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Started by Verbal Mike, November 16, 2008, 12:23:43 PM

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Verbal Mike

November 16, 2008, 12:23:43 PM
I desperately want to make my room more interesting. I'm also desperately not rich. (Not quite poor at the moment but that's just temporary)
I need good ideas for DIY projects that I can do on the cheap. Especially stuff relating to storage, which I do not have enough of in my room (thinking of installing a third desk because of my tendency to use desks to store everything in a semi-ordered kind of mess.)
Any particularly good ideas or websites with such ideas that you spags might recommend?
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November 16, 2008, 04:32:09 PM
If you have any salvage yards nearby (look in the phone book under "salvage" or "building salvage") old kitchen cabinets make killer cheap storage.
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November 16, 2008, 05:17:53 PM
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#3
November 16, 2008, 07:59:50 PM
theres this stuff called paint...makes rooms more interesting...

Verbal Mike

#4
November 16, 2008, 08:30:28 PM
Thing is when I moved in here my walls were already painted really awesome, with this cool green pattern around half the room. I don't want to overdo it, coloring the other half. So I need to fill the room with awesome things.
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Eve

#5
November 17, 2008, 05:09:13 AM
This doesn't help you at all, but I recently discovered a used hotel furniture place near my house that must be a goldmine for cheap decorating.

Helpful suggestion that you've likely already thought of: check Craigslist.
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Suu

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November 17, 2008, 05:40:14 AM
Do you need curtains? Making curtains is cheap, fun, and easy.
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#7
November 17, 2008, 05:50:35 AM
I have a horrible secret cheap curtain trick:

Go to thrift store

buy cheap pillowcases

Cut off bottom and seam side of pillowcase

Put on curtainrod

Congratulations, you made curtains!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Verbal Mike

#8
November 17, 2008, 07:07:49 AM
Already took care of curtains ages ago... I have a glass door that opens onto our balcony, once I got a g/f here it became pretty unbearable not to have a curtain over it.
But my other window just has a very boring white Ikea roller blind... I think I need to coerce some artist to paint something awesome on it.
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rong

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November 17, 2008, 07:24:12 AM
i'm working on a DIY electric mousetrap.  i call it "the electrocutioner"

basically consists of a 12V battery, ignition coil, nail and steel plate. drill a hole in the plate and stick it to a board and ground it.  stick the nail into the board thru the hole so it doesn't contact the plate.  connect the coil to the nail and put some peanut butter on the head of the nail and voila!

THE ELECTROCUTIONER
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#10
November 17, 2008, 11:55:57 AM
are you trying to suggest Verb should redecorate his house with limping braindamaged mice?
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#11
November 17, 2008, 12:05:44 PM
if you get posterboard and string you can make groov ceiling light things like this


maybe something more manly then butterflies tho...

my friend made something like this in her appt.
hers was attached directly to the ceiling tho not some weird black thing...

Payne

#12
November 17, 2008, 02:30:01 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on November 17, 2008, 11:55:57 AM
are you trying to suggest Verb should redecorate his house with limping braindamaged mice?

If he isn't, I am now.

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#13
November 17, 2008, 02:34:29 PM
Rats would give you greater coverage. 
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Triple Zero

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November 17, 2008, 11:03:54 PM
Quote from: Payne on November 17, 2008, 02:30:01 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on November 17, 2008, 11:55:57 AM
are you trying to suggest Verb should redecorate his house with limping braindamaged mice?

If he isn't, I am now.

he should probably paint them various bright colours and glue partyhats to their heads, though.
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