Creative DIY Projects

17Apr08

190974647 856873Ad8AI love creative DIY projects, especially ones that are inexpensive. I came across this post over at Make where someone used an old washing machine barrel to make a decent looking lamp. Seems like it would be fairly easy to do, and I see really cheap and/or free washing machines on craigslist all the time. Almost as exciting as the DIY lamp was one of the comments where someone mentioned that washing machine barrels make great fire pits as well. I have been looking for a decent looking inexpensive modern fire pit for a long time, and this might just be the trick.

Anyone else have creative ideas for an old washing machine barrel?

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3 Responses to “Creative DIY Projects”

  1. Larry on April 17th, 2008 9:08 pm

    Ya. Sometimes I will just like strain out my pasta in it and stuff. It’s so rad.

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  3. NtJS on April 23rd, 2008 1:27 pm

    We have one of these as a fire pit and it is great. We have it about 1/2 sunk in the ground with some stone around it. It works great and looks great. The flames put on a nice light show at night. The holes also allow plenty of air to the logs, so the fires burn quite well. I don’t think those washing machine guys could have designed a better fire pit.

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