24 Amazing DIY & Repurposed Project Ideas: Nursery & Playroom Edition

This whole nursery is the epitome of all that is repurposed. If you take a look around you’ll find (aside from the obvious and awesome dresser / change table) a revamped glider, shelving and storage units and old frames made into wall art.
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Easily. With sweaters. They serve as sweet little foot ottomans for you during all of those late nights rocking and later as a fun seat for older babies and toddlers watching their favourite movies or in a quiet reading nook.
Get the instructions over on Decoist

Prefer square ottomans over the poufs? Don’t want to spend a fortune? This project is SUPER easy. You’ll love it for its aesthetic charm and practicality. Your babies and toddlers will love to play blocks, read books, have snacks and cuddle up on it!
Get the tutorial over on The Ochre Elephant

Using old wooden pallets (cheap! Or often even FREE!) create your own professional looking vintage lettered wall hanging. Be it a poem, your baby’s name or initials or a quote, the options are endless and they are all yours.
Get the instructions over on Diddle Dumpling

A thrifty way to create a stunning wall of interest, vivid and high in contrast, just the way babies like things to be.
Learn more over on Loft & Cottage

Clean them up, add on some castors (or not), seal to protect (and easily wipe down), and you’re done!
Learn more over on Design Sponge

Nearly everything in this nursery has been handmade by the parents. From the big repurposing projects of the shelving units, the love seat, the change table and dresser; to the darling whimsy of the mobile, birdhouse, shutters and plush crocodile head wall mount. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.
Spotted on Plaza Interior

You don’t need to save up a small fortune to decorate your little one’s nursery walls with visually stimulating pieces. A quick project like this turns professional, lovely and satisfying results.
Get the instructions over on Honey Bee Vintage

Another nursery with nothing much purchased as branded nursery furniture ($$) except for the crib (obviously). Also love the practical use of the wallet friendly IKEA unit as an all-in-one change table, storage and display unit. Even the ‘chandelier’ is repurposed from an old basket!
See the rest over on Design Indulegnce

Embroidery hoops and fabric = some really lovely wall art to make and hang in your baby’s nursery!
Get the tutorial over on Purl Bee

This is one I’ve done myself. I purchased a used rocking chair from a thrift store, saving big bucks and gave it a vintage white wash to match my little ones’ shared room.
Learn more over on Apartment Therapy

Purchasing a handmade mobile can be expensive. Worth it, but expensive. If you have the time and the skills, why not make your own to proudly display and keep as an heirloom for years to come?
Get this free hot air balloon mobile tutorial over on Prudent Baby

A super easy, economical easy to fill up those walls with bright, engaging artwork! Oh and that play kitchen? It was once a side table…
As seen on Project Nursery

Adoring every last detail of this nursery, specifically the use of a birdcage as a light pendant!
Spotted on Decor Pad

Made from a painter’s drop-sheet. Sheer, frugal brilliance!
Learn more over on Houzz

And dresser. And storage unit. And display shelves. Basically…everything. Great execution and play of tone on tone here!
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Using grey chalkboard paint instead of black, featuring an exquisite colour palette! Tip: Have some fun making geometric shapes and woodland images out of coloured washi tape on the wall for added interest and chalkboard fun when your babies are older!
Learn more over on Canadian Family

Clearly everyone is using dressers as change tables. Painting ukes to match the room’s colour palette and hanging them up as wall art? Not so much. A unique and adorable idea!
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Equals fun and charming wall hanging!
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Cardboard boxes and jute! I know, right? Genius.
Get the tutorial over on Home Talk

Perfect for all of your baby’s memorabilia and precious keepsakes to display. The fabric lined interiors are speaking my language.
Learn more over on Design Sponge

Yet another brilliant use of an old, repurposed dresser with new knobs to be also used as a change table. I also dig the fabric scrap crib garland! Actually, I love everything about this room. I want the big girl version.
See the rest over on Decorpad

Make this and hang it over the nursery door or somewhere right on the wall!
Get the tutorial over on Two Twenty One