Don’t you love that this use for paintbrushes not only spruces up the outside of a vase (or an empty jar or can), but still enables you to use the paintbrushes?
It’s a clever way to store art or office supplies such as brushes, pencils, pens, and rubber bands.
(via DudeCraft)
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find:
Empty wine bottles made into bird feeders.
To DIY, see ChickenStreet’s tutorial here.
For earlier posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series, check out the archive here.
How to build a daybed out of pallets.
For tutorial, to DIY, see Prudent Baby.
(spotted on the Young House Love blog here)
The idea of turning burned-out incandescent light bulbs into vases and terrariums has made the blogosphere and Pinterest rounds. If you haven’t come across it and/or haven’t read a useful tutorial explaining how to open up bulbs and clean them out, check out this Freepeople post or this one from Instructables.
Old and/or bent bicycle wheels can make great trellises for plants.
(via The Kirksville Permaculture Education Center; spotted on Pinterest here)
If you like this upcycling example, check out other bike-related posts here and garden-related items here.
Now here’s something to add to the mix of garden-related repurposing:
Garden tools made into a gate.
(via BHG)
More yard art in Austin: Robert Mace’s “bottle prairie.” Old license plates cover the side of the building in the background.
(photo by bubbaofthebubbles on Flickr)
DIY project du jour:
Top a side table with an old vinyl record. (An unplayable one, preferably!) For a tutorial, hop over to TheFlourishingAbode.
The table in the photo reminds me of this stool — with an old album for its seat — that Brian spotted in Sweden last year.
If you missed any of our earlier posts on creative new uses for records, look for them here.
(photo via TheFlourishingAbode; spotted on Pinterest here)
We’re fans of free book exchanges, like the Little Free Libraries; the now-defunct-phone-booths-turned-mini-libraries (here, here, here, here, and here); shelves in London Tube and train stations and in airports that enable travelers to swap books; former newspaper racks; and a 1979 Ford transformed into a bookmobile from which free books are distributed in Buenos Aires, among others, that spring up in public spaces.
(We’re also fond of more traditional libraries that are housed in non-traditional settings like repurposed old buses and historic barns and churches.)
And now in Paris, there’s this communal book exchange sitting atop a tree cage:
Strasbourg-based street artist Florian Rivière is back with a new, neat urban intervention! Last weekend, Rivière installed a little library on a sidewalk near Gare du Nord … .
I don’t know if that’s a pallet or a crate (or both), but I like it!
See a couple of Riviere’s other urban interventions, a.k.a., “hacktions,” here.
(via Urban Hacktivist Launches Street Library — The Pop-Up City)
