7 Cheap (NOT CHEESY) $1 DIY Porch Decor Ideas

Hi I'm Megan welcome back to another dollar diy video, this time I heard you loud and clear in the comments that you want outdoor diy so that's exactly what you're going to get in this video. I have seven different DIYs for outdoors, I mean they can be used indoors. Anyway, everyone uses items that cost a dollar each or less. The good thing about this video is that not all of these DIYs are totally my style. I'm actually giving away a lot of them or making them to sell, so I'm uploading them. my game and not make these look like DIY in any way.

I hope you enjoy the video and if you like this video let me know because I have some more

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ation, outdoor decoration, DIY, so let me know if you like this. video, we can make another one, okay, let's start with the first DIY. We're making some hanging planters that you can usually find online or in the store for 30 to 45 dollars, but we don't have to pay that, oh we have to try that. Continue to Dollar Tree, grab some of your metal cans that already come with rope, and remove the rope. Now I spray white paint on mine, totally optional personal preference, so all you have to do is grab a little more thread or rope or whatever. and make a little hot glue bow on the back and then use a little bit of hot glue to reattach the string it comes with and by the way you don't have to hot glue every line then you can fill it with whatever you want, but just a Attention, Dollar General is really selling some super cute flowers this year, so with that I'm filling mine, then some hooks from Dollar Tree Garden and voila, there you have super cute planters or you can use them to organize the inside your house in any way. super cute, I'm not selling them at all and I love the way they look for the next DIY.

We're taking inspiration from Pottery Barn, who thinks very highly of their mossy letters because they want like eighty bucks, but we're not all going to do that. What I'm doing is getting some foam which can be found at Dollar Tree or Walmart. Use a ruler to mark it and shape it into even columns, and then cut the foam into even columns. It doesn't have to be perfect. I used a kitchen knife. I'm not sure if this is the most efficient way to cut foam, but it was the most convenient way at the time. Now my last name starts with an H, but I know that's not the case for everyone, so if your last name is our PB, I'm thinking. you could use dollar tree foam reforms and cut it in half, you feel where I was going with that.

I think it would work. I didn't try it, but I think it would work then, as would gluing the pieces together to make. your letter, the foam held up well on its own with hot glue, but since we're going to put this outside, I reinforced it with popsicle sticks and more hot glue, a bag of dollar tree moss, and a jar full of more hot glue, add your moss to your initial, my favorite way to add moss to anything is to dip the item in hot glue instead of patting the moss with your hands, it just keeps it from burning me.

You'll probably need to go back and trim some areas of your card where it was getting too wild and crazy, kind of like trimming bushes and then there were some areas where I had to pass the moss to Pat, but I used a can full of moss and it didn't bother me. I burned, now you can hang this like a lot of different ways depending on what your initial is. I just used hot glue and twine, but I also played around with putting it on a chicken wire frame, which is cute, but I don't like it that much, so I'm going back to Plain Jane hanging it with twine and putting it on our fence for next DIY.

We're taking inspiration from this super cute but super expensive topiary from Kirklands for $70. We definitely won't pay $70. All we are doing is taking 1 $1 tree. toy foam balls and something you have on hand like maybe a bamboo skewer from Dollar Tree doesn't matter, it doesn't mean it's sharp enough to pierce the foam ball and you don't mind getting dirty because we're back with some from Walmart black 97 cents of gray paint and spray paint for our entire ball and by the way, Walmart sells a foam ball of the same size for about three dollars and fifty cents, so yes, the toy ball is definitely

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er than eight of 97 cent boxwood picks from Walmart cut the stems of your pick. and then cut these tens in half, so if the spike originally had 5 stems, it now has 10, you see.

