Trash to Treasure projects
When Kelly from The Pink Hammer removed a wall decal from her daughter’s room in preparation for a house showing, she hated to just throw it away. Instead Kelly looked for a new home for the decal that could travel with them and came upon an old window from her stash that was a perfect match.
Instead of living with a bunch of blank walls staring at her, Ashley from Design Build Love has found ways to create her own wall art for much less than store-bought prices. For one such project, Ashley upcycled a pile of scrap wood that had been sitting in her garage.
Kim from seven thirty three got these cedar boards from her dad after they had been sitting in his closet for twenty whole years. They were leftover from a closet renovation, and it looks like their rainy day finally arrived! Kim attached the planks with wood glue to form her sign and then created her {…Read More…}
Wall décor can be pricey, so I always love DIY art that doesn’t cost much (if anything at all). This newspaper wall canvas by Dom at Crafted isn’t only inexpensive to create, it’s also a green craft that repurposes newspaper. Dom created her artwork by twisting strips of newspaper into little rosettes and gluing them {…Read More…}
When Chris from Just a Girl needed some super simple and free artwork for above the bed in her master bedroom she looked no further than the ever popular toilet paper roll. She created a simple, soft pattern with the rolls, hot gluing them onto her canvas and applying spray paint to the whole shebang. {…Read More…}
Karin from Art Is Beauty scored several old cabinet doors for free off Craigslist. She hadn’t a clue what she was going to do with them but her creative intuition definitely kicked in as she started prepping them. As Karin was coating the cabinets with various colors of homemade chalk paint, she decided the cabinets {…Read More…}
Don’t you just love it when you see something you love and then realize you can easily make it yourself? And for FREE no less! That’s exactly what happened with Karin from Art Is Beauty and these old cabinet doors. Karin had an “AHA!” moment when she realized that these doors from her collection of {…Read More…}
