25 fabulous home accessories to stay indoors & make during winter

Keep yourself busy during the winter and make your own fabulous home accessories. You don't have to be adept at any particular skill; there's plenty of inspirational ideas for all skill levels, from beginners to advanced.

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1. If you love knitting this Aran pattern chair cover will keep you busy through the winter.

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2. Knitted lamp-shades will give a room a warm ambience.

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3. A chunky knit stool will make a usable addition to a country cottage or Scandinavian style home.

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4. Simple bent spoons mounted of blocks of painted wood make a stylish places to hang things like keys.

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5. Crochet a tea cup and saucer for storing bits and bobs.

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6. Collect small pieces of silver birch trunk while you're out on a walk and then turn them into pretty tea-light holders.

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7. Make hand-made clouds and suspend them in a child's bedroom or in you meditation room.

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8. Thread some large beads onto electric cord and make a stylish light.

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9. If you come across a large disused wooden spool turn it into a book storage unit.

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10. Make wooden frames for photographs or mirrors.

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11. Crochet a large pin-wheel play rug.

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12. Make vases by covering bottles and jars with string.

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13. Decoupage a tired looking filing cabinet or chest of draws.

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14. Decoupage the risers on your stairs.

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15. Make a side table from a stack of thin tree trunks.

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16. Make a driftwood tea-light holder.

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17. Weave strips of magazine pages into waste paper baskets.

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18. Drink lots of wine and then use the corks to make your own cork board!

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19. Make a fruit bowl from old metal washers, nuts and bolts etc.

20. Strap a pile of magazines together with a couple of belts and make your own stool.

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21. Make a Jenga style bookshelf.

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22. Create a trivet from pegs.

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23. Concertina magazine pages to make a clock dial.

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24. Make your guinea pig a new home from wood.

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25. Craft an old book into a vase.