I say it there, so you can just stick the stems directly into the foam ball, no hot glue needed, this foam is denser. or thick or hard. I don't know the word I'm looking for, so regular styrofoam. Seriously, no hot glue is needed and you don't need to place the stems next to each other, they can be about an inch and a half apart. about an inch thick enough to make it look black and between the leaves, but you'll definitely be able to tell it's a black spray painted basketball. You know what I am saying. Walmart has a ton of different size rods, most of them. less than a dollar, I like the 3/8 inch one or the orange one, it's only sixty-two cents, but two, you can use regular scissors and mark all around the stick and then break it with your hands so it's not completely. perfect cut, but hey, then use burnt umber or whatever brown paint you have on hand.

I just think the burnt shadow was the closest to the sticks in my garden, then just place your stick in your topiary ball to make our topiary look very pretty so far. but if you want to add a touch of cuteness, go to Dollar Tree, get some of the garland that has the fine brown color, and then wrap it around your stick. Plus, Mother Nature gives away twigs and branches for free, so that's what I When I was outside, I grabbed some twigs and wrapped them up. All together you will have some brown vine and some of the leftover leaves from the garland.

We will save them for later DIY. Then I'll use one of the cans of dollar trees that are actually too small for this topiary with some floral moss and stones just to give it weight. That way I can put it in any bucket and then I want to put it. I mean a lot of times when you buy these topiaries in stores the little tin that they come with is too small for the actual topiary because then you can put it in whatever bucket you want and later in this video I'll show alternatives like the DIY bucket if you don't have one on hand and then very quickly.

I'm not 100% sure I'm saying the word topiary correctly, so please I'd rather be corrected than left alone to look like an idiot, so if you're my friend and I say this wrong, seriously correct me. and we move on to the next where we are inspired by Jane's online store and then jo-ann's $20 fabric where she is putting them together in one big DIY all we have to do is buy one at Dollar Tree which is 12 .inch willow reefs and 900 Mart boxwood picks, although I will say I went overboard and made my crown really silly, you could probably get away with only using seven or eight of the photos either way seven eight nine. photos don't mind You don't need to use hot glue just stick the photos around your wreath and this looks super cute as is so that's a great thing about this wreath it can be changed with the seasons and then one of the dollar trees, little love. signs now, yes this is from Valentine's Day and they are not selling them right now but they are carrying similar things like this year around the faux wood MDF boards.

I remove the front paper from my signs because I am painting the front and back. It's one of those DIYs that I'm actually selling or it's technically already sold when it goes up, so I made this welcome home anytime printable and I make it a free printable. I'm sharing it with you for free and it's linked in the description. There is also a link so you can find the silhouette of your state if you want to do this style at home anyway, if you print the paper doodle on the back, turn it over and trace it, you will be able to see it well enough to come back with a paint marker or paint or a marker and then trace that.

I ended up skipping two hours at our house and then a totally optional personal preference here. I like to go back and lightly sand the lettering to match the rest of the boards now I don't want to scare you look at these and the F Wars are so thin they can easily be cut with a hand saw so just a heads up this is As real-time speed, this is not an accelerated video. It literally takes you ten seconds to cut this and if you don't have a hand saw or one of the miter boxes, I have it linked in the description and you can probably get away with using one of the

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and flimsy dollar tree handymen.

Saws, a lot of this MDF can be cut with scissors and by the way, Dollar Tree sells labels and shapes all year round. I don't know if they have any right now but I already had this on hand and got two for a dollar so that's just what I used, I punched some holes in the top of my tags, added some twine and then just a some ribbon from Dollar Tree and made a bow. Now the only area that received hot glue on this entire wreath was where I hot glued the tags. Guess how much? I sold this bad boy.

Well, I'll give you an idea. I just want you to know that in Texas, things like this are very easy to sell and people love things that have the Texas skyline on them, so I'd love to know how much you cost. I think I sold this and we moved on to the next one. We were making another topiary praying to God. What I'm saying is that Kirklands inspiration is all we need is four of these sheets from Walmart and Dollar Tree sells something very similar for cutting. all the stems of the selections, then two bags of lemons or 20 lemons.

