4 DIY Cable Spool Projects

I have said before that I have friends who often give me stuff. And, a couple of weeks ago my friend, Kelli, gave me a bunch of cable spool ends. Kelli and her husband own a pallet company. Having a friend with a pallet company is liking winning the lottery for a DIYer!!! My son filled up the truck yesterday with pallets... I'll share what he's making soon.

Back to the cable spool ends...

Here are the projects created so far...

For the first project I painted a clock face on a spool.

Next, I had my son screw a galvanized bucket to a spool that I had stained. It makes a great coffee table for the porch. It can be flipped over and used as a beverage tub during parties.

My son, John, used different color stains for each section of one of the spools, then added a design to one section using an artists paper that had a skeleton graphic. It's creepy but cool! Then he added legs with casters that he got at IKEA...

For the final completed project, I painted stars and stripes on a spool then added red metal legs from IKEA...

I have a few more spools to create something with.

Any suggestions?

 

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