Recycled and Upcycled Projects for your Home
Pallet Wood Playhouse This project comes courtesy of my oldest son, Keith, who built a playhouse almost exclusively of pallet wood. I talked about pallet wood last week claiming it as one of my favorite materials to work with. It’s … Continue Reading →
Trashed Antique Table, Refinished and Modernized Welcome back, today I have for you another dump find. An antique tabletop, stained, peeling, slightly falling apart with no legs or pedestal in sight. On the plus side, the tabletop is solid wood. … Continue Reading →
Upcycled Brake Drum Side Table If you love making something useful out of various odds and ends I have a great side table for you. This one uses 2 thrift store finds, a candlestick and a table top, plus a … Continue Reading →
Upcycled Dresser and Door Kitchen Island Part 2 If you are following along with my projects, you may remember that last week I shared with you Part 1 of a dresser to kitchen island DIY conversion. On my last post … Continue Reading →
DIY Upcycled Dresser Kitchen Island Recently I’ve been sharing with you parts of my son and daughter-in-law’s house that they bought as an investment. Most of the house was coming along great but the kitchen needed something, and that something … Continue Reading →
DIY Outside Corner Molding for Cheap I’m working on a great project…can’t share it with you yet because it’s still in progress. But as with any new project I always seems to make multiple trips to the hardware store. On … Continue Reading →
DIY Vintage Galvanized Washtub Shelf You may have seen a washtub shelf in your travels, this one is from Amazon, but you probably didn’t know just how easy they are to create yourself. I was lucky to find this beautiful … Continue Reading →
Easy DIY Stained Glass Window Frame Recently I acquired these two beautiful old stained glass windows. I don’t know how they ever managed to make it to me intact, but they are both missing their frames. Stained Glass Windows absolutely … Continue Reading →
Christmas Tree Collar DIY I have one more post from Christmas and then I promise, I’ll move on. This one is for a DIY Christmas Tree Collar. I was browsing on my Instagram feed last month, and this picture popped … Continue Reading →
Thrift Store Transformations with Paint I have 2 super easy transformations today for you using paint. The green box is straight from the thrift store and the globe on the pedestal was a gift to my husband from a coworker … Continue Reading →
Black Arch Headboard A few weeks ago I showed you the making of a reclaimed wood DIY king headboard. When I constructed the headboard I hadn’t bought the bed yet, but why wait until the last minute. I finally got … Continue Reading →
Wine Box Cover Welcome back. Today I’m sharing with you a project my oldest son made for his Aunt, a reclaimed wood, box wine cover. While he was making the cover, he did think of me and took a bunch … Continue Reading →
Upcycled Cream Separator Pendant Lamp Have you had a chance to create an upcycled pendant lamp yet? And if not, why not? There’s no actual wiring required. The hardest part will be finding the object that you want to convert. … Continue Reading →
DIY Window Cornice When I showed you my door headboard a couple weeks ago I got 4 comments, yeah your headboard is nice (blah, blah, blah) but how did you make the cornices? So I’m back with one more post … Continue Reading →
DIY Table Leaf What you see here is an early 1900’s oak pedestal table that I found at the local Goodwill well over a year ago. I had no need for another table but it just happened to be half … Continue Reading →
Welcome back. Today I have an easy build for you, a set of shelves with a handpainted backdrop of your favorite logo, team or flag. I know I’m a day late from my normal posting but I have a good … Continue Reading →
A couple weeks ago while I was showing you my inspiration from all over, I showed you this wooden fish that I found in a gift shop somewhere in Maine. He’s really cute with his beautifully sanded wood, but I … Continue Reading →
As you probably know, one of my favorite things to work with is pallet wood. It’s never perfect, which may or may not be a good thing, it’s preaged, it’s rustic, it’s shabby and it’s chic and best of all, free. … Continue Reading →