If your junk drawers are overflowing with pencils and rulers, take those school supplies out into the open and use them to add a bit of classroom chic to all of your rooms in DIY decorating! Watch the video for HGTV's Taniya Nayak's demo for turning a globe into a light fixture and making a starburst mirror, plus get more bright ideas below:
Rulers or yardsticks. Simple measuring sticks can be re-purposed to create a whimsical tabletop — use a glue gun to cover an old table with rulers in rows or a random order. "When you're done," Taniya adds, "you can sand it down, put a little polyurethane on it to protect it."

Colored pencils. Brighten an old vase by gluing colored pencils pointing up around the outside of the vase. "It's fun!" Taniya says. "You don't have to use colored pencils, you could [also] use the yellow pencils all the way around."

Rubber bands. Use these to create a chic pattern on a tall vase. First, wrap rubber bands around the vase from top to bottom randomly or in a pattern. Spray with frosted glass spray paint, let dry, remove rubber bands so you are left with a new patterned vase.

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