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A collection of over 30 DIY project makeovers from thrift stores, garage sales, junk shops and trash piles. From www.huntandhost.net

DIY dollhouse textile ideas. Cute dollhouse rugs, simple dollhouse pillow ideas and cute little DIY dollhouse curtains! Farmhouse style dollhouse accessories are easy and fun to make yourself! Part of the one room challenge!
DIY Textile Additions: Dollhouse One Room Makeover, Week 3
Dollhouse makeover, Herringbone wood floors, painted tile backsplash and fabric wallpaper really make the transformation take place! Week 2 of the One Room Challenge.
DIY Herringbone Wood Floors and Fabric Wallpaper Dollhouse Updates
Halloween has gone glam! This crazy lady scientist glam Halloween table setting is so fun, full of fantastic Halloween decorating ideas and Halloween DIY. Featuring zombie flamingos being concocted! Plus Cost Plus World Market Halloween photo contest information.
Lady Scientist’s Glam Halloween Table
Family Christmas memories stored in a handmade time capsule ornament with a free printable to start a family tradition that will bring fun and laughter for years to come.
Time Capsule Christmas Ornament
Follow along in the One Room Challenge as I makeover my childhood dollhouse. This love filled makeover will be filled with fond memories and fresh ideas!
Dollhouse Makeover: One Room Challenge
Don't ruin the family heirloom, make this easy DIY no sew porch quilt to hang outside.
No Sew Porch Quilt DIY
Halloween decorating ideas from the dollar store. These gilded bugs display cases are glamorous and easy to make Halloween décor.
Gilded Bugs Display Case: Dollar Store Halloween Decorations
A great gift for guys this DIY small peasant art is easy and inexpensive to make from Pheasant feathers!
DIY Small Feather Picture
How to create a personalized monogram stencil tutorial. Great for wedding gifts, house warming presents or birthday and Christmas gifts!
Personalized Monogram Stencil Tutorial
How to make a large sign DIY tutorial. Big signs are easy to make, here are a few options to make your and there are even some options to make a sign without a cutting machine
How To Cut Large Stencil Letters With A Cricut
Get a vintage French feel with this DIY hand painted glass sign tutorial. The French flower market sign looks great on a patio or as large wall art. Marche Aux Fleurs!
Hand Painted French Flower Market Glass Sign
How to make a large sign DIY tutorial. Big signs are easy to make, here are a few options to make your and there are even some options to make a sign without a cutting machine
How to Make A Large Sign DIY Tutorial
Do you have boot and shoes scattered everywhere? This easy DIY boot rack will take an afternoon to make and get those muck boots organized!
DIY Boot Rack Idea
This easy scrap wood coat rack is perfect to organize headbands, belts, jewelry, dish towels or whatever else you need to wrangle! It's an easy weekend project!
Scrap Wood Coat Rack
Mix and match stencils to get the look you are going for. This farmhouse stencil tray was a combination of stencils. Psalm 62:6
Farmhouse Stencil Tray
How to add a "quilt" to your old Lazy Susan to make it a fresh new Farmhouse Lazy Susan. Simple DIY tutorial for a different Lazy Susan idea!
Farmhouse Lazy Susan: How to Add a Quilt
Concrete countertop makeover and my bad experience. The saving grace is this cute and simple picture display board!
Concrete Countertops: My Bad Experience
Dollar Store DIY easy gift ideas. Glass jar etching tutorial, dollar store jar filled with bath bombs, perfect for teacher gifts, Christmas gifts or just because! This is the cutest, easy and inexpensive gift ever.
Dollar Store DIY Gift: Glass Etching Container
Painted Piano: This 100 year old piano gets a makeover with a two color scheme, a fresh piano painting idea with a color and product source guide.
Painted Piano – Two Tone Color Scheme
This is not your average stencil project! Try something besides paint! This branded stencil looks like an old time brand. DIY branded farmhousetray.
Branded Stencil Farmhouse Tray
This is the cutest makeover! A cheap garage sale stool covered in coffee sack burlap - love it!
Two Ideas to Save Money on Re-upholstering: Coffee Sack Covered Stool
How cute is this lemon & watermelon summer tablescape? What a great summer decorating idea, especially with the DIY monogram for the kiddos! love the houndstooth garland and faux lemon tree arrangement.
Lemon & Watermelon Summer Tablescape
Grow your faith through journaling, but not in the way you may currently be doing...
Growing In Faith At The End Of The Road
How cute is this playing card garland...great 4th of July decorating ideas here, red, white and blue from the dollar store!
