Creative Cinder Block DIY Projects to Enhance Your Home
“Create Your Custom Garden Design”
Even actually making and building your personal garden is an enormous enterprise. Aside from needing to learn how to plant all the types of vegetables and herbs there are, what things work better together, and how much sun and water everything needs, you also want everything to be pleasing on the eye. And here’s where cinder blocks come into play. All you need to do is stop by your neighborhood Home Depot, Lowe’s, or hardware store, grab some cinder blocks, and start designing.
This is a tasteful way someone creatively said something with the shape of their garden – and the garden border is great + unique. But you can design it in whatever way you like!
“Affordable and Durable Outdoor Furniture”
Naturally, cinder blocks, are already well known for construction. And that’s the reason they even exist, remember? But you likely had no idea that you could whip up some outdoor furniture yourself using a few cinder blocks. Simply stack them up and place wooden panels in the gaps. Throw in some nice cushions to make it a comfortable, pretty little spot, and there you go.
Even the cinder blocks can be painted to match more of the aesthetic. Nobody will ever suspect, or know they are just good old ugly cinderblocks instead of fancy pre-fab store furniture pieces.
“Customize Your Desk to Any Size You Need”
Whether you only seek an alternative to a desk (you don’t want to be [a] mainstream) or you search for a more affordable option, the cinder blocks can be suitable. Or maybe you just appreciate the aesthetics of cinder blocks and love an industrial-styled look. Whatever the reason, they provided the easy answer of having a workspace at home with a couple cinder blocks from your local hardware store.
You so dont have to construct this one brick and mortar and so forth. Simply stack up the cinder blocks and you’re done!
DIY Firepit
Anyone with an outdoor area that lives in a colder climate for at least part of the year has dreamed about creating a firepit. Good news: if you have the room for it, we have an affordable solution to that firepit fantasy. Just, some cinder blocks, and some cement, and you are set to go.
You can make it at any size; just to make it bound with your yard. We’re confident that your friends, family, and even the neighbors will be impressed.
“A Bookcase Every Book Lover Will Envy”
Cinder blocks are perfect for many uses. The greatest and strangest bonus about these blocks that you’ll never hear anyone talk about is how they can be used in construction but they can also be used in storage. Which is exactly why they are such ideal building materials for a DIY bookcase. Use the cinder blocks as the foundation of the bookcase in general, or put the books into the cubbies of the blocks.
A really fancy design can be laid out here as well, provided you have painted the cinder blocks. It makes for a fun, inexpensive way to build a bookshelf for your home.
“Add a Coat of Paint for a Stylish TV Stand”
Purchasing a TV stand for your house can cost you a lot. Whether you cannot afford it or you just want something more custom and DIY. Whether that is the case, you can easily create a simple and elegant Cinder Block TV Stand. Pair it with wood and paint it to match your decor.
This first one is a cinder block tv stand but this person has incorporated some wood paneling. They wanted it to be the same color as their wood floors, and they definitely nailed that!
“Build Your Own DIY Rocket Stove”
Do you know what a rocket stove is? If you’ve wanted one forever and have cinder blocks, you should make your own. Making the rocket stove replica can be done cheaply and easily with them. Get your grub cooked up in no time with this cinder block rocket stove.
What is important here is that ensuring that there is air flow between the cinder blocks there. This will ensure that all the procedure goes past smoothly.
A Multipurpose Bar
Is that not the most pretty and prettiest piece of furniture below? This steel frame can be used not just as a table or bar, pile some cinder blocks on the sides and it becomes storage too. The Blocks are great for holding things from sunscreen to mosquito spray and more. Or stick plants inside and create a beautiful, nature-filled pendant.
If you are using this as a table, you can also put a few extra drinks or cups in the cinder block storage spaces on the sides. It becomes a super duper versatile table.
“Looking for an Outdoor Staircase? Build It Yourself!”
Have you ever considered making a staircase yourself? The likely answer to that question is no. But, using cinder blocks, it really is a simple task. For those more treacherous slopes in your yard, those ones you never know how to ascend to the top of the hill, utilize some cinder blocks to create your own staircase.
Simply pile up some cinder blocks so that they are appropriately cemented together and form a staircase pattern.
“DIY BBQ Grill – The Ultimate Hardcore Edition”
While you’ve previously seen a cool cinder block rocket grill on this list, here’s an even larger and more serious bbq apparatus. It also includes a lid, to go over the food while cooking! This one will be a helluva lot more work than some of the other projects on the list but if you love BBQ, it will be worth it in the end.
By the end of this you will be making something you can be quite proud of, and your friends and family will be excited to attend summer barbeques at your house.
