How to make a baseball wreath for your front door out of baseballs from your favorite games. Tips for getting just the right amount of baseballs and what kind of wire to use. Embellish your baseball wreath with your team colors or monogram.
How to make a Christmas stocking hanger out of a repurposed headboard. This easy tutorial will give you all the details you need to make your own Christmas stocking holder for your family.
After using an ugly green messed up nightstand for storage in the garage for years, I was about to throw it out. BUT! I posted it on Facebook and most people said keep it. I’m so glad I did. Look at it now. After a little TLC, paint and adding a window (door) I love it! I’ll show you just how it all came about in this article.
I’m sharing a friend’s project today. It’s a beautiful felted sweater Christmas Stocking! Anita did a beautiful job on this thrift store sweater stocking. Wouldn’t this make a sweet gift?
I love old chairs, and today I have a fun and easy chair project for you. I turned an old chair back into a jewelry display. Check out these four chairs I got from a local reader last year. I’ve already used some of the legs to make a coffee table/bench. After…
I have another repurposed project, a chair back wall shelf made from my $2 thrift store chair. I’ve already made a chair seat wall shelf. Not bad to get two projects out of one $2 find, eh? I have a lot of chairs, but even so, I couldn’t pass up this deal.This one caught my…
I recently shared this easy repurposed chair back coat rack at Today’s Creative Life! Kim was having some friends share great projects, you really should check them out at her Celebrate Summer series. Thrift store chair This lonely chair had been marked at 5.03, but was 50% off when I bought it at Vendors’ Village….
This large chalkboard shelf is so different than anything I’ve done before, and I love it! Staging it was a lot of fun too, be sure to read all about it at the end of the post. If you’ve been a friend for a long time, you probably have seen this picture before. My…
This sweet little repurposed cabinet door table is the product of me having so many doors in my stash. I’ve made a small table out of a cabinet door way back in the day, but it’s much easier and prettier when you have the right tools. Items to make a cabinet door table…
I have a baby gate for corralling Louie (left) but with a very strange floor plan in my home, I need more options when Lucy (right) comes to visit. When Lucy is fed, she gobbles her food up really fast, whereas Louie is more of a nibbler. It’s difficult to find a time to…
I’ve been working on smaller projects. Disclaimer: Today, I have an easy display table for a game board. I understand that some people may not like the content of this post. A friend of mine requested this custom order. Perhaps you could use the idea with your favorite game board.
This post is going to show you how to use a repurposed tv to make a new and useful piece of furniture. This is one of many t.v. cabinets I recently picked up at my local Habitat ReStore over the Summer. Here you can see them all lined up ready to be…
This small wall cabinet made from a vintage cupboard door and a new pine box has been a long time in the making. I took this “before” picture on November 16, 2009. Can you believe it? It only took me four years to finish this simple project. In April 2010 I built a…
Do you remember this haul from last month at the Hardin County Habitat Restore? This plastic cabinet was part of my painting marathon using my diy chalk paint in my HomeRight Finish Max. After priming, I decided I should remove this lower shelf, it was really too low to the bottom. I patched,…
PIN IT! I was given this old buffet back in the early spring. It’s been sitting in storage looking all pitiful just waiting for the tlc it deserves. When I got this piece and blogged about it, Susan remarked that she had it’s twin. I already knew it would make a perfect media center…
I recently showed you how I turned this old ammo box into a unique coffee table. This is the after, but I was curious about leg/wheels. To tell you the truth, I always planned to put wheels on it, but wanted to run it by you for your opinion. …
Let me catch you up to date. Rewind a few years—I had this foot board. I parted it out and saved these two bedposts. Recently, I cut it down so that I could use the piece on the left as a front leg for this: Have you seen my flowerbed? I was left with…
This is a long {tutorial} post, to show you how to make a flower planter from a repurposed headboard. It is very picture heavy. If you want details, feel free to read all the tips. If you’re like me, you’ll skim over the words, and just look at the pictures. I’ve been trying to get…
Repurposing a Console TV I am so excited to have the opportunity to post at My Repurposed Life. So, thank you gail, for allowing me this opportunity! I have repurposed a few things, including a dresser into a bench and an old TV console into a tv stand. The repurposed console TV had been my…
Using a Finish Max with Chalkboard Paint I recently decided to clean out my storage shed. It’s one of the places where I store my inventory. You can see a few empty spaces where I’ve pulled some stuff out. I didn’t quite “gut” it, but I did remove most of it to organize it…
