Funky Junk Interiors. Funky Junk Interiors: 31 Days Blog to Biz / Day 19 - I've got guts to show you THIS! Do you? Last week I challenged you to create something gutsy.
Something you’ve never seen before. Something you may be afraid of someone not (gasp!) Liking. I wanted to take you out of your comfort zone so you’d be free to experiment and go wild with what you saw in your mind’s eye. Well feel free to go crazy because I did too. Sand sand sand sand (cedar strips from something) sssssssst My fav old wheelbarrow got a satin clear coat to ‘protect that rust!’ Clearcoat actually deepens the tone of rust too and makes it safe. Hmmm… purrrrrfect. Can you guess what it will be yet?
Predrilling reduces wood splits. Yup! Note to self.. get another drill already, one to predrill, one to screw. Heehee… so weird. This will do! “As what?!?” Here, lemme tell you what it is as I roll you your coffee on my…. uh…. wheelbarrow coffee table! It’s junky, not too big, can be easily moved… … has built in magazine storage … . … and suits my other busted up junk just fine! Is this gutsy enough? Now I want a bigger one. How To: Create Easy Rolled Paper Art. Previous image Next image Make some easy, inexpensive art with a shadowbox, scissors, and colored paper!
I'm always looking for ways to add a little color and variety to my walls, and it always helps if the materials are super cheap — or even better, just laying around my house! 15 Dynamo DIY Projects That Cost Less Than $20 Best of 2011. 15 Dynamo DIY Projects That Cost Less Than $20 Best of 2011. DIY. 30 Uses for the Humble Cardboard Box. Wise Bread Picks Cardboard boxes are part of our visual vernacular — trash to shopkeepers, treasure to eBay sellers, an annoyance to blade-wielding stock boys (and girls) around the world.
Whether we're breaking them down or taping them back together, we are awash in a sea of these multi-sized corrugated work horses. The list below is a love-letter to the cardboard box — 30 tips to reinterpret, reinvent, and reuse it either temporarily or permanently. Take some tongue-in-cheek, take some to heart, and the next time you can — take a few home from the curb. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. D.I.Y Inspiration from ScrapHacker.com. DIY Free Paper Rose Templates {Papercraft.
Crafts. More ideas. DIY Deer Heads {tutorial. Top Bloggers Favorite DIY Projects. Knotted lamp cord by raina kattelson. With all the attention we’ve been giving to rope and pendant lights, this DIY tutorial from stylist Raina Kattelson couldn’t have come at a better time.
We featured Raina’s gorgeous Hudson Valley home a couple years ago, and we loved the palette so much that we also created a Simply Color inspired by Raina’s kitchen. Recently, Raina finished fully renovating a rental home that she purchased a while back. There are many lovely details, including this awesome hack for a simple Ikea Foto lamp that hangs over the kitchen table.
The rough, textural cord is a stunning complement to the well-worn chairs and the mottled metal table base. She was kind enough to share the whole process with us, and it’s actually quite easy, especially if you have a helping hand. See the full instructions for how to make the lamp cord after the jump, and you can view more of Raina’s newly renovated rental home, which was captured beautifully by photographer Emily Anderson, in the current issue of Rue Magazine. 1. Diy best of: rope projects. Rope is one of our current obsessions, but it’s also one of those items that will never leave my love list.
It’s just a fantastic material, one of humanity’s greatest inventions. Rope owes all of its strength, durability and beauty to its structure. One simple knot can look as beautiful and graceful as many intricate layers of knots. I know I’m beginning to sound exactly like Portlandia‘s Jeff Goldblum, with his artisanal knot store, but I have a sincere love for and fascination with the beauty of rope, no matter how much of a hipster parody that might make me. We’ll be bringing you more rope and knot-related projects in the coming weeks, but first, I wanted to share some of our best DIY projects from the archives featuring rope, twine, knotting, knitting and the like.
Image above: Derek and Lauren’s sailor’s knot trivet, which could double as wall decor, is fashioned out of a colorful patterned climber’s rope. Read the full post after the jump . . . 80 How-To Sites Worth Bookmarking - StumbleUpon. Best DIY Projects - Homemade Do it Yourself How To Projects - The Daily Green - StumbleUpon.