You can turn your old records into art.
If you listen to CDs or online music, you may have a box of old LP vinyl records that never get used anymore. Put your old Barry Manilow and Bay City Rollers records to good use by making them into creative and unusual home decorations.
Instructions
Make a Record Wall
1. Drill a small hole into the edge of a record.
2. Place the record against the wall that you want to use for a record wall, just above the floor. Secure the record to the wall with a flat head tack by putting the tack through the hole that you drilled in the record.
3. Place more records along the floor until you have a row of records.
4. Tack a second row of records onto the wall so that their bottom edges are even with the centers of the first row, and their centers are above the edges of the records in the first row. This will create a shingle effect in which each row is offset from the previous row.
5. Tack more rows onto the wall until you have filled the entire wall. You now have a record wall.
Make a Record Bowl
6. Heat your oven to 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
7. Place a glass bowl that is slightly smaller than your record into the oven. Place the record on top of it. Place a rock about the size of your fist in the middle of the record.
8. Close the oven. Keep a close eye on your project by looking through the glass window in the oven or by opening the door a crack and peeking in. The rock will slowly push the center of the record down as the heat softens the vinyl.
9. Pull the glass bowl, record and rock out of the oven as soon as the record has sunk into the glass bowl and taken on the shape of a bowl. Leave it to cool before touching it.
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