Repurposed Yard Art

Today, I am sharing how we turned a broken wood barrel into yard art for our yard.

Hello! My name is Lindsay and I have a couple of confessions to make:

• I like to hoard have scrap pieces from projects we have done kept around for future projects.
• I like to hoard rescue broken things when the pieces still have potential.

Phew.

Now that I got that off of my chest and you know my deepest, darkest secrets, I can share this easy tutorial on How To Turn A Broken Barrel Into A Rustic Flower for yard art in your garden.

This project took less than twenty minutes to make and we used rescued “broken things” and scrap material that we hoarded had in the garage.

This yard art started with this pile of goodness I found in a barn we picked. When I found it, I knew it was pieces to something, but I didn’t know what it was. That didn’t matter, the rustic wood had too much potential to pass up.

When we got our barn haul home (I shared the pickin’ pictures on Instagram), Matt noticed the barrel under our deck and it clicked. That pile of goodness was once a barrel.

When the broken pieces were laid out, they looked like a flower to me. I knew we had to put it together for our yard.

I need to interrupt your regularly scheduled blog post for a little disclaimer: 

Sometimes, Matt gets projects done fast. I love that. But sometimes, he gets the easy projects done so fast that he doesn’t tell me he is doing them and I don’t get out to take pictures of the process. So, for this yard art, I don’t have step-by-step pictures of how he cut plywood to attach the broken barrel pieces to make the flower.

I also don’t have a picture of how he used the handle of a garden tool to attach the entire flower to. I could only get a side/back picture after the flower was in the ground. It still shows how it all came together. 

Back to your regularly scheduled blog post….

Every spring, we change and add landscaping to our yard and when we can use scraps we hoard have for something new, it is always fun.

Last year, we made a quick effort to spruce up the front of our house, but this spring, we made different changes. We took all of that out and added more plants and flowers and took out the rocks and added mulch. Projects like these aren’t a quick change because you have to wait for the plants to reach their full potential to really see if you are going to like it. If not, we will change it again next year. 😉

Like the inside of our home, the yard is constantly changing and evolving.

We wouldn’t have it any other way.

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This Rustic Flower was such an easy project. We used broken things and scraps we already had to make it. Just like I shared in my “Why I DIY” post, DIY projects come in all shapes and sizes and each one is perfect for its own reason.

Why have you done to your yard/garden this spring? Do you have any big landscaping plans this year?

If you don’t want to make your own yard art, I found some fun options online:

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