A DIY Sofa
Can you even imagine a person making a sofa of cinder blocks? It does Not seem like the most comfortable thing after all But if you want it to be cozy, then all you need are some nice cushions. A few blocks, some pillows, and cement holding it all together are all it takes to create your own couch at home.
This is even a small table like that to have it if you want to, put your feet up on, when lounging on the sofa or to place a drink on top of.
“The Ideal Shoe Rack and Bench Combo”
No more expensive shoe racks or shoe storage. A shoe rack made to suit your style and requirements perfectly, from nothing but wooden slats and cinder blocks. Plus, it even works as a bench so you can sit on it when you take off and put on shoe! You can’t ask for better than that. Also, you get storage not only from the wooden slats, but fromthe cinder blocks themselves.
The cinder blocks provide small cubbies that are perfect for shoes – and even socks! And who would turn down additional storage space?
“Transforming Cinder Blocks into Artistic Creations”
We have discussed numerous aspects on how to transition your cinder block into furniture and equipment But ever think to use them to form a work of art? Or create a mosaic sculpture like this individual did. Here, all you need to do can be accumulate a handful of cinder blocks (into whatever fashion and modality you want); and afterward, just layout and paint these for your terrace or your accommodation.
This is a great kids project to do as well. Ok, so you can put the cinder blocks together, then you can get the kids in the family to tile them and make them special.
“Design Your Own Outdoor Kitchen”
This might be the hardest one on the list, but it looks like it pays off big time. Perhaps you always dreamed of having an outdoor kitchen alongside your indoor one, but never had the tools necessary to create one. Now you do! With a few cinder blocks, other materials, plenty of patience, and the willingness to put in a serious amount of effort, it could be yours.
You can even design space for an oven, storage, a space for a laundry basket,and so much more here. You can have it exactly as you wish to have it.
“Assemble the Most Unique Garden in Your Neighborhood”
Perfect For Garden Lovers Who Are Also Fans Of Friendly Modern Architecture And Design — This Is One Do It Yourself Project That Hits Two Of Our Favorite Birds With One Stone! All you need is a lot of cinder blocks and you could build something just as stunning as this and have your best little area for a new garden! Cinder blocks are actually wonderful for gardening since they will keep plants cool and will soak up excess water. So don’t worry too much about overwatering, the concrete will mitigate it.
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It can use any kind of plants you want to be used so you can have whatever type of garden that you want. It’s a playful means to unleash your artistic side.
“Sun Lover? Build a Cinder Block Tanning Bed”
Warm months of the year certainly will make you want to go out and get your tan on. Enjoying your dose of vitamin D in the warm months is the best. And if you haven’t set aside a specific place for it in your yard, you should now build one with cinder blocks. Basically you only need to build a base to put the pillows, blankets and towels that you will be going to put to the blocks in the final step.
Similar to most of the other designs on this list you can change the colors and design of this one too (the colors, pillows, blankets).
“DIY Firewood Storage Solutions”
If you have already DIYed your own backyard fireplace (or are already thinking about it!) this belongs in your cinder block collection of homemade things. So if you have a fireplace, you now need a nice place to store that firewood. You get a simple and practical storage solution. A base with two cinder blocks with wood pieces to support the wood on the sides and you are off.
It can be in the shape of a “V” like this one or an even rectangle or square — whatever you like. And that’s the joy of doing it yourself!
“Searching for a New Bed Frame? Look No Further!”
If you want to do something with cinder blocks but you really don’t want to see cinder blocks, this is the ideal project. This makes them a great option to build an incredibly simple, but functional bed frame, but they will be covered by your bedsheets on a daily basis anyway, so you won’t see a lot of the cinder blocks. Although you will see them bit, so it could alos be painted!
You could even use the holes and cubbies for extra storage underneath the bed if you fill in the cinder blocks on the ground in a certain way (to store things like shoes).
A Chic Bedside Table
Like you have already seen, cinder blocks are great around the house for all different types of areas. So if you have a space where you need a little something outside, or if you’re on the hunt for a fun inside DIY, cinder blocks are the medium of choice. Heck, you can even carry them into the bedroom to make an artsy catch-all for your bedside table. Walking that line between storage and tabletop, and just fun designs. What more could you want?
They can be a single, sculptural minimalist-style piece, like the one in the image above, or you can join two or more blocks together for extra marmite-fieler tabletop space.
Armchairs Out of Cinder Blocks
In the offering of furniture, sofas and tables are nice but you can build more than just that with cinder blocks. Armchairs and all types of outdoor furniture can be made with it. As far as outdoor furniture goes, they may not be the most stylish (or comfortable) things we’ve ever seen, but they will suffice if you need some inexpensive backyard furniture. Get some thick pillows though, and discomfort will never be an issue.
