Jessica sewed the graphic cream-and-charcoal striped curtains from $30-a-yard indoor/outdoor fabric. "If I get sick of them, I can always turn them into cushions."
Easy Does It
One of Jessica's favorite tricks for an inexpensive update: Add paneling. Besides giving the dining room walls some texture, the white paint reflects light, making the space appear brighter. She cut low-cost sheets of medium-density fiberboard from Home Depot into 2½"-wide slats to attach vertically to the wall, then finished them at the top with scrap 5"-wide pine wood and caulk. "You can't tell the MDF isn't solid wood once it's painted," she says. "It cost about $30 to do the whole thing."
EASY CHAIR REDO
Jessica was bored with the fabric on a pair of wingback chairs she's owned for 15 years, so she reupholstered them herself with a staple gun and fabric from Calico Corners. (Hues in the pattern—from deep red to cornflower blue and lemon yellow—inspired the color palette Jessica and WD used in the dining room and kitchen.) "You can see a couple of staples on the chairs, but it would have cost more than $1,000 each to have them done," says Jessica. "If you do it in sections, it's not that hard."
Classic Kitchen
"It is my parents' house, so we discuss decorating and construction projects first," says Jessica. "I can swing a sledgehammer, but I don't want them to be upset when they get home!" Everyone was on board with this dramatic kitchen overhaul: Jessica sanded, primed and painted the cabinets to take them from dated brown to clean white, then used glass tile for the backsplash. "I thought I'd do white subway tile, because it's cheap and classic, but I splurged on the blue glass tile to give it a pop of color," she says.
To counteract the lack of natural light, Jessica painted her dark cabinets a crisp white.
A striped indoor/outdoor rug draws the eye from the kitchen into the dining room and perks up plain cream floor tiles.
IN THIS ROOM Acacia bread box, $30, and bread board, $10; stoneware large canisters, $9 each; white garlic keeper, $7; white porcelain serving bowl (medium), $13.50; KitchenAid blender, $100; and glass canister set, $21 for 4 pieces; all at Target stores.
Seeing Red
A BOLD CHOICE
"The red items from Target are so energetic—they're the rock stars of the kitchen!" says Jessica. They've inspired her to add more red when she tackles her next project: the adjacent family room.
Though she loves the look of granite, the Formica countertops were more cost-effective. "We added a beveled edge to give it a more finished look," says Jessica.
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