Tips For Upcycling Outdoor Decor
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This post is all about tips for upcycling outdoor decor and reusing materials.
Upcycling gives items a second function and life. It is taking something considered waste and repurposing it for decorative purposes or even a helpful purpose.
If you’re a bird lover, you’ll find various projects geared to caring for birds.
Whatever you upcycle stays out of the landfill because it is being used instead of tossed into a trash can.
Makes and Takes took a piece of driftwood and turned it into a hanging planter. They get plus points for thinking of such a creative endeavor! The directions can be found here.
Repurposed Headboard Garden Sign:
Southern Crush At Home decorated this bed headboard with a buffalo plaid stencil and turned it into a garden sign. How innovative! Find the directions here.
DIY Waterdrop Solar Lights:
The Navage Patch made this solar DIY light. Directions are here.
Colandar Hanging Planter:
Sadie Seasongoods, known for her creative DIYs, created a hanging planter from a kitchen colander. For one thing, you won’t need to add holes for drainage! Directions are here.
Garden Pot Bird Bath:
Rooted Revival created a thrifty birdbath out of terracotta and an old chair. The directions for this project are at Rooted Revival. You can find the directions for this DIY here.
Glassware Garden Art Flowers:
Empress of Dirt collected glassware and plates to create this garden flower. Directions for this DIY are here.
Owl Wind Chimes:
Thrifty Rebel Vintage created these adorable owl wind chimes. How creative is that? The directions for this DIY project are here.
Bird Buffet:
The birds have a real feast at this bird feeder buffet! This project was found on the Hallmark Channel. You can see the directions for this DIY project here.
8. Painted Rocks:
The Mega Mom painted these rocks for her garden. Aren’t they sweet? There are no directions because this project is pretty self-explanatory.
She said she likes to decorate stones with intricate designs and use them as accents.
Painted Can Candle Holders:
Scroll through this blog post for 20 creative ideas for outdoor upcycling projects. These would make for fun and colorful outdoor decorations.
Terracotta Wind Chimes:
Garden Therapy created wind chimes from clay terracotta pots for her garden. The instructions for this project can be found here.
I hope you find a DIY garden project using upcycled products that were once used for something else. The more things we can upcycle, the less waste goes into the landfill.
I liked pretty much ALL of these ideas!!
The middle picture, bottom row – the plates, my neighbor has done and it’s absolutely adorable!! I just may try that!
How cute are these upcycled garden projects? There’s a lot of talented people out there!
Beautiful ideas! I love to putter with simple things no where near what I used to do. Today I did find a cute metal welcome sign with a big bee hive on it at the dollar tree. I only want the bee hive to add to a simple summer wreath. I got an Irish moss plant. I did tug on it a little and was happy to find there was a piece of the plant with a root on it that I planted in a small pot. I always try to get the most bang for my buck! I found a small round pea sized piece of a succulent on the cement by the plants. I’ll see if that takes. I found a busted off piece of a jade plant and it grew for me! Have a good day all!