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Outdoor Rake Decor
by
Barb Rosen
(IC: blogger)
$3
45 Minutes
Easy
At a recent rummage sale I picked up two vintage bamboo rakes. Of course, Len asked me what I was going to do with them. My standard answer is ,"A project". So here the project is!
A floppy rose needing a trellis and some drain pipes I wanted covered gave me the opportunity to put those rakes to use. The first rake fit nicely into the rose pot and became its trellis. A pretty bird house added with twine gave the whole thing a little pizzazz. To camouflage some of the drain pipe on the other side of the garage, I tied the rake to the front and added another birdhouse.
Voila! I have garden accents that cost only three dollars (I already had the birdhouses) and make a nice display on either side of our garage. It doesn't get much easier than that!
A floppy rose needing a trellis and some drain pipes I wanted covered gave me the opportunity to put those rakes to use. The first rake fit nicely into the rose pot and became its trellis. A pretty bird house added with twine gave the whole thing a little pizzazz. To camouflage some of the drain pipe on the other side of the garage, I tied the rake to the front and added another birdhouse.
Voila! I have garden accents that cost only three dollars (I already had the birdhouses) and make a nice display on either side of our garage. It doesn't get much easier than that!
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Published April 30th, 2013 5:48 AM
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Cyndi Neumann on Apr 25, 2015I am loving this, I have an old bamboo rake already too! it is now to brittle to use but now I can get it from under my deck and make Pretty from it! Thanks for beautiful idea!
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Lillie DeWitt on Apr 27, 2015what is the yellow vine you have growing?
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Barb Rosen on Apr 28, 2015@Lillie DeWitt ~ It is actually a spring-flowering Kerria shrub.
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