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[Easy and Simple] Popular DIY Ideas You Can Make with Materials from 100-Yen Shops
There are probably many people who picked up DIY as a hobby while spending more time at home.
These days, 100-yen shops are just as well stocked as home improvement stores—not only with materials but also with tools.
Here are some DIY ideas that mainly use items from 100-yen shops.
We focus on easy projects that keep sawing wood and driving screws to a minimum.
Even if you don’t have a home improvement store nearby, chances are there’s a 100-yen shop!
Try DIY-ing some handy items for your home!
[Easy & Simple] Popular DIY Ideas You Can Make with 100-Yen Shop Materials (1–10)
wire craft decorative window
Many people would love to incorporate window frames with antique-style, gothic wire art into their interiors, but the high price makes them hard to afford.
For those people, here’s a recommended DIY: make your own using wire craft and a wooden frame.
First, build a wooden frame in the size you want, drill holes in the frame, thread the base wires through, and secure the shaped wire art with thin wire.
Finally, paint over it—finishing it with an antique look is the key point.
storage rack
This is a storage rack made with a slatted wooden panel, craft dowels, and a cushion cover.
It’s an easy DIY idea where you simply combine the slatted panel and dowels, reinforce them with hardware, and add a cushion cover.
Using a cushion cover instead of boards is a nice touch, too.
You can toss in plush toys and other items for quick clean-up, and since it has casters, kids can tidy up easily as well.
There are parts where you use a glue gun, but you can also get a glue gun at a 100-yen shop.
wall rack
How about taking those stylish iron wall bars sold at 100-yen shops and, instead of mounting them directly on the wall, putting in a little extra effort to attach them to wood to create an even more stylish wall shelf? You’ll use materials like wood and hardware available at 100-yen shops.
Cut the wood to match the length of the wall bar and sand the corners.
Paint it your preferred color, attach the wall bar, and secure the other pieces of wood with brackets, and you’re done.
It’s nice and easy because you don’t even need a power driver—an ordinary screwdriver works just fine.
Transformable compact shelf
Let’s make a compact, transformable shelf using 100-yen materials that works great both indoors and for outdoor activities like camping! All you need are iron legs, boards, and hinges.
The boards are thin and the hinges are small, so you can fasten the screws by hand without power tools—nice and easy.
Make a few to stack into two tiers, and if you transform and combine the two-tier units, you can even make a three-tier shelf.
It’s a versatile piece that also works perfectly as a small desk or stand for kids, offering lots of practical uses.
Wood-panel lowboard & chest
Using wood deck tiles typically used on balconies, you can make a small low chest without any screws—just wood glue—and by changing its orientation, it instantly becomes a storage chest! The method is very simple: just glue the panels together into a square and let them dry.
It’s so easy that you can enjoy making it with your kids.
Placed horizontally, it works as a small display shelf or side table; placed vertically, you can pair it with baskets or boxes from the 100-yen shop to use it as a storage chest.
It’s great that it can be used two ways depending on where you put it.
umbrella stand
Is it no exaggeration to say that the most-used item in 100-yen shop DIY projects is the wooden slatted rack (sunoko)? This DIY combines that sunoko with lumber sold at 100-yen shops to make a slim umbrella stand.
You simply paint the wood and sunoko in your favorite color and fasten them together with screws.
This way, you can create and install a stand in your preferred size to fit those awkward spaces in your home.
It’s an easy umbrella-stand DIY idea recommended for those who feel store-bought products are just not quite right.
gap wagon
Isn’t a slim-gap storage cart the number-one thing you want to DIY with items around the house? Even if it’s just a “gap,” sizes vary from home to home, ready-made ones rarely fit just right, and they can be pretty pricey.
So wouldn’t it be great if you could make one with 100-yen materials? You’ll need a wire grid, a wooden slatted board (sunoko), zip ties, and casters.
Gently bend the wire grid, fasten the edges together with zip ties, slide in the slatted board, attach the casters, and you’re done! No glue or saw required, so it’s highly recommended!