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12 DIY Home Improvement Project Ideas {The DIY Housewives Series}

June 1, 2016 By Erin Spain 10 Comments

Check out these 12 DIY Home Improvement Project Ideas from the DIY Housewives Series! These ideas are sure to inspire you!

Once a month, I get together with a group of blog friends and we each share a project that fits with a specific theme. This month’s theme was a bit of a wild card, so we are sharing 12 DIY Home Improvement Project Ideas! I had a tough time narrowing down which project I wanted to share for this month’s series, but ultimately it came down to one of my most popular posts to date, and one of the most inexpensive but high impact projects we’ve done in our home so far. I shared a tutorial for how to whitewash a brick fireplace, which I did shortly after moving into our home 2 1/2 years ago, and it is still one of my favorite projects I’ve done in our house.

Here is what it looked like before:

Family Room "Before"

And here it is now:

Family Room with Whitewashed Brick Fireplace

How to Whitewash a Brick Fireplace

Be sure to check out the other bloggers’ projects below!

The DIY Housewives Series: Kitchen Edition
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia  Southern State of Mind  CiburbanityHeathered Nest  Erin Spain  Domestically Speaking

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Redhead Can Decorate  Refresh Restyle  Debbie DoosThe DIY Village  Life on Virginia Street  Designer Trapped in a Lawyer’s Body

Check out all of the participating bloggers’ projects here:
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Filed Under: DIY, Home & DIY Blog, Home Improvement Tagged With: DIY Housewives, The DIY Housewives

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Comments

  1. Karren Haller says

    June 1, 2016 at 9:43 am

    I love the way the fireplace turned out, and what you did with the shelves, that looks really neat!!

    Would love to have you stop by and share on my #OMHGWW this week, would make a great share!!

    Reply
    • Erin Spain says

      June 1, 2016 at 10:33 pm

      Thanks so much, Karren!

      Reply
  2. Maryann @ Domestically Speaking says

    June 1, 2016 at 1:37 pm

    What a transformation!

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    • Erin Spain says

      June 1, 2016 at 10:33 pm

      Thank you, Maryann!

      Reply
  3. kristin says

    June 1, 2016 at 9:04 pm

    I really love the brick painted especially with the mantel keeping with the wood, it gives it a great pop!

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    • Erin Spain says

      June 1, 2016 at 10:33 pm

      Thank you, Kristin!

      Reply
  4. Debbie says

    June 1, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    Erin, your fireplace looks amazing! Beautiful transformation!

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    • Erin Spain says

      June 1, 2016 at 10:33 pm

      Thanks so much, Debbie!

      Reply
  5. John Wellington says

    August 25, 2016 at 9:34 pm

    Erin, Thanks for sharing this post and the pics. The fireplace looks amazing. I am planning on doing this to one of my rent houses this weekend, and wasn’t quite sure how to do it. I clicked over to your article showing how to do this, and your instructions are amazing.

    One quick question, what did you do in the book shelves..is that wooden pickets in the background? If so did you attach them to the wall with nails, or glue? I think it makes the books shelves look amazing in the pics.

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    • Erin Spain says

      August 25, 2016 at 9:38 pm

      Thanks so much John! It’s actually “Woods” wallpaper from Anthropologie. I attached it with thumb tacks so it would be easily removable later.

      Reply

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