80 Home Improvement Projects for Women

Here are 80 home improvement projects that any women can do, even if she's new to home improvement. Just look for the home improvement project of your dreams, then click the hyperlink for step-by-step instructions and pictures. Happy home remodeling!

#1. Fireplace Remodel Home Improvement Project

Fireplace designs boil down to two important factors: color and texture. With a simple home improvement project that creates a painted illusion and enhances the effect of your mantle, you can make an old fireplace look beautiful. Here are the simple instructions for remodeling an old fireplace, a beautiful home improvement project for women who live in older homes.

#2. Tray Ceiling Home Improvement Project

One thing that can make a room feel dark and claustrophobic is a low, flat ceiling. By creating an inexpensive, painted illusion on the ceiling you can add architectural sophistication and give the illusion that the ceiling is higher. Here are the simple instructions for creating a tray ceiling illusion, a stunning home improvement project for women who live in homes with flat or low ceilings.

#3. New Door Casings Home Improvement Project

Replacing door casings with modern ones is really very easy. Here's how I did with very little woodworking or sawing. Here are the easy instructions for installing new door casings, a simple home improvement project for women living in older homes.

#4. Refurbish Old Doors Home Improvement Project

Instead of replacing old doors with new ones, here's how I created panels for my old doors and made them look new and elegant. Here are the instructions for refurbishing old doors, an inventive home improvement project for women.

#5. Skylight Home Improvement Project

If you want to avoid the cost of buying a skylight blind, you can make a skylight cover that will drape under the window. You can hang the skylight cover in summer and remove it in winter, without having to go on the roof to do it. Here are the simple instructions for making an indoor skylight cover, a home improvement project for women who are afraid of heights (like me).

#6. Patch Large Holes in Drywall Home Improvement Project

After cutting large chunks of drywall out in search of a mystery leak in my home, I was left with huge holes in my walls. Here are the easy instructions for patching very large holes in drywall, an necessary home improvement project for women everywhere.

#7. New Vinyl Floor Home Improvement Project

For my basement bathroom, I installed vinyl floor tiles over the old 1970's ugly vinyl floor. The fake tiles look quite real and very beautiful. Here are the step-by-step instructions for installing vinyl floor tiles, a home improvement project for women in homes with old floors.

#8. Cloth Wallpaper Home Improvement Project

For a modern, chic look in your bedroom, dining room or living room, learn how to hang cloth wallpaper instead of painting your walls or hanging ordinary wallpaper. It's a beautiful home improvement project. Here are the deailed instructions for installing cloth wallpaper, a home improvement project for women who love sophisticated decor.

#9. Noise-Reducing Vent Home Improvement Project

If your heating or cooling system makes a lot of noise, why not learn how to build a noise-reducing air vent cover that looks beautiful and solves the problem cheaply? Unlike store-bought air vent covers that come with narrow slits, the one you make yourself using a garden trellis will be quiet and beautiful. Here are the simple instructions for building a noise-reducing air vent cover, a home improvement project for women who love peace and quiet.

#10. Lawn Painting Home Improvement Project

If you've always longed for a manicured lawn, why not learn how to paint your lawn green with grass paint and achieve the ideal results cheaply and instantly? It's a cheap and easy gardening solution. Here are the easy instructions for painting your lawn green, a home improvement project for women who love a manicured lawn.

#11. French Window Illusions Home Improvement Project

You can change your old windows into French windows without the expense of replacing them, and give your home a more beautiful, modern look. How? By crafting a pattern over the glass using frosted paint. Here are the simple instructions for creating the French-window-pattern on plain glass, a creative home improvement project for women.

#12. Fake Window Home Improvement Project

If you have a dark room you'd like to light up, why not make a fake window with a view and imitation sunlight too. It's such a beautiful project, you'll be making fake windows for your whole home. A faux window, sometimes called a fake window, is an ideal solution for a dark or windowless room. Here are the simple instructions for making a fake, sunlit window, a bright home improvement project for women who love light.

