Reader’s Favorite DIY Projects To Help Turn Your House Into A Home

This year has been all about our outdoor living space. These DIY painted pots are such a fun way to change a simple terracotta pot. We just love that we were able to create this fun faux marble pot using spray paint.

What do you do with a large leftover pile of expensive composite decking? If you are a DIY nut like us, you build outdoor furniture. This DIY outdoor dining table has hosted several different outdoor gatherings in our new outdoor space.

Since we all are spending more time at home, these garden boxes are great way to stay healthier and start a new hobby. We are so thankful that we were able to create these awesome garden boxes. We know we will love them for years to come!

If you have a spot for the adults to hang out and enjoy the outdoors, you better have fun for the kids. We are so happy that this "quarantine" project is available for our children to play with all year round. Not to mention how much money we saved building our own large outdoor playset.

Redoing free finds is one of our favorite things. Why buy something new, when you can remake something that you find for free. You have to see what this Little Tikes playhouse looked like before this makeover. Now we have one more activity for our children to use their imaginations in the outdoors.

We have redone several furniture pieces for our home using this simple chalk paint recipe. It is so simple and definitely cheap!

Our newest room to get redone in our home included this DIY floating desk. We just love the custom look and how this room is turning out. We cannot wait to start creating in here!

This metal desk was purchased for $30 and is still one of the most unique pieces of furniture in our home. The teal color also definitely adds some flavor to our home office. And after all of this working from home, we need any excitement we can get!

By far one of the best and useful DIY projects we have done was painting and adding laundry room cabinets and shelving into our small laundry room. We couldn't get over how much more space we had using these taller cabinets.

What do you do with an old, musty closet in your basement? You add DIY shelving and create a craft closet...

just us? Again, this DIY project totally added useful space to our home and we couldn't be happier.

This was the first shelving project we did that was the catalyst to many more organization projects. We are so happy that we did just make this a boring all-white closet and added something a contrasting color.

How could we forget our DIY basement storage. This gave us a place to store our toys. Now if only my children would learn to always put their toys away!

Everyone loves a good makeover and getting rid of oak in our house was no exception. This project may have been one of the most bang for our buck. We just love this DIY bathroom vanity transformation.

Yet another awesome industrial shelving project to help fill that empty space above the toilet! We think we may be finally done adding shelving to our home.

This string art is the perfect complement to our new craft room or "homeschool" room. Not only was it fun to create, but we hope it inspires our family to be creative every day!

Creating our own pinata for our son's birthday was definitely a fun family event when we could only celebrate a birthday at home. Not only did we make this pinata together, but destroyed it together. Fun all around!

What do you do when stuck at home and need some cheer? We looked in our pantry to create these amazing marshmallow art projects to display to our neighbors. We hope we made someone smile this past year!

Spreading joy through simple watercolor paintings is a great DIY art activity for the whole family. It also helps that we can display the artwork created (and it doesn't look like a toddler made it).