Repurposed Bird House

We have always received so many compliments about this idea we use in our garden and yard. This Repurposed Bird House is something Matt has been doing for some time now. He loves picking up old garden tools at yard sales and repurposing them into different things for our yard and home. His most infamous projects are the bird houses he puts in top of old garden tools. They are a huge hit with anyone who comes to the yard. 

So, with spring here and all the garden and landscaping plans going on, I thought it would be a good time for a post illustrating how easy these old shovel bird house stands are to make.

For this particular bird house, we used an old shovel, but we have also used rakes and other garden tools.

I searched yard sales for this post and came up with this shovel and bird house for $2. Great deal, huh?!

The first thing we had to do was make the top of the shovel handle flat. All you need to do for this is cut a little bit off the shovel handle. This will ensure that the bird house will sit on the shovel straight.

Then, we pre-drilled through the end of the shovel handle.

Next, we cut an old piece of wood to fit the base of the bird house and screwed it to the end of the shovel.

Then, we flipped the bird house upside down and screwed the shovel to the base of the bird house.

Ta-da! Now you have an Old Shovel Bird House Stand!

All you have to do is push the shovel into the ground.

{After we took this picture, we did push this shovel further into the ground. You could also use a iron stake behind it and tie it to that to ensure it stays. We have never had problems though.}

These shovel stands will stay up and hold up to the weather and the birds.

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As you can see, we have used longer garden tools as well. The Repurposed Bird House on the right is never vacant.

Just like my home, I love adding character to our yard. This is a great way to use old garden tools and put them to good use again. You could always paint the houses and the shovels if you wanted to. 

Do you have bird houses in your yard?

If you don’t have time to make a Repurposed Bird House, I found some cute options online:

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