#13. Tuscan Kitchen Home Improvement Project

If you have an old kitchen, why not turn the cabinets into a Tuscan dream with a simple faux painting technique. See the pictures of my kitchen makeover and be inspired. Here are the simple instructions for painting a Tuscan kitchen, a charming home improvement project for women with older kitchens. (And see more project pictures.)

#14. Kitchen Shelves Home Improvement Project

Learn how to add kitchen shelves in your kitchen to organize cabinets, drawers and unused spaces. Here are the easy instructions for adding kitchen shelves, a home improvement project for women who like to stay organized.

#15. Kitchen Hardware Home Improvement Project

If you have old hardware on your kitchen cabinets, you don't have to spend a fortune to replace it. Just painting old hardware with metalic paint will do the trick. See my hardware makeover and follow the simple instructions for painting old kitchen hardware, a functional home improvement project for women with older kitchens.

#16. Weatherproof Doors Permanently Home Improvement Project

If you're tired of replacing foam seals around your doors each year, learn how to weatherproof doors permanently with external instead of in-frame seals. Here are the instructions for weatherproofing doors permanently, an energy-saving home improvement project for women in all types of homes.

#17. Fix an Old Toilet Home Improvement Project

If your toilet is making whooshing noises or water trickling sounds, you can fix your toilet with new toilet tank parts and avoid the high cost of calling in a plumber. Here are the-simple instructions for fixing an old toilet with new toilet tank parts, a useful home improvement project for women in new and old homes alike.

#18. Repair a Bath or Shower Home Improvement Project

If you have rust marks, scratches or even a hole in your bath or shower, you can repair them with Bondo Shower & Tub Kit. It's an easy and cheap solution for dammaged porcelain surfaces. Here are the instructions for repairing a bath or shower with the Bondo Kit, a money-saving home improvement project for women in new and old homes alike.

#19. Beadboard Bathroom Home Improvement Project

For stained walls or a small bathroom that needs all the beauty it can get, why not install beadboard paneling along your bathroom walls. The effect is magnificent. Here are the step-by-step instructions for installing beadboard paneling, a home improvement project for women with a love of olden-days decor.

#20. Wall Room Divider Home Improvement Project

I just love this project! Divide your kitchen from your dining room, or office from a bedroom using a wall room divider that let's in light. That's right, you can make this wall room divider yourself, using a plastic garden trellis. Here are the simple instructions for making a wall room divider that lets in light, a functional home improvement project for women in smaller homes that could use more space.

#21. Fake Fireplace Home Improvement Project

If you have a room without a hearth, why not build it a fake fireplace? It's beautiful and cozy and will add an ambiance of home to your bedroom, office or basement. Here are the step-by-step instructions for building a fake fireplace, a cozy home improvement project for women in homes without hearths.

#22. Shower Installation Home Improvement Project

How can you install a shower if you have a free-standing tub, or a tub with only one wall beside it? It's easy, use the ceiling or install external hardware. Here are the simple instructions for no-wall shower installations, a bathroom home improvement project for women who want the comfort of a shower in a tub.

#23. Privacy Window-Treatments Home Improvement Project

if your windows are facing a street, you can still have beauty and privacy by creating a double window treatment. Use bamboo blinds inside the window frame, and wood blinds outside. See the pictures of my privacy window makeover and read the simple instructions for this privacy window-treatments-idea, a creative home improvement project for women in crowded urban areas.

#24. Narrow Hallway Home Improvement Project

There's a simple trick that will make narrow long hallways look beautiful and roomy. By using floor molding vertically, to segment the visual space, you can turn any hallway into a custom walkway.. Read the easy instructions for making narrow hallways beautiful, a cunning home improvement project for women in smaller homes.

#25. Bed Canopy Home Improvement Project

Learning how to build a bed canopy is easy if you implement a simple suspension trick. Rather than attempt to craft extensions for your bed, which would require you to find identical building materials to your existing furniture, you can build a bed canopy frame and suspend it from the ceiling over the bed. Here are the simple instructions for making a bed canopy, a decorative home improvement project for women with a romantic streak.

