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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Weathered Boards.Barbed Wire Rusty Junk Welcome Sign

Our Community will be having garage sales in May so I have been gearing up for that. This affords me the opportunity to gather up some of my junk treasures, re-purpose/up-cycle them and offer them for sale and hopefully reduce my inventory of stuff. I have been feeling really creative, so making some neat stuff.

 

Several years ago I bought a five gallon metal bucket that was crammed full of pieces of tongue and grove boards. I put a plastic bag over them; sat them behind the shop and forgot about them. I had lots of old hooks and these old boards, so set out to make something out of them.

 In the bucket were some fantastic blue boards ... they were great !! We cut one long one in half and glued them together.

 

 

While searching for some old glass knobs,  

I found these beautiful, painted blue gate hinges. So ... this is what I/we, Mr. Z and I created. 

   

The old rusty barbed wire wreath was perfect to hang from the center glass knob using a burlap bow. Love the rusty "5" to tuck in the wire. The little blue bird feels right at home in the rusty iron dipper.

  Rusty jail keys look great hanging from the hinges. I guess this is just a rusty Welcome sign. I was really pleased with the way it turned out.

 

Great for hanging some junky stuff or just about anything.  

The WELCOME is hand painted ... sanded the lettering a little to age it.

  

Enjoy ...

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Blessings .....Audrey Z.