As I mentioned in my last post, up-cycling is a hobby I am deeply passionate about. And when the item to be reused/up-cycled is wood, I really do not want to miss the opportunity. So after the up-cycled bench in Part I of this post, I had ample parts of the frame left over. So, I… Continue reading Upcycling ideas with an old bench, pair of doors and discarded frames: Part II
If you have been reading my blog for sometime, I guess you are familiar with my love for reusing stuff by up-cycling. I enjoy transforming old stuff that has been discarded and unused to something I can find place in my house. This is of course, notwithstanding all the effort that goes into getting the workmen… Continue reading Upcycling ideas with an old bench, pair of doors and discarded frames: Part I
Wood, according to me is always a commodity that should not be wasted and must be reused/recycled at every opportunity. So when another door frame was being discarded, I was sure I wanted to upcycle this one also. The door frame was much larger than the previous one I had worked on. So I decided… Continue reading Upcycling idea: Door frame to wall shelves
This is a quick post on yet another upcycling home project of mine. Unfortunately, I just have one “before” picture as I did this make over quite sometime ago. The pair of old narrow doors had a square grill pattern that seemed to work perfectly for a corner stand. Most fascinated by the… Continue reading Upcycling idea: Old Door to Corner stand
Yet another post on an upcycling project, hope you have liked some of my previous projects listed under the “Decor Category”. This was how the pair of doors looked ‘before’. The transformation involved chopping off the doors at the bottom to discard the damaged edges at the end. The reduced length was then used… Continue reading Upcycling idea: Pair of old doors transformed to a rectangular two-tier table
When the glass of my center table cracked, I was quite heart broken considering that it had served me for years and also the potential hassle of getting hold of someone to replace it was not a very exciting prospect. But the brighter side of this was that, I could give my table a new… Continue reading Particle Board: a surprisingly elegant alternative to glass on cane
If you are from South India especially Karnataka, or familiar with old South Indian houses, you would be acquainted with the traditional ‘hande’. For the uninitiated, the ‘hande’ is a huge copper pot that is built into an earthern stove in the bathroom to heat huge quantities of water. The pot is firmly affixed using cement… Continue reading Upcycling idea: Copper pot to table top
