An Ebay bargain and a little showering of fairy(saw)dust...

There has for some considerable time been lots of goings on with this whole 'upcycling' movement. Slow as ever to jump on a bandwagon we have recently started to experiment with various bits of what can only be called other peoples broken crap in an effort to create something practical, amusing or magnificent for the house or garden.

We've tackled some ideas recently (and blogged about most of them) including:

- Grabbed some free timber (an old deck) and turned it into a cold frame
- Found a bathroom sink at the dump and created a sink water feature
- Turned a long ranch fence into a two ton raspberry planter
- Various items such as Belfast sinks turned into planters
- Old trailer into a herb planter
- Pallet seating area with strawberry planter fence

and the list goes on...

We like the principal, getting free or cheap stuff and giving it a new lease of life, there are cautions however, getting free timber doesn't mean you won't need to spend a small fortune on paint for it as we've found out from time to time.

Anyway I have many woodwork projects that are desperately screaming for my attention but I found an opportunity to ignore them and try something that I've seen others do. So about a week ago I bought and collected a cheap second hand little kids bed via Ebay. Here it is:

 

 

Now, literally a couple of hours (mostly spent waiting for paint to dry) later plus two offcuts of pine that I had knocking about and Hey Presto! our kids have a tiny person garden bench to sit on.