hello youtube friends and welcome to my channel if you're new here my name is
deidra from our upcycled life and i bless the thrifting upcycling repurposing and diy content
and today's video is right full of all kinds of wooden spindle diys
i have all kinds that i collect along the way broken chairs book and tables
and i also had a girlfriend that brought me three buckets full of old spindles so i have all kinds
of ideas swirling in my head i want to share some of them with you today so let's get started
first project is this antique table leg i found it and i just fell in love with it the chippiness
and the crackle in the paint is fantastic i found these hooks in the scrap metal bin and
the color almost matched perfectly i screwed them into that spindle added some hooks on the back
and it's gorgeous hang it up in an entrance way for coats or a catch-all i absolutely love it
project number two i always like to cut up the spindles into little pieces
if they're broken and you can't use a full spindle i never throw any of it out
i cut off the little bits that i can use and i love turning them into ornaments
got out my stash of paint got some fun whimsical colors painted those spindles and then i drilled
a little hole in the top of each one i'm going to use these eyelet screws that i picked up on amazon
i'll put a link down below in the description if you want to grab some for yourself
i'm going to use some twine and string it through those hooks and i've turned these beautiful bits
of spindles into really cute ornaments this is a great idea to do for all of the holidays too
here's a spindle diy from a previous video i took pieces of spindle
and i screwed them between two round discs that i cut out crackle painted them with
some elmer's glue they make beautiful stands or perfect to put a candle on
next project i hate throwing out anything if it's still in good shape the back of this chair
was still in really good shape so we're going to use that for this project and we're going to use
seven spindles we're going to turn all of this in to a beautiful wind chime i'm going to drill some
small pilot holes we're going to use those little hooks again like we used in our ornaments and i'm
going to screw seven of them along the bottom of the back of that chair and once we have them all
screwed into the back i'm going to screw them into the top of each one of those spindles i'm
going to drill a little pilot hole again and then screw those little hooks in i got out a bunch of
my acrylic paint and i'm going to turn it into my homemade stain if you haven't seen that video i'll
put a link down below in the description and you can check it out i just love the way that it just
stains the wood a nice color i'm going to use a different color on each spindle i love the look of
a stained wood and this recipe works perfect for that plus i like that you can just mix up a little
small batch of it it gets really expensive if you want to buy stain in all these different colors
i'm loving all these colors together so far and now because this is going to be outside
i'm going to seal everything up with my engine enamel and then i'm going to put some penetrating
oil on the back of that chair the engine enamel will seal up those spindles when they're out in
the elements and the penetrating oil will also seal that top piece of the chair i think this
is a beautiful way to upcycle an old broken chair it's now transformed into a beautiful wind chime
i've got a whole bunch of random spindles in random colors and i'm going to turn these into
really fun vegetables i've seen these on pinterest before and i fell in love with them and then when
i had this whole stash of spindles i knew i wanted to make some the two spindles that were raw wood
i painted them orange the other spindles i just left them the way they were i love the chippiness
and the color of them i screwed a hole in the top and then i'm just going to add this faux greenery
when i'm in the thrift store one of the first places that i always check for things
is the artificial flowers or for greenery i kind of collected along the way and it worked perfect
for this project i had a few different shades of greenery that complemented the colors perfect
so here's the before spindles and this is what i turned them into
and aren't they darling this is the perfect diy
to do for the easter season but i also love that you can do them in garden colors for the summer
and here's another project from a previous video i cut out a whole bunch of wooden arrows
gave them some distressed paint and then i layered up some old pieces
of trim and some spindles and put them all together this was a great project
to use up all those little bits and pieces i've had laying around forever
this is such an easy spindle diy you can put together in minutes i have all these cut ends
of spindles and i when i'm in the thrift store i always look for wooden bowls always have a stash
just for this purpose put a little bit of gorilla glue on the top of the spindle
i drilled a pilot hole through the wooden bowl and then i'm going to screw it right into the
bowl into the spindle you can always just glue these two together but i'm always gonna have
something in this bowl and i wanted to be really sturdy so i decided to screw it and i've just put
a little full plant in it and how cute is this i put this together in less than five minutes
like i said before i don't like to waste anything so i save the seat of this chair and we're going
to use three other spindles the one spindle we're going to utilize the holes that are
already in the base of that chair i've cut them into even lengths put some glue on them and i'm
going to use those as pegs or hooks i'm going to use the vaseline method to create a chippy finish
on this base of the chair i'm adding the vaseline wherever that chair would have naturally aged or
the paint would have wore off i'm gonna add a couple coats of my homemade white chalk paint
i designed this graphic and i knew it would be perfect for this project we're gonna do our mod
podge reverse graphic transfer method i've printed these graphics off on my laserjet printer reversed
the text and we're going to put a light coat of mod podge all over it and let it sit for 24 hours
it's the next day it's 24 hours i'm dampening that paper until you can just start to see
the graphics show through we're going to rub all that paper off and we're going to be left
with a beautiful graphic i'm not going to paint these spindles i love the chippiness and the
color of them i've drilled two pilot holes in it and i'm gonna nail it into that chair
i'm gonna put one on the top and one on the bottom and i've turned the base of this chair and three
spindles into a beautiful piece of farmhouse decor perfect spot to hang some keys at the front
door or you can put in the kitchen and hang some kitchen utensils from it and i think this graphic
was perfect for this project and if you like this graphic you can always grab it in my etsy store
i hope you enjoyed today's spindle diys and if you really enjoyed it i'm sure you'll like either of
these two videos also and if you like diy content i'd love for you to follow along and subscribe
thanks for watching have a great day and we'll see you in the next video