There was so much information packed into each of our Living As If… project posts, and it occurred to me that going back to find a specific how-to might be more than a little bit challenging! So I thought it would be a good idea to provide the images as a sort of DIY gallery and sneak peak.

• From our post: Deliciously Aromatic Cleaning Products

Recipes for cleaning products that not only do a good job of cleaning, but also are easy, inexpensive, and smell great!

• From our post: Let’s Clean Up Our Act

This wonderful little printable list makes all those overwhelming household chores seem easy by putting it into a schedule that makes sense.

• From our post: Getting Mugged

In this post, we explored how to decorate mugs using sharpie pens. There is a detailed how-to and a bunch of useful tips from people who have tried it.

• From our post: Leave Your Troubles At The Door

This post is all about leaving your troubles at the door, and one of the things we learned was how to make a dream catcher with a doily and an embroidery hoop. Super easy… and it looks great!

• From our post: Out Of The Closet

We cleaned out our closets, and then found a boatload of cool ways to upcycle all of our old t-shirts, jeans, sweaters, and yes… even flipflops and crocs. This post is loaded with ideas and how-to’s.

• From our post: Back In The Closet

This post was all about how to use cardboard to easily and cheaply create sturdy, practical, and usable storage spaces in your home and closet. Lots of great ideas here!

• From our post: Tea and Crumpets

This post features a recipe for crumpets, and a tutorial for making a great pot of tea.

• From our post: Luxuriously Delicious Ideas For The Bath

This post was jam packed with ideas for the bath, recipes, and how-to’s. Among other things, we learned how to make bath bombs and milk baths. There is a bunch more on the post itself.

• From our post: For A Well Organized Kitchen

These are some super cool printable ideas for kitchen organization.

• From our post: Almost A Vacation

In this post, we learned a very easy way to make a super simple hammock. Plus we discovered an amazing recipe for a picnic basket pie!

• From our post: Let’s Go To The Opera

A great recipe for opera cake! Looks super yummy if anyone has the courage to try it!

• From our post: Clean and Clear

A detailed how-to all covering ways to easily clear the energy in your home.

• From our post: Refurbishing The Dining Room

Ranging from making cool embossed tin (or aluminum) ceiling tiles to how to re-cover a dining room chair. The diy projects in this post were all about creating a super cool dining room.

• From our post: Let’s Go Outside

As part of this project we explored outdoor fire pits and also some cool fountain ideas… along with a bunch of other cool and interesting stuff.

• From our post: Letting The Outside In

These are some of the visual tutorials on making cool beaded curtains, and a couple of other things as well. The ones shown here are pretty complete in and of themselves, but there is a step by step tutorial on how to make a beaded curtain in the post.

• From our post: Is it nap time?

This post was all about getting a good night’s sleep, and included a cool LED optical fiber ceiling project. It’s not a step by step how-to, but it does give the basic idea of what’s involved.

• From our post: Come On In and Have A Seat

This post was all about the furniture, covering it up, reupholstering, and also painting it. Here is a collection of the how-to images. I didn’t include them all, just enough to give an idea of what’s involved. For the complete tutorials, you’ll have to visit the post.