#26. Faux Painting Home Improvement Project

Faux painting is a simple way to add elegance and sophistication to your walls, and sea sponge faux painting is the easiest way to do it. Here are the simple instructions for faux painting your home, a versatile home improvement project for women who like textured walls.

#27. Kid's Room Home Improvement Projects

A home improvement project I especially love for decorating a kid's room involves turning one wall into an invisible magnet or into a giant chalkboard for creative expression. Both home improvement projects are achieved by painting the wall with either magnetic paint or chalkboard paint. Read the easy instructions for making a giant magnetic wall, or instructions for making a giant chalkboard, both of which are charming home improvement projects for women with children in their lives.

#28. Faux Stained-Glass Home Improvement Project

A decorative window film will turn an ordinary window into a stained glass window, a glazed window, or a Frank Lloyd Wright window. It's an ideal way to add privacy and elegance to your home at little cost or effort. Here are some ideas and instructions for creating faux stained-glass windows, a home improvement project for women who like the romance of colored glass.

#29. Easy Banister Home Improvement Project

If you have an old banister that looks worn, chipped or scratched, you can create a new banister to replace it. It's easier than refinishing the old banister if it has many curves and angles, and the new banister will have a sleek, modern look. Here are the step-by-step instructions for remodeling an old banister, a home improvement project for women living with an eyesore of a staircase.

#30. Kitchen Cabinet Organizer Home Improvement Project

Deep kitchen cabinets can become a maze of confusion, and finding anything in those dark kitchen cabinets sometimes seems impossible. But with a little illumination and a kitchen cabinet organizer that you can build yourself, you can solve all your problems. Here are the simple instructions for building cabinet organizers, a home improvement project for women in every kind of kitchen.

#31. Front Door Home Improvement Project

Discover the history of doorknockers and how you can add character and mythic beauty to your front door. Here are the tips for using doorknockers to spice up your front door.

#32. Victorian Candelabra Home Improvement Project

If you love romance, why not learn how to make a Victorian candelabra chandelier yourself using glass beads and craft wire? It's a wonderful home improvement craft for your bedroom, bathroom or dining room. Here are the step-by-step instructions for making a Victorian candelabra, a home improvement project for women with a romantic soul.

#33. Hide a TV Hutch Home Improvement Project

TV's are great, so long as you can hide them when they're not being used. Here are a few inventive ways to decoratively hide your TV hutch but still make accessing the TV easy. Just follow the simple ideas and instructions for hiding a TV hutch decoratively, a home improvement project for women who think that televisions are NOT a work of art.

#34. Wire Hiding Home Improvement Project

Wires dangling from light fixtures or along the wall can be very ugly. Luckily it's easy to hide these ugly wires and cables by enclosing them with wood trim and painting over it to match your walls. Here are the simple instructions for hiding wires decoratively, a home improvement project for women in any sort of modern home.

#35. Cabinet Doors Home Improvement Project

Learn how to build cabinet doors over open shelves so as to enclose them and hide the mess. See the pictures of my doors and follow the easy instructions for building cabinet doors, a home improvement project for women who hate open shelves.

#36. Remove Popcorn Ceilings Home Improvement Project

Anyone living in an older home knows how messy removing a popcorn ceiling can be. But I discovered a quick and easy way--instead of using water, I used paint. .Here are the simple instructions for removing popcorn ceilings with paint, a home improvement project for women in older homes.

#37. Dark Corridor Home Improvement Project

Learn how to light up a dark corridor that has no electrical outlet for plugging in lights. See the picture of my basement corridor and read the simple instructions for lighting up dark corridors, a home improvement project for women in old, dark homes.

#38. Backyard Landscaping Home Improvement Project

Here are a few cheap and imaginative ways to landscape your backyard and create a dream retreat for you and your loved ones. Here are the simple instructions for cheap and easy backyard landscaping, a home improvement project for women with green thumbs.

