Creative recycling: ideas to save at home while having fun!
Apparently useless objects that can actually be transformed with a little imagination and some minimal DIY skills into new and original ideas to be exhibited at home or to be used to entertain children. Making new furnishing accessories, for example, is easier than you can imagine and will not require any special skills. Before throwing away something, therefore, anything, ask yourself what it could be transformed into and how it could come in handy: do not underestimate even the simplest objects, from the bathroom to the kitchen, from the living room to the children's room. Would you have ever thought that recycling a simple coat hanger would be so fun and useful?
Creative recycling: the hobby of the future
Creative recycling is a trend that responds to unbridled consumerism and the habit of throwing away things that have only apparently ceased to be useful.
The trend is as always that of sustainability, less consumption, less waste and a creative and intelligent recycling to give new life to the objects that surround us by transforming too often underestimated material into design objects. Creative recycling means creating something new and it is also a way to save, because it allows us not to spend on something that we may already have (and we do not realize). It is a rewarding and enjoyable hobby, which increases self-esteem and allows us to surround ourselves with small creations to be proud of. If creative recycling is the hobby for you, let yourself be inspired by some nice ideas to reuse in a creative and original way some object you no longer use. And if you are looking for some other hobbies, instead, let yourself be inspired by the game rooms most loved by the stars!
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The attic: the starting point
Of course, you can also recycle objects from your daily life but if you are lucky enough to have an attic or a cellar full of junk this is the time to take a tour to browse the material you have and get to work to create something new and useful. Do you have old wooden crates, the ones in which fruit is transported? They are perfect containers for tidying up and allow you to save on the purchase of decorated boxes.
This is just one example of everything you can come up with by letting your creativity go! Creative recycling is a real craze: when you start making new objects then it will be difficult to stop!
Lots of ideas with buttons
Surely you too have a box full of mismatched buttons that you keep in case they come in handy for some outfit. But as time passes the buttons increase and then they are practically always there. So why not use them in a much more useful and fun way as objects with which to create beautiful personalized and unique bijou? With buttons you can decorate anonymous bags and give new life to your furnishing accessories, such as lamps or cushions. You can use them in contrast or tone on tone to embellish pillowcases and give new to your living room. The creative recycling of buttons allows you to embellish furnishing objects making your home more original. And then there are many objects that you can create from scratch with buttons, a little thread and a little imagination: napkin rings for Christmas, place cards for a family dinner, revitalize anonymous frames or monochromatic vases and even make original earrings to give to friends.
Old items for new furniture
The creative recycling of old furniture both with new decorative techniques, such as decoupage, and with a little imagination can give life to original furnishing ideas and new and unexpected do-it-yourself solutions. A first option is to transform an object into something else: a bottle turns into a candle holder. A vase becomes a lamp. A bike a planter. Hence, the past finds a new life and a new usefulness with unbelievable savings for the planet and also for the wallet. If the idea of building a new furniture for your home with creative recycling inspires you, feast your eyes by looking online at the most beautiful creations made with pallets by the followers of this new art. Pallets and old fruit crates can give life to new modern masterpieces. The creative recycling of pallets, easy to find and cheap wooden structures (also called pallets) will certainly give you great satisfaction. You can create wall units, bookcases, dividers, flower boxes, sofas and armchairs for indoors and outdoors and even with minimal DIY skills a suspended bed to be kept in the garden as if it were a hammock or a swing. It takes a bit of manual skill, of course, but assembling the pallets is really simple: and with a few comfortable pillows here and there the game is done and the result is truly original and beyond expectations.
Recycle plastic bottles in an original way
Every time we throw away an empty plastic bottle, we lose the opportunity to create something unique. In fact, it is possible to create small lamps for children, mini rubbish baskets, vases for flowers and original jars for the kitchen. Even the caps can come in handy: you can create cute place cards with the caps or they can become pawns for party games, magnets and even creative bijou elements!
Mismatch socks? Get inspired
In the wardrobes of adults and children there are always solitary, unmatched socks. Instead of throwing them away, you can give the socks new life by simply filling them with lavender or pot pourri and using them to perfume the wardrobe and drawers. If you fill them with sand or coarse salt you can also use them as a special tool for a home made scrub. The password here too is always the same: do not waste! Do not throw away things that could prove useful but rather try to give each object around you a new life, a new use and a second chance!
