I apologize in advance to those of you who will find this offensive, but I sometimes take items that people have left out for trash day. I have found several furniture and decorative items this way and I honestly can’t believe what people throw out.
This week I found a great wicker chair and a perfectly good piece of round glass that fits on the seat.
I’m thinking about using it as a plant stand. Any other ideas?
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We’ve done this with a bench!
Honeysuckle is a GREAT climbing bush and smells WONDERFUL to boot! And I don’t dumpster dive the way I used to. I lived in an apartment years ago where there was constantly great stuff being pitched. I picked up a bassinett (and some other baby things) that I gave to my sister, still in perfect condition, which she used with both of her kids and some foster kids, along with most of the babies in their church small group (she passed it around). That was probably my most useful dumpster find!
Oh I love honeysuckle–that would be perfect growing on the chair! Sounds like that bassinet saved a bunch of people money. 🙂
send it to me…..
Haha! You already have one of my chairs Becky! 🙂
Nothing wrong with taking someone’s trash. My dad and I do it all the time. Haha! As the say goes, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Rather it end up being used that thrown in some landfill.
Yes Lesley, I’m being environmentally friendly by recycling, right?! 🙂
If you wanted to, you could make a table and some wall art from the chair- hacksaw off the rounded back part of the chair, and then use that as wall decor above the plant base/table…
Very creative Susan! I like that idea. Thanks!
I always wanted to take a chair apart and build trellises out of them. My husband keeps throwing all my good junk away though, lol. I thin this would make a great plant stand. What could you grow that would eventually take over the chair?
Sorry you keep losing your junk Karen–haha! I wonder if some kind of climbing vine would work. It is going to be in the shade most of the time. Does anybody have any gardening experience to share?
My sister goes dumpster diving all the time- often she fixes stuff up and resells it on craigslist or ebay.
Once she went dumpster diving for my Mom and my Aunt, who both couldn’t really get in and out very easily. Where, you ask? Why, outside of a granite countertop company (they got permission… actually it was suggested to them, that they dive right in) for chunks of granite. My Mom brought home several that she uses like a cake plate when she makes cakes. She had asked how much it would be to have pieces cut, and they told her about $100 apiece.
That’s funny Chara. I just went to a home improvement store looking for a block of granite. I should have checked the dumpster first–haha!
Last week you posted a fruit bowl/cake plate. Also linked a $5.00 side table that had etched glass. Options for the glass is to paint it and use it in a picture stage as a decoration or on the bowl for a fruit stand or cake plate. The chair is charming and could be painted and with a throw pillow could be a colorful albeit useful seat. Cute finds!!
Thanks for the ideas Deon. I don’t know if I’m adventurous enough to try the etched glass myself, but maybe. 🙂 I’m definitely up for some spray paint though.