Rita May at May Days has got a wonderful idea where she has stored her bubble bath in empty tequila bottles. You can even use these bottles to store liquid soap and other bath products inside your bathroom.
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Shannon at Fox Hollow Cottage painted an empty tequila bottle with aqua color and distressed it with steel wool. Then she re-thinked a hairclip and used its brooch part and glued it to the bottle. The result is in front of you.
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Nelly Drogin at Pinterest has shared another great and easy-peasy way to upcycle an old tequila bottle. Simply wrap it in a piece of burlap cloth and see what a wonderful vase like this will come into existence.
James Rosano at Hatch has a wonderful idea for all of those who have a green thumb and would love to have one or more plants around them inside their home too. Simply fill a cut tequila bottle with silt, add a few pebbles and plant a succulent.
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Michelle Reynolds at DIY Network Blog with the use of some metal wire along with multicolored beads created a cute and wonderful hummingbird feeder from a tequila bottle.
Shirley Gomez via Pinterest combined spice filled tequila bottles with a napkin holder and created a wonderfully practical spice rack.
Etsy Shop Rehabulous has shared a great way to utilize old tequila bottles and turned them to condiment bowls after cutting them.
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Dinah Wulf at DIY Inspired wrapped a tequila bottle in lace and burlap and turned it into a pretty flower vase.
Shaky Jay Creations at Etsy has crafted a spectacular wind chime from a tequila bottle. Wind chimes are a great way to instantly decorate a space and if it is recycled it can save you a few bucks too.
Katie at Addicted 2 DIY created this wonderful planter from an old tire. You might have seen many kinds of tire planters but there is something so special about this beauty. It has got rope coiled around the tire along with wooden tripod legs. Isn’t this so creative and original?
Bronx Zoo via Pinterest shared a snowman that is created from old tires painted white. This snowman is added festivity of holiday season with fairy lights and a red scarf. You can also make a snowman like this one that would never melt.
Jess Blazejewski at Style Me Pretty shared a wonderful idea to create ottomans for your home’s indoor or outdoor area by simply wrapping rope around tires. These ottomans can become extra seating in a heartbeat and when seating is not required, simply stack and use them as a table.
Etsy Shop BMP Products has re-thinked old bike tires into these cool shelves that you can use to store your kids’ small toys or you can also display trinkets in these shelves in your living room.
Kristen Whitby at Ella Claire painted a tire blue, added rope to it and it became a fun swing that makes kids happy.
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Jessi at Practically Functional painted a tire pink, added cushion to it and it was ready to be used by her puppy as a comfy and cozy bed.
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Luz at Hometalk created this teacup planter with the help of her husband. She painted three tires in turquoise color and added dandy yellow polka dots. After that she stacked them, added a handle and a tea cup was formed. Once the teacup was formed she filled it with soil and planted flowers. You can also give a shot to this project and re-create this teacup planter that you will be happy to add to your garden.
Our Fairfield Home & Garden has shared an idea where you can recycle old ladders as stands for birdhouses. This will have two benefits, firstly you will be able to place the birdhouses in a proper place and secondly the birdhouses combined with ladders are also a form of a garden feature.
Homelife has a wonderful idea to use a ladder as a kitchen storage option for all the pots and pans that occupy space inside your kitchen cabinets and on the counter or kitchen island. Simply hang an old ladder with suspending chains, add hooks and hang all your pots and pans in one place ready to be accessed easily and at any time.
Donna at Funky Junk Interiors has rethinked an old ladder into a hanger that stores and displays the collection of her jeans. This idea is great for all of those who have run out of space in their closet and need some extra storage solution for the poor homeless clothes.
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Amanda Formaro at Crafts by Amanda came up with an interesting and unique idea. She decorated a ladder superbly with decoupage technique and then added picture frames and other accessories to it and created a beauteous decor for her wall.
Donna at Funky Junk Interiors turned an old ladder into a planter stand that earlier served as a Christmas decor ladder.
Beth from Unskinny Boppy got inspired from a ladder chandelier with hanging lanterns at Pottery Barn and then she decided to create her own that turned out be absolutely marvelous. She hung the ladder in her porch with chains and added mason jar luminary and a star to it. This ladder chandelier has given a whole new life to her porch.
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Courtney at French Country Cottage decorated a vintage ladder with a fresh leaf wreath, sprigs and beauteous stockings.
Missie Krissie at Etsy has a great way to recycle old spoons in the form of a tree that you can use to store and display your jewelry. Imagine your jewelry stored on a tree like this will itself be a decor element so unique and artistic.
Mitzi Curi at Mitzi’s Collectibles has recycled old spoon heads and created these pendants that she sells on her Etsy shop and are quite a hit there. Well, a creativity like this truly deserves admiration.
