Upcycled Design Lab Blog

All Tied Up - Upcyled T-shirts Padded Wire Hanger

If you have been following my posts for a while you know that I have been working on using up 20 t-shirts in as many upcycled projects as I can come up with. You probably also know that my progress is snail like. But I am happy to report that I have actually finished another project this week. You can follow my progress on my pintrest board here. To date I have completed 10 projects including this crazy padded hanger. It took a while to tie all the pieces on to the hanger but it felt kind of therapeutic to... Read more →

DIY - Upcycled Tin Can Hanging Flower Pots

I am still in gardening mode with this weeks project. As you may already know I have recently constructed some garden edging from upcycled wire hangers and the lids of some tin cans. This project left me with some cans without lids which I had planned to use for the stand for my upcycled wok birdbath but as it turned out I only needed one can for this super simple project. So I still had a lot of cans left over. So here is what I did with them. In addition to all the empty cans. I also had some... Read more →