Along with spring flower, neighborhood garage sales and flea markets seem to pop up again this time of year. But do you ever get home and discover you really don't know what you're going to do with your new purchases? Super Handyman Al Carrell explores how one woman uses her imagination to make her flea market 'finds' feel right at home.

Al Carrell: They say that one man's trash is another man's treasure. I guess that's why we have so many garage sales and flea markets. But what do you do with all that stuff? We found an expert.

Judy Smith: Welcome Al. Come in.

AC: Hi, Judy. I was just admiring what you've done to this entryway out here with a lot of junk.

JS: Well, it's amazing what you can pick up from the curb and the dumpster and the garage sale.

AC: Yeah, hey listen, I want to take a look at some of this stuff you've got here.

JS: Well, come through, Al, this is my latest collection.

AC: These doors that are hanging on the wall here?

JS: Well, these doors to me are art work. Each one of these doors has a life of its own and I've decorated it just to show that.

AC: This is a barn door it looks like.

JS: Right. This is the back door, I call it, with the clothes pins and a scrub brush.

AC: Oh, yeah. It's pretty neat. Whoa, is this a secret room behind a bookcase?

JS: Well, that's exactly what I wanted it to look like.

AC: Oh, that is so neat. How did you do that?

JS: Well, I collected old books from garage sales and thrift shops and dumpsters and I cut the backs off and glued them to the walls.

AC: And you've got it going all the way around here. Hey, this is really neat. Looks like a library.

JS: Yeah, I have moldings glued along the wall so that it looks like shelves, then put the books along that, arranged like you'd see on normal library shelves.

AC: So this is the master bedroom?

JS: Yeah.

AC: And what's this up over the mantel here, is that a wreath made of barbed wire?

JS: Yes. I love used barb wire because it's free and it's fun and I have another way I've used it in the bathroom here.

AC: Well, I see the barbed wire. Is that rope up there, too?

JS: Right. I made wallpaper out of barbed wire and interspersed with rope.

AC: Well now, in addition to this wallpaper up here, you've done an interesting thing with the walls in here.

JS: Right. We used fence post that you buy at the lumber yard. It gives a log cabin effect. We had to use very long pole nails because it had to go through the log and way into the wall, but it's very effective and very quick.

AC: I'm Super Handyman Al Carrell, About the House.