Archive Category: 'DIY Projects'

• DIY Decorative Garden Towers Project: Move over pink flamingos! Today’s feature is from Do It Yourself Ideas with Quick Project: Garden Towers: blockquote>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 [...]
• Cake-Frosting Garden Stepping Stone: Tutorial: Today’s feature is from Backyard Living Magazine with this nifty project for Cake-Frosting Stepping Stones: blockquote>Make just one of these “cake-frosting” stepping-stones and you’ll be hooked. Success is guaranteed when you follow these simple (pardon the pun) step-by-step instructions. Best of all, you’ll recapture the mud-pie-making joy of childhood. The items you can use to make these [...]
• DIY Project: Pretty Wallpapered Cart: Today’s feature is from Crafty Nest with this charming diy project: Wallpapered Cart: blockquote>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: blockquote>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: blockquote>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: blockquote>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: blockquote>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: blockquote> 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. he 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 [...]
• DIY Photography Tips & Tools: Here’s a list I’ve gathered of DIY photography tips and tools as well as two different resources for taking eBay photos (they’re good for blog shots too). These were previously published on Tipnut and have been gathered here in one handy place. Tips: Guide To eBay Auction Photography Here’s a free online resource from CameraJim with Guide [...]
• DIY Spice Rack: Today’s feature is from Crafty nest with this project for a DIY Spice Rack: My old spice rack just wasn’t cutting it. I barely cook, but even I have accumulated more spices than what fit in those 12 small tins. I couldn’t find the right spice rack, so I created my own. And made room for [...]
• $5 DIY: Cabinet Door Recipe Message Center: Today’s feature is from This Young House with Somebody Put A Cork In Us…: We wanted to create a convenient little bulletin board in the kitchen to keep favorite recipes and meal ideas on hand (and on our mind- anything in a recipe book is so far out of sight that it’s immediately forgotten). But we [...]
• DIY: Personalized Communication Center: Today’s feature is from Creative Habitat with this personalized Communication Center: Need to leave a note for the kids? Want a place to hang your keys? The Personalized Communication Center is the answer! Even better, it is customizable to meet your needs. Choose from coordinating 12” tiles to create the communication center that works for your [...]
• DIY Project: Pallet Coffee Table: Today’s feature is from Esprit Cabane with a neat diy project showing you how to make this Pallet Coffee Table: This modern, ethnic-looking coffee table, with its ochre stripes that conjures up visions of Marrakech, was made from a wooden pallet discarded in a shopping area. The painstaking task of removing nails and sawing wood was avoided [...]
• Child’s Drawing Desk: Free Woodworking Plans: Here’s another woodworking plan from 1953 and boy does it ever bring back memories! This pattern was published a few years before my time, but I did have a desk something like this when I was a child–and it was wood, not plastic like today’s stuff. This drawing desk has a folding top that conceals art [...]
• How To Turn Bacon Grease Into Soap (Really!): Today’s feature is from Little House In The Suburbs with a tutorial for Making Soap from Kitchen Grease: If you’re saying to yourself, “Ivory, I don’t wanna to BUY fat to make my soap. I have plenty of fat in my grease can!” then this is the post for you. So, how do we turn icky, blech-y, [...]
• DIY Bamboo Knife Holder: Today’s feature is from ReadyMade with a neat idea that is easy to make & repurposes a 2 litre pop bottle, check out this project for Blade Runner: I am always ready and willing to help out a fellow foodie. I also love Robitsch’s simple bamboo holder, and I came up with a way to assemble [...]
• Space Raiders: Retro Woodworking Plans: I just came across these 1953 patterns in my stash and I couldn’t resist sharing them here, how retro-cool are these! There are three different woodworking plans (these are each made of plywood): Space Raider’s Club House: A 10-foot rocket ship makes perfect club headquarters for the space gang. Space Guns: Build this “air-cooled” arsenal in an [...]
• Over 200 Cute & Spooky Halloween Ideas: Are you ready to be inspired with all kinds of Halloween spookiness? Tipnut’s DIY Halloween has just been updated and is now loaded with over 200 creative DIY projects, ideas, recipes & tutorials–some spooky, some cute–everything free to access and dedicated to all things Halloween! This hand-picked collection features my favorite projects & ideas I’ve found [...]
• 10 Projects To Help Organize Your Home: The Undercover Crate: Hmmm. I knew there had to be a way to pretty up those plastic stacking crates, check this out. Fabric liners/covers that keep the stackable function intact. Tutorial download is here: (pdf). DIY Sturdy Magazine Holders: I’ve seen lots of these made from cereal boxes but these are nice and sturdy made from [...]
• How To Make A Mosaic Table Top: Today’s feature is from Homemade Simple with Transform An Old Table Top Into An Artful Centerpiece: Don’t let an old table, chipped china or unused tiles get tossed to the curb. Transform them from trash to treasure with these step-by-step instructions for creating a beautiful mosaic tabletop. You can make a unique piece of furniture that’s tailored [...]
• DIY Project: Make Your Own Headboard: Today’s feature is from Shine at Yahoo! with Make Your Own Headboard: An upholstered headboard turns a ho-hum bed into a properly padded comfort zone. Just pad a piece of plywood with foam, cover with the upholstery-grade fabric of your choice, and bolt the finished headboard to an ordinary metal bed frame. Simply said, it’s as [...]