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Apartment Therapy Sample Post: 5 Quick DIY Projects with Sisal
The second sample Apartment Therapy post.
Sisal rope is cheap, easy to find and work with, and gives a natural feel to any room. Here's a roundup of six different sisal DIY projects for your place that look great, don't break the bank, won't take long, and don't involve the words "cat scratcher."
Design*Sponge's DIY Sisal Rope Art project shows you how to make a wall hanging or table centerpiece mat with barely more than scissors, rope, and a glue gun.
This sisal basket tutorial from Under the Table and Dreaming is fantastic, since you can make the basket any size or shape you need; it'd look great holding soaps or washcloths in the bathroom, fruit in the kitchen, or anything practically anywhere!
Grandmother's Pattern Book has this tutorial for a Crocheted Sisal Rug. This might be more than a weekend project, depending on how large you want to make the rug, but a smaller one would be great for a doormat or bathmat, since Sisal will stand up to harsh treatment.
Sisal's toughness makes it ideal for work in the garden. At the UK-based site Gardener's World, sisal and branches combine to make a rustic trellis for the climbing plants in your garden. They also suggest hanging it vertically from a pergola to get shade and privacy, but for those of us without pergolas, I imagine hanging it from a balcony would do just as well. This project needs a drill and a saw is suggested to make the branch ends uniform, but otherwise all you really need is sisal and branches--it's practically free!
This sisal rope shelf project from the Nate Berkus Show could be dressed "down" to look weathered or "up" to look modern, depending on what boards you decide to use. It looks a little nautical and would be great in a bathroom.
Sisal rope is cheap, easy to find and work with, and gives a natural feel to any room. Here's a roundup of six different sisal DIY projects for your place that look great, don't break the bank, won't take long, and don't involve the words "cat scratcher."
Design*Sponge's DIY Sisal Rope Art project shows you how to make a wall hanging or table centerpiece mat with barely more than scissors, rope, and a glue gun.
This sisal basket tutorial from Under the Table and Dreaming is fantastic, since you can make the basket any size or shape you need; it'd look great holding soaps or washcloths in the bathroom, fruit in the kitchen, or anything practically anywhere!
Grandmother's Pattern Book has this tutorial for a Crocheted Sisal Rug. This might be more than a weekend project, depending on how large you want to make the rug, but a smaller one would be great for a doormat or bathmat, since Sisal will stand up to harsh treatment.
Sisal's toughness makes it ideal for work in the garden. At the UK-based site Gardener's World, sisal and branches combine to make a rustic trellis for the climbing plants in your garden. They also suggest hanging it vertically from a pergola to get shade and privacy, but for those of us without pergolas, I imagine hanging it from a balcony would do just as well. This project needs a drill and a saw is suggested to make the branch ends uniform, but otherwise all you really need is sisal and branches--it's practically free!
This sisal rope shelf project from the Nate Berkus Show could be dressed "down" to look weathered or "up" to look modern, depending on what boards you decide to use. It looks a little nautical and would be great in a bathroom.