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    This week I'm giving you a home tour of my fave thrifted items, which I have flipped, upcycled, or remixed to repurpose for something other than their intended purpose. Hope it gives you some inspiration.
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  • @Julierue
    @Julierue 6 месяцев назад +22

    Not gonna lie, love that I know most of the items you shared. I’ve become an official Laugh Cry DIY creeper 😂

    • @carolinejane8145
      @carolinejane8145 6 месяцев назад +3

      Me too 😂

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +3

      I appreciate that because I was like, “oh no, they’ve all seen these and are gonna be bored.”

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +2

      ❤️

  • @KarMa-ws3ll
    @KarMa-ws3ll 6 месяцев назад +9

    Your remote-holder just shows that your brain works brilliantly different than hours. Thats such a crazy-good idea 🙂

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      Originally I wanted it to be a shell (and it may still end up that way). But some things just speak to me…like shower rings 😂

  • @kimeejae
    @kimeejae 6 месяцев назад +6

    Girl, not you sitting next to a rotary dial telephone like it’s the 1980s 😂 This is why I love you and my niece 🐈

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      I almost bought another one I saw on marketplace! It was a wall-mounted one (orange) from the 70s/80s that had an attached cork board 🤯

    • @kimeejae
      @kimeejae 6 месяцев назад

      @@LaughCryDIY Love it! 🥰

  • @olbird7647
    @olbird7647 6 месяцев назад +7

    ⭐️🐈
    Love how your brain reworks stuff!
    Do stepchildren count as 'thrifts'? I tried to re-purpose mine (and my own sprog- no favouritism) as useful household items that cleaned and fixed stuff, but someone called the police🤷‍♂️

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +3

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @estherwolf110
    @estherwolf110 6 месяцев назад +5

    I am always repurposing finds.
    Old 2 man crosscut saw for a curtain rod
    Thick, vintage bed covers for draft and light excluding door curtains
    A vintage steamer trunk into a composting toilet
    A tall and skinny bedside table for a bathroom sink stand
    An old door behind the cooker instead of tiles
    A wooden gate rescued from a woodpile for a headboard
    And much, much more!

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +3

      OK I love these!!!! I am especially fond of rescued doors and gates. In Paris, I saw an old art nouveau gate that I would have robbed a bank for.

    • @hnek
      @hnek 6 месяцев назад +1

      I am v curious about the composting toilet steamer trunk myself... I feel like there are some truly tasteless jokes to be made

    • @estherwolf110
      @estherwolf110 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@hneklol... yup!

  • @DaHalfFilipino
    @DaHalfFilipino 6 месяцев назад +10

    I love how unfiltered you are🤣 real great finds and uses for them! you inspipre me a lot

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      Gotta keep it real 😂

  • @Lullalies
    @Lullalies 6 месяцев назад +4

    I repurposed a piece of flat white stone as a candle stand, a square piece of marble ceramic as a mousepad and a piece of flat wood to place all my creams on top.

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад

      Ok I love those, and the marble mousepad is genius! I may steal that for office makeovers!!!!

    • @Lullalies
      @Lullalies 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@LaughCryDIY Show it!

  • @annettestewart7903
    @annettestewart7903 6 месяцев назад +6

    Me: ready to do a thing
    Cat: sits
    Me: well sh*t

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +2

      Story of my life. Haha.

  • @harveythepooka
    @harveythepooka 6 месяцев назад +2

    Tons of good ideas! I wish those light remotes weren't so ugly or so small. I always lose them but also don't want to put them somewhere I have to see them, lol.

  • @carolinejane8145
    @carolinejane8145 6 месяцев назад +2

    It’s good to see that you’re using these things. My favourite things are the spice rack and the apothecary cabinet with the palm tree bookends getting an honourable mention. Unfortunately I am the grim reaper when it comes to plants, so I’ll never need plant stands.

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      Haha. Spoiler: half of my plants are fake. I feel the same, and my place is actually quite low light.

  • @Sergeant-of-the-crossing-guard
    @Sergeant-of-the-crossing-guard 6 месяцев назад +2

    I inherited an umbrella stand and put a small wooden round on top. PERFECT next to my reading chair in a corner where a “regular” table wouldn’t fit. I appreciate how you have seen the good in the items you have found and not covered them in baking soda+paint to dupe something from Pottery Barn 🙄

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад

      I love to hear this! Hahah. Admittedly, I’ve baking soda painted a few pieces-but never for a pottery barn dupe. 😂😂😂😂 I can’t do beige.

  • @musictheorywithmalia
    @musictheorywithmalia 6 месяцев назад +2

    LOVE all of these. That umbrella stand turned planter is sooooo cute! Here's my thrift flip: using an urn as a vase for flowers :D

  • @joanipicard408
    @joanipicard408 6 месяцев назад +1

    I use over-sized coffee mugs from the thrift store as planters. I have also used an outdoor tin fence flower planter inside; lined with a zip lock bag of dirt with a heart leaf philodendron. It hangs on a nail on a kitchen wall.

