This week I’ll be telling you how I made a leather tool bag for my bike – and hopefully it will inspire you to do something of your own too!
Tag: upcycle
Easy DIY #59 Boost Your Bug’s Performance
Dolly, my 1962 VW Beetle – who we joke has a bedroom, not an actual garage haha – is again the subject of this weeks’ episode. This time we look at the issue of performance.
Easy DIY #58 Quick Coffee Table
As it happened, a few weeks ago I needed to make a small coffee table very quickly – and here it is: the less than two hour coffee table!
Easy DIY #57 Make Wooden Coasters
In this episode, I’ll tell you how I made a set of funky unique coasters for use around the home – and it’s so simple you can do it too!
Easy DIY #56 Make An Elastic Gun
This is an elastic gun I made a few years back to deal with those pesky mosquitoes that sit out of reach on the wall and on ceilings! When I was a kid I had a plastic toy gun similar to this that used to shoot elastic bands, and a few of my friends did…
Easy DIY #55 Relining An Old Wooden Box
This is an antique wooden box I bought for about R50 at a boot sale about six years ago. I have no idea what it was originally used for, but we use it to keep our games in – chess, Uno, cards, poker set, etc. The lining had gone when I got it, so when…
Easy DIY #54 Make A New Mat Set For Your VW Beetle
Old cars are like a comfortable pair of jeans – one day with a shock you realize it’s already threadbare and starting to wear through in places!
Easy DIY #52 Turn Pelmet Into A Display Shelf
Pelmets! They’re quite an old-fashioned feature, aren’t they? Most new houses don’t have them, and a lot of older houses have been redecorated in favor of newer tastes. But pelmets have another use – literally over and above just hiding unsightly curtain tracks – as you will see!
Easy DIY #51: Turn An Old Vinyl-top Kitchen Table Into A Wooden Kitchen Counter
Some years ago, when I started to do some DIY improvements around the house, I was struck by how boring and dull our old vinyl-top kitchen table was. At the time I was enamored of the look of a wooden “butcher’s block” type of kitchen table, and pondered my options. Buying a tailor-made item would…
Easy DIY #45: Make A Door Partition
There are lots of different reasons why you might consider closing up a doorway, but in our case, it was to gain more useable space in our kitchen. Our bathroom and kitchen are situated beside each other leading off the lounge, and each has an entrance leading to them from the lounge. There’s also a…