No Weekend hassle DIYs Refresh Your kitchen - Put some time aside this weekend to roll up your sleeves and get creative in the kitchen - in a slightly different way. Simple additions with widely available materials to reshape old leaves with a press irons and a needle and thread, you can do a lot with very little. Let these ideas inspire envy your next job on time.
Joanna Thornhill Interiors
Add some fabric accents
That you have the skills to concoct a quilted oven mitt on a weekend or if you just have an eye for a pretty tea towel, beautiful fabric prints in the kitchen make the place feel instantly more welcoming.
Something everyone can have a go at a table runner like that. Simply buy or reuse a length of fabric that is half a meter or so longer than the length of your table (vintage bed sheets work wonders). Turn the iron and a double hem about 2cm around each edge and either machine or hand-stitch in place. You can even use a bondaweb band instead if you feel lazy -. It fuses together material when ironing in place under a damp cloth
Another idea is to frame your best cloth for the kitchen instead of printing. Many freelance illustrators create beautiful designs on napkins tea, so you get some art for a fraction of the price.
That you have the skills to concoct a quilted oven mitt on a weekend or if you just have an eye for a pretty tea towel, beautiful fabric prints in the kitchen make the place feel instantly more welcoming.
Something everyone can have a go at a table runner like that. Simply buy or reuse a length of fabric that is half a meter or so longer than the length of your table (vintage bed sheets work wonders). Turn the iron and a double hem about 2cm around each edge and either machine or hand-stitch in place. You can even use a bondaweb band instead if you feel lazy -. It fuses together material when ironing in place under a damp cloth
Another idea is to frame your best cloth for the kitchen instead of printing. Many freelance illustrators create beautiful designs on napkins tea, so you get some art for a fraction of the price.
Build Team
Pot personalized herb garden
Presentation greener in your life can only be a good thing. You can make a DIY weekend decorating a wooden planter (available from garden centers and online) with a series of stamps letters or motifs and an ink pad pigment, such as Staz-On. You can get all this in your local craft store or online.
Stamp your herb names on everyone to keep everything in order, or go for a pleasure to say or custom declaration. This kind of thing makes a great gift house warming, too.
Presentation greener in your life can only be a good thing. You can make a DIY weekend decorating a wooden planter (available from garden centers and online) with a series of stamps letters or motifs and an ink pad pigment, such as Staz-On. You can get all this in your local craft store or online.
Stamp your herb names on everyone to keep everything in order, or go for a pleasure to say or custom declaration. This kind of thing makes a great gift house warming, too.
Torie Jayne
label your jars
it is so satisfying. Decant your bags, packs and bags of ingredients, toppings and sprinkles in mason jars and other storage glass, then get to work on some cute labels match.
You can buy ready-made sticky labels, or pick up a paper circular punch from a craft store that will give you the same tags to write about. Attach the paper in place with spray adhesive (well away from your food).
it is so satisfying. Decant your bags, packs and bags of ingredients, toppings and sprinkles in mason jars and other storage glass, then get to work on some cute labels match.
You can buy ready-made sticky labels, or pick up a paper circular punch from a craft store that will give you the same tags to write about. Attach the paper in place with spray adhesive (well away from your food).
Lawyer Sweets Design Studio
Making more storage with hooks
If simple. All you need is a small unit of wooden wall shelf and a few cups hooks screwed. A trip to your local hardware store and a bit of work later, and you have a series of spots for your favorite mugs hanging.
Get greater storage ideas for space-saving kitchen
If simple. All you need is a small unit of wooden wall shelf and a few cups hooks screwed. A trip to your local hardware store and a bit of work later, and you have a series of spots for your favorite mugs hanging.
Get greater storage ideas for space-saving kitchen
Mad your home
Change your grips
How about something more tactile? It is pleasantly ergonomic with leather handles on your kitchen cabinets - a much softer option than metal accessories, and warmer to the touch than porcelain or glass.
You can often screw your new fancy handles in existing holes when you delete your current fix each screw with a nut at the rear. If there is only one hole to remove an old button instead of a handle, you can fold the leather on a loop and the small tabs instead of handles mode. If there still has not any holes, you will need to drill. It may be better to practice on the cheap freestanding furniture or a piece of wood before you get to work on your cabinets fixed kitchen!
