Do It Yourself
It might start with a quick fix-it project. It might start with wanting to save money. It might start with an interest in crafting something on your own. It might start with a desire to buy fewer consumer goods as an environmental statement. It might start with a personal challenge to be more self-reliant.
No matter how it begins, the drive to Do It Yourself is an important one, and has positive effects for your wallet, your psyche, and the environment.
Here you'll find all our content on DIY living, including awesome projects, repair help, and musings on the topic. Dive in, get inspired, and start DIYing!
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5 Ways to Share Your Garden on Global Sharing Day
Global Sharing Day is coming up. Share your garden and knowledge to create a healthy, sustainable community.
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21 Natural Home Remedies for Pets
From knocking out fleas to fighting the evils of hairballs, these simple, all-natural remedies are both planet and pet approved.
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Low Tech Rocking Chair Knits Hats As You Sit (Video)
This re-interpreted rocking chair allows the sitter to slowly knit a hat with no extra effort.
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Make an LED Lamp From a Single Sheet of Cardboard
Using this clever design, a laster cutter and some glue, you can craft your own desk lamp.
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Artists Takes Trash to New Heights as Habitat for Urban Birds
A Danish street artists upcyles trash into colorful tiny birdhouses for urban feathered friends.
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12 Easy DIY Halloween Decorations That Don't Pack a Landfill Punch
From shrunken apple heads to flayed skin cheese balls and origami bats, skip the wasteful Halloween aisle and craft your own spooky decorations instead.
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19 Clever Uses for Rubber Bands
These common rubber loops can save the day!
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Turn an Office Scanner Into a Table Top Saw
Your office and your garage combine in this Instructable that takes an old scanner and hacks it into a table top saw used to cut solar cells.
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14 Most Wildly Popular Gadget Instructables
We've hand-picked the Instructables projects that have appealed most to our readers. Peruse these top selections and start DIYing!
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Build Your Own Solar Charger with Voltaic's DIY Kits
With these solar charger kits, you can build the right system for your mobile or off-grid power needs, and then easily mount the whole thing onto your own backpack or bag.
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8 Homemade Salt and Sugar Body Scrubs
With a few kitchen cupboard ingredients, silky soft skin can be all yours.
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5 Energy-Themed Jack-O-Lantern Patterns for Halloween
Let your geek flame burn bright this Halloween with energy-themed Jack-o-lanterns
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Make Gadget Parts Using Sugru and 3D Printed Molds
A great idea for making your own repair parts using readily available materials.
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Build a Tesla Coil in 9 Steps
Just in time for Halloween, we're highlighting this Dr. Frankenstein-style project.
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3D Printed Headphones Snap Together, No Tools Required
The design proves that 3D printable, DIY gadgets are becoming more of a reality.
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Build Your Own Energy-Efficient LED Lamp
A perfect project to test out your shop skills and brighten up your home.
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Grow a 1% Fall Container Garden on a 99% Gardener Budget
Copy these 13 plants used by affluent gardeners to create fall container gardens on a budget.
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Build a Hydroponic Indoor Garden from IKEA Parts
Designer Antonio Scarponi's latest venture is a DIY instruction manual for building five different hydroponic devices to grow vegetables in your apartment using out-of-the-box IKEA components.
