Remember that last Friday's Before & After post featured miscellaneous projects?  Well, today's Repurposeful Monday is another hot mess of unusual odds and ends.

You can display a button collection in a jar

or on colorful wall art.

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Balloon + glue + buttons = a fun art project!

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In it's former life this hall tree was a door.
Love that they left the knob in tact.

A chalk board and a window frame combine
to make a charming message station


The platform of a Los Angeles billboard
was repurposed into a mini-forest:

I'm thinking 6th grade science project.


Are you looking for ideas on how to
repurpose a vintage suitcase?

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Here are a few ingenious coffee table ideas:

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College students can be very inventive:

An old television is now a coffee table.

Cute idea!

Old 35mm film was used to make these ingenious lamp:

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Seriously, what can't be turned into a lamp?

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A thrift shop lamp shade makes a great knitting yarn caddy.


An old shipping crate was repurposed into a portable coffee bar:

Yes, sheer genius.

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An old industrial cart whimsically organizes Winter wear.   

Yes, that's an antique chicken cage.

Interested in a heavy metal sculpture?

An English phone booth is now a fish tank outside a pub.

A library information desk was built
with hundreds of old books.  Clever.

With Summer behind us those inflatable pools can be brought indoors and put to work as a play pen.   Why do I suspect that a Dad thought this up?!

I warned you that today's repurposeful post is a compilation
of unusual odds and ends.  Do I ever disappoint?!