This month I have been cleaning things out and getting organized. I just made a super cute Desk Organizer out of fence wood scraps, crib slats and left over chicken wire. It is great to keep my taxes and bills from getting lost! I am excited to share a simple picture tutorial so you can make your own!
A wire basket organizer is made from an old table top. The same project can be completed using an old picture frame. Using a table top to make a wire basket organizer I was given this old table base without legs from my neighbor Rodney. He knows I’ll take any left over junk he…
I have a lot of headboards in my stash, but one day while I was putting some stuff in my booth at Vendors’ Village, I picked up this fancy french provincial headboard for $7. I set about changing this fancy headboard into a headboard bench right away! The frame is made of wood, but the…
It is great to be back at My Repurposed Life to share this chalkboard coat rack project with you. In case you are new here my name is Mindi, and I blog over at MyLove2Create. I have always been inspired by Gail and so it really is a privilege for me to be a contributor…
Rarely do I find real shutters while I’m out junking. I didn’t know I’d be making a hanging produce bin from a repurposed shutter when I bought these at Vendors’ Village, but I think it really was the perfect easy project. John had 4 of these black shutters in his booth in the back room….
I think the title says it all. I’m a junker ie: a collector of junk! I am fortunate enough to have a 2 1/2 car garage next door that is at my disposal. It is where I “hold” my projects in waiting and finished projects until they are ready to be sold. When you collect…
I love my new Easy DIY Hose Hanger. I’ve needed to do this for a while now, but I tend to work on fun projects that I can sell in my booth instead of must have projects for the home. Wendi’s Power Tool Challenge theme this month is Summer. I suppose a diy hose hanger…
I love our monthly Thrift Store Décor Challenge because it nudges me to do smaller easier projects. This month I have a srap wood jewelry shelf. I think that some of you might be more comfortable with easy craft projects versus larger building projects. Vendors’ Village had a little birthday celebration at the end of…
I’m so excited to share my latest DIY with you! It’s a rolling tool cart with pegboard storage! I keep my tools in my 1 car garage. That leaves very little room to maneuver around the garage. I build my projects in the driveway, and it entails hauling my tools out of the garage, generally…
This post brought to you by Gladiator GarageWorks. The content and opinions expressed below are that of My Repurposed Life. I’m not just Spring Cleaning around the shop, I’m “Spring Keeping”. Those items to “keep” include, of course all of my tools! They tend to get unorganized and shifted around. I recently built a new…
It’s Angie back from Knick of Time, with a project that’s helping with kitchen organization and save space at the same time. In my home, I have a really narrow and tall wall space in my kitchen. I’ve never been quite sure what to do with. In the past, I’ve had various wall decor hanging…
You won’t believe what I made this tiered stand from—a table lamp thing! I mean it was a table that had a lamp made into it. There it is—on the left. It was a free table from my friend. *Amazon Affiliate Links are used in this post* Dismantle the old lamp I…
Hey MRL Readers!! It is good to be here with you, my name is Mindi and I blog at MyLove2Create. I am one of Gail’s contributors, for those who might be new here. 🙂 I am excited to share my old drawer cubby organizer with you today! You guys, I love this project! Let me tell…
Merry Christmas everyone! I know this is a busy day for everyone, but when the festivities start winding to a close and you have a few minutes to sit down and relax with a hot cup of coffee, cocoa or tea, I’m here to share a new project that may be just the thing you…
Do you remember the door hall tree I made a few weeks ago? I actually bought two of the cheap $2 interior doors to use as extra workspace in between sawhorses. Oh man! I didn’t intend to use them for projects, or I would have bought more. I found the perfect purpose for the second…
Hello! Remember a couple weeks ago when I shared my Cheap Cabinet into Nice Bench? Well today I am going to share my Stackable Pallet Crates that I made to go inside the bench cubbies. First of all if you follow me at MyLove2Create you know I LOVE crates! So when I turned the cheap…
What do you do when you need more storage and office space in your two bedroom patio home? Well, if you’re frugal like my cousin Terry, you go thrift shopping and score a great deal on this piece to make a repurposed tv armoire project (for office storage).
This kitchen hutch buffet has been a long time in the making! You may remember this desk and hutch. I’ve already shown it to you in the post Recent Finds Leann’s Curb Finds, and then I showed you the details of how I cut it down to size in the post DIY Desk/Hutch…
I’m sure you’re busy getting ready for Christmas. I just wanted to pop in with a quick and easy cabinet door coat rack chalkboard project. All you need is an old cabinet door, knobs, scrap plywood and some paint. Thanks for saving & sharing on Pinterest! Over the Summer my cousin gave me an…
A while back I picked up 4 drawers for free, and to be honest, I can’t remember where I got them. 🙂 Over the past few months when I would see them I would envision different ideas of how I could use them, but nothing really “clicked”. Being a busy mom, I decided that they…
This may be one of my fastest turnarounds. Do you remember the medicine cabinet I showed you last week’s recent finds Yard Sale Leftovers? It took me awhile to figure out that it wanted to be a portable craft organizer.
