Make It - Enjoy It - Love It
1st Weekend You can normally find old door knobs with their matching plates at your local home improvement salvage yard or antique shop. All you'd have to do is mount them to the wall. These make for a very fun towel and rob holders. You can even spray paint them to coordinate with your existing decor.
2nd Weekend This custom whimsical lamp is a great way to capsulate old childhood toys that are no longer being used from your child's collection or your own. You can use anything that will hold up to the powers of a glue gun adhered to the base of an old lamp. You can also use old costume jewelry, empty make-up cases, lipstick cases, little perfume bottles, and small Barbie plastic accessories for a more girly look. Depending on the final look, you can keep the natural look of the items or spray paint them all one color. Just have fun with it.
3rd Weekend If you have space near your front door, this is a really unique way to fill up the empty space and also have a coat hanger. You can get some thick doles from your local hardware store, bind them together with heavy duty straw yarn (you can nail them together too for extra reinforcement) then paint them. Tape off the stopping pint for a clean line OR let the paint run down for a more organic look. Actually, you might want to paint them first.
4th Weekend Do you need extra storage? Do you need a place to display your collectables? Then this hanging shelf is just what you need. And it's easier to make than you might think. Just get slabs of wood with either the same thickness and width or for a little more interest, they can call vary in width and length. Lay them on top of each other in the order you want them to be hung. Drill a whole wide enough for your rope to go through. Lay all four ropes side by side and mark off the distance where you want the boards to stop. When threading the rope through the boards, tie a knot that will prevent the board from sliding down the rope. Get mounting hooks from the hardware store. You can either hang the unit from the ceiling or the wall.
5th Weekend Remember what you did the first weekend for the towel holders? So this project is EXACTLY like that but you can will mount the door knobs near your window curtains for tiebacks. This project shouldn't take all weekend, but that depends on how many windows you want to decorate with these unique jewels.
6th Weekend I chose most of these DIY projects for their simplicity, uniqueness, and their functionality. As the picture for this hat display shows, it's super simple to make and it can be used to display other things like your children's art work, holiday decorations, and even clothing set out for the next day in a child's room. Three basic materials you'll need are rope, a copper pipe, and wooden clothing pins. For a pop of color, you can paint, spray paint or dip in glue and glitter the wooden clothing pins. Depending on your display wall dimensions, you can hang a series of these pipes together to display more items.
7th Weekend Are you ready for this one? This weekend project is a little more complex then the others but I think you can do it. They look spectacular grouped together over a table! For safety reasons, the light bulbs do need to breathe, so be sure to drill extra small holes in the top lid. Here is the link where I found this project. I Need Pictures.
8th Weekend It's almost a guarantee that all thrift stores have random miss-matched chairs in their furniture section that would be perfect for this outdoor swing. I highly suggest using weather resistance outdoor paint for this. If I had a porch, I would have 5 of these in a row with holes in the arms as cup holders. What a great way to spend summer nights with friends out on the porch.
9th Weekend You might have to start on this project a few weeks in advance. Try gathering old picture frames from the thrift store of different sizes, detail to give more interest. Not sure what colors to paint them, use colors from your room's area rug, or sofa, or window treatment. Or just use neutral colors that will work in any room incase you want to reuse them in another room.
10th Weekend This repurpose project is super easy. Just reusing a wine rack, like this one, as a towel holder in the bath. The level of difficult is a 2 since you have to have a wine rack similar to this one.
4th Weekend Do you need extra storage? Do you need a place to display your collectables? Then this hanging shelf is just what you need. And it's easier to make than you might think. Just get slabs of wood with either the same thickness and width or for a little more interest, they can call vary in width and length. Lay them on top of each other in the order you want them to be hung. Drill a whole wide enough for your rope to go through. Lay all four ropes side by side and mark off the distance where you want the boards to stop. When threading the rope through the boards, tie a knot that will prevent the board from sliding down the rope. Get mounting hooks from the hardware store. You can either hang the unit from the ceiling or the wall.
5th Weekend Remember what you did the first weekend for the towel holders? So this project is EXACTLY like that but you can will mount the door knobs near your window curtains for tiebacks. This project shouldn't take all weekend, but that depends on how many windows you want to decorate with these unique jewels.
6th Weekend I chose most of these DIY projects for their simplicity, uniqueness, and their functionality. As the picture for this hat display shows, it's super simple to make and it can be used to display other things like your children's art work, holiday decorations, and even clothing set out for the next day in a child's room. Three basic materials you'll need are rope, a copper pipe, and wooden clothing pins. For a pop of color, you can paint, spray paint or dip in glue and glitter the wooden clothing pins. Depending on your display wall dimensions, you can hang a series of these pipes together to display more items.
7th Weekend Are you ready for this one? This weekend project is a little more complex then the others but I think you can do it. They look spectacular grouped together over a table! For safety reasons, the light bulbs do need to breathe, so be sure to drill extra small holes in the top lid. Here is the link where I found this project. I Need Pictures.
8th Weekend It's almost a guarantee that all thrift stores have random miss-matched chairs in their furniture section that would be perfect for this outdoor swing. I highly suggest using weather resistance outdoor paint for this. If I had a porch, I would have 5 of these in a row with holes in the arms as cup holders. What a great way to spend summer nights with friends out on the porch.
9th Weekend You might have to start on this project a few weeks in advance. Try gathering old picture frames from the thrift store of different sizes, detail to give more interest. Not sure what colors to paint them, use colors from your room's area rug, or sofa, or window treatment. Or just use neutral colors that will work in any room incase you want to reuse them in another room.
10th Weekend This repurpose project is super easy. Just reusing a wine rack, like this one, as a towel holder in the bath. The level of difficult is a 2 since you have to have a wine rack similar to this one.