They can also be customized to align very well with the look and feel of your yard. Designing your own stuff is always a blast; you are able to make it exactly how you want it.
“Create Your Own Adorable Centerpieces”
You might think that table centerpieces are not something that matters much in life but they can contribute a lot to the decoration of your home and make your house more special when you have visitors at your place. If you’re really looking for something extremely unique that everybody at the dinner party will definitely be talking about, you can create your cinder block centerpieces and plant flowers or plants within them!
Using flowers in cinder blocks gives the centerpieces a warmer touch while still keeping things interesting and artistic.
“A Secluded Compost Station Setup”
Today setting up a compost garden in your back yard is amongst the freshest of trends that could be seen around. After all, why not? Not only is it good for the environment, it reduces waste, and is ideal to begin a garden of your own. Because they can be kind of a messy affair, cinder blocks can do the trick, keeping things lined up and out of the rest of your yard. You can be a little more organized than this cat but you get the gist.
The size and shape of the space is whatever you want it to be. No need for it to be a big lavish affair, or even a very large one. The choices are endless.
Simple Shelving Unit
And who can say they would not want some additional floor space? It almost feels like whatever the size of your house, you can always have a little more storage space! Sick of installing rows of complicated and expensive shelving units on the wall? Buy stacks of cinder blocks instead. Inside, you can stuff books, papers, plants and basically anything else you want down there.
The cubbies can hold things themselves, or they can just be used prop up inbetween the pieces of wood that you put in. That’s a hell of a lot of options for expandability!
“Create an Outdoor Buffet Station for Summer Gatherings”
This one is for you if you enjoy inviting people over during the summer and having little gatherings in your backyard. A dream setting for the host and you can make your own DIY buffet table. The best part is that you can create this without breaking the bank. Just put a few tabletops on the cinder block base.
Add a few tall bar stools or chairs, a parasol for sunny days, and you are set for all kinds of parties, big and small. And the best bit, you need never worry that you will fill it!
A Beautiful Succulent Garden
Everyone loves succulents. They have such a high success rate that even black thumbed people seem to be able to keep them alive, so they are a popular go-to. If you find yourself a few succulents too deep without knowing where to put them or what to do with them, then maybe you should call some cinder blocks to the scene. You can use them to stack them on a pyramid like this, and then have your feature a succulent garden;
It can be used indoors or outdoors wherever you would like your succulent garden to be. Set it to be perfectly cornered either inside or outside.
A Blank Canvas for Painting Projects
Whichever project you choose to do with cinder blocks, one of the most rewarding aspects is that they are able to be painted and decorated based on your needs and individual taste. Whether you’re a painter with the time and energy to make them blank canvases for your best work so far, or an amateur artist looking to test their skills, keep in mind that cinder blocks are easily painted.
You might need two extra coats of paint to be sure that the colors are as bright and colorful as you were really looking for, because the concrete may soak up a few of the shade and fluid.
Build an Outdoor Fireplace
If you live in a half-decent cold area, then having a fireplace in your backyard can be one of the best and most fun things that you can ever have. Nothing quite like spending time outside by a blazing fire. Though this type of fireplace does come at a cost, however. If you’re trying to save money build yours yourself with a few cinderblocks from your local hardware store!
This is a little more complicated for a project, especially relative to some of the other ones here. However, is good if you’re on the challenge mode.
A Simple Grill With Easy Cleanup
As the weather begins to warm up, grilling can be a new hobby of sorts. But it is a bloody thing and not everybody is up for the trouble of cleaning after the barbecue. With Cenrlothr blocks you can enjoy the best of two worlds. It makes grilling effortless and provides minimal, simple clean up when the day ends.
If you’re not looking to buy an additional and expensive grill, this is just one of the most effective types of methods to barbecue. Simply get some cinder blocks, and you are all set!
An Affordable Swimming Pool
If you thought that cinder block fireplace was ambitious, this is one that is likely to take the cake. This one will certainly be time-consuming. In the end, it will make no difference but the end results will be worth it. Your not just paying way out the back for a pool in your backyard, your also able to brag to all your mates that you built it yourself, out of cinder blocks.
You’ll also require a bit of cement to pull this off, which shouldn’t be much of a problem if you’re getting the cinder blocks from Home Depot or Lowe’s.
A Cinder Block Outdoor Living Room
Who would have imagined creating an entire outdoor living room with mostly cinderblocks? And if you’re like most people, you might not think of cinder blocks as being the most prominent and resourceful material to work with for your next DIY project. Cinder blocks here are the building blocks (literally) for a lovely backyard that doubles as an outdoor living room.
As you can see, here is how to make a table with benches and “chairs”W With just cinder blocks. That’s something you can do a ton of different things with.