4th of July Decorating Ideas from the Dollar Store
DIY Pheasant feather art tutorial. This easy DIY art tutorial will provide you with elegant artwork for your home with a budget friendly price!
DIY Feather Art
Paint your own buffalo check fabric for the cutest DIY pillows ever. Easy 4th of July décor ideas.
Paint Your Own Buffalo Check Pillows
Easy DIY 4th of July craft ideas. Paint old silverware for festive July 4th decorations you can place around your house or in potted plants!
4th of July Painted Flag Fork and Watermelon Spoon
Three steps to cultivating the habit of prayer. Examples from David, a man after God's own heart.
How to Cultivate The Habit of Prayer
Tips for easy DIY art you can freshen up your old picture frames with! Two ideas for DIY artwork on a budget.
Tips For DIY Art Using Old Frames
The chicken coop is complete, well, except for the chickens! The rabbits got an upgrade too with a large yard for a rabbit run. Salvaged materials make this space look like it's been there forever!
Chicken Coop & Rabbit Run Complete!
This is the cutest cat food bowl made from an old book, full tutorial for a smarty cat food dish.
Smarty Cat Food Bowl Made From An Old Book
Whole house paint colors for a southern vintage home color inspired by the beach.
Whole House Paint Colors
How to save a broken chair. Don't toss that chair just because the back is broken. Try this easy makeover for a fast DIY save.
How to save a broken chair: Chair to stool makeover
What a fun DIY from the dollar store, you have to see how she made wooden rulers into a solution for the kids fighting! And it's not a spanker ruler, lol!
DIY Dollar Store Solution For “It’s MY Turn!”
This beautiful old tea cart gets a sleek makeover into a rolling craft cart with an easy DIY tutorial!
Tea Cart To Craft Cart
Make inexpensive custom curtains from old wood and dropcloth. Dropcloth curtains are soft and casual, rich wood is the finishing touch. Easy DIY curtain tutorial.
Wood and Dropcloth Curtains
This thrifty find gets made into a creative chalkboard, when in doubt chalkboards always look great! This deer head has the cutest branch antlers!
Creative Chalkboard Makeover
I'm bored...the words that mom's hate to hear! Make a jar for those boring moments full of FREE things for kids to do this summer!
I’m Bored Jar: Free Things For Kids To Do This Summer
This broken side table found during Round Top Antiques Week gets a French country makeover.
Broken to French Country Side Table: I Knew You When
These chairs matched at one time, but one got cut down. This makeover gets them back to matching and adds height with finials. Coffee bean sack fabric is perfect for the new seat cushion.
Broken Chair Repair, Outdoor Treasures
This old enamel pot lid without it's pot gets a makeover into a footed tray. Perfect for indoor or outdoor décor and the easiest DIY ever!
Enamel Pot Lid To Farmhouse Tray
An old wine gift box transformed into a blooming storage box with dollar store flowers. PLUS five other DIY dollar store ideas with flowers.
Gift Box To Blooming Storage: Dollar Store Idea
Old school lockers or gym lockers make great storage but you can add more. Here is an easy way to add extra storage to these vintage lockers. Perfect for a boy's room, laundry room or kid's storage.
How to Add Extra Storage to Lockers
God's power is perfect in your weakness. Let Him write your definition.
Power In Weakness
Lampshade Ideas! Things to do with out of style lampshades, ways to update old lampshades and lampshade alternatives!
Things to Do With Old Lampshades
Kitchen cubbies get a makeover into a built in plate rack filled with gorgeous goodies like white and wood. White plates, cutting boards and antique tea and coffe pots. This simple DIY will help you transform small shelves into functional display space.
Built In Plate Rack Kitchen Idea
6 tips for successful container gardening. Want your patio to look straight out of a magazine? These tips will have you fixed up with realistic outcomes for your potted plants in no time!
Tips for Successful Container Gardening
New crates get an old makeover with stain and stencils. Great for extra storage and organizing see an easy tip on how to hang crates without damaging them while still having them sturdy and straight.
New Crate To Old Looking Wall Storage
First phase of the kid's playhouse to chicken coop makeover. There is a lesson in each step of the transformation. 1 Samuel 16
Projecting Dreams: Playhouse to Chicken Coop Makeover
How to wax painted furniture and other craft projects. Quick video tutorial.
How To Wax Furniture and Projects
Cheap to chic bar stool makeover. See how quick and easy you can transform projects with a paint sprayer and tent. A paint spray tent provides protection and easy clean up for a messy painter like me.
