Before and After ... repurpose, recyclying, saving.

Before and After ... most of these projects were done when I first started blogging. One even long before that ... heck, I have been doing this just about all my life !!!

My happiness comes when I can re-purpose something, 

save it from the dump and make it beautiful and useful. 

I enjoy working with wood and love to recycle, re-purpose  lamps and lighting fixtures. 

 

Boards came from our lumber pile ... natural antler drops from the ranch ... no animal was harmed to make this shelf.

Tutorial: Antler shelf here

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Before: Sad metal cart  After with granite top.

Industrial TV console can be seen here. 

Pretty lamp make-over with just a little paint, re-wire and a pretty shade. Easy-peasy ...  

25¢ shop stool before and after ... just look at those pretty legs ... HERE

Display shelf

Before

                                 After

Sign boards to French numbered stair step display shelf.

This was a challenging project ... watch me make the transformation here.

25¢ Clock                After

                             Make-over can be seen HERE.

Rustic bench made from recycled barn wood from an old house.   
Before.      

After




Tutorial can be seen HERE

Before ... 25¢










After can be seen HERE

Sweet ............

 Before The cabinet no one would steal can be seen here.   

  

AFTER ...                                                           

Wheels ... 
bead board ...
glass drawer pulls ...
painted and distressed too ... 
WOW ...

From this five gallon bucket of reclaimed beaded boards, 

I made ... two WELCOME signs and a clock display shelf. 

Can be see here ... here ... here

This old post lantern had just about served its time ... but a little TLC saved it. Beautiful old wavy glass ... just had to save it.

See how it was done HERE ...


Hope you enjoyed a few  make-overs ... thanks for visiting.

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Repurposing architectural salvage.Welcome Sign

Floors are not swept and sinks are full of dirty dishes, but I gotta go to the shop and try to be creative. 

 

Have you ever had times when your mind is so full of creative ideas; you just can't work fast enough?

 

Well, I tell you, Blogland is so full of creative ideas ... you can get so inspired that it is overwhelming.

Our Subdivision will be having Garage Sales at the end of the month and each year, I try to recycle some of my junk/treasures in creative ways to make my sale more interesting. This year I got carried away, so I have a few/actually more than a few, to share with you.  

I hung a recycled old Welcome envelope with a barb wire handle to fill with a nice plant and old rusty jail keys hanging on the hooks. To hide the hangers at the top. I leaned a clock face and perched a little bird on the other side.

I love architectural salvage and get a lot of pleasure in re-purposing items.

Several years ago, I bought a big five-gallon bucket full of salvage tongue and groove 4" planks/boards. Knowing I needed to start getting rid of stuff, I took a look at these boards; the huge collection of door hardware and hooks and decided to see I could come up with.

First, we made a very simple weathered white shelf with three vintage hooks ... then a WELCOME sign out of the beautiful blue boards that I uncovered ... can be seen at Welcome Sign Rusty Wire Wreath

Pretty nice ... so we made the one above using some of the same type architectural salvage. 

Old door hinges that are attached so they work  ...  porcelain knob to hang something on and funky hooks on the bottom for hanging keys or something. I hand painted WELCOME and No. 7 (don't ask me why ... just looked right) ... 


The next board became this ....

a narrow shelf for my some of my small clocks as seen Clock Shelf

 

Hope you enjoyed seeing what I love to do.


Blessings,
Audrey Z.


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