Shayna at The Wood Grain Cottage combined pallet wood with old spoons and screws and created this hook rack that costed her just $2. Well, this means creativity is priceless and no matter how small an amount a project costs, nothing is equal in worth to the ingenious idea of the creator.
Tony Turner at Feather Nesters has created these cabinet pulls from old spoons and this idea is going to do wonders if you apply it to all or some of the cabinets in your kitchen and dining room. After all, spoons have a deep relation with kitchen and dining spaces.
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Etsy Shop Twisted Metals by Neva Starr has a fun way to recycle all your old spoons. With some skill of cutting, welding and twisting spoons, you can create a fish wind chime like these. Well, there is always an option of purchasing them too.
Cathe at Just Something I Made came up with a spectacular idea where she has recycled old spoons into egg holders that you can make once and use them for years to come on every Easter to display your Easter eggs.
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Tuula at Thrifty Rebel Vintage has created these wonderful flowers from old spoons and now they will keep the spring season alive in her garden all through the year.
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Kim at What am I Going to be When I Grow Up with the help of her friends painted slabs of an old picket fence into these lovely fish in exciting colors and patterns. You can also paint a slab or two if you can get them at some thrift store and put one or more fish on your living room table.
Denise Stain at Denise on a Whim re-imagined a piece of picket fence into a wall decor. She added burlap to the fence and embellished it with wire and button flowers that accent the distressed blue look of the fence frame.
Christy at Confessions of a Serial Do-It-Yourselfer transformed an old $1 thrift store frame after combining it with a picket fence to create this wonderful tray that can give anyone an itch to try this project themselves too.
Kim at Maiden D’SHADE rethinked a picket fence, added hooks to it and now it serves many functions. During holidays it functions as a stocking hanger and else than that it is a great organizer for bags, hats and other accessories.
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Craft Pond via Flickr shared a great way to simply mount a portion of a salvaged picket fence on a wall and it is ready to store, organize and display your scarves. Great, isn’t it?
The Old Park Homestead has a great idea to let an old fence live a second life in the same scenario where it lived its first life that is a garden. This fence must be so glad.
Samantha at Pots and Tots added hooks to two pieces of an old picket fence. Fixed them on a wall and it became a wonderful towel storage. So, this project is a great example of a simple yet a clever idea.
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Gail at My Repurposed Life had few pieces of picket fence with her so she made an ingenious use of those and created a coat rack.
Barb Rosen at Our Fairfield Home and Garden found two old bamboo rakes and a wonderful idea struck her which was turning them to trellises with an additional function of a birdhouse too.
Jennifer at Perfect Pear recycled an old rake and made a wonderful holder for the collection of her necklaces that not only serves as a storage but it also creates a wonderful display of her necklaces.
Tammy at One More Time Events utilized an old rake and turned it into a post at which planter baskets can be hung.
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Michelle from The Gracious Wife moved to an old farmhouse and found a rake left by the earlier occupants so she rethinked it into a utensil holder for her kitchen.
Suzy Myers at Suzy’s Artsy Craftsy Sitcom shared such a cute decorative craft idea that you can try for the next Christmas. She crafted a Santa door greeter from a rake. How creative is that!
Betsy from My Salvaged Treasures re-imagined an old and rusty rake into a picture holder. Well, that is a perfect example of creating something fab from drab.
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Jordan at If You Give a Girl a Needle found an old and rusty rake for just an amount of 0.5$ and she thought she would make an organizer for her belts with it and so she did. To make it look yet cooler, she made a good use of some jewelry that was broken and of no use in the form of embellishing the top part of the rake organizer.
Linda Reber At Pinterest shared a project that is a tree made from recycled wine bottles combined with recycled rake heads. So if you can get your hands on four to five rakes, and some recycled wine bottles, you can give a shot to this lovely creation.
Tara at Anything and Everything while redecorating her living room opted for a thrifty furniture option and created this wonderful coffee table from wine crates.
Sarah at Apartment Therapy shared the decor of her living room where she has stacked two wooden crates to become a cool end table.
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Brenda at Cottage 4C combined the legs of a $5 table with an old coca cola crate and this masterpiece in the form of a footstool came into existence.
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Paul Channing at Pinterest shared a great idea to give a home to a small collection of books inside an old wooden crate fixed onto a wall.
Michelle at Allen Designs wanted an ultimate solution for her increasing amount of ribbon supply and hence she came up with an idea and organized the ribbons inside a wooden crate.
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Elsie Larson via A Beautiful Mess shared the pictures of her bathroom tour where these lovely shelves that organize her towels and makeup supplies are built by her creative father.
