Enhance Your Yard with Recycled Wood

July 03rd, 2009 | Category: DIY

When you have additional pieces of plywood lying around your carport, don’t let them go to waste. Instead, you can give them new life and even enhance your yard in the process. Using the additional wood to create a few homemade bird or bat houses is an easy way to reuse your wood scraps. All you need is a handsaw, nails, a hammer and paint. Remember, the more bats you have nearby, the less insects such as mosquitoes will be around to irritate you. Another simple project is to create a small seat to attach to trees so squirrels can eat corn. Just remember to add a nail to stick the cob on. For more creative projects,

assemble ornaments and decorations for the upcoming seasons. additionally, larger sheets of wood can be turned into trays or cutting boards. whether you have been meaning to mulch your yard, chip your supply of wood into mulch to revive your flowerbeds. Once you start thinking of ways to reuse your wood, strange ideas will come to intellect.