Let’s be honest. Most of us can’t afford to refurnish our house every couple of years. No matter how new your homeware is, eventually, some pieces of furniture are bound to gather some marks. It’s only natural. It shows that they’ve been used and loved. That being said, those love marks might not always be aesthetically pleasing.
In some cases, your furniture may already be secondhand and marked with evidence of its previous owner. Whatever the reason, if the imperfections are subtle enough, a nice piece of printed duct tape could cover them up and give your furniture a new life.
Patch Up a Fence
Okay, this picture needs some context. Yes, we can see that is a wire fence with what appears to be a piece of drywall duct taped to it, but why is it there? Well, the woman who posted this picture on Instagram was sharing how she solved the problem of her puppies sneaking out of their kennel: Duct tape, obviously.
The weak spot in the fence was the part between the door of the kennel and the side of it so she went ahead and DIYed a solution. A nice, piece of drywall and some duct tape patched up the hole in the fence and required the use of exactly zero power tools.
A Doggy Carrier
Pet stores will have you believe that you are never done buying equipment for your furry friend. You get the basic stuff like a leash, a bowl, and perhaps a toy or two, and yet somehow you end up with animal equipment worth more than you've ever planned to spend.
Well, this hack is here to save you on at least one doggy item (provided your dog is under a certain size, of course.) If you are good with your hands or even the least bit crafty, you can make your pooch a custom-made carrier using nothing but a nice roll of duct tape.
Fix a Chair
working on this article is slowly making us believe that there is nothing that duct tape can't fix. We wouldn't be surprised if we stumbled upon a random picture on social media showing a person standing next to their livable duct-taped house that is full of their mostly functional duct-taped furniture.
Furniture like the desk chair in the picture. In a variation of the sugar packet under a wobbly table leg hack, this person saw fit to fix their wobbly, wheel-deprived desk chair by taping a water bottle instead of the missing piece. What a fantastic way to reuse plastic.
Duct Tape Wallet
Get yourself a few rolls of duct tape and you might save some cash in two ways: One is the cash that you will save by making items out of duct tape instead of buying them and two is by making an actual wallet that will save your cash for you.
The Redditor who posted this picture knows what we're talking about. Judging by the craft pad they have on their desk and this professional-looking knife, this is not their first adventure with duct tape nor is it going to be their last. We are just happy to be passing this knowledge along.