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DIY builders have so many more options for presents year-round, but especially on Valentine’s Day than people that don’t do their own building and crafts. Whether you are a DIY builder or DIY craft person Valentine’s Day is a wonderful time of year to give the person you love a unique gift you have built or crafted to show them that you love them. The DIY Valentine’s Day ideas we share can also be great gifts any time and some are able to be put together very quickly as last minute gifts when you need them.
DIY built projects show the person you love that you have paid attention to their wants and needs throughout the year and that you invested not only your time but your ingenuity in creating something that they would love!
Love -Themed Magnets
Make the person you love Valentine’s Day themed magnets for their refrigerator, to-do board, or workshop pegboard. This is a great DIY project for anyone and it lets you excel at your woodworking skills or you can use ready-to-paint clay if you are a DIY craft person to make very individualized love-themed magnets for Valentine’s Day.
This is a great way to say I love you all through the year. Use your imagination and have some fun with what you write on your love-themed magnets!
Valentine’s Checker & Chess Board
If you and the person you love enjoy a good game of checkers or chess, creating a Valentine’s Day checker or chess board is a great gift. You can make it as simple as a nice piece of wood and using a router to create the squares with painting your squares different colors, or get fancy and make heart shaped checker pieces for your checker board.
You can always purchase the wood chess pieces online and add them to your handmade creation. Or if you have the time and skills you can always fashion your own chess pieces and make this truly a one-of-a-kind gift!
Valentine’s Day Barbecue Lovers Spices
For your favorite grill master, creating a custom blend of spices to use as a marinade base or a rub for his or her favorite meats is a wonderful Valentine’s Day present. Find a beautiful jar and fill it with wonderful aromatic spices to enhance the grilling of meat or to use as the base to a great marinade.
Marinades make grilling both meat and both meat and vegetables taste better. Marinades also help add great flavor and tenderness to meat. You could always put together a sampler of spice jars for different uses, such as for chicken, pork, beef, fish, and vegetables. Many of the different spice combinations meant for meat pair well with vegetables also!
Build a Wooden Wine Rack for Valentine’s Day
If as a couple you enjoy wine, building a custom wooden wine rack to store your wine is a great Valentine’s day DIY present. You can make this as simple or as elaborate as you wish. Your DIY wine rack can be just a few square bins or you can get more elaborate and create triangle crossbars for your wine storage to separate your wine further. If you are creating your DIY wine rack for placement in your kitchen or other room you will want to choose a good-looking wood and finish your creation with a satin sealing varnish to bring out the beauty of the wood.
Indoor Herb Garden for Valentine’s Day
Indoor herb gardens make a wonderful DIY Valentine’s Day present and it’s a gift that keeps giving year-round! You can create your own DIY indoor herb garden with some small terra cotta pots you pot with herbs and a windowsill tray. You can also put together your own indoor herb garden selection at many gardening stores or online seed suppliers. You can make this as simple or elaborate of a gift as you want. Some great indoor herbs that do well on a windowsill are basil, chives, thyme, oregano, rosemary, sage, and mint.
Create A Beautiful Cutting Board for Valentine’s Day
There is nothing more appealing that a beautiful handmade cutting board. Your choice of wood is what makes this a spectacular cutting board as a Valentine’s Day DIY gift. Picking a handsome piece of wood, oak is usually the first choice and cutting it to the size and shape desired is your first step. Second, is sanding it down to be beautiful and smooth and then coating it with natural beeswax to seal the wood.
If you want to get even more creative you can use a router to create a drip area around the outside edge of the cutting board to collect meat juices. Another option is creating a cutting board with a handle or one that will bridge your sink in the kitchen so it won’t take up counter space. Let your imagination and creativity lead the way in creating a beautiful DIY Valentine’s Day cutting board for the person you love.
DIY Valentine’s Day Pizza Kit
I don’t think I have ever met someone that doesn’t love pizza. You can bake pizza in your oven or use your outdoor grill to make wonderful homemade pizza. This gift needs to be refrigerated till given to the person you love, but it’s so much fun to put all the ingredients together. You can choose pre-made pizza dough or a dry dough mix, then add in all the ingredients that your Valentine would love on their pizza and you have a wonderful Valentine’s Day present.
Valentine’s Day Wood-Fired Pizza Oven
For those of you with some time to make a great gift, there is always a wood-fired outdoor pizza oven. Most of the supplies can be picked up at any building supply store. Whether you do a brick oven or a clay and brick oven, there are many great directions online for how to build an outdoor wood-fired pizza oven that can bake pizza, calzones, bread, and so much more. This is truly a gift that will remind your Valentine of your love for many years to come!
Flowers for Valentine’s Day
You can never go wrong with flowers for Valentine’s Day! Thinking a little outside the box you could buy a dozen roses and surprise her with a rose bush that will keep blooming year after year. If roses aren’t her favorite flower, think of what is and not only bring her flowers for Valentine’s Day but also help her plant her favorite flowers in your garden. Each year when the flowers bloom it’s a reminder about how much you love her. A good friend of mine has the rose bush, that still blooms each year and she posts a photo on their anniversary each year of the beautiful rose bush that is still adding beauty to their garden and roses for their home.
Valentine’s Day Baking Gifts
In most couples there is a great baker, and the gift of home-baked goodies for Valentine’s Day is usually always a winner. We loved these heart-shaped cookies that remind your love of how much you love them. A simple dough, some icing, creativity, and you have a tasty and beautiful reminder of your love to give on Valentine’s Day.
Strawberries & Chocolate for Valentine’s Day
Strawberries and chocolate make for a winning combination on Valentine’s Day. you can never have too much chocolate! A wonderfully simple edible gift is a fondue of melted chocolate, sour cram for dipping, and brown sugar. For the chocolate lover they can use the melted chocolate for their strawberries, but if you like to savor the flavor of sweet and sour, dipping strawberries in sour cream and then quickly dipping them in brown sugar is an amazing treat any day but especially on Valentine’s Day.
We are hoping you have a wonderful Valentine’s Day whether you are celebrating as a single or as a couple. Many of our DIY gift suggestions would make great gifts to make for yourself too! Remember that Shed Windows and More is your one-stop source for shed windows, shed doors, flower boxes, cupolas, decorative windows, and so much more for you as a DIY builder or small contractor.
