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Wedding DIY - How to Make Recycled DIY Tin Can Numbers!

by max on June 24th, 2009
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One of my best friends is getting married this weekend, here’s a cool wedding DIY that reminds me that a lot of stuff for wedding can be recycled, painted, drilled, and save lots of money including these recycled DIY tin can numbers. Jillian came up with this super cute table number idea after dinner at a restaurant that had something similar on their tables. Such an excellent way ...

Garden DIY - How to Make a Bird House with Satellite Dish!

by max on June 10th, 2009
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I have seen plenty old satellite dishes just waiting to get dumped, here’s a great way to re-use the dish for your neighbor birds as a bird house. Have you ever wondered how many unused satellite dishes are floating around aimlessly out there? After being disconnected, they seem to have no apparent function other than occupying valuable storage space and being mostly ugly? The obje ...

Scottish DIY - How to Make a Bagpipe out of a Garbage Bag!

by max on June 1st, 2009
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If you are hardcore Scottish, you might be interested to know that you can make a bag pipe out of a garbage bag, now you can afford to practice without paying for the real price. This instructable is how to make a simple bagpipe like instrument out of basic household materials. Granted, it does not sound all too much like a bagpipe, but it works similarly and is fun to mess around with. ...

Fish Tank DIY - How to Make a CRT Aquarium!

by max on May 28th, 2009
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Here’s a genius idea for your fish, an aquarium made out of on old CRT monitor! Instead of throwing those heavy bastards away, now you can recycle them into nice, stylish homes for your lovable fish. Talk about a great screen saver! I’ve been wanting to do this build for a while now. Just about every time I see and old CRT computer monitor by the side of the road on trash d ...

Eco Friendly Hammock Made From Seatbelts!

by max on May 27th, 2009
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Here’s a more brilliant idea for re-using and keeping our mother earth safer, an “eco” hammock made from recycled seatbelts! Now, this one will cost you $585 but I am already getting some good ideas on what to do with old seatbelts I bought at my local flea market… Don’t need a hammock? Try these pillows made from recycled seatbelts! Like TING pillows, m ...

Eco DIY - How to Make a Laptop Stand with your Shipping Box!

by max on May 11th, 2009
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When I buy new laptops, I usually save the box for the future but here’s how to make a laptop stand with it if you must. Did I mention it’s super easy to make? I originally found this idea at Thingiverse.com, where Erik Skiff whipped up a pretty cool acrylic stand. I didn’t have any acrylic and more importantly I didn’t have a lazer cutter make the cuts, so I did it on ca ...

#EcoMonday - Fun Things You Can do with a Dumpster!

by max on May 4th, 2009
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It’s #EcoMonday and here’s some fun things you can do with a dumpster including a dumpster swimming pool, garden, and ping pong table. via make ...

Earth DIY - How to Make a 55 Gallon Plastic Barrel Chair!

by max on April 27th, 2009
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You have to agree that more and more people are looking towards recycling, re-making, and using more sustainable materials for DIYs and this DIY is not an exception. Learn how to make a 55 gallon plastic barrel chair that looks cool enough for your colorful livingroom. Today, we are going to make a surprisingly comfortable chair using only six small bolts, nuts and washers, six drywal ...

Tin DIY - How to Re-Make Holiday Tins!

by max on April 1st, 2009
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(before) (After) For those of you with holiday tins stacked up in your garage, here’s a great way to re-make and rejuvenate your holiday cans into usable, colorful tins. Tins are always great for storage. You can decoupage them with colorful paper to match your craft room or even with pictures of whatever you plan to store inside. Or, if you really like to plan ahead, you can dec ...

DIY Waste Paper Basket Made From Waste Paper!

by max on March 26th, 2009
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Why didn’t we think of this like a decade ago? It’s a waste paper basket made from waste paper! What a neat idea for recycling and re-making all that waste paper, especially think of having one of these next to a regular metal waste paper basket just for recycling waste paper. Okay, you get the idea, I do a sorta-similar thing with paper bags I get from the grocery store ...