Make sure the strap of your leather is cut to a length that gives you ample holding and pulling the space, create your holes with a punch (making sure to place a piece of wood underneath scrap metal to protect your surface) and use deck screws to secure the handle in place.
How about something more tactile? It is pleasantly ergonomic with leather handles on your kitchen cabinets - a much softer option than metal accessories, and warmer to the touch than porcelain or glass.
You can often screw your new fancy handles in existing holes when you delete your current fix each screw with a nut at the rear. If there is only one hole to remove an old button instead of a handle, you can fold the leather on a loop and the small tabs instead of handles mode. If there still has not any holes, you will need to drill. It may be better to practice on the cheap freestanding furniture or a piece of wood before you get to work on your cabinets fixed kitchen!
Make sure the strap of your leather is cut to a length that gives you ample holding and pulling the space, create your holes with a punch (making sure to place a piece of wood underneath scrap metal to protect your surface) and use deck screws to secure the handle in place.
Eleanor Baines Photography
chain to a small sparrow
now, does not mind. Bunting did not have the look of a school fair. Keep it simple, and in a solid color rather than pattern ditsy, and go for a similar color scheme to your kitchen - all white look shown here is much more modern than the usual floral flags.
All you need for this is a medium-weight cotton fabric, triangle cardboard model (or try semicircles for a rare scallop-edge finish), scissors and bunting ribbon readymade on which all the string together, using a needle and thread or a sewing machine.
If you're not keen on sewing, cut your triangles with pinking shears to prevent the fabric from fraying. Or opt for a tissue oilcloth instead of cotton, that will not fray even when you cut with scissors, regular straight-edge.
now, does not mind. Bunting did not have the look of a school fair. Keep it simple, and in a solid color rather than pattern ditsy, and go for a similar color scheme to your kitchen - all white look shown here is much more modern than the usual floral flags.
All you need for this is a medium-weight cotton fabric, triangle cardboard model (or try semicircles for a rare scallop-edge finish), scissors and bunting ribbon readymade on which all the string together, using a needle and thread or a sewing machine.
If you're not keen on sewing, cut your triangles with pinking shears to prevent the fabric from fraying. Or opt for a tissue oilcloth instead of cotton, that will not fray even when you cut with scissors, regular straight-edge.
Chris Snook
commandeer a box
old apple crates are ripe for upcycling in all kinds of big storage. Try them as kitchen shelf units for your cookbooks and other pieces.
To clean for use in your kitchen, give them a little washing with trisodium phosphate and water solution, then spray generously with white vinegar, wipe and let dry.
Check out more great uses for wooden crates
old apple crates are ripe for upcycling in all kinds of big storage. Try them as kitchen shelf units for your cookbooks and other pieces.
To clean for use in your kitchen, give them a little washing with trisodium phosphate and water solution, then spray generously with white vinegar, wipe and let dry.
Check out more great uses for wooden crates
Paul Craig Photography
Put your tools on the
If you are an avid cook, having everything by hand will be the key in your kitchen. Get the pro gaze head by installing your own steel rail and S hooks for utensils and a magnetic bar for your knives. You can buy two pieces of kit ready for use online and in stores supplies. Then it's just a matter of adding a little elbow grease and you cook.
If you are an avid cook, having everything by hand will be the key in your kitchen. Get the pro gaze head by installing your own steel rail and S hooks for utensils and a magnetic bar for your knives. You can buy two pieces of kit ready for use online and in stores supplies. Then it's just a matter of adding a little elbow grease and you cook.
George Robinson Kitchens
Pack a punch with paint
for a striking change that will not break your weekend budget, get the paintings and smarten your cabinets.
You will need to remove all the handles and empty the contents before you get cracking. Wash your bottom cabinets and then give them a light sand, so that the surface paint sticks. End the primer using a coat paint, available from most specialists.
Tell us ...
Which crafty DIYs have pepped your kitchen? Share your ideas in the comments below.
for a striking change that will not break your weekend budget, get the paintings and smarten your cabinets.
You will need to remove all the handles and empty the contents before you get cracking. Wash your bottom cabinets and then give them a light sand, so that the surface paint sticks. End the primer using a coat paint, available from most specialists.
Tell us ...
Which crafty DIYs have pepped your kitchen? Share your ideas in the comments below.