling it with cider. It is a fantastic idea to greet your guests with a punch, oozing with the spirit of the holidays. Moreover, it is one less dish to wash after it is all said and done.
What you will need: ladle ($10), pumpkin scoop ($10)
Dress the Windows
Another smashing Halloween home decor idea is smartly putting candles in the corners to create dark shadows. Moreover, putting ghostly white tapers in a candelabra from a yard sale can alleviate the creepiness of flying bats and cobwebs.
What you will need: candelabra ($40), candles ($10 for a pack of 10)
Forever Pumpkins
For budgeted jack-o-lantern, DIY Halloween decorations that will last past the holidays cover empty jars with orange tissue paper or construction paper. After that add features with black construction paper and place in a tea candle—with flames, or battery-operated—and see your pumpkin glow.
What you will need: Construction paper ($4), tealight candles ($1)
Bloody Table Runner
No Halloween home decor is complete without a bloodily festive dining table. Your materials are red acrylic paint, gauze, and a paintbrush. Swab your paintbrush into the paint and intermittently brush along the gauze runner. Also, for a genuinely Dexter-inspired look, pinch some red paint onto Mason jars for candle votives and on plastic cups. Lastly, add a couple of handprints for really gruesome look.
What you will need: red acrylic paint ($9), paintbrush ($1)
How to Sell Your Home Fast
Continue ReadingSelling your home fast for the highest price possible is our bread and butter at LystHouse. Here are a few quick tips on how you can make sure your home sells quickly, easily, and for the highest price you can get.