How to Recycle Old Screen Doors and Windows

Old recycled screen doors and windows with the wooden frames can be a very charming addition, inside or out. There are really a lot of different uses for them. Here are some ideas to get your creative juices flowing. For hanging these items, larger coffee-cup hooks and hook eyes work well.

Ideas for Recycling Old Screen Doors and Windows Outside:

Hang a screen door or window from a header on a porch to create a privacy screen. You can even have ivy grow up it.

Use a screen door in a high fence between friendly neighbors.

In place of a garden gate use a screened window.

Put an old screen door on a potting shed or outdoor building.

Add a shelf or window box on a screened window to display flowers on your porch or deck.

Paint or stencil on a screen of an old door or window, using outdoor paint. Set in a garden.

Use as a drying rack by your swimming pool for bathing suits and towels.

Hang a window in a potting shed over your potting area. Screw in some coffee cup hooks along the wooden frame for your potting tools. On the screen you can put a few 'S' hooks to hang some lightweight items like gloves.

Add some lattice on a screen door and attach to a shed or post to use as a trellis. Roses look great on this.

Ideas for Recycling Old Doors and Windows inside your Home:

To display an antique handkerchief collection put some grommets in to a screen of a window or door, put handkerchief corners through the grommets and hang to display.

Add some chicken wire on to a screened window and put up over stove to use for hanging your cooking utensils.

Hinge two screen doors or windows together to make a room divider or privacy screen. You can staple on screen if privacy is actually needed.

Adhere some clips on to the screen of a door or window and hang it lengthwise over a desk to make a message board.

Paint a picture on a window screen and hang it in a window in your home.

Hang a screened window on a bedroom wall and display an antique collection of brooches or pins.

Use an old screen door as a headboard for your bed and decorate with ivys or flowers.

Take a piece of lace material and cover the screen, hang in desired area. Take favorite photos and pearl head pins and hang on material covered screen.