make old new again

A New Hobby

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So I decided to learn how to Macrame chairs. Like ya know, back in the day when your old webbed folding chair would get worn out and you’d macrame it with cord and make it new again? Plus it’d look so cool with those fun colors and patterns people make! I watched a you tube video on how to do it and went to town on some chairs I had been collecting. I started with a child size chair for my daughter.

I did not have patterns to work with so I was just wingin it. I think it turned out pretty good though. Second chair was a simple Harley Davidson design for myself.

Then I moved on to a very challenging design for my husband.

Then it was on to more!

The Tiny House Project! 

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We were given a playhouse for my son about 6 years ago. I put some fresh stain on it, built a platform for it and he loved it!!! Since then he has outgrown it, but had a little sister come along who now wanted to use it. After that many years it needed repaired. So we put it in the garage and repaired away! ​

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​We painted almost every inch of this thing including the inside, which had never been painted. Our little lady was quite the helper!! If you look close you’ll notice that Edyth is wearing the apron I made for her and wrote about in a previous post. ​

​We also built a new deck for it out of the old deck my uncle gave us, that I also wrote about in another post. Approximately 45 hours of painting and deck work and it’s done!!! She loves it!! We all know I’m that girl, that girl that reuses everything she can!! 

The Potting Bench Project! 

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We were given an old deck off of my Great Aunt and Uncles house. They no longer wanted it and had plans to burn it. So we salvaged it and made a potting bench! We also built a new deck for Edyths playhouse, but that’s another story. This is where we decided to put the potting bench. I nicknamed this space my hot box garden box years ago when I moved in. A large box tucked up in a corner in full sun most of the day. 

I happened to have some old skids lying around that I disassembled and used for the backer boards. Which I think turned out just lovely! We also added a rain barrel and garden boxes. We were also given some old lattice that I painted and used for the potting bench. I am that girl, that girl that loves reusing and repurposing!! There was even enough skid stuff left over for a stand for a super cool metal trash can to store my potting soil in!! This has made gardening so much more fun!!! What a transformation and all with repurposed materials!! A dream come true right here!! 

Sprucing up the Front Porch! 

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As I wrote about in the post about the potting bench, we were given an old deck and a few other old materials by some family. One of the things we did with these materials was added some privacy to our front porch! We took it from this-To this –I know it’s not the prettiest, but it’s previously used materials. So I think it’s flaws are gorgeous and only add character!! Form and function right there! I love my front porch!!