Try This: All the DIY Projects You Need for Your Natural Home
Turn your household garbage and clutter into useful, beautiful home decor. Here's how.
March/April 2009
By Natural Home Staff
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Learn how to make these beautiful glasses. Visit http://www.naturalhomemagazine.com/2008-03/try-this-all-wrapped-up.aspx for instructions.
Photo By Susan Wasinger
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Turn your household garbage and clutter into useful, beautiful home decor. Here's how.
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1. Try This: Key Spot
An old cigar box makes a playful place to safeguard and organize your keys. Look for ones made of paper-covered solid wood.
2. Try This: Branching Out
This curtain celebrates wood grain, one of nature’s loveliest graphic designs.
3. Try This: Bowled Over
Subtle yet striking patterns give these simple-to-make bowls sophisticated personality and style.
4. Try This: All Wrapped Up
Inexpensive glasses are transformed into vases with a simple wrap of handmade paper made using everything from cucumbers to kohlrabi.
5. Try This: Plastic Cup Redux
This lamp looks stunning as a half-dome, but the audacious crafter with cups to spare could easily turn it into a sphere by adding to the simple pattern, one cup at a time.
6. Try This: Recycled Goods Gone Chic
To get this antiqued leather effect for your walls, paste torn pieces of crumpled grocery bags onto primed wallboard with a mixture of Elmer’s glue and water.
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