Diy Projects: 23 Creative, Insanely Easy, and Clever Projects and Ideas For Your Home

Introduction

This book is a collection of 23 fantastic DIY projects to kit your home out with unique looking artifacts or to spruce up your stale abode with new furniture. Most can be done on a single Sunday but hopefully what you create will last many Sundays to come. Unlike other DIY books or online lists there will no guides to color coding your garage and basements keys with nail varnish or instructions on making a pen holder out of a toilet roll. Nor will the projects require you scour all the dumpsters within a ten mile radius to find vintage lunchboxes or require three carloads of empty wine bottles. The projects in this book aim to be practical, easy and thrifty. The projects aim to give your home objects that you won't throw away when you're trying to clear space. 

The projects attempt to repurpose items easily found within your home or the surrounding area (although it will lend itself to some surrounding areas better than others; I apologize in turn to city slickers on the tenth floor of an apartment building, country mice living in the woods without the benefits of a littering neighbor and to the lone sea captain reading this with only ocean for miles around). Some projects will invite you to keep them in mind on your day-to-day adventures in case you come across an attractive bucket or car tire. Others may profit from a quick Facebook message to friends with hoarding tendencies or a short browse of the free section of Craigslist.

Some of the projects will require tools but they reside in the realm of tools that you would keep in a kitchen drawer or tool box. Where a project requires the rental of a pneumatic drill or glass blower it will be clearly listed before the instructions (note: even if a project suggested using these tools it will never be necessary, or even relevant, to the project). Nevertheless, it may still prove difficult for students, first-time buyers filling their homes or people in shared accommodation to get their hands on some basic tools. Luckily the first section of this very book includes guides to making three easily forgotten, or misplaced, tools that you will need for several of the other projects in this book. If you need a hammer, saw or scissors then, failing borrowing them from a friend, parent or landlord, you will have to buy them or get