Make Your Own Gardening Shelf
But if you are unlucky enough to have space back in your yard then you can try to create a cinderblock invention like this which acts as a level-headed storage creation that enables a great functionality without much of a fuss. Using cinderblocks works outdoors 100%, and is the perfect means of storage for small things to stay organized.
Best to use for plants, tools, supplies, and everything in between. You can do almost anything you can heart ‘bloc’ to you just using a few cinder blocks.
Customize a Fence
A fence is not always the simplest thing to create. It is a long, tedious, often complex and sometimes frightening undertaking. To make the fence more interesting, you can use cinder blocks if you really intend to do the fun fence for your yard. Using cinderblocks, you can make the perfect fence connecting posts and from that, all you need to do is fill in the wood. You can also decorate them any way you want.
That might be one of the uglier ways to put a fence up in your yard. Still, it works, and it is some easier than the other way.
“Sleek Mediterranean Decor Ideas for Your Home”
If you only looked at this picture, you would never guess that cinder block had anything to do with it. After all, you do not expect cinder block to make you think of this sleek Mediterranean look. Crazy what a lick of paint can do, but still. After gluing the cinder blocks to the wall using cement in whatever design you choose, you simply want the paint to conceal everything at the very end, and you would have this gorgeous style.
Ideal as a display space for your plants. It is a versatile addition that works both indoors and outdoors, and it brings interest and design feature to a dull and bland wall.
Cinder Blocks for Flower Pots
There are things that you sometimes feel like you need to make a change for, like the clay pots that you use to display the flowers. Seriously, why all the flower pots look almost identical? It does not have to be like this and as you will see here, cinder blocks can be used as a really good substitute. They are also very good at protecting from cold and absorbing excess water so that he can grow plants in them.
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If you want to paint the cinder blocks, you can still create the most beautiful, unique pots of flowers all for very little.
Build Your Own Bar
Yard bar, who didn’t want an additional bar in their yard at a point? It always sounded like a distant fantasy that was never truly attainable, without a truckload of money. You can have your very own DIY bar simply by purchasing some cinder blocks from your local hardware shop, acquiring some cement, and getting to work. And it is stylish and chic but is also utilitarian.
This would obviously work for an outside space but — no reason that it can’t be for a bar that is inside too. It’s a very versatile design.
“Quick and Easy Cinder Block Birdhouse”
Are you a bird lover? Can you sit in the yard and look at all of the various birds at your home? It’s a really enjoyable way to pass an afternoon or a morning with coffee. But you may not always have that option if you don’t own a birdhouse. But you can make your own with one cinder block! Then you just put in a little ledge and a hole.
This design is perfect for the birds. Just fill with bird food, tie a hook and string around the top and wait for the birds to arrive at their miniature cinder block oasis.
DIY Romantic Candles
Lets say you have an important date. You look forward to that person coming to your house, and you set the mood to be right. You have the desire to set out the candles but the wind is too, and the wind will blow the candles away in just a fraction of a second. Which is exactly why you should go ahead and make a cinder block lighting and candle setup like this one here.
So this is something cute with romance combined. Ideal for using real candles, also fake candles or whatever type of light that you have. You’re all set to enjoy that romantic meal.
“Start a Mini Garden Anywhere”
Gardening is a joyful activity but one of the most common questions all the gardeners have is how to create the space of the garden and what is going to separate from the rest of your yard. This is where cinder blocks come into play. Instead of having some of that stuff you bought at Home Depot or Lowes to look like it would make sure you might want to use cinder blocks to get precisely what you need for Total cover in the realm of investing less than what you spent with regard to.
The only thing you need to do is to find some basically, a load of cinder blocks and then commence designing. You can do a snake design or a plain square or rectangle. You get to be the designer so the options are limitless.
Decorate Your Backyard
Show me a person who does not want to decorate their backyard and make it home just like inside their homes? One thing you always want to do is make your home and your yard your own, and cinder blocks are (believe it or not) a great way to do just that. Build your own bench and other outdoor furniture, decorate it as you wish. Whether you want bright colours or something more muted, the choice is yours.
Bench tops will likely require some bits of wood, to make it a bit more user-friendly but you can also just rows of cinder blocks as well if you desire.
“Utilize Cinder Blocks in Interior and Exterior Design”
If you are organizing an event like a wedding or a party at your backyard or you just want your backyard to be appealing and different—and better!—cinder blocks would be your suitable solution. Not only are they incredibly versatile, but they can also be used in numerous ways to enhance a backyard and really create something beautiful and special. That arrangement looks nearly as though it had been done for a wedding.
It is a very cool concept for a wedding and pretty unique to be used in more backyard events.
