Salvaged Old Windows Repurposed into a Room Divider
If you just need to visually divide the space, leave the window glass in your room divider bare. For more privacy, apply spray-on frosting paint to the window panes or use liquid leading and special paint to make the windows look like stained glass. Both options obscure the view while allowing light to pass through the glass. Read more »
Salvaged Old Windows Repurposed into a Pot Rack
How to DIY: Remove the glass from a sturdy old window with a dividing muntins to turn it into a pot rack. Suspend the window-frame pot rock from your kitchen ceiling with plant hooks and and chains, perhaps over your kitchen island or a freestanding range. Or, mount the pot rack on the wall if the ceiling won't work. Use spacers between the wall and the window so that the pot rack project is an inch or so away from the wall.
Screw oversized C-hooks into the thicker pieces of wood around the window's perimeter, which are called the rails and styles. Hang your heaviest pots and pans from the C-hooks. Hang smaller, lighter pieces from S-hooks slipped over the muntins, which are the smaller strips of wood that form the inner grid.
Salvaged Old Windows Repurposed into a Coat Rack
How to DIY: Hang a horizontally inclined mirror - or just turn a vertical window on its side - on your entry hall or mud room wall. Install coat hooks along the bottom rail to turn the window into a rack for outerwear, umbrellas, and hats. If you replace the window glass with mirror, you can give your hair and lipstick a last-minute check before you walk out the door.
To turn your old window into a chalkboard, cut hardboard to size, prime it, and then apply a couple of coats of chalkboard paint. You can use traditional black, or opt for one of the brightly colored chalkboard paints. For corkboard, you can simply cut it to size and use it as is, or cover the cork surface with a decorative fabric. Add a bunch of decorative pushpins and you're ready to go.
Salvaged Old Windows Repurposed into a Message Board
How to DIY: Get organized while recycling by turning an old window into a message board for your kitchen or home office. Replace the window glass with a chalkboard or corkboard panel. If you're using a multi-paned window, you can even use a checkerboard arrangement of both.
To turn your old window into a chalkboard, cut hardboard to size, prime it, and then apply a couple of coats of chalkboard paint. You can use traditional black, or opt for one of the brightly colored chalkboard paints. For corkboard, you can simply cut it to size and use it as is, or cover the cork surface with a decorative fabric. Add a bunch of decorative pushpins and you're ready to go.
Salvaged Old Windows Repurposed into a Folding Screen
How to DIY: If you happen upon three to five French doors or oversized casement or factory windows or shutters, you can hinge them together to make a decorative folding screen. If you can't find tall windows, you can also stack and secure two or more regular windows or shutters together to form each panel of your screen.
As with windows made into room dividers, you can leave the glass clear or use frosted or stained-glass paint to use the screen for privacy. You can also shirr decorative fabric panels on sash rods, and then affix the rods to the top and bottom of the individual panels that make up your screen.
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