DIY Decor: Review of Rooms Repurposed by Cristin Frank

type="html">

By Becky Striepe

Craft Your Style

Published on March 15th, 2014 |
by Becky Striepe

0

I’m a long-time fan of Cristin Frank from the site Eve of Reduction. She shares some great green crafts on her website, so I was excited when she contacted me about her new ebook all about DIY decor: Rooms Repurposed.

Disclaimer: I received a free copy of Rooms Repurposed for this review. All opinions are 100% my own.

Rooms Repurposed is all about purposefully planning your home to maximize space and minimize the cost of your DIY decor. She encourages readers to rethink the conventional definitions of rooms. Living room? No! Why not make that space your “Book club meeting space, meditation room, first floor laundry with pet cove?”

This kind of rethinking goes hand-in-hand with green crafting, doesn’t it? Conventional crafters may see an old pasta sauce jar, but we see a craft supply. When it comes to DIY decor, redefining our spaces helps save space, money, and resources, and Frank walks you through how to do this with repurposed style.

The book is full of beautiful photos showing examples of rooms designed with purpose, and there are lots of opportunities for upcycling! She gives you options for decorating rooms, so you can use what you have or what’s available at thrift stores, yard sales, and consignment shops. She also includes tutorials for making your own DIY decor pieces by using furniture and supplies that you have on hand.

There are recommendations for new furniture to decorate your multi-functional spaces, and not all of these are the greenest options. The job of having crafty skills is that we can skip buying new and make do instead.

You can find Rooms Repurposed on Cristin’s website.

Tags: book review, Cristin Frank, ebook, Eve of Reduction, home decor

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Powered By WizardRSS.com | Full Text RSS Feed | RFID | Amazon Affiliate

Source: craftingagreenworld

View the original article here

17 Clever Repurposed Garden Planters to Add More Plants to Your Space

type="html">

By Jen Wallace

Spring is the time of year when our minds turn towards planting. Springtime bulbs, summertime vegetable gardens and autumn pumpkin patches–all have their origins in the early springtime with the bevvy of seed catalogs that come in the mail. While you are coming up with your plans, don’t forget to think about garden planters.

Garden planters can be easy and clever ways to incorporate plants both inside and outside your home. Whether nasturtiums on your deck or an herb garden on your kitchen windowsill, planters can be a great alternative.

Not only can containers be easier to manage and add visual interest to your home, they are also great ways to repurpose items that might end up in the trash or the recycling bin. In addition, using planters offers versatility, because planters can be moved around–that is unless you are using huge planters.

Image: karenblakeman

Here are some great ideas for repurposing goods as planters both inside and outside your home.

Use an old colander as a clever succulent planter.

Turn wooden wine boxes into a patio salad garden with this project idea.

How pretty is this vintage bread box planter?

Got an unused tackle box? Make it into a smart planter.

Don’t trash that old bureau, turn into a succulent planter instead.

Use leftover galvanized steel heating and air repair materials as pretty planters.

Old paint cans can make great small planters.

Reuse coffee cans as fun and colorful cactus planters.

Turn an old chandelier into a hanging planter.

Repurpose an unwanted suitcase for new meaning to the phrase container garden.

Even turn old soup ladles into succulent planters.

Cinder block bricks get a redo as useful planters.

Turn a teapot into a pretty planter for your favorite posies.

Use an empty wine bottle as a clever planter.

Drawers from an unwanted piece of furniture can be turned into stylish planters.

Repurpose pallets as vertical planters.

Give boring planters the boot, use old boots as planters!

Finally, container gardening does have it’s challenges., so once you’ve settled on your containers, read up about the process using these resources.

• Organic Gardening’s Guide to Container Gardening
• University of Illinois Extension Successful Container Gardens
• Colorado State Extension Container Gardening

Related on EcoSalon

Plant Tulips, Hyacinths and Daffodils Now to See Them in Spring

5 Fresh Ways to Bring Spring Indoors

OMG, Really? Luxury Blinged Out Garden Tools for the Organic Gardener

Top Image: rustiqueart

Powered By WizardRSS.com | Full Text RSS Feed | Amazon WordPress

Source: ecosalonshelter

View the original article here