DIY products around the house

DIY backsplash kit from Lowes

Finished.  Hubby installed.  Kit includes all you need.  Be careful to mix grout to right consistancy. 

Reframe an old mirror with kit from Home Depot.  Frame is easy to cut to fit and has corner pieces to hide cuts.  The frame is adhered to mirror with a strong adhesive tape.  All pieces come in kit, including new flat hangers for mirror.  However after frame is installed the hangers showed.  I just repainted wall and covered hangers with paint.  Home Depot did give us a store credit to compensate for the inconvenience and that's what I bought paint with.

Finished mirror.  Changed flowers and moved painting as adviced by a friend to a more eye level height.

Son's room from preteen age~ needed updated.

Cleaned the room out.  And painted everything white...per son's request.

Closet had no door.  Did have camo netting up at one time to go with previous deco.

Teen son's Finished Room.  New Bed, comforter set, drapes and some accessories. Framed date he was born and date he graduates and his name that he painted to coordinate with colors in room. 

New closet door.  Installed by hubby.  This clock I refabbed.  (See previous post)

Our catch all laundrey room with my kids' art.  I have 3 kids so I collected somethings from each.  This is also like a mud room before entering our kitchen from rear entrance of house.

Hot water heater, furnace and pump are visible to everyone that enters house this way. 

There is that ugly pump!  These shelves use to hold paint and household misc.  I got rid of some paint and stored some on bottom but moved most into cabinet above dryer and made room for pantry.

This is an after photo.  I framed the kids' artwork and put up same shelves covered in white and black contact paper and added black foldable storage bins from Walmart.

I also added a very nice broom/mop organizer and divider screen that I got from Amazon.

This is the finished pantry area.  I added a retractable clothesline (top left of pic) and covered shelves in black and white contact paper.  One shelf is covered because it opens to kitchen and we keep cereal in there for quick access.  I did take down the three pieces of art here and saved elsewhere cause it looked a little to busy.   

Creating...stuff

I took an old clock I didn't much like from my son's room and disassembled.

I then took apart some embordiery hoops and cut to fit circles together randomly.

I hotglued the circles together and to the clock mechanism but used too much hot glue so had to redo with less glue showing.  Then I spray painted outside in shed with a gray.

The finished clock.  A little lopsided, flimpsy and the battery shows but I say it's very urban chic.  LOL

Cute container for cat food.  Take cleaned emptied laundrey soap container and remove inside funnel.  I used some pliers and it pulled right out.  I then spray painted yellow.  I added cat prints made from some foam flowers i had.  I just cut them to look like cat prints and stuck them onto front and top of cap.  I spray painted over the ones on the side but decided to color them in black with marker. 

 I get the cat food in the container by making a large funnel out of a medium size piece of poster board. I just pour it into funnel out of cat food bag. It is handy and you can pour however much you'd like or use the cap as a measuring cup!

I made a set of these coasters with each family members initials.  I used a thick piece of cardboard from a box and cut it to the size i wanted.  I had these tile pieces left over from a diy kitchen backsplash.  they were adhesive so I just chose the lighter color to make an initial stand out as the "R" in this one.

Household hints

Home made jewelry holder.  Use scarf folded over hanger.  I wrapped hanger in a complimentary colored ribbon.  Use safety pins randomly through out scarf for hanging jewelry pieces.

This oil and vinegar antique jar from my mom's collection makes a great way to hold my dishsoap on my kitchen sink.

Bleach spot on carpet.

Used a couple different shades of crayon close to the color to hide spot.  just rub crayon in til you are happy with the color.  I came close but not perfect.