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Are you tired of the plain, boring doors that are so common for bedrooms and bathrooms? What can be done to spruce them up without replacing them? LOTS of things! Some really, really easy ideas - some needed moderate skills, here are a few ideas for changing your door faces:

1. Rattan mats stapled to the door work for a tropical or seaside decor. (I also saw these used on ceilings to hide popcorn ceilings.)

2. Moulding mitered into rectangles, nailed or stapled to the door, and then the whole thing painted looks like doors commonly found as front doors.

3. If you do the above, you can paint a design inside the moulding box you made, or use wallies or wallpaper designs cut to fit.

4. Even if you DON'T do the above, you can paint a design on the door, or use wallies or wallpaper.

5. I want to hide some of my doors - I mean that I want them to disappear into the wall. I saw this done by removing the door moulding, then painting or wallpapering the door to match the wall it sits on.

6. You can use wood cut outs glued to the door. I saw some very nice wood scrolling at Lowes. You can also do themes cut outs - sports stuff, cats, southwestern designs, apples - ANYTHING!

7. You can nail lattice to the door, then frame it out (or do the framing first, then attach - either way).

8. You can glue any "paper" you want to the door in collage-fashion - postcards, seed packs, book pages, old advertising, photos )or copies of photos), maps, wrapping paper, scrapbook paper....anything paper.

9. You can cover the door with peel and stick mirrors.

10. Attach a curtain rod to the top of the door. Hang a curtain and gather the center with the curtain tie back style of your choice.

Ok, I am now in dire need of DOING one of these things and not just writing about it!