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Recycled Magazine Plant Stand: Easy DIY

7 by Doug Gunzelmann on September 19, 2008
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This is a quick and easy way to repurpose some old magazines into a plant/book/lamp stand. No glue is required. Don’t worry about scissors either…and you only need a few magazines to make this work!

magazine stand

First off the only materials needed are magazines…that being said a thicker one works better due to more supporting structure. Also, very important to keeping the pages from popping out is to remove any stiff inserts, such as some ads, subscription cards, fold outs, etc.

  • Place the magazine vertically on a table and open it like you were going to read from the front (front cover out to the left)
  • As you flip through every 10 pages or so make a like crease and fold them into the binding
  • Let the top corner of the pages stick out a little (a flower pot or whatever object will pinch these in place)
  • Continue through the whole magazine going to the right
  • When you reach the end fold the front cover around the first crease
  • Use this method on more magazines to complete a base (two or more)

This has been done with great appeal using older magazines that are a simple black and white. The same effect can be accomplished using books (obviously with the hard cover removed).

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Category: DIY, Home+Decor | Tags: plant stand, recycled magazine

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Doug is in perpetual motion and a self-proclaimed adventure junkie, that has had a longtime love affair with the great outdoors.

“I love being a part of the active world. The stuff that blows my hair back is adventure (all shapes and sizes), photography, mountaineering, Muay Thai, and seeing natural beauty in all its forms. The living earth is the framework on which I build my life and free time. My ideal trip would be BASE jumping at Sotano de Las Golandrinas in Mexico (closest I could come to skydiving through the jungle!). I work towards keeping it real, green, and healthy. ”

Doug is the co-founder of LiveOAK, although he says he didn’t know what a blog was until a couple months after he started.

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  • Rain Daye

    Really tacky looking but a sure conversation-starter.

  • mableruth

    I have done this with the Readers Digest and it work very well also. I is little stiffer than regular size magazines. I do not think it looks tacky. Unless you are right up to it all you are likely to notice is the bright colors. Anyway, no one loses any point for being frugel.

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