#39. Ceiling Light Home Improvement Project

Here's what to do if you have no ceiling wiring for a light fixutre but you still want to install a ceiling light. No, you don't have to calll in the electrician. Just follow these simple instructions for installing a ceiling light without electrical wiring, a home improvement project for women in older homes.

#40. Kitchen Backsplash Home Improvement Project

Using PVC tiles you can create a kitchen backsplash that will look like real tiles but will take only minutes to install. See the pictures of my PVC backsplash and follow the simple instructions for making a PVC backsplash, a home improvement project for women in older kitchen.

#41. Closet Organizing Home Improvement Project

There's no easier way to organize your closet than with hanging closet organizers. You won't need to install shelves and you'll get more out of the space. Here are a few ideas and simple instructions for closet organizing, a home improvement project for women everywhere.

#42. Walk-In Closet Home Improvement Project

If you have the extra space for a walking closet, it's really easy to design it and install the shelves yourself. See the pictures of my walk-in closet and follow the step-by-step instructions for building a walk-in closet yourself, a home improvement project for women with large closets or extra rooms.

#43. Folding Closet Door Repair Home Improvement Project

Folding closet doors may become misaligned with time, or have trouble closing or staying closed. They can also start to look dusty and ugly. Here's everything you need to know to make those folding closet doors look and work like new. Just follow the simple instructions for the bi-fold door repair, a home improvement project for women in older homes.

#44. Grout Cleaning Home Improvement Project

For old floors or tiled walls, grout cleaning can be achieved by removing grout stains, cleaning the entire grouted surface, or by coloring the grout to look like new. Depending on the degree of grout staining you're facing, here are the simple instructions for deep grout-cleaning, a home improvement project for women in older homes.

#45. Glass Lamp Repair Home Improvement Project

If you have beautiful glass lamp shades that you can't use anymore because the hardware broke, here's how you can make new hardware yourself. Why should you? Becuase no one manufacturs replacement hardware for these glass lamp shades. Just follow the easy instructions for using plumbing rings to fix glass lampshades, a home improvement project for women who hate throwing things that can be fixed.

#46. Customizing Towel Racks Home Improvement Project

You can make bathroom towel racks shorter or longer to fit your needs, and there's no need to replace your entire bathroom hardware set to do it. Just follow the simple instructions for customizing towel racks, a home improvement project for women who can never have enough towels.

#47. Bathroom Home Improvements with Paint

Old bathrooms can feel dingy because their color scheme is dark. Dark cabinets, dark countertops, dark floor. But with a little bathroom decorating with paint, all this can change. It's a fun and inexpensive way to give an old bathroom a fresh, new look. Here are a few ideas and simple instructions for remodeling your bathroom with paint, a home improvement project for women with older bathrooms.

#48. Bathroom Remodeling Ideas

Bathroom remodeling can be expensive if you simply replace everything. Instead, consider doing some bathroom remodeling yourself, and turn old into new. Patch rust holes in your bathtub, modernize an old bathroom mirror, refinish a tarnished bathroom countertop. Here are the simple instructions for these bathroom remodeling ideas, a home improvement project for women with old, rusty bathrooms.

#49. Clawfoot Tub Curtain Home Improvement Project

Don't spend a fortune on buying a clawfoot tub shower curtain rod. Instead, make it yourself and the curatin too. Here are the simple instructions for making a clawfoot tub shower curtain rod and curtain, a home improvement project for women with free-standing tubs.

#50. Flower Window Boxes Home Improvement Project

It's so easy to add charm to the outside of your home with window boxes. Here are a few ideas and instructions for making flower window boxes, a home improvement project for women who love the English cottage look.

#51. Curb Appeal Home Improvement Project

Here are 12 ideas for giving your home unique and beautiful curb appeal. Each idea is easy. Just follow the easy instructions for your curb appeal makeover, a home improvement project for women who love to look at their home from the street.

