Archive Category: 'DIY Projects'

• DIY Laundry Room Drying Rack: Today’s feature is from Centsational Girl with this clever DIY Laundry Room Drying Rack Project: For a long time, I have really wanted one of those drying racks from Ballard Designs. You’ve seen them. They’re so perfect in the laundry room for drying your delicate clothing. I really wanted to save the money and build one myself. [...]
• DIY Craft & Tool Station: Repurposing: Today’s feature is from Crafty Nest with this nifty Craft & Tool Station Tutorial: This project is what Elizabeth would call “finding crap on the curb and making something fabulous.” I found this mint green railing (from a crib? shelves?) in a pile of debris. Add galvanized wall pocket planters (on clearance at Jo-Ann for $1.50 [...]
• Patina In Minutes: How To: Today’s feature is from DIY Ideas with Patina In Minutes: Why wait a lifetime for a rich patina finish when you can create it yourself? Here’s an easy way to add a faux-patina to concrete pieces you have for the garden, this adds a richness to the items that you’d otherwise have to wait years to naturally [...]
• How To Paint Laminate Furniture: Today’s feature is from Living With Lindsay with this tutorial for How to Paint Laminate Furniture: Let me be the first to tell you this: With the right preparations, you CAN paint laminate furniture and it WILL look good. You just need to follow the following steps I’m not really fond of laminate furniture and do my [...]
• How To Make An Olive Oil Lamp: Today’s feature is from Down To Earth with this tutorial for How To Make An Oil Lamp: Well, I fiddled with it for a few days, tested wicks and oil levels, I now have a perfectly serviceable oil lamp that burns clean for hours, with no smell. I was looking for a replacement for paraffin candles [...]
• How To Make A Sun Jar: DIY: Today’s feature is from Lifehacker with Create Your Own Sun Jar: Lifehacker Edition: Here’s a step-by-step guide to building sun-capturing jars that create outdoor lighting at a fraction of the retail cost. Our searches for retail sun jars turned up prices ranging from $30-60 per unit. We were able to create all four sun jars for $44. If [...]
• How To Make A Teapot Lamp: Today’s feature is from Country Living with this sweet & clever project–Make Teapot Lamp: Stylist Paul Lowe amassed an assortment of vintage china from his many flea market jaunts hunting for props. After seeing a photograph of a lamp made from a single teapot, he decided to create his own more elaborate variation. The first step is [...]
• How To Make A Tire Swing: DIY Project: Today’s feature is from My Mommy’s Place with this DIY tutorial How To Make A Tire Swing: Items Needed: A tire. A strong rope. A tree. Oh the memories! Swinging on one of these was always something to look forward to in the summer. Is it possible to find anything in the stores nowadays that provides more [...]
• How To Make Concrete Leaves: Today’s feature is packed with a handful of tutorials showing you how to make concrete leaves, these turn out amazing and they are simply gorgeous tucked into flower beds and around the yard. Easy to make too! Casting Concrete Leaves: Basic Instructions Click the pictures below to visit the instructions for each project This tutorial is by craftgrrl [...]
• Build A Potting Bench: DIY Project: Today’s feature is from Vegetable Gardener with these free plans to Build a Potting Bench: In the heart of every gardener grows the desire for a potting bench. It is form and function, ornament and tool. It’s a place where you work with your hands, a place where you let your mind run on. It can [...]
• Lattice Screen How-To: Garden Trick: Today’s feature is from Canadian Gardening with this nifty idea for hiding ugly air conditioner units, compost bins, and other eye-sore yard items with this Easy-To-Build Lattice Screen: Hide an air conditioner or composter with this easy outdoor screen The gardener’s never-ending quest for more garden beds often means plantings have to share real estate with outdoor [...]
• Simple Recycling Center: DIY Project: Today’s feature is from Sunset with this Simple DIY Recycling Center: It’s easy to close the back door and pretend that the jumble of recycling bins and garbage cans outside doesn’t exist ― but that only works when you’re in the house. Building a short lean-to just big enough to hold everything solves the problem. This is a [...]
• Weekend Quickies: 20 Summer Garden Crafts: Today’s feature is from Martha Stewart with Summer Garden Crafts: Twenty surprising ways to show off the season’s prettiest plants and blooms. Some really lovely projects, most are very simple to make and can easily be done on a weekend afternoon. Here are a few of my favorite ideas: Chalkboard Pots: Organize plants and seedlings, and identify homegrown [...]
