Repurpose those old rusty bed springs into beautiful home decor pieces that you made! Below are 15 bed spring crafts you can make for your home!
Some would say that old bed springs are just rusty and trash, but there are so many things you can do with those old rusty bed springs!
You can turn them from trash to treasure and into beautiful DIY projects and home decor!
An easy way to make sure that vintage rust stays on the spring is to cover the spring with some polyurethane to seal in that rust. This also makes the item easier to clean later on.
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Box Spring DIY Projects:
Simply click on the project title to be taken to the step by step tutorial.
1. A Fun Surprise Rusty Spring Wreath
3. Vintage Spring Bulletin Board
5. Vintage Bed Spring Centerpieces
Are you wondering where you can find old metal Springs? You can purchase Vintage Springs here on Etsy!
Which bed spring crafts are you going to make? We’d love for you to share a photo so we can see!
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- Keep those started project supplies organized and separated with Stacking Plastic Baskets. I always work on more than 1 project at a time and these baskets really help me from losing supplies.
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Curtains in My Tree says
I love those old bed springs, I had several once and sold them in my yard sale for $2. each a lady bought all of them
I have one left and I have a candle in it, I think you can see it in my last post setting on my TV in the studio
Janice
Beth Vanstone says
Wonderful..Love them all!!
Amie'lie says
Franchement super, bravo ! je n’aurais jamais imaginé tout ça, félicitations !
Donna Wilkes says
I grab bed springs whenever I can find them. They have a million and one uses whether they are still whole or individual springs. Thank you for the “spring” inspiration!
Patti @ Pandoras Box says
I just recently saw these springs in a junk shop…I stood there starring at it just wondering what I could do with it – wish I saw this earlier, because I passed them up! Cute ideas
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Bev Carter says
Love all of your old bed spring ideas. They are adorable.
Have a great week,
Bev
@http://eclecticredbarn.blogspot.com
Jeannie Clemens says
The “Spring” spring wreath is cool, but the thing I pinned is the cheese graters. Genious. Over from Pintastic Tuesday.
Di says
Love the all. I gave my daughter a couple of bed springs with her other vintage birthday gifts, she was a bit unsure of them. I’ll pin this for her.
Mary Beth says
What a great round up ~ and another pin to the board! 🙂
Emily Thompson says
oh how fun! I’ve haven’t seen any of these project before! love them all! Thanks for linking up to Tasteful Tuesdays! love it!
Consie @ AtopSerenityHill.com says
These are such great ideas…very unique!
Y B Normal? says
Those snack holders resemble Belgian Fries holders: http://happyandharried.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/good-ol-butter-chicken-murg-makhani/
Julia Forshee says
This post is so intriguing! I cannot believe how many uses there are for things that most people would throw away. Case in Point: Old Bed Springs 🙂 I know our readers would love this, too. We have a weekly link up party going on now (Thursdays), and we would love to see this post and/or any others you would like to share at allthingswithpurpose.com. Hope to see you soon!
Mixed Kreations says
These are some great ideas! I never would of thought of using old bed springs to create things. But these are great. Love them all. Bet there hard to find, and if you are lucky enough to run across any, I bet they want a fortune. It’s funny how we use to consist things like this trash. Now we would love to get our hands on things like this to create with.
Visiting from Project Inspired linky party.
Linda
Kathryn Ferguson Griffin says
So fantastic! You are one of the features tonight at the Sunday Showcase from the Make it Pretty Monday party. Pop on in and grab a Sunday Showcase feature button. Hope to see your prettiness again at the bash! Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse
Natalie Buehler says
Gorgeous projects!
Thank you so much for sharing on Tutorial Thursdays, I hope to see you again this week.
x
Natalie
[email protected] will craft says
How fun that I stumbled upon this post only to find my bedspring jewelry holder picture! There were lots of great ideas featured. Thanks.
[email protected] will craft says
How fun that I stumbled upon this post only to find my bedspring jewelry holder picture! There were lots of great ideas featured. Thanks.
Jean @ www.thebackyardbungalow.com says
i stumbled across this, as well. Thanks for sharing my bed spring wreath!
Jean @ www.thebackyardbungalow.com says
i stumbled across this, as well. Thanks for sharing my bed spring wreath!
Kim says
Found this on Serendipity and Spice and I have pinned three things already! thanks for compiling this for us!
Donna McMorrow says
Great ideas! I was intriqued with the title of this post and had to check it out. So glad that I did.
patti says
Super clever! I saw this headline and had to stop over. I never thought of using old springs for decor but these are very cute!
Favorites are the wreaths and the popcorn server.
Claire says
Oh wow, so many good ideas, love the candle sticks 🙂
Annie says
These are so fun and creative!!
Kim Hood says
Love those bed spring ideas! My favorite is the flower pot holder, but they are all terrific uses for old springs. 🙂
Blessings!
Kim
Brooke @ Putter home says
I love the wreath, but don’t have enough springs on hand to do that project. I went about as easy (lazy) as you can get with them and just sprayed them and used them as Christmas trees on my mantel this winter. I’ve also seen old glass insulators added to them as a candle holder.
Judy Pimperl says
I just did a blogpost about rusty bed springs, and I used your Pinterest pin. Just wanted to let you know that I used it and I put the link back to you there. Thanks so much for your wonderful inspiration.
judypimperl.blogspot.com
Barbara stoldt says
I found 2 old rusted bed frames full of their original springs way back in the Colorado mountains. Now I have more ideas! Thank you for sharing .
Traci Gill says
Thanks for the inspirations. I have several of these old bed springs from my Grandmother. I’ve just always kept them in storage. I think it’s time to get them out & get my repurpose on.
Katie says
Traci, that is awesome! Yes, you should use them and then you’ll have something beautiful to remember your Grandma.
Tracy says
I love the old rusty bed springs and all the things you can do with them! I just found an old bed that was dumped years ago providing a lot of these gems to utilize. I’m thinking of creating some as rustic gifts in my shop/webpage…my questions are: 1) do they need to be de-rusted for the safety of customers for tetnous reasons? and 2) what are they usually being sold for (ballpark)?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks, Tracy
Katie says
Hi Tracy, great questions! I have never actually sold bed springs myself so I’m not really helpful with the selling price. I would look around on etsy and see what similar projects are being sold for to get you started. I also don’t think you want to treat the springs. They are old and rusty and that is why people love them. The age of them tells an untold story and that is the reason they are in the condition they are. I would, however, say in the description that they have not been treated so they buyer is aware. This, of course, is just my opinion but I am sure you could treat them if you wanted.
Thanks and I’m glad I could send a little vintage spring inspiration your way! Good luck!
Gayle says
Hi
I love your bed spring wreath, I have tried to access the instruction to make one but can’t seem to connect to them. I was wondering if you would kindly send them to me, I have never seen anything like the wreath before, it is beautiful.
Kind regards
Gayle
Katie says
Hi Gayle! I am sorry but this wreath tutorial was not mine. It was on another blog that I was featuring. It looks like that blog took the tutorial down and is no longer available. I have removed this feature from my post.
DONNA WILLIAMS says
Hi Katy,
Just trying to find a bedspring idea I had seen and liked and the first one I found was this 15 DIY Vintage bed spring projects.
I opened it and low and behold it was yours. Hope you are well my friend. I will be in Utah in October maybe the training team and you and I can all go out to dinner or something?
Cheers
Donna Williams x
Katie says
Ha Ha, I love it Donna! I miss you oodles and I would love to hang out!