Budget Decorating Idea: Get Creative With Flea Market Silverware

 

Flickr Photo Credit: Randy Read

I’ve read about and seen numerous ideas for this stuff over the years. Finally, I’ve decided to sit down and compile a list for future use.

Drilling holes through the tops of old forks and curling the middle tine into a hook to hang grommet holed curtains, pounding and shaping forks and spoons to hang with beads and craft wire in a unique wind chime decoration, drawer and cupboard door handles, framed kitchen art, the list goes one. This stuff is cheap and often free. I also decided to go on an internet quest to see what other ideas I could find. Here are the results.

• This page has some different ideas for using old silverware creatively. There’s a neat display and serving tray idea, and a unique use of bent forks as place card holders that I can see modifying for a recipe holder when baking, or placing straight ones in a jar or clay pot full of dry beans or lentils and using them as a creative solution for post card and photo display.
• Here is a useful and dirt cheap idea to use old silverware for storage hooks.
• A discussion thread on making bracelets from old spoons. They mention drilling holes, but I would think you could just pound the curved part flat and bend it around a round form, like a pole.
• You’ll need to scroll down on this page to find it, but there is a project submission of a unique piece of jewelry made from old spoons. If you liked the discussion thread listed above, you’ll enjoy this image.

If I find more, I’ll keep you “posted”! Have a great day.