This is a little project I did for a friend that needed an umbrella stand.  Above you see a banged up mailbox that someone threw away at the dump.

I cleaned it up and sanded away some of the rough edges, rust and paint.

I started spray-painting (I know, it’s not environmentally friendly, sorry), choosing blue tones relating to the umbrella stand/water theme.  I then cut raindrop and splash shapes out of used brown bags and started decorating the mailbox going for a “grunge” look, more than a “clean” look.  It turned out like this:

…and from the other side:

I stuck on the number “625″ for my friend who moved from apartment 25 on the 6th floor of one building to another apartment 25 on the 6th floor of different building.

This project was fairly simple and only took a couple days (because I had to wait for the paint to dry), but it shows how you can turn trash into something cool and functional and it doesn’t even need to be hard.  Hope you like it!

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