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Natalie at Design Sponge has shared a great idea for all of those who have got a thing for crafting. Simply store all your crafting supplies in old wooden crates. Awesome, isn’t it?
Better Homes and Gardens has a solution for the ever increasing requirement of storage in your kitchen. Just bring into use some wooden crates and create storage anywhere in your kitchen without spending hefty amounts on organizers.
Sew Woodsy where Katie & Jon Jasiewicz share their wonderful creations made this wonderful dog bowl holder from a coca cola crate brought to them by their neighbor. Their neighbor must have been quite happy with this wonderful transformation.
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Erica at Spoonful of Imagination found this old dresser in the junk tossed away by her neighbor’s and after giving it a pretty makeover she turned the dresser into a display shelf.
Cyrille at Bubblestitch Quilts upcycled a small dresser into a fun play kitchen for her two year old son in a bright and cheery yellow color.
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Lisa at Create Inspire found an old dresser and her wonderful hubby converted it into this amazing bench.
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Better Homes and Gardens has yet another thrifty idea where an old dresser has got a second chance to live in a kitchen as an island.
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Cindy at Cameras and Chaos found a drab old dresser and after treating it with sand paper and a coat of fresh grayish paint, she turned it into a fantastic storage for fabrics.
Jami at An Oregon Cottage after making additions to a dresser, transformed it into a bathroom vanity that can be a design inspiration for everyone who sees it. Two thumbs up Jami!
Curt at Grizzly Bear Modern shares a great project to use that old and ugly dresser lying useless with you. Simply plant it with succulents and see them grow and live inside its drawers in your patio or garden.
Julie’s Hubby from At The Parks recycled an old dresser and did some tweaks and made it into a superb TV stand. It looks just amazing after the makeover in white color.
Sew Many Ways has an inspiration to organize your sewing and craft supplies inside an old dresser. Now you don’t have to sort the large amount of ribbons from a deep box for your required color or your craft supplies won’t be cluttering your work desk.
Gail at My Repurposed Life turned an old headboard into a wall shelf. After she saw its inspiration on pinterest she finally turned this headboard into a shelf that was with her for six years.
Sausha at Sweet Pickins Furniture repurposed a headboard into this wonderful organizer that holds her gardening tools. You can also go for such an organizer and can combine it with your potting bench or simply mount it on your patio wall.
Christy from Confessions of a Serial DIYer found a headboard at a thrift store for 30 bucks and she turned it into this beauteous bench. The interesting thing about this bench is that she painted it with milk paint in mason jar blue color that gives a distressed look upon drying.
Here is another project by Christy from Confessions of a Serial DIYer where she painted a headboard white, added hooks to it and turned it into a coat rack. She also added a script saying ‘Hello Sunshine’.
Gail at My Repurposed Life too has another project for your inspiration of this year’s Christmas decor. She turned an old and dull headboard into a cheerful red hanger for Christmas stockings. The good thing about this hanger is that you will make it just once and can use it for the years to come.
Becky @ Beyond The Picket Fence turned a headboard and a foot board into these fun chalkboards. This is a great idea, you can try if you have kids at your home and you want to plan different activities for them that are entertaining as well as educational.
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Pam Dana at Over the Big Moon recycled an old headboard into a wonderful potting bench. If you also have a green thumb and you love gardening like Pam, then a potting bench is a must for you and instead of purchasing an expensive version, simply recycle thrift store headboards.
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Lynn of Living Large in a Small House saw a picture of bucket sinks on facebook (left one) and got inspired and hence she created her own version too that is an amazing addition to her greenhouse and looks so perfect inside it.
Pam Penick shares another wonderful metal bucket creation where she has turned them into these spectacular lighting fixtures.
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Pamela at Backwoods Cottage has created this tiered metal bucket planter and she keeps on changing the kinds of flowers in this planter according to the needs of changing seasons.
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Stephanie from The Cozy Old Farmhouse has a wonderful idea to add some extra storage to your bathroom. Simply hang or fix a galvanized bucket and store in it. This is a great money-saving idea too, isn’t it?
Cia at Still Finding Cash recycled an old galvanized tub into a drink cooler and she put it on an old chair hence creating a wonderful decor too for her party.
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Finding Home Farms has a great idea where a kitchen garden made from galvanized buckets and an old door got a makeover of pumpkins and gourds for a decor that goes with the theme of fall.
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Megan @ Farmhouse 5540 found a $10 galvanized bucket at a flea market and she creatively brought it into use on Christmas for setting the tree inside it. That’s just wonderful!
Taryn at Design, Dining and Diapers got these galvanized buckets from her granny and she used one for filling pine cones and added logs to the second one hence resulting in a wonderful winter themed porch display. Fall is inching closer and this one would be great to give a shot to this year when the mercury drops.