Before - My desk drawer. Functional, but Boring!
After Truly inspiring to me, as I love this color of purple.
Before I open this kitchen drawer every morning. It is drab, drab, drab.
After With orange poster board, it becomes fab, fab, fabulous - making my morning a little bit brighter.
Adding a pop of color here and there in unexpected places is sure to inspire and is good for your psyche.
Gather:
Colorful Poster Board, Scrapbook
Paper, Gift-wrap, or Wallpaper
Measuring Tape
Scissors
Before My medicine cabinet. I open it a few times each day and have missed the opportunity to put a smile upon my face by leaving it plain.
After It looks pretty in pink and makes me smile every time I open it now. Most of us look much better when we are smiling :) Most medicine cabinets have mirrors. Smiles and mirrors go together very nicely.
Before How many times a day do you reach for the remote’sssss?
Are you missing the opportunity to add some c o l o r to your life?
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Great idea! I am most jealous of how neat everything is. Want to come to my house and help me straighten things up???
By the way, I am following you now. I love this idea and want to be reminded to come back to your lovely blog. :)
love it! I love how easily you can change it out and for so cheaply!
Thanks Stefany for the nice comments. I chose the drawers that were the neatest to show the color tip. Most of my drawers are not this neat. In my studioffice – you can’t see the desk in the photo of the drawer – it is piled with papers!!!
I love pops of color, and what an easy thing to change out every once in a while!
What a great idea to line all of those drawers and cabinets!
There are several colors that make me feel happy…..hmmmm…..I’ll go with PINK.
Love what you did, much icer. The color that makes ME happy is PINK, love pink, adore pink, NEED PINK lol.
Hugs
Great tip! I love how the color completely changes the drawers / cabinet.
I’d have to go with light blue as the color that makes me happy… although seeing what you’ve done, I’m going to try a variety! This will come in handy when we move this summer and decorate our new apartment.
What fun and why not!
Love the idea of putting gorgeous scrapbook papers in drawers and cabinets, never thought of that! Oh, and my happy color has always been Turquoise, ever since I used my first “Blue-Green” crayon. I hate that Turq is so “in style” right now, because that means it will soon be “so OUT of style”, lol.
Turquoise makes me hap,hap,happy!!!
I just want my drawers to look like your “before” pictures! That would make me happy!!
~kristin
Simple but a great idea with a big change.
That’s fun, I bet you could use fun patterned contact paper or scrapbook paper too.
You could use wrapping paper to for a cheap way to add patterns.
Yellow makes me happy.
What a totally cute idea! And easy, too, which is the best kind.
My family gave me a “Wii” system for my birthday, and the extras came in these sturdy, compartmentalized ‘trays’ that are a pretty turquoise color. I just couldn’t throw them out. So one of them now sits in our ‘junk/tool’ drawer in the kitchen. It’s so much easier (and pleasant-looking) to open that drawer and find the dark and boring tools in a neat little pastel holder!
Green makes me happy. It is my favorite color and after a long dreary winter I am seeing the green peaking through everywhere!
Yellow makes me happy:) We just moved into a new home and the kitchen is a beautiful yellow… talk about uplifting everyday:)
Yellow makes me smile.
I need to reorganize my kitchen drawers too, maybe I’ll try your little color pop, it’s a nice touch.
I just love, love, love this. My life is all about color, it just makes everything happier, doesn’t it?
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He he! The color that most makes me happy is PURPLE!!! :D
I believe that this blog post proves it:
http://the-craft-house.blogspot.com/2009/10/desk-makeover.html
I love the frame, very cute!
Thank you very much for this opportunity! :)
-Jen
Jennifer_Krumm@yahoo.com
Bright PURPLE wildflowers growing alongside the road make me happy!
Love the idea! I sure will need to find a lot of paper now…back in the day we used contact paper, which we could NEVER remove! LOL Thanks for the chance to win such a pretty frame! ~Hugs, Heidi
Purple/lavender for me . . . then there’s green . . . and pink. Love those three together!
great idea to spice up your furniture! btw, violet & mustard yellow are my two favorite colors! :)
I found your blog googling “painted rugs” and was directed to your amazing painted rug (I had to do a triple take to realize it wasn’t a REAL RUG!). Now I will spend the next few hours poring over your other entries. I’m hooked!
I am now a follower and my favorite cheerful colour is orange – invigorating, playful and a little citrusy :)
pink does it for me… love how it is springy and girly and cheery all at the same time.
very colorful, really are eyecathing, love them very much, great design
What a lovely idea! So simple and yet such a powerful way to make us smile, because little things like that really do make us happy! Thanks!
Wow you love color!! I love color too but normally shy away from anything too daring. I really do love black. Black and white combos make me really happy!! Crazy I know.
BTW- I love how organized everything is in your home and now is not boring at all. Great job!
Thanks for all the “colorful” comments. The comment from Heidi reminded me about contact paper. If you wanted to protect your decorative paper, you could apply clear contact paper over it. this way it could be wiped clean. You can also buy self adhesive vinyl at fabric and craft stores that would protect it too. See you on Monday for Day 5. Enjoy your weekend everybody.
My favorite color is pale Aqua! You know that color of the water in Bermuda or more importantly my little beetle car!!!
Love it!!!
How neat you home is – what a wonderful place to live with. I adore your homes organize.
Deirdre G
I realize that this is kind of an oldish post, but I just love it. Your way of quickly and easily adding color has inspired me to try it in some of my own decorating!
I realize that this is kind of an oldish post, but I just love it. Your way of quickly and easily adding color has inspired me to try it in some of my own decorating!