hello YouTube friends and welcome to my channel if you're new here my name is Deidre from our
upcycled life and i do lots of thrifting upcycling repurposing and diy content and today is a fun
video full of all kinds of dump finds that I've upcycled into great decor for outside lots of
inspiration here lots of techniques that i'm going to share with you so let's get started
i found these fabulous candle lanterns in the dump they were dirty they were really sun bleached but
they were still in really good shape and i knew i could perk them up and make them beautiful again
i'm going to take the handle off the one lantern it just has a jump ring and i can just squeeze it
apart and take it off and i'm going to put some masking tape around that metal piece because i
don't want it to get any spray paint on it taking it outside and i'm just going to give it a light
coat of white spray paint i want to give it that sun bleached white color obviously somebody didn't
see the potential that these lanterns still had because they turned out beautiful just with a
real light coat of spray paint and brought it back to life for free the glass votive holder
on the inside of the one lantern was still there was not broken i cleaned it up and put in a little
tea light and the other lantern back in one of my older videos i made some candles with a
tuna tin can and that's one of those and it fit in there perfect and look how gorgeous these are sun
bleached kind of white look much better than the before and they're ready to put out on my patio
second project is this old lantern that i found in the scrap metal bin it's really rusty but it
has so much character and i want to preserve that rust i don't want to paint it so i'm taking my
engine enamel and i'm going to give it a really good coat and seal in all that gorgeous rust
i love using the engine enamel for this type of a project it seals it up really well so you can
put it out in the elements and you can find it at a automotive store or you can also find it
on amazon and i'll put the link down below in the description so you can check that out the engine
enamel that i bought has a bit of a gloss finish and it just made that rust pop i love it in one of
my previous videos i did some tin can upcycles and i made this tin can i loved it and wasn't quite
sure what to do with it i know what to do with it today i made a homemade napkin and decoupaged it
on top of this tin can and it fit in this lantern perfect i added an ivy and it is going to look
gorgeous on my front porch i've taken this rusty dull looking lantern and made it into a beautiful
piece of outdoor home decor and i think the choice to save that rust color was the perfect one
i found this old bird house and it has definitely seen better days the paint that was on it has
completely uh disintegrated on it and some of the nails were popped out and it just needed some tlc
but it was still in good enough shape that i'm going to be able to fix it up just taking my
hammer and just pushing in any of those nails that had started to pop out and then i'm going
to give it a really good standing with an 80 grit sandpaper so it'll be ready to paint
i am loving this yellow paint i love picking up these little testers too it's just the
right amount of paint for a couple projects and i'm also loving this paint brush from zebra the
palm pro it works fantastic to get in all those little nooks and crannies on your small projects
i love all of their paint brushes and they have different types for different projects
i'll put the link down below in the description and you can head over to their website and check
them out because it is a must for paint brushes i thought the blue was going to really complement
the yellow so i'm going to do a salt painting technique on the roof to give it a rustic
kind of chippy look i'm going to paint on the paint this is just a regular latex
paint a sample that i bought at home depot and i'm just painting it all over the roof
and then once i have that done while the paint is still wet i'm going to sprinkle on pickling salt
you can use any type of salt but the pickling salt i like the texture that it gives and the
chippiness it's just a nice coarse salt and just sprinkle it right into that wet paint
once everything's all dry i'm taking it outside because it is messy
and i'm sanding it down with my 80 grit sandpaper
i think it turned out fantastic i love the chippy feel and i'm going
to add some embellishments i found this old door pull
and this dresser drawer pole and i'm going to add them onto the birdhouse just as some focal points
and that looks a hundred percent better than that bird house that i found in the dump at
the wood pile i was able to up cycle it and make it pretty again and it's ready for some renters
now this is a whole bunch of things that i found put together this wire basket and this
wooden trivet i'm not sure what it was off of or where it was from it's really sturdy and beautiful
i knew i wanted to use that in this project and an old spindle off a table i'm going to
give the wire basket and the trivet a coat of black spray paint i find sometimes when i find
things i just tuck them away and it takes a while for me to get inspired and figure out
what i want to do with them and this is one of these projects i had all three of these things
tucked away and it just all of a sudden came to me and i put it together i drilled a hole
down the middle of the trivet and i'm doing a little test hole in the bottom of the spindle
and i'm going to screw those two pieces together i'm using these staple nails to put the basket on
top of the spindle it was a little tricky to get that hammer in and out of there but i made it work
and i got it on there nice and sturdy and i've created a beautiful planter with just junk
the wire basket the spindle and that trivet on the bottom and it all pulled together beautifully
so that's why sometimes i can create these wonderful projects because i
don't throw anything out because you never know when you're going to need it
last project we're going to upcycle this glass coffee jar and a solar light from the dollar store
i want to paint the glass jar and the first step that i like to do when painting glass is to give
it a light spray of primer and then i had some of this accent stone spray paint i wanted to give it
a little bit of texture and it works fantastic for that i'm going to take the steak out of the
bottom of the solar light fill up that glass jar with some gravel from my driveway get out my e6000
and put a little bit around the rim of that glass jar and just set the solar light into it
the weight of the gravel in the glass jar keeps it from tipping over and i added some twine around
the neck of it for embellishment and once the sun goes down the solar light will light up and
it will look beautiful i hope you've enjoyed my dump find upcycles that i've turned into beautiful
outdoor decor i'd love to know down in the comments which one was your favorite and if you
enjoyed this video i'm sure you'll really enjoy the next one thanks for watching and take care