Enjoy!
Step-by-step tutorials can be found on:
Extra tip: if your're feeling extra crafty, take on this challenge.
Showing posts with label home decoration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home decoration. Show all posts
Repurposing an old suitcase
Recycled old, shabby, vintage suitcases can refresh your home decoration. They can be reused in many ways. In this story you will see how you can transform them into a table, desk or a nightstand.
Simple Last Minute Halloween Crafts
Trick or treat?
Decorate your home with this easy-to-do Halloween ideas! Enjoy!
Main roles:
Ghosts
Decorate your home with this easy-to-do Halloween ideas! Enjoy!
Main roles:
Ghosts
Extra tip: don't forget the bats, witches, spiders, pumpkins ... Send us photos of your craft!
Upcycle - a Great Repurpose of Toilet and Paper Towel Tubes
After recycling light bulbs, you can enrich your Christmas decorations collection with these nice, eco-friendly cardboard tube stars.
Extra tip: There are numerous ways to decorate each star - paint it, use glitter or beads and buttons. Your imagination surely has no limits! We would appreciate you posting a picture of your work in comment section!
DIY: Upcycled Old Light Bulb as a Christmas Bulb
*That* time of the year is coming and NOW is the right time to get ready for it!
I believe that you, as true eco-friends, have saved some light bulbs from their trash-can-destiny.
Here are few examples on how to use them as Christmas bulbs! (click on the picture for the original page)
1) Penguins and snowmen= true winter creatures:
I believe that you, as true eco-friends, have saved some light bulbs from their trash-can-destiny.
Here are few examples on how to use them as Christmas bulbs! (click on the picture for the original page)
1) Penguins and snowmen= true winter creatures:
2) For disco lovers:
3) Coloring method:
Extra tip: Check out these cool DIY light bulb snow globes!!
An Earth Day Project - Reuse PVC Pipes in Planting!
We've mentioned how you can get hold of some PVC pipes and repurpose them.
Here's another, springish suggestion - use old PVC pipes as little flower pots!
Extra tip: Enjoy Earth Day with your friends or/and family and get crafty! If you're searching for additional planting recycle ideas check the articles in gardening category.
Here's another, springish suggestion - use old PVC pipes as little flower pots!
(Ideas found at roselypignataro.com.br)
Upcycling: an old light bulb as a vase
There is a lot of ways to reuse an old light bulb. Here's one of them - turn it in into a vase!
Remove all that unnecesseary thingies from the light bulb, hang it and fill it up with flowers.
Remove all that unnecesseary thingies from the light bulb, hang it and fill it up with flowers.
Extra tip: instead of hanging the light bulb vase, you can try to put it on some kind of a stand / a holder, e.g. the one made out of a toilet tube.
Recycle a colander - make an original lamp
An old, rusty colander can become your new lampshade. It'll give your home a decent-don't-take-me-to-serious- touch.
Here's how it looks like!
Here's how it looks like!
A great pictured step by step tutorial is available here !
Extra tip: if you like more rustic style, you can use a rusty colander without painting it, for example:
DIY: glass bottle light !
Do it yourself - make a unique lamp that will lighten up that dark corner of your room.
You will need an old, empty (yes!) bottle of wine (or any other drink actually) and some Christmas lights! Attention: you'll have to use a drill for this project!
A nice stept-by-step tutorial can be seen here.
You will need an old, empty (yes!) bottle of wine (or any other drink actually) and some Christmas lights! Attention: you'll have to use a drill for this project!
A nice stept-by-step tutorial can be seen here.
Extra tip: although you can use any glass bottle, maybe you'll get a better effect if you use the dark one.
DIY: recycled shutter boards as a stand
If you are renovating your home and want to get rid of old windows shutters, here's how you can recycle those shutters! You'll need four of them for this project. Details can be found at this place.
What do you think about this shutter table/ stand?
Extra tip: you can keep the worn look of the shutters, or you can hone and paint them.
What do you think about this shutter table/ stand?
Extra tip: you can keep the worn look of the shutters, or you can hone and paint them.
DIY - spring !
Recycle pieces of an old fabric and create your own spring-at-home.
Extra tip: if you're ambitious enough - create the whole flower wreath!
For another eco spring wreath idea, click here !
Reuse toys ~create a unique frame
If your kid has grown and finds his/her old toys boring - you can reuse them: refresh a picture or mirror frame!
Extra tip: this is a good idea to decorate your kid's room and to save old favorite toys only in different habitat.
Ultra simple ambiance solution - upcycle an old grater!
This "project" can't be any simpler - take an old grater, put it above a tealight candle and enjoy a soft light show in your home!
Extra tip: you can use any type of candle for this "candlestick"!
Upcycle a washing machine drum and add a new piece of furniture to your home
Before you throw away your washing machine that no longer works, take out its drum!
Here's an idea on how to use it - create an unique chair!
Extra tip: if you're going to make a cushion by yourself, you can fill it up with old fabric (shirts, underwear...)
Reuse pop tabs - make a pop tab lampshade
We already talked about pop tabs. We used them to make a bracelet. Here's a new challenge for you. It'll require a quite amount of your time and patience, and of course - pop tabs, but it will be worth it!
Extra tip: you can make an extra small "lampshade" and use it for a tea light candle.
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