Transforming IKEA Beach Chairs with Ease: IKEA beach chairs, purchased on sale for 98 yuan, are given a new lease on life by friend @CactusCupboardCarlos with the replacement of seats with his own designed printed fabric, making lying down feel like being in the universe.
Budget Bedroom Chandeliers: Friend @YimuyiSuJudy bought paper lanterns for 5.8 yuan each on Taobao and hand-painted them with acrylics, turning them into blue-dyed spherical paper lanterns that hang in the air. The uneven dyeing was resolved by randomly flicking the paint with fingers, resulting in an unexpected effect.
Creating Nordic Style with Minimal Cost: Friend @BingLe doesn’t need to spend much to create a beloved home style. A 200 yuan drawer cabinet is instantly transformed into a strong Nordic style with geometric acrylic paintings.
DIY Hand-Painted Wallpaper: Unable to find the desired wallpaper, friend @Jixiang decided to hand-paint an entire wall, turning withered vines, trees, and wooden boards into ‘extreme poverty style’ home goods.
Wood and Boulders as a Work Desk: Friend @XiaoXiaoDanZi created a unique ‘extreme poverty style’ table by grinding and joining two large stones with a wooden board.
Reviving Dead Vines: Most DIY enthusiasts share a common ability – discovering beauty. Friend @ShenXiaoBing brought home a certain type of fern that had become dead vines from the roadside, wrapped it around a light bulb, turning it into a Zen-inspired lamp decoration and giving the plant another life.
Dead Branches as Chandeliers: Similarly, friend @BenXiaoMo’s branch decorations hanging over the office desk are made from dead branches picked up from the roadside. After making the frame and painting, the old objects gain new vitality.
Dead Branches as Decorative Shelves: There is more than one way to give new life to branches at home. Friend @FengTaiTai made a wooden triangular decorative shelf to hang and display various decorations.
Dead Branches as Coat Racks: Look at this boyfriend’s DIY gift! Friend @ShaXinZhe made a wooden coat rack for his girlfriend by fixing together wooden boards and branches.
DIY Gifts for Cats: Friend @JinJing-LiangRen made a castle for the family cat using express boxes.
Handmade Mortise and Tenon Cat Climbing Frame: Serving the cat masters, friend @ShanMaWang personally went up the mountain to cut trees and used mortise and tenon connections to create a real cat tree without using a single nail or screw, which even the cats are reluctant to leave.
12. Handmade Walnut Houses
User @Gongbao Lanjiang made several walnut houses with different themes using leftover walnuts. She also installed microcircuits inside, with a toggle switch to make the lights shine, which are used as props for telling stories to children.
13. A Cardboard Box Transformed into a Miniature Refrigerator for Kids
User @_404 made a makeshift Smeg mini fridge SWAG for the kids using packing cardboard. It’s made from a large packing box, with two drawers inside as fresh-keeping compartments. There are an egg box and a spice bottle box on the fridge door, and the fridge handle is a whiskey bottle cork that dad finished drinking.
14. A Cardboard Box Becomes a Kid’s Kitchen
It’s not just the above that can surprise kids by making good use of cardboard boxes. User @Su Jin also made a small house for the kids. Initially, it could be used for hide-and-seek, then it became a small house for plush dolls, and later, with children’s kitchenware, it became the kid’s kitchen. Giving new life to old items.
15. A Rake as a Storage Rack
Look at this rake. Who would have thought it could be used as a storage rack? The naturally upturned hooks prevent things from slipping. User @1DADA2 is definitely an excellent creative user on HaoHaoZhu.
16. A DIY Tall Ashtray
Similarly, @1DADA2 also made a tall ashtray using a discarded ball and a fencing sword.
17. A DIY Vinyl Record Clock
User @Lu Wanzi made a wall clock by combining a vinyl record with a clock mechanism.
18. Old Handkerchiefs Find a New Purpose
User @Han Jian transformed old handkerchiefs he collected before into lamp shades. Believe it or not, they really have a simple and elegant charm.
19. What to Do with Waste Wires: Lazy People Truly Drive World Progress
User @Mao Xiaoqiu found a strange thing on the shower column while taking a shower. It turned out to be a DIY mobile phone holder for watching videos while showering made by her family member using idle wires. Although it’s a bit rough, it’s really useful, and neither the handheld showerhead nor the rainfall showerhead will get it wet. DIY storage with pulleys is versatile!
20. A Movable Storage Rack
User @Jiajia You had a large dining table turntable at home, which was used very rarely but was essential during festivals. So she made a movable storage rack specifically for the turntable and stored it under the bed. It consists of 4 large 4-inch pulleys (so that the height from the ground is greater than 10 cm, which will not affect the cleaning of the area under the bed by the robot vacuum cleaner at all, leaving no cleaning死角 at home) + the remaining wooden boards from carpentry work. Similarly, a movable storage rack for flower pots can also be made in this way, using a combination of wooden boards and pulleys.
21. Transforming a Movable Music Stand
User @Xiaoxiao Ma’s original music stand was heavy, inconvenient to move, had no light source, and no place to put tools for reading sheet music. So she transformed it herself. Now, there is a light on the music stand, a place to put the baton, and universal wheels for easy movement.
Omni-directional wheels with brakes are convenient for fixing. 22. DIY sofa by @YuCongMUMU, who used two extra wooden boards and installed four wheels underneath to complete it. Adding wheels and cushions, the cost was less than 400 yuan.
23. With a hundred yuan, you can easily get a Bauhaus-style table lamp. @maggiefang’s guest bedroom always lacked a bedside lamp, and she spent only 124 yuan to instantly acquire a Bauhaus-style table lamp. (IKEA lamp base 50 yuan, light bulb 24 yuan, acrylic board 50 yuan) 24. DIY vase strings by @ZhuBuEr from Japan have received high praise. Hanging on the curtain rack, they can move freely on the track. In fact, washed jam jars and glass bottles can be used as small vases, adding vitality when placed anywhere. 25. Original fabric art by @MAVIS_D, who couldn’t find a suitable decorative painting, bought an oil painting canvas and some textured fabric to create a piece that perfectly matches her home. 26. DIY curtains by @XiDe, who combined two types of fabric dyed with plants to make their own curtains. 27. DIY egg yolk coasters by @LaoWan, a knitting enthusiast, who knitted a series of egg yolk coasters. This is a hardcore DIY with a difficulty level of 10 stars, only for the daring! 28. DIY luxury open space for dogs! @oldxu thought that to find a doghouse that fully meets his needs, he had to make it himself. Starting from drawing the blueprint, he personally DIYed a one-bedroom doghouse for his pet that is like a boutique hotel… As he said, making things for dogs is a very happy thing because they won’t make any demands, and as long as there is love in the heart, the result won’t be too bad. For detailed instructions, consider scanning the QR code to view the complete ’boutique doghouse’ DIY process from 0 to 1. 29. The winner is having their own bread earth kiln! @XiaoXiaoDanZi built a bread-baking kiln in her yard, and bread baked in a wood-fired kiln can’t be bad, right? 30. 40 yuan lighting transformation, even a dark room can have sunshine. @KanongBoBo’s living room faces north, almost like a dark room, and it almost leads to depression in winter! So, he spent only a few yuan on light strips and made some small modifications to the blinds, and thus.Whether it is day or night, there is soft ‘daylight’ in the living room of the house.