  • @melaniepeters4744
    @melaniepeters4744 6 месяцев назад +3

    Fun video! Lots of fun tips. The umbrella holder reminded me of the peacock rug you painted.

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      Totally. They’re a nice pair.

  • @SM-ov5rf
    @SM-ov5rf 6 месяцев назад +4

    Hooray for new Laugh Cry DIY content! I can’t think of obvious thrift reimaginings, however I do use vases to display feathers (peacock or Australian ibis, and branches. I’m seldom given flowers and this way I can keep vases out

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      I have peacock feathers too! (Didn’t show them in this vid though.) I love ‘em. I had to look up Ibis, as I’d never heard of them. Very cool. I also always want bouquets around. I’ve been wanting to do make some epic paper flowers so that I can keep them out full-time. Maybe a future episode...

  • @bodicegoddess
    @bodicegoddess 6 месяцев назад +1

    Love the napkin holders as file folders! I have a brass napkin holder on my desk for my multiple laptops - makes it easy to switch from work to school machines.

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      Oooh! That is so smart too! I never thought of that.

  • @BendiFaguette
    @BendiFaguette 6 месяцев назад +4

    Hey I looove your wallpaper! 🤩😍🥸

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад

      Wait, the green tropical in office or the black and white in living room?

  • @jadestone8552
    @jadestone8552 6 месяцев назад +3

    Wait! I watch every one of your episodes, so how did I miss Alaska and the store tour?

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад

      Haha. Well, I appreciate it. I guess surprise for you! Haha.

  • @beeheart6529
    @beeheart6529 2 месяца назад +1

    Candlesticks as bookends - so pretty! I love it.

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  2 месяца назад +1

      I love em. Thanks for watching.

  • @marierose6792
    @marierose6792 6 месяцев назад +1

    Love your video. I do the same. I moved into an all white painted apartment. In the space between the kitchen cupboards and the ceiling, I displayed settings of plates, jugs and cups etc in the greens and blues to set a colour scheme. Spacing each grouping is important. I put little hidden lights and I get a WOW from everyone who enters. All found or bought in thrift stores and discount stores.

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад

      I love that! And I kinda want to see a pic if you want to send to katy@laughcrydiy.com

  • @margielee2088
    @margielee2088 5 месяцев назад +3

    So glad I'm short and round because if I was tall and skinny I would have to worry about you seeing me and trying to turn me into a plant stand. Lol. Love how your mind works.

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  5 месяцев назад +1

      Hahaha. Beware of ME.

  • @user-jo6gp5hv5f
    @user-jo6gp5hv5f 6 месяцев назад +1

    I glued crystal knobs under my thrifted trays to give them some hight and glam. I love how they look.

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      Love that! I want to do something like that with plant pots. (I know I have a plant pot problem-haha).

  • @heathercraven-sw6is
    @heathercraven-sw6is 6 месяцев назад +2

    Hi Katy!
    From one maximalist to another, I love the tasteful color explosion in your home! I feel like my home is more of a sh*t show of color that doesn’t always look “blended” or “cohesive”. Your ideas are super helpful on how to make spaces look eclectically interesting and less chaotic! 😂 I love your closet office and the apothecary cabinet flip! I look forward to seeing more! Thank you!

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      From one maximalist to another, I love to hear it! Tbh I’d much rather have colorful chaos than a sad beige home.

  • @missellie1
    @missellie1 Месяц назад

    My great aunt gave me a plant stand in the shape of an elephant, and I've used it as an end table for a decade now. Every apartment, dorm room, house I've lived in, it's come with me. Last year, I found its twin on goodwill's website, and I had to buy it. Now I have two elephants on each side of my recliner, just like the lion statues from Between the Lions.

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  Месяц назад +1

      I LOVE to hear this. This is my dream with cheetahs or maybe even camels. I love plant stands like that.

  • @saharshams2497
    @saharshams2497 6 месяцев назад +1

    Katyyyyyyyyyy!!!!! 😚😚😚😚😚 Not only I shouted in total bliss and joy as soon as I saw the cute chubby elphi and teared up for how lucky he was 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 I MUST also say that you are the most creative person I have ever seen!!!! 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱 Howwwww these ideas come to your little head 😝😝😝😝😝 Let me just say thank you Lord for everything (Katy) ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      Yay! Yes, Mr. Elephant has moved around the apartment a few places! (I still don’t have a name for him-any ideas?) Thank you so much for sending him my way! By the way, two of him would also be a great bookend. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @saharshams2497
      @saharshams2497 6 месяцев назад

      Thank you for giving him the best home 🙂 Two for book ends 😀 I've never thought of that! How about Mr. Phee 😅

    • @katyifrench1
      @katyifrench1 6 месяцев назад

      @@saharshams2497Mr. Phee it is!

