Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places features more than thirty projects designed by the users of instructables.com. These users have repurposed and reused everyday items they've found around their homes, in their backyards, or even in local junkyards to create unique furnishings and decorations for their homes and meaningful gifts for others. Equipped with the vision to not only see the latent potential and beauty in common items, but also the skills necessary to transform those objects into creative and new applications, these projects are at the core of the maker movement and can inspire us all.

Readers of Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places will learn how to construct:

Bottle cap tables

Concrete lamps

3D string art

Sand fire gardens

Screw-nut and wooden rings

Paracord bracelets

Cigar box guitars

Wooden beer mugs

Test tube spice racks

Metal roses

And more!