A woman painting a wooden drawer light blue with a thick paint brush outdoors - Melinda Nagy/Shutterstock Giving IKEA furniture a fresh coat of paint sounds easy enough, but the many failed DIY ...

If you live for a good DIY, you'll find that IKEA is a haven of untapped potential. Much of their furniture is strong and high-quality while remaining inexpensive and relatively simple in design.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The size is perfect for my home, but I was growing to dislike the unnatural brown color and painted-on “wood.” Credit: Ciara Benko ...

This is part of a regular series in which I attempt (operative word) D.I.Y. projects and bring you, dear reader, the results. The good. The bad. And the hideous. I’ll offer step-by-step instructions ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to the Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at www.thebrownstoneboys.com. In honor ...