You Should Make Your Own Soap
Homemade soap is easy, fun, and satisfying to make, and you can craft your soap to your exact specifications.
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DIY Home + Garden
Two Dozen Eco-Friendly Rugs, Mats, and Floor Coverings to Make
Whether it’s a 20″x24″ bath mat for your kid’s bathroom, or a couch-sized pom pom rug for your family room, the power to make your new favorite floor covering is in your hands!
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The DIY Table: Eco-Friendly Projects for Holiday Linens, Tableware, and Accessories
If you were lucky enough to have guests over for the holidays, now is the perfect time to up your tableware game for NEXT year’s holiday hosting.
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How to Remove Wax from Fabric: Two Methods
It’s possible to remove most candle wax from most fabric, even if your candle wax is highly pigmented, and even if your fabric is precious and delicate.
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DIY Upcycled Glass Bottle Bottom Ring Holders
These glass bottle bottom ring holders are quick and easy to make, and don’t require any additional supplies other than several grits of sandpaper.
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Homemade Candles are the Way To Go
Whether you’re rolling beeswax candles with kids or pouring a multi-color, multi-layer jarred candle, homemade candles give you the power to fill your home with exactly the sensory experiences you want, with no mysteries and nothing unexpected.
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DIY Wall-Mounted Cardboard Box Shelves
The solution for displaying your favorite treasures is that cardboard box hanging out in your recycling bin!
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The Upcycled Home: Eighteen Wicker Basket Makeovers
Don’t let a wicker basket’s unfortunate appearance blind you to how versatile it can be for containing and organizing your clutter in an attractive way. Read on for a selection of easy tutorials that remake, remodel, and otherwise transform any ugly wicker basket into the perfect home accessory.
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How to Transform Wicker Baskets with Paint
Painting a wicker basket is a super quick project that makes a big change in the overall look of your room. And when you get tired of your current color scheme, repainting that basket is just as quick and easy!
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15 DIY Curtains and Window Coverings for an Eco-Friendly Makeover
There are huge environmental and economic benefits to covering your windows with curtains. You conserve energy when you insulate even energy-efficient windows with another layer or two, and if your windows are older, the energy conservation is even more extreme. With that energy conservation comes concrete savings on your energy bills. It’s a win-win situation!
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DIY Drapes from Upcycled Sheets and Lining Fabric
Drapes are a surprisingly eco-friendly home furnishing.
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20 Raised Garden Beds and Container Gardens for Every Space
I love how versatile raised beds and containers are for urban gardening.
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How to Clean and Refurbish Antique Door Hardware
I don’t have any kind of yearning to restore my wonky old house to its original condition, but it would be pretty cool to clean and refurbish just those antique door fixtures, just to see what they actually look like.
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20 Ways to Upcycle Broken Dishes
Instead of tossing it into the waste stream and feeling bad about yourself because of it, give that broken dish a second life by upcycling it into something fun, beautiful, and useful.
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18 DIY Sewing Table Plans
Whether you make your sewing table from scratch, or modify it from an existing piece of furniture, DIYing it is a great way not only to avoid buying something else new that will one day end up in the waste stream, but also to make yourself the exact custom sewing table that you need, exactly the way you want it.
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30+ Quilted Table Runner Ideas to Sew
A new table runner is an easy way to transform the look of your table setting.
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How To Make A Wood Burned Stick Plant Marker
My favorite plant markers are the simplest ones you could make–they’re just wood burned sticks!
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How To Frost Glass
Frosted glass is easy to DIY, and there are a ton of different methods to do it.
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20 DIY Reusable Products to Replace Single-Use Disposables
For every single-use disposable, there’s a DIY reusable option, and often one that you can make from supplies that you already own.
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A DIY Bunting For Every Occasion: 30 Projects
No matter the special occasion (or even no occasion at all!), I guarantee that there is a perfect bunting for you to make for that event.
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How To Make A Boutonniere: One Dozen Projects
There’s not a lot that’s more charming than a sprig of flowers and greenery and ribbon worn on one’s lapel.
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50 Eco-Friendly Christmas Crafts
Christmas can be fun and festive without using precious resources or adding to the waste stream.
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30 Eco-Friendly DIY Thanksgiving Decorations
Thanksgiving tends to get lost in the build-up to Christmas, but even though there’s snow on the ground outside my window right now, I personally still want to pretend like it’s autumn.
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Three Dozen DIY Wind Chimes
It’s easy to have beautiful music outside your house on any windy day.
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Make an Upcycled Aluminum Can and Silverware Wind Chime
One of my favorite parts of windy weather is enjoying the sound of the wind chimes singing from my front porch and back deck.
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20 DIY Wedding Welcome Signs
A handmade welcome sign is a terrific way to incorporate a DIY element into your wedding decor.
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36 Dried Flower Crafts
Whether you pick a project right from this list or use it to inspire you to create your very own project, you’ll find lots of wonderful ways to use dried flowers right here!
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How to Dry Flowers in the Microwave
You likely have everything that you need to dry flowers already in your house.
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20 Upcycled Clipboard Crafts
If you’ve got an unloved clipboard that you wish you didn’t, check out this list of my favorite upcycled clipboard crafts.
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30 Spring Wreaths to DIY
Keep your front door in tune with the season by DIYing a beautiful, eco-friendly spring wreath!
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How To Refinish a Picnic Table with Paint
You’ve got to paint a few coats of sealant on your picnic table, anyway, if you want it to last outdoors–you might as well paint something interesting onto it first!
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30 Handmade Plant Markers
If you do not use plant markers, you will regret it.
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Turn An Old Blender Into A Planter
I did what I do with every single even vaguely container-shaped piece of junk that needs a second life around here–I turned it into a planter!
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Three Dozen Upcycled Hanger Projects
Regardless of whatever you hate about the hangers you have, the answer is rarely to throw them away.
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How To Make Stamped Clay Seed Bombs
Done properly, and distributed carefully, seed bombs CAN work
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