• Mosaic Garden Art: How To: Today’s feature is from Fine Gardening with this extensive how-to: Making Mosaic Garden Art: Sturdy, well-built objects made of metal, wood, terra-cotta, or concrete work well as base objects for a mosaic. The decorative mosaic pieces will adhere to just about any surface except items made from flimsy plastics that bend and bow. Garage and estate sales, [...]
• DIY Decorative Garden Towers Project: Move over pink flamingos! Today’s feature is from Do It Yourself Ideas with Quick Project: Garden Towers: Garden Towers Punctuate your garden with towers made from ceramic and glass vases, cruets, saucers, and teapots. The idea is to take various china and ceramic items and attach them to the bottom of vases with all-weather contact adhesive. Once the [...]
• DIY Project: Pretty Wallpapered Cart: Today’s feature is from Crafty Nest with this charming diy project: Wallpapered Cart: I bought this trolley for a steal on Craigslist. You may have seen it here. You can’t tell in the photo, but it’s banged up and rickety from years of use. My friend Peter added some reinforcement to make it sturdy, then I filled [...]
• DIY Project: Studio Table Redo: Today’s feature is from Pink And Polka Dot with this budget friendly DIY for a Studio Table Redo: I had a table cloth over this table, but my sewing machines & computer kept getting caught and bunching up the fabric. So I decided to give it a face lift and do a little studio redo We call [...]
• DIY Craft Table & Desk: How To: Today’s feature is from Ikea Hacker with Spring Chick’s to-die-for craft room: Kari says, “I recently moved to a new house and am lucky enough to finally have a whole room for my crafting hobbies/business. I do a lot of sewing so I wanted a big, flat, and high (to save my back) work surface where [...]
• DIY: How To Make A Greenhouse From Old Windows: Today’s feature is from Instructables with this nifty project: Greenhouse From Old Windows: This is a brief guide on how I took some old windows from houses they were tearing down in my neighborhood and turned them into a small greenhouse in my backyard. I collected the windows over the course of a year and a [...]
• DIY Project: Basket Drawer Unit: Today’s feature is from Crafty Nest with this nifty DIY project: Basket Drawer Unit: I couldn’t find the right piece of furniture that had small drawers and deep drawers. I found these Branäs baskets at Ikea, but Ikea doesn’t make a unit like this to hold them. So, I drew up the plans to build this [...]
• DIY: Make Fabric Shades From Mini-Blinds: Today’s feature is from Little Green Notebook with this clever DIY: Make Shades Out Of Mini Blinds: Do you love the look of fabric shades but don’t want to fork over the cash? Shades can often cost you an arm and a leg (especially custom fabric shades). When my cheap white IKEA shades were safety-recalled, I decided [...]
• How To Make A Cloche For Seedlings: Today’s feature is another double hitter with two different projects & ideas for making cloches–those handy contraptions that protect seedlings from chilly & windy weather. The first project is from Gardener’s World with How To Make A Cloche For Seedlings: Make your own cloches to use as handy home-made devices to keep your seeds. Made using hanging [...]
• DIY Project: Mosaic House Numbers: Today’s feature is from IDEAS with this Mosaic House Numbers Project: Mosaic is the art of covering and decorating a surface or item with small mosaic tiles or tesserae (individual mosaic pieces). Anything from pieces of glass and tile to marble and ceramics can be used and arranged in a pattern before being glued into place. The [...]
• 50 Nifty Tricks for Big DIY Savings: Today’s feature is from This Old House with 50 Nifty Tricks for Big DIY Savings: Remember when the tightfistedness of relatives raised during the Depression was amusing? Our grandparents’ certificates of deposit and plastic couch protectors seemed downright quaint when our own home-equity and retirement portfolios were ballooning. Suddenly, though, the pot-roast-and-potatoes ethic doesn’t seem quite so [...]
• Laundry Table Plans With Optional Glow Light: Today’s feature is from Little House In The Suburbs with this set of instructions for building a Laundry Table With An Optional Glow Light: Four years ago I built a laundry-folding table from 3/4″ plywood and 2×4’s with a top surface of large self-adhesive floor tiles. I added casters to make it easy to move around [...]