home: made [ outdoor rug ]

With creating beautiful outdoor living areas as important as indoor living, now, there is a drive towards great ranges of outdoor living furniture, accessories and soft furnishings to use. But why not try a DIY to keep the budget down?

Rugs make a huge difference to styling and outdoor rugs that are waterproof and hard wearing are growing in popularity.

We love this easy DIY tutorial from AnnsGardenPath.Blogspot using the humble garden hose as it’s base component. Simple and very effective this tutorial is step by step in guiding you to create your own. Use different colours and length to personalise the look and size.

http://annsgardenpath.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/hose-rug.html?m=1

home: made [ furniture legs ]

It’s the simplest idea but incredibly effective. Adding new legs to a piece of new (or old) furniture can alter the whole design, era, feel of the piece. It’s a great way to update a set of drawers, chair, unit or shelving but also to make it suit the style or look of a room. Legs can reinvent a unit.

Find simple floor based IKEA units or old legless vintage sideboards or chests of drawers and give them a better design with the right set of legs, whether they are short and stubby, tapered, midcentury, industrial or traditional mounded wood – for not much money you may just transform a piece of furniture you thought wasn’t suitable.

Of course additionally you can spray, paint, strip or cover a piece too but it’s the initial legs addition that makes a huge impact.

Try Buzzfeed or Pinterest for ideas and then head to PrettyPegs , Ebay or Amazon for legs.

home: made [ copper candle holder ]

Fancy something alternative to do on Valentine’s Day? Even better when it involves creating your own piece of on-trend homeware!

Learn new skills with the super London Craft Club this Valentine’s with their Copper Candelabra Workshop. For £59 get all your materials, expert tuition and a glass of wine.

Tickets for this event available HERE Hurry, limited spaces available!

home: made [ hanging plant shelf ]

We found another lovely short and easy project from the clever folks at A Beautiful Mess.

With the popularity of hanging plants, and macrame holders, we thought this hanging plant shelf would be another great make.

You only need a staple gun, thin rope/string and some kind of wooden plate – a circle of wood cut at a local wood store, a top of a stool, a wooden plate or even a chopping board.

This simple tutorial from A Beautiful Mess will guide you through this easy project. The hanging shelf would make a great gift, would work well hung in a pair or trio (at different levels) and if you are adept at macrame – it could be combined!

home: made [ curtain tie backs ]

We love this modern, clean design for curtain tie backs spotted on an online interiors group via Pinterest. With the use of the raw wood beads it’s a very Scandinavian look but the beads could be stained, sprayed, painted or patterned to suit your interior look.

A simple easy project which will need; strong cord/string or wire for threading beads, wooden beads (available from many outlets including Hobbycraft and eBay, paint, spray or varnish (unless you want to keep the beauty of the natural wood, pliers, and hooks for the wall.

Thread the wooden beads onto the string or wire to the create a chosen length. The length will depend on how tight you want your curtains to sit back against the wall (smaller the length, the tighter the curtain will bunch up). Create a loop on each end of the wire/string to be able to simply loop onto your wall mounted hooks. Think about ensuring the wall hooks sit well against or match the beads well.

This would work well for heavy weight curtains or billowing thin voile curtains too.

home: made [ plant pots and plant stands ]

January is all about new projects and hiding from the cold, and making crafty projects.

Introduce some indoor (or outdoor) gardening to your home but instead of just buying planters and pots – look to use, upcycle, recycle and make your own alternative containers and stands for your planting.

There’s great tutorials from favourites A Beautiful Mess and Brit & Co but there’s lots of easy projects without tutorials.

Search for unusual containers – cups, buckets, tins, old crates, bags or even tea pots. Depending on what you choose to plant your chosen container may need to have drainage holes. Then you can think about creativity with paints, sprays, varnishes or if the item has vintage charm it might look great as it is.

Look at trends in colour and pattern for inspiration and use masking to create designs on the outside – try geometric , stripes or colour blocking. Techniques including drip, dip and ombré may be a little more challenging but have great results too.

Find a collection of great tutorials all grouped together at Cool Crafts

home: nice price [ arm chair ]

It’s not even Christmas and there’s plenty of prices lowered across home and interiors stores.

We recommend heading to Made.com which with it’s already low prices is a must-go now that there’s a sale on!

The sale is across all departments and we’ve picked the Richie armchair which was £349 and is now £299 as our top pick, and comes in a great variety of colours.

home: made [ crate shelving ]

Adaptable for any space, size or colour, we love this tutorial we found, for making cool shelving from old vintage wooden crates.

Wooden crates can be found at vintage fairs, eBay, carboot sales and other vintage selling outlets plus there is now ‘new’ versions that can be bought in plain wood.

Then you’ll need a drill, screws, wood glue and your choice of stain, varnish or paint.

Nifty tutorial HERE

home: made [ midcentury shelving ]

The look of floating or modular shelving is minimal and clean with brands like Ladderax and String being the leaders in design; both in the last few decades and in present day.

We came across a great DIY tutorial from OldBrandNew which is a great way to produce a similar look at a fraction of the price as well as being satisfying that it’s homemade.

Making your own means you can also customise the size, dimensions and colour yourself with UK based suppliers offering all the equipment you’ll need from adjustable wall system racks from hardware stores including Wickes, BigDug and Screwfix, to high street DIY stores, like B&Q, having a good choice of ready cut wood shelves to use on the system as well as offering a cutting service when you give your own measurements.

Untreated wooden wood could be finished how you want in round stains, paint or varnish, and wall brackets can be bought in a few different colours or sprayed to the colour you want.

These systems are always easily changeable, can be added to and even the colour changed at a later date.

home: made [ house numbers ]

If you are looking to stand out from your neighbours, or fancy making a statement then you should consider the outside of your house as well as the inside with updating your house number.

Gone are the days of traditional brass numbers on the front door or decorative ceramic plates fixed to the wall. There is now a new wave of ideas including neon, incorporating plants and hammered nails. Of course some of these ideas might be a bit over the top in reality but we hope they inspire you.

Clockwise from top left:

Modern house number planter from abeautifulmess.com

Raised stainless steel numbers from instructables.com

Faux grass number box from abeautifulmess.com

Neon inspiration, for neon numbers try miniobjectsofdesire.com, neoncreations.co.uk

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