#52. External Pocket Door Installation Home Improvement Project

You can install a pocket door over your wall instead of inside it, then cover the door with molding to make it look like a paneled extra-wide door. This is agreat idea if you're trying to build a pocket door on a supporting wall, or if you just don't like cutting into walls. See the pictures of my external pocket door and follow the step-by-step instructions for installing a pocket door externally, a home improvement project for women who want to seal off doorways without cutting into walls.

#53. Furniture Placement Home Improvement Project

New furniture placement is a great way to achieve a no cost living room remodel. Whether you take better advantage of the window wall or the fireplace, of the central living room space or the corners, furniture placement can completely change how your living room feels, and that, after all, is what we look for in a living room remodel. Here are a few ideas and instructions for new furniture placement ideas, a home improvement project for women on a tight budget.

#54. Basement Molding Home Improvement Project

If you have a cement frame along your basement walls you don't have to give up on the beauty of floor moldings. Here are the pictures of my basement molding makeover and the instructions for installing base molding over a cement foundation, a home improvement project for women whose home have a basement.

#55. Lighten Dark Walls Home Improvement Project

Here's a simple technique for painting a lighter color over a dark wall, without having to paint several layers. Just follow the simple instructions-for-painting a lighter color over a dark wall, a home improvement project for women who love light.

#56. Use Paint for Harmonious Home Improvement Projects

Mismatched furniture can be turned into a set with by using a little paint that will tie the furniture in with the room. Here are a few charming ideas and simple instructions for using-paint to bring harmony to your home.

#57. Paint Ceramic Floor Tiles Home Improvement Project

Give an old tile floor a fresh look by painting it. Here are the simple instructions for refurbishing an old ceramic-floor with paint, a home improvement project for women with stained, worn floors.

#58. Deck Repair Home Improvement Project

Is your deck looking like the outside of a haunted house? Then it's time to rip out the old wood and refurbish your deck. See the pictures of my home improvement project and read the step-by-step instructions for a deck makeover, a home improvement project for women who love to spend time outdoors.

#59. Hot Tub Home Improvement Project

It took me two years to start using the hot tub that came with the old house I bought. I didn't have the money to bring in a specialist to clean and treat the hot tub. Since then, I've learned how to care for my hot tub year round. Read the step-by-step instructions for your complete hot-tub-maintenance-guide, a home improvement project for women who like a little pampering.

#60. Mulch Garden Home Improvement Project

Of all my gardening home improvement projects, this is my favorite. See the pictures of my garden as I turned it into my dream retreat by using the cheap method of landscaping with mulch. Here are the simple and fun instructions for an affordable mulch garden makeover, a home improvement project for women who love landscaping.

#61. Rose Garden Home Improvement Project

Here's how I created a small and beautiful rose garden, in which to sit and read a book surrounded by the fragrance of roses. See the pictures of my garden and follow the simple instructions for creating a simple rose garden a home improvement project for women who love fragrant flowers.

#62. Old Appliance Home Improvement Project

Instead of buying new appliances, learn how to paint their surface with stainless steel painbt that will give them a modern look. Here are the step-by-step instructions for refinishing old appliances in stainless steel paint, a home improvement project for women with old appliances but a modern sense of style.

#63. Garage Organization Home Improvement Project

Here are 10 ideas for organizing your garage on a budget. See the pictures of my garage and follow the simple instructions for organizing your garage, a home improvement project for women who like to make the most of their living space.

#64. Floor Cable Concealment Home Improvement Project

Instead of tearing up floors to run a cable under them, here's how I ran cables behind my floor molding. See pictures of cable concealment tricks and read the step-by-step instructions for hiding cables that run across floors, a home improvement project for women with too many cables and not enough space.

#65. Window Trim Home Improvement Project

If you have a home built in the 60's or 70's chances are you have no window trim around your window. Here's how I build a patterend window trim using cheap fence wood. See the picture of my window and follow the simple instructions for creating elegant trim around windows, a home improvement project for women with small windows.