EDITED to add: Catch as Catch Can will be on vacation next week due to Blogapalooza 2014. It’s been a whirlwind week since arriving home Sunday night from Atlanta. Monday was catch-up day with 10 Etsy orders. I wanted to get them all done right away because a cool front was arriving, and I wanted…
I hope I’m not the only person that has epic DIY failures occasionally, but Gail graciously let me come share with you how I salvaged my DIY failure into a pallet project I love. My name is Angie, and my blog home is Knick of Time, where I share lots of repurposed vintage projects…
I love this latest project that I’m sharing with you. I made a small DIY wooden crate using shutter slats and scrap wood, which are plentiful around here. Easy DIY Wooden Crate Made With Slats These slats happened to be white. I believe they were removed from this white magazine rack. Assemble DIY Wooden Crate…
How to make a headboard entryway bench using reclaimed materials. It’s surprising how similar in size the kitchen cabinet and the headboard were. It made it relatively easy to marry the two pieces to make a fun bench!
How to make a headboard bench with a shelf out of an old bunk bed. Step by step tutorial for a sweet bench, perfect for an entryway, mudroom, or the end of the bed.
It’s been a week, and I’ve shown you how I am getting organized in the garage by building a lumber storage work bench, and another lumber storage bench. I am not 100% done with this huge task. There are a few things that I don’t want to put back in the garage because it looks…
Three long days of cleaning and organizing the garage. I’m so over it. Seriously, I feel like I just want to burn all the wood that I haven’t found a home for. I snapped a picture of the 20 year old cabinet.
I showed you the lumber storage bench I built yesterday from the Family Handyman site. Today, I’m going to show you how I modified it to make bench #2. I needed another bench to store my scrap lumber. I have another 2 ft wide piece of scrap plywood from that 70’s waterbed that I wanted…
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This project has been almost 4 years in the making. This is the original state of this old radio cabinet. When I showed it as a recent find (way back when), my friend Rose emailed me pictures of one that she had just like it. We called them Two Peas in a Pod. We…
I told you last week that I needed to clean up my craft storage room. Don’t be confused and think that this room will ever be a craft room. There isn’t enough room to work in there. It is strictly for storage. It’s always worked pretty well, until I opened my Etsy shop. Now I…
Oh no! There must be a black market for craft stuff! Someone broke into my crapt storage room. Seriously, why on earth would anyone break in and trash this room? What could possibly be so valuable on the black market? Could they have been looking for these vintage wooden blocks? I suppose it wasn’t…
Bliss here from BlissRanch, and while I am tickled to have a guest post at My Repurposed Life, I’m a bit intimidated too. You guys have all seen the amazing re-purposes that Gail does …… I mean she’s never met anything she can’t turn into a bench! She is responsible for me looking sideways at…
Hi! I’m Cristin Frank from Eve of Reduction. I heart My Repurposed Life and am thrilled to contribute a guest post. I specialize in upcycling and repurposing projects, furniture restorations and recycled crafts that reduce waste by reusing resources that would otherwise have been tossed in a landfill. In other words, I garbage pick a…
How to make a shelf out of repurposed cupboard doors. I bought these 4 “glassless” cupboard doors at Tickled Pink. The tow on the left were used to make chalkboards. I had two left that were the same size. Design Repurposed Cupboard Doors Shelf I cut some 1×6’s to size. This post contains…
Do you remember this desk? I took it apart to make this tall chest of drawers. I used the drawers from the left and right sides, but had one drawer left, the middle drawer. I removed the hardware. With it standing on its end, you can see that it won’t hang flat against the wall…
I took TONS of pictures while I worked on the basement, however even I can’t make heads or tails of them. So I made 3 collage pictures of the main areas. This is the corner where I kept all of my school stuff after I lost my job. This is where I will keep my…
How to make a shutter cupboard using four repurposed shutters. Tall Yellow Shutter Cupboard I made the shutter bookcase for Jan a couple of months ago. She had 4 more shutters and she asked me to build her a shutter cupboard. Designing and Building a Shutter Cupboard These shutters are taller than I am….
This louvered door hall tree went through some changes! Friends–I paint a lot of projects, but I still struggle with paint colors. Everything doesn’t always go right the first time, in fact that happens a lot to me. Can you relate? Door Hall Tree Tutorial Louvered Door & Saloon Doors After I made Jan’s door/nightstand…