Now I bought my lemons at Michael's and originally they were 389 and the bag was on sale for 177 so when I went online to link this in the description I saw it wasn't on sale and the total price was 779 so I have no idea . I entered this new number, but I found lemons for 25 cents at Walmart, they sell them in stores and ignore the bad reviews. I read them for you, they were people. complaining because they ordered online and they were sent limes instead of lemons but if you go to the store you can pick your own lemons it makes sense so just stab your lemons with a little pic we're using one of the little tree toys of the bowls dollar again and We're spray painting it black anyway, some of this DIY is going to be a little repetitive so let's skim through these parts, the difference is you'll be adding lemons instead of boxwood and you'll also have extra leaves . leftover greenery from Walmart, add it to your topiary the same way, optional is to return with some baby's breath available at Dollar Tree and then put it throughout your brewery.

I did it because I liked the contrast and extra dimension with the colors and then Remember we had some green vines left over from the previous DIY. Go back and add them, or you can. I just like the way it makes it look fuller with a little bit of hot glue so you can't see the hot glue if you don't have a spare bucket on hand for the outside. Dollar Tree sells these larger planters, spray paint them white or you can leave it as is and then just grab some twine. String from Dollar Tree or you can do like I'm doing. taking some torn Abdo Lori rope and wrapping it around the top with a little hot glue, everything else is the same in this DIY by the way, so the stems, the rods, the heavy rocks in floral moss, just don't I want to be like super repetitive, so I hope you get the gist.

I love the way it turned out super cute, although I actually made this one for someone else too. I know everyone loves lemon decoration. I'm just not a big fan of lemon. Hate me, but I have one more lemon DIY for you next time. We were inspired by Big Lots $25. Series like this are sold everywhere. All we need is one of the dollar trees, the little janky crown forms two more of the Walmart greenery and more. lemons, you don't need ten, you just need five, so I made two of these five raised lemons, hot glue them all over your wreath and then add your greenery.

Now I want to tell you that if you can't find lemons at Walmart or Michaels, our cell phone. Each Ann has a DIY video where she used dollar tree items to make the lemon look really cool video and I have it linked in the description if you want to check it out I added more baby's breath and some hot glue to Baby's Breath, but I didn't like to go overboard with hot glue because this will also go to someone else and they won't sell it. I just made it for someone and here we go. This is a really cute lemon decoration that doesn't match my decoration,but I still love it. what it looks like and I know a lot of people love lemons so I think this is a great DIY, two cute pieces that definitely don't look handmade and we're on the latter, we're getting inspired again by Kirkland's, $70 on this house. sign and we have many options, you can use one of the Dollar Trees bunny signs they are selling right now or one of the large signs they sold during Halloween or you can do what I am doing 1 inch by 2 inch wood strips by 8 feet long for only 98 cents at Home Depot, so a 98 cent strip cut into 4 pieces that Home Depot will make for you is the same size as the beware sign, so if you go home Depot Route, don't skip, hot wood glue, glue your pieces together if you go to the beware sign, just flip it over and paint it, that's all you have to do after you're done painting.

Waverly sells these insoles at Walmart for like less than $4, a really great investment. I've used them on several DIY projects and then just trace the word home. I like to use paint pens because I'm not good at painting hands-free or staying on my lap with my hands free, but I stay in the lines. While I'm painting, when there's a big area, so I trace it with the paint pencil and then I go back and paint the rest. This mil is from Dollar Tree just to remove the little welcome part, you can save it for a DIY. in the future and then some of the dollar tree hanging tool kits, they come with these little round pieces, screw them to each side of the sign and then tied some twine, same thing for the middle of the sign for the oh, so that I can use a windmill or you can use a wreath now if you're using the beware sign you'll just need hot glue you don't need screws but this way this could be reversible so I could do something on the back and be able to change the small crown between 1k and a crown so yeah I hope that made sense and by the way everything I mentioned regarding the wood, the videos, the printables, it's all linked in the description, don't forget to let me know if you're not OK.

DIY outdoors, what do you want to see? Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time, my friend.