A new year is almost here! In honor of '16, Here's a list of our 16 favorite DIY project from the past year—enough do-it-yourself to start your 2016 with a totally made-over house.

We're huge cupcake fans at Dunn DIY, so we're celebrating National Cupcake Day with our favorite cupcake recipe from Ina Garten: Coconut Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing.

These danish paper stars are a lovely accent to any Christmas tree. We scoured the internet to find a helpful tutorial when we were making them, and all of them were rather complicated. So we tried to simplify the process into patterns. Enjoy!