It’s summer, let’s go to the beach, everybody! For a comfortable and simple beach bag you’ll need a canvas bag of your choice, thread(s), a needle, and a bit of embroidery-style stitching. Work upside down from the opening of the bag to draw the design; use tailors’ chalk to be able to rub it off...
We have already told you of many rugs and mats – polka dot, T-shirt, faux pebble and so on. This rug has a rustic touch and would look ideal near your fireplace or on a veranda. For a simple DIY rug you’ll need some jute or sisal rope 8-11 mm thick, some glue or threads....
We have already told you about various gardens, including vertical ones. And you know how pallets may be used also. Now there’s an idea of a vertical garden of a pallet. You’ll need 3-4 pallets in similar as planters, a hammer and nails for pulling planks off and nailing them together, a Dremel rotary tool...
If you have a usual old chair that you don’t know how to decorate, this tutorial is for you. Let’s make a herring bone chair. You’ll need Benjamin Moore 2170-50 Teacup Rose and Benjamin Moore 013 Fan Coral paints, Benjamin Moore 1297 Minstrel Heart, a triangular rubber combing tool. Apply the base coat to the...
There lots of smart shelves that you can choose to display your belongings and as a comfortable storage space. Make them yourselves! For these honeycomb shelves you’ll need a miter saw, wood screws or sheet rock screws at 1 1/4″, a drill and drill bit, a level, a rotary sander, wood glue, a tape measurer,...
Getting ready for a party outdoors? Here’s one more idea for such event: diy garland made of birthday caps. You’ll need birthday hats, holiday lights or cafè lights, scissors, some tape, thumbtack. Undo the closure on the birthday hats so that you could easily pull them apart and they lay open on a flat surface....
A chandelier from bulbs and cages? It may be so cool! You’ll need bulb cages, an assortment of colored and differently shaped bulbs, “Hemma” cord sets, one per bulb, power strip. Screw a bulb into the socket on a cord set. Position the cage around the bulb and cage it into place around the bulb,...
We have already told you of liquor bottle lamps, neon lamps and many others. And here’s one more design – diy veneer lamp. The supplies are 1 roll of 2″x8′ veneer edging, 2 10″ sized embroidery hoops, 1 pendant light kit, a low wattage light bulb, a piece of cardboard or chipboard , a small...
Everything connected with nature is fashionable and just cool. We have already told you about some coasters made of wood, and here’s one more idea. You’ll need straight branches that are no smaller than 3.5” in diameter, a hand saw, sandpaper, clear varnish. Using the saw cut sections of branches not less than ½” thick....
If you dream of creating a beautiful picture, there’s a way how to do that without being much of a painter. Take a black canvas, repaint it white. Flip it upside down with a giant paintbrush, quickly dipping in water and then black acrylic paint. Flip the canvas back around so I could shape the...