  • @tngirlz4622
    @tngirlz4622 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for the tour of your incredibly cool home! Your closet office is beautiful - I love the napkin holder hack! Baguette clearly got up to snuggle because you were wearing black.😁

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      Oh 100%. The way she loves to hop up on the ironing board and sit on the stacked clothes. 😂

  • @marthadueck6461
    @marthadueck6461 5 месяцев назад +1

    I also use all kinds as things for plant stands or a book stand. Every one laughs at me because I’ll take something and diy it. If I need something to do a display at the thrift store where I work I’ll go around the store till I find an item of two to put together for me to use. My house is mostly all DIYs.

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  5 месяцев назад

      I love to hear that! I always thought displays sounded so fun.

  • @hnek
    @hnek 6 месяцев назад +1

    i love the file/napkin holders. I know I have repurposed stuff why can't I think of any!?
    My brother's stand up bass fell down some stairs and broke, so I used some pieces of it to make little hanging shelves. I still have parts of it in the garage waiting for another inspiration.

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад

      RIP to the bass. That’s a good fix tho. I’m trying to think about what else it could be used for 🤔

  • @fromhumblebeginnings7798
    @fromhumblebeginnings7798 6 месяцев назад +1

    Oysters! dip in middle (cocktail sauce). Getting ready to launch my new business - vintage piece candles so they can be used for other things when the candle is gone.

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      Oh!!! That makes sense. And I adore candles like that! Best of luck for it. Tell me when it’s up and running.

  • @heidibee501
    @heidibee501 6 месяцев назад +1

    Very fun. I got some good ideas as l always do here. Thanx and enjoy your personlized treasures. Remember Lisa Lamp? I have my own version and it is our night light, with its welcoming red bulb.

  • @thegreenquill1052
    @thegreenquill1052 6 месяцев назад +1

    Good content idea, Katie, without even getting dirt under your nails! Strategize on with your cheap self!

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад

      Sometimes the lazy girls need flip-free options too!

  • @BenjamintheTortoise
    @BenjamintheTortoise 6 месяцев назад +2

    Fun ideas!! You're so creative, love them all 💕💕

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks so much. Maybe I’ll do another vid like this in the future.

  • @MmMm-qe2zo
    @MmMm-qe2zo 5 месяцев назад

    U are the only DIY’er whose commentary I listen to. Ur hilarious and ur stuff is gorgeous! Thank you ❤❤

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  5 месяцев назад

      Aw, thank makes my day. ❤️ Trying to give my fellow cheap people the inspiration they need.

    • @MmMm-qe2zo
      @MmMm-qe2zo 5 месяцев назад

      @@LaughCryDIY nothing beats cheap and easy

  • @bethrios2782
    @bethrios2782 5 месяцев назад +1

    I just found you and I love all your ideas. So many things I never thought of before.

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  5 месяцев назад

      Aw, thank you! Glad you’re here! Check my playlists for other stuff!

  • @avilla3804
    @avilla3804 6 месяцев назад +1

    That Love & Rockets poster, tho 😍

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      That would be curtesy of my boyfriend 🙌

  • @katiestockley5984
    @katiestockley5984 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks katy, great inspo as always

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      ❤️ glad these vids work too

  • @lydialangfordjoiner765
    @lydialangfordjoiner765 5 месяцев назад +1

    You did well! Thank you-

  • @mimiwilliams7281
    @mimiwilliams7281 5 месяцев назад +2

    👏🏾 COME ON VIEWS
    YAAAAAUUUSSSS
    This is gooood! 🤌🏾
    Great episode.
    #BaguetteAuntiecrew
    🧡 🐈 🧡

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  5 месяцев назад +1

      Love you keeping an eye on the numbers. Best Baguette Auntie. 😂😘

    • @mimiwilliams7281
      @mimiwilliams7281 5 месяцев назад

      @@LaughCryDIY I do … because I knew that you were going to blow up. 🙌🏾 Have you watched your videos? 🤣🤣

  • @karenbutcher5921
    @karenbutcher5921 5 месяцев назад +1

    Love the name of your channel

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  5 месяцев назад

      Thank you! It is based on life experience.

  • @joanholly5002
    @joanholly5002 6 месяцев назад +1

    very fun!

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад

      Thank you (from me and my peacocks).

  • @sarahallen6328
    @sarahallen6328 6 месяцев назад +1

    Home is where the what ain’t?!

    • @LaughCryDIY
      @LaughCryDIY  6 месяцев назад +1

      F**K**S 😂

    • @sarahallen6328
      @sarahallen6328 6 месяцев назад

      @@LaughCryDIY mostly correct! 😂😂😂

  • @laurafriedman7696
    @laurafriedman7696 5 месяцев назад

    I hate to break it to you but the 70s was 50 years ago, making it vintage.

  • @ericaeschenbacher4921
    @ericaeschenbacher4921 6 месяцев назад +1

    😻