Last year while I was on vacation in California, someone dropped this piece of a piano front off at my house. I was sort of stuck because of the color. So, I mixed up some DIY black chalk paint. I instantly liked it a lot better. I’ve been needing something for this…
I have a fun project for you today. I changed out the screen from a vintage storm door with chicken wire. I am taking part in a huge Flea Market show in Louisville over the 4 day Memorial Day weekend. I am not exactly sure what all I’m taking, but I will be be selling…
In January when one of my favorite thrift stores closed, I took advantage of some great sales. You my remember this coffee table. It had been marked $15, then marked down to $10, I got it for 50% off. This is what it looked like when I got it. Later that month I …
Well hello there! I’m Barbara and I’m the author and creative mind behind Chase the Star, where I write about DIY projects, home decor, crafts, and more. My latest project is a stool upcycle and I’m so excited to share the tutorial here at My Repurposed Life. My neighbor gave me this adorable navy colored…
Hello all! My name is Angie with The Country Chic Cottage and I am thrilled Gail allowed me to guest post for her today. I love taking thrift store cast offs and turning them into something that looked like it stepped outside of the home decor department. Are you looking for mirror ideas? My latest…
I have a great project for you today, it’s easy and it’s cheap! For me it was free because I already had some chalkboard spray paint on hand. I’d love to take the credit for this project, but a good blog friend was my inspiration for this project. Patricia from Corn In My Coffee Pot…
Have you ever done foam pouncer stenciling on a rug? I know everyone is doing it all over blog-land, and it’s been on my to do list. However I didn’t have a need for one. When I visited my cousins in Michigan we had a bonfire, and…
I saw a couple of these on Pinterest, and when I googled and kept looking I found more than what was on Pinterest. I did all the legwork for you. Check out the options … Each picture is clickable, and will take you to the PDF file for printing on a large Folger’s Coffee…
I love working my magic on discarded items destined for the landfill. Look at the difference some DIY chalk paint can make. You’re going to love these dresser mirror ideas. While I was vacationing in California this summer, a friend dropped off two of these plastic framed mirrors. You may remember a plastic…
Hi everyone! I’m Katie from Sew Woodsy. My husband Jon (dubbed Mr. Woodsy on our blog) and I document our journey of homeownership one tutorial at a time. Sew Woodsy is a place where we share our love for renovating and decorating on a budget. Thank you Gail, for inviting us to guest post for…
Do you have some of these cheap plastic chairs that are ridiculously stained and ugly? I have 4 that I’ve had so long, I don’t even know where they came from. Did you know you can spray paint plastic chairs? So, I had all this spray…
Picture frames are readily available at yard sales and thrift stores cheap! I’ve made several large shadow boxes. One day recently I had a little time to kill and wanted a “quickie” project. I rummaged through my picture frames and found one that I thought would work great for a diy shadow box frame….
I love repurposed chandelier projects. This is the first modern chandelier I’ve gutted to turn into a romantic candelabra. Each chandelier is different, but this post will show you how I achieved this look for no money. Repurposed Chandelier – a Yard Sale Find Do you remember this…
Do you remember last week I showed you how I cut up an old chest of drawers to make an entertainment center? I used the top of the chest of drawers for that project. I used the bottom of the chest of drawers for another project. Here are the two projects side by side so…
I love to do repurposed door projects. This door was a very heavy exterior door. My friend Cathy and I curbed it a couple of years ago. I still remember the day we picked it up. We were in a borrowed truck, parked going uphill! We really struggled to get this baby into the truck,…
How to make candlestick from repurposed bedposts In between building larger projects, I love to tinker around with small bits and pieces! I had some small parts left over when I made my Pedestal Plant Stands. I trimmed them up, and used some scrap 1×4’s to cut down into nice little squares. I routed…
Do you remember the bench I put together from bits and pieces of 3 beds 2 cribs and a chair? I cut the pointy piece off and used the larger piece for the front leg. I had to cut the bottom of this bed off in order to raise up the footboard. I took the…
When I saw this pedestal stand, I was shocked at the price. I had parts laying around to make something nearly identical. (for FREE) Source I dug out this old bed piece from my stash. Doesn’t everyone have such random items in their stash? I cut it down to size with my compound miter…
If you follow me on FaceBook, you’ve already seen the “after” of this project. Last fall my nephew Kevin gave me these two pieces, a headboard and a foot board. I really didn’t know what I was going to do with them. A few weeks ago, I gathered some items (which included one of these)…
The day I picked up this sewing cabinet (the one front and center) I picked up a small tiered table from the same yard sale. I think I got the two of them for around $10.00. So in my mind, I paid $7 for this sewing cabinet and $3 for this little table: Granted, that…
