With just a few bucks and about 30 minutes, I built an album art wall to display some of my favorite album art—both for albums I love and for albums that I love to look at.

If your grandmother's china is too outdated for everyday use, install a plate hanger and display it on the wall. Frame a meaningful note, or even the envelope it came in.

The stone wall planter shown here is functional, beautiful and relatively easy to build. It's designed to hide an exposed concrete foundation, and provide a place to grow plants and shrubs.

If your grandmother’s china is too outdated for everyday use, install a plate hanger and display it on the wall. Frame a meaningful note, or even the envelope it came in.

Display your art in unexpected ways. ... Use that to anchor the wall, and then build the rest of the gallery out from there, following Alessandra’s main rules of thumb: ...