But not with this lil’ cover! Now it’s a ~design element~ that I’ll hopefully remember to keep full. Perhaps the reason I’ve been so bad at keeping around a box of tissues is because tissues just look.kind of ugly out in the open. So obviously buying this whimsical tissue box cover we’ve featured in a million BuzzFeed shopping posts is peak adulting. But now that I’m playing house as a grown-ass person in an apartment to myself, I’m trying to be *responsible*. It may have been when I most recently had a sinus infection, which I guess was two-plus years ago. 'I, an adult woman, cannot remember the last time I bought a box of tissues for my home (though I have several purse packs?!). My dry cleaner charged $40 to turn an old $15 tablecloth into a skirt for this farmhouse sink-itself rescued from my next-door neighbor's kitchen redo.Here's why BuzzFeed editor Elizabeth Lilly loves these:

The best pro for a job may be just around the corner. Cute chalkboard labels keep track of the jars' contents. Instead, decanted pantry staples sit on open shelves, crafted by Ryan McPhail from reclaimed lumber. Classic glass canisters, also Walmart finds, allowed me to forgo upper cabinets. Liberate dry goods from the tyranny of ugly packaging. Valspar's Signature white paint, $34.98 per gallon. I used the same white semigloss to brighten $20 stools from Walmart. Paint transformed these oak cabinets, bought off the rack at Lowe's and topped with Ikea's birch slabs. When the goal is rustic simplicity, there's no need to spend tons on custom cabinetry and granite counters. The vintage scale, $35, hails from one of my favorite upstate New York sources, the Coxsackie Antique Center. My kitchen's tiny island-actually a machine-shop table and a butcher block-set me back a mere $25 at an area junk store. Let's start with the obvious: Salvage = industrial chic for a song. In the end, we accomplished a minor miracle, if I do say so myself. So I scoured the local flea markets and-yep- Walmart, and persuaded my carpenter pal, CL contributing editor Ryan McPhail to lend a hand. Because I planned to use the apartment as guest quarters, I aimed to redo the unit on a meager budget. When I bought my house in Athens, New York, the rental unit off the back smelled of cat urine and was covered tan linoleum.

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