Cheap to Chic Bar Stool Makeover With My NEW Spray Tent
How to make a pocket hole tutorial perfect for this one board stool. We use these handy stools as extra seating around our coffee turned game table for a mean match of Mexican Train!
How To Drill A Pocket Hole One Board Stool
Turn an old shutter into a simple bird nest wreath to show off in your nest. Perfect spring inspiration inspired by our feathered friends!
DIY Bird Nest Wreath: Spring Inspiration
Easy spring decorating ideas from a DIY chicken wire cloche tutorial to newspaper nests. All you need for the most beautiful spring tablescape.
DIY Chicken Wire Cloche Tutorial Spring Table Ideas
A mortar and pestle makeover that touches on the medicine of your presence. Matthew 28:20
Your Presence is Medicine
Stenciling 101: tips and tricks for successful stenciling. Stencils are a great way to add farmhouses touches.
Stenciling 101: Adding Farmhouse Touches
6 prayer models to spice up your prayer life. Prayer acronyms and finger prayers that help you pray in a Godly manner with a free printable!
6 Prayer Models to Spice Up Your Prayer Time PLUS a Free Printable
DIY tutorial for a bath tray with a book rest! This bath caddy will make your relaxing hot tub time even more luxurious!
Bath Tray with Book Rest
A fresh Spring mantel with DIY decorative balls. Bright, cheery and neutral spring décor you can make yourself!
DIY Decorative Balls in a Spring Mantel
This easy DIY tutorial will show you how to take tossed firewood and turn it into a beautiful rustic winter tablescape by creating log candlesticks.
Rustic Winter Tablescape: Log Candlesticks
My fence picket obsession continues with this DIY picket fence serving tray tutorial.
Picket Fence Serving Tray
The top 10 DIY décor projects of 2016 including a farmhouse tray, aged barnwood, vintage makeovers, picket fence projects, damask mirror tutorial and many more!
Top Ten DIY Decor Ideas Of 2016
How to paint wicker the easy way. Painting rattan, wicker and cane furniture or accessories can be hard, but this tool makes it easy! DIY tutorial and instructional video for painting wicker here!
How to Paint Wicker Furniture: Video Tutorial
Never underestimate the dollar store. DIY ironstone tutorial to make a fabulous budget friendly centerpiece.
Never Underestimate: $3 Milk Glass Centerpiece
Here is a bunch of DIY teacher gift ideas to help you show your teacher appreciation this season! They would also make fabulous Teacher Appreciation Week gifts.
DIY Teacher Gifts
Old tools are transformed into precious Christmas decorations! See an old tool Santa and Christmas Tree come to life!
Old Tool Santa
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You’re Invited: An Artistic Advent
How to carve a bible verse into furniture. Carve your favorite scripture address into furniture as a great an d uplifting reminder.
How to Carve Bible Verses In Furniture
Free Wi-Fi password printable for the holidays. Use an old frame with a chalky paint update to display your internet password for guests.
Homemade Chalky Paint Recipe Video Tutorial
Free holiday WIFI Password Printable
Free Holiday WIFI Password Printable
Family heirloom recipe placemats bring all the Thanksgivings past to life. Remember your loved ones and your heritage with this easy DIY placemat, perfect for your Thanksgiving table, Christmas dinner or Easter brunch! www.huntandhost.net
Family Heirloom Recipe Placemates: Thanksgiving Table Setting
Chalkboard ideas are so fun and this DIY chalkboard apron is no exception! Perfect for and art & craft festival vendor, garage sale, around the house or a kettle corn stand! Plus snag some cute craft show both display ideas.
DIY Chalkboard Apron
Dollar store crafts turn into a spooky fun Halloween table setting! Check out these easy and inexpensive Halloween ideas.
Dollar Store Halloween Table Decorations
DIY chalkboard lettering like a pro! This easy tip will have you stepping up your chalkboard game in no time.
A Huge Chalkboard and Huge Chalkboard Lettering Tutorial
This painted furniture makeover is perfect for my almost teenage girls bedroom! A little glam on the hardware is the crowning touch on a not to young, not to old nightstand makeover.
Glam Nightstand for an Almost Teenage Girl’s Bedroom
Halloween hits the dining room with these Halloween chair covers.
Halloween Chair Covers: Bootiful Halloween Idea
A cozy autumn home tour inspired by books and pages for Fall. Plus a free printable for a friend...You are my favorite book to read.