#66. Patch Small Holes in Drywall Home Improvement Project

For smaller holes in drywall, from holes left by pictures to larger ones left by toggles, there's a simple 3-step process for patching up drywall. Here are the simple instructions for fixing small holes in drywall, a home improvement project for women everywhere.

#67. Broken Sofa Home Improvement Project

You don't have to throw away a perfectly good sofa just because its inner frame breaks. See the pictures of my sofa repair and follow the easy instructions for fixing a broken sofa yourself, a home improvement project for women who need every piece of furniture they've got.

#68. Drain Cleaning Home Improvement Project

Chemicals will typically unclog a drain for a short while, before the clog returns. But if you use drain cleaning that eliminates the clog, you'll avoid smelly chemicals and solve the problem long term. Here are 5 ways to unclog drains without chemicals, a home improvement project for women who hate the scent of harsh chemicals.

#69. Textured Wall Home Improvement Project

If you're walls are textured, there are 3 different ways that you can fix any damage to them. Here are the simple instructions for patching a textured wall, a home improvement project for women with the textured walls common in older homes.

#70. Kitchen Makeover Home Improvement Project

Cosmetic kitchen upgrades can be fun and affordable if you're willing to do a little of the work yourself. Here are a few charming ideas and simple instructions for a cosmetic kitchen upgrade, a home improvement project for women with old kitchens.

#72. Narrow Bathroom Home Improvement Project

A narrow bathroom can be made to look wider and larger with a few decorating tricks. Here are a few fun ideas and simple instructions for a narrow bathroom-makeover, a home improvement project for women with small homes.

#73. Arched Window Home Improvement Project

If you have arched windows, you don't have to giv eup on covering them with window treatments. Here's how to build a curved curtain rod and curtain--using a garden hose. Just follow the simple instructions for creating curved window-treatments, a home improvement project for women with curved windows.

#74. Crawl Space Home Improvement Project

There are special home crawl space does and don'ts that could affect the safety and comfort of your home. Here's a simple guide to taking good care of your crawl space and avoiding endangering the safety of your home with improper usage. Just follow the simple instructions for home crawl space care, a home improvement project for women who hate nasty surprises in the attic.

#75. Heavy Mirror Home Improvement Project

Discover beautiful ways to hang a heavy mirror and keep it safely up. You can use shelf brackets, metal chains typically reserved for hiding electrical wires, or wall-imbedded toggles. Just follow the simple instructions for hanging extremely heavy mirrors, a home improvement project for women who love decorating with mirrors.

#76. Bathroom Mirror Home Improvement Project

Why not turn your old, rusty bathroom mirror into a modern framed mirror? It's easy to build a frame using floor molding. Just follow the easy step-by-step instructions for framing an old bathroom-mirror, a home improvement project for women with old bathrooms.

#77. Fix an Old Mattress Home Improvement Project

Okay, though not strictly a home improvement project, I felt like fixing an old mattress should be included here anyway. After all, the attempt to save something old and make it like new lies at the heart of his project, as well as my home improvement projects. So here are the easy instructions for fixing your old mattress.

#78. Budget Home Improvement & Decorating Guide

When you decorate your home on a budget you don't have to give up on style or beauty. There are tricks to budget home decorating that maximize what you already own and add the illusion of newness and modern sophistication. Read the step-by-step guide to remodeling-and-decorating your home on a budget, a home improvement project for women who are budget conscious.

#79. Non-Toxic Paint for Home Improvement Projects

Now almost forgotten, milk paint was used in ancient Egypt and colonial America. With its translucent patina, this non-toxic paint gives furniture and walls a color-washed appear. Discover milk paint for yourself and learn how to make it at home. Read the step-by-step instructions for making milk paint, a home improvement project for women who prefer non-toxic paints.

#80. Brightening Home Improvement Projects
Without breaking walls or calling in an electrician, you can brighten a dark room to make it seem cleaner, bigger and more inviting. Here's a home brightening guide from floor to ceiling. Herea re the simple instructions for brightening the darker rooms in your house, a home improvement project for women who love light.

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