Black & White Pumpkin DIY
A simple homemade cloche. This mini glass cloche takes seconds to make but gives lasting decorating impact!
Homemade Mini Cloche
Here's a quick tip on how to easily add years to your furniture's paint job. I call it lazy layers for instant age.
Lazy Layers – The Quick Way To Add Age To Furniture
DIY aged barnwood. Learn how to age new wood to look old in minutes with this tutorial.
DIY Aged Barnwood
Fall Ideas Tour: Mantels, Tablescapes, Wreaths, Printables and Porches. Hunt & Host's DIY chalkboard placemat is a fun project for any time of the year!
DIY Chalkboard Placemat
An old school flatware storage box gets a cozy makeover for Fall. Now it's the perfect hot chocolate station!
Flatware Storage Box to Hot Chocolate Station
Cozy thoughts happen when you see this DIY Fall pom pom wreath. It's a knock out in stunning Autumn colors!
Pom Pom Wreath For Fall
This thrifted old butcher block gets a chalkboard makeover to display a fun game of tic tac toe for the family! www.huntandhost.net
Tic Tac Toe Chalkboard Butcher Block
Use scrap wood to store all the baseball bats you have lying around with this handy DIY baseball bat rack!
DIY Baseball Bat Rack Storage Solution
Wonder why some makeovers pop and some flop? Check out how to get an authentic looking furniture makeover that's sure to be a hit! www.huntandhost.net
How to get an Authentic Looking Makeover
This rusty old toolbox gets a makeover into a boy's bathroom storage solution. www.huntandhost.net
Farmhouse Storage: A Toolbox Makeover
This Seagull inspired coastal bench makeover is just one of many coastal inspired furniture flips you'll find here! www.huntandhost.net
Coastal Inspiration
From grocery store to gorgeous. DIY home décor straight from your pantry. Start with this mercury glass makeover. www.huntandhost.net
Grocery Store To Gorgeous
This boring tray gets a farmhouse garden makeover. A DIY napkin "painting" tutorial. www.huntandhost.net
Farmhouse Garden Tray: Napkin Painting Tutorial
A vintage lamp shade becomes a gorgeous centerpiece. It has good bones. Ezekiel 37:5
Lampshade Centerpiece – Good Bones
Patriotic Twig Vase: A fun summer project made from the junk in your yard. www.huntandhost.net
Patriotic Twig Vase
A DIY tutorial on how to make your own picket fence dog bowl station! www.huntandhost.net
Picket Fence Dog Bowl Station
Magnolia Market: In Waco, TX from Fixer Upper fame...Is it worth the drive? All the answers here. www.huntandhost.net
DIY The Magnolia Market Look
DIY outdoor party buffet in pool blue using...the kitchen sink! www.huntandhost.net
Outdoor Party Buffet Table in Pool Blue
What to do when you don't want to paint your dining room furniture, but you want a change! www.huntandhost.net
When you don’t want to paint your dining room chairs, but you don’t love them as is.
Add fresh farmhouse décor with this five minute farmhouse project. Made from a reclaimed fence picket, this flower vase display is a cinch to make. #farmhousefriends www.huntandhost.net
Five Minute Farmhouse Fence Picket Flower Vase
Wild flowers arranged in tobacco jars. www.huntandhost.net
Weekend Homework
Garage sale items become easy five minute farmhouse projects! Like this five minute farmhouse footed tray from www.huntandhost.net
Five Minute Farmhouse Footed tray
Gorgeous Damask Antique Mirror DIY tutorial. Easy steps using Amy Howard's Antique Mirror solutions by www.huntandhost.net
Damask Antique Mirror: DIY Tutorial
A Homemade Mother's Day gift using a reclaimed 4X4 wood post. Perfect for a picture or memory verse! www.huntandhost.net
Homemade Gift: Wood Block Photo Or Verse Holder
Little ideas that tickle and nag and refuse to go away, should never be ignored, for in them lie the seeds of destiny. Farmer Hoggett from the movie Babe.
Ideas That Nag
The Ladysmith, Miranda Lambert's popular Hotel B&B designed by Phara Queen will delight you with great hospitality. here are some hospitality tips to get The Ladysmith look at home from www.huntandhost.net
The Ladysmith Look: 10 Hospitality Tips PLUS their Peach & Blueberry Cobbler Recipe
This mid-century desk chair gets a powerful neutral makeover with fois bois fabric. www.huntandhost.net
Power In Neutral: Faux Bois fabric
Watch Face Cuff Bracelet tutorial with a note about God's timing. 1 Corinthians 3:7 www.huntandhost.net
Watch Face Cuff Bracelet
This stool goes from drab to fresh with a farmhouse patina makeover from www.huntandhost.net
Adding Farmhouse Patina: A Stool Makeover
Magnolia Market inspired farmhouse kitchen message board out of fence pickets by www.huntandhost.net
Magnolia Market Inspired Kitchen Message Board
How to store and afford seasonal pillows. This pocket pillow tutorial does the trick! www.huntandhost.net
Pocket Pillow Tutorial
Magnolia Market inspired farmhouse crate DIY tutorial. Get Fixer Upper style on the cheap!
Farmhouse Crate Inspired by Magnolia Market
DIY moss letter tutorial
DIY Moss Letter
Want to get some Fixer Upper style for your Spring décor? Here is a Magnolia Market inspired project that you can't buy to round out the look! It's farm fresh.
Magnolia Market Inspired Spring Style
DIY Furniture Girls are Inspired by Chocolate this month. Painted furniture flips based on the favorite sweet treat! This roadside save turned to gold leaf gorgeous!www.huntandhost.net
Roadside Save to Gold Leaf Gorgeous
Make an ordinary thrift store candlestick into an original by not just painting it, but adding fabric for a fun, unexpected touch! www.hutnandhost.net
It’s Not All About Paint: Add Fabric To Your DIY
a 1960's side table gets a WHITE chalkpaint makeover for this #FurnitureRefresh challenge. huntandhost.net
1960’s Side Table Makeover
Soda Crate Jewelry Organizer. #junkReVision Challenge. huntandhost.net
Soda Crate Jewelry Organizer
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Christmas in Texas
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Checkerboard Table Makeover
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Christmas Tablescape PLUS Idea Tour
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Wrapping Your Gift with a Gift
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Side Table to English Memory: A Weathered Flag
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10 Reasons to Mail Christmas Cards
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Silver Spoon Santa
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Painting Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts
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Remote Refuge
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Vintage Halloween House Tour
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Free Vase Fall Tablescape: A message in worth
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Easy Cheesecloth Ghosts
bold color choice Plum paint rockingchair makeover
Go Bold For A Pop of Paint Color
vintage button acorn sweater pillow
Power In Numbers: Button Acorn Pillow
vintage necktie fall wreath
Necktie Fall Wreath
tiered corner shelf two ways
Tiered Shelf: Two Ways

Finding Fall’s Best
11 fun and easy holiday decorating ideas
11 Ways To Make Holiday Decorating Fun and Easy
DIY headboard bench
Broken Headboard Bench
trashed basket makeover
Something From Nothing: Free Basket Makeover
wooden salad bowl succulent planter
Wooden Salad Bowl Makeover
driftwood decoration
Driftwood Tablescape
This kitchen command center will get your to-do list in order. Old shutters turn into a weekly organizer for the whole family.
Shutter To Do List: Kitchen Command Center
painted letter holder
Recycled Mailbox – A Start to Organizing For Fall
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Between The Lines – A Painted Date Project
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Brooch Bracelet
laundry room garland swag
For the Haters: Rag Garland on Laundry Room Drying Rack
July 4th mantel diy all the elements of summer! Baseball, road trips, the beach, American flag, Eagle, denim, fun straws and a bird's nest!
4th of July Mantel: All the elements of summer
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Dear Pinterest
What did it cost?
I Painted a Sofa – Really!
one word necktie art diy
One Word – DIY Necktie Art
diy salt shaker tassels
Salt Shaker Tassels
French country deer decor
Lovin’ my guy
god says DIY picture frame
God says I’m…
DIY phone charging station
DIY Charging Station
picture frame makeover
Freshen Up For Spring
spring flowers
Spring Has Sprung: An Easy Free Printable Display Board
window frame map bulletin board
Maps: Where in the world is Daddy?
sky blue diy curtains
DIY blue sky curtains
crib rail to laundry rack
Hung Out to Dry – Crib Rail to Laundry Drying Rack
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The Race is On
Romans 8:28
Junkyard Art
pinecone mantel
My Hearts: An Easy Valentine Décor Idea
candle box cart
From Discarded to Light
desk clock makeover
Time Change
candlestick before
That’s a Wrap

A Flower That Never Fades
dollar chair makeover
For Me!?
paper bag placemat
Last Minute Christmas Touches

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