Some are collectible, it’s true. But in the digital age, CDs and DVDs have become almost obsolete accessories. But everything can have a new life. If you plan to throw away CDs and DVDs, keep the covers! We reveal 5 fun ways to recycle old hard plastic covers.
You remember them readers CD? Bulky (albeit portable) but indispensable for a true music lover. Generation Z may not know them, but CDs were a key part of the life of teenagers born and lived in 90’s. Small metal hoops that magically released the voice of your favorite singer. And let’s not talk about the covers: how many we have collect? How many times have we opened them just to read the text booklet and look at the internal photos for hours? Not to mention the lines that lasted hours just for an autograph. Some CDs and DVDs they are untouchable relics. There are others, however, that it would be better to throw away.
because tastes have changed over the years, perhaps because they evoke bad memories. Today, with the internet, music has also become digital. Cds and their covers then became superfluous accessories, which only collectors still keep.
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If you have decided to throw away old CDs and DVDs, keep them covers. We will reveal to you 5 ways smart and fun to give them new life thanks to recycling.
CD covers: turn them into transparent frames.
How difficult it is to change frames to a photo? We never find the right color to match the furnishings of the room, we never manage to insert the photo in the right way. What if we transformed the covers of ours CD in frames? They open in a very simple way, they are the right size and they are also transparent.
The perfect solution to highlight our favorite photos. If you don’t like your frames to be completely white, you can try to color them by hand with tempera, perhaps by making a few drawings on it.
Use vintage coaster covers
The square shape of the covers makes them suitable to almost every kind of recycling. For example. if you decorate the covers properly they can become of the perfect coasters vintage. We could decorate them using colored paper to apply on top or making small ones drawings. The plastic will perfectly absorb water drops or you, without dirtying your tablecloths.
Due to their rectangular shape, likewise, the covers of yours DVD they can also be used as trays to serve small appetizers or desserts with a touch of style. Given the material in which they are made then, you can wash them very easily.
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Create drawer organizer
You are tired of searching in vain for objects in yours drawers super messy? The best idea to avoid this situation would be to buy of organizer for drawers. Small boxes that will allow you to orderly divide the contents of your drawers: why buy them though, if we can make them with our hands? Pasting among them various coversBy using the right amount of glue, you can make perfect drawer organizers in just a few steps.
Likewise, the organizer can be used as save space for your desk: you could use them to place make-up products or stationery products inside them.
Garden furniture
Not just interiors: if you use yours in the right way covers they will also help you make more elegant it’s colored the your garden. How? By creating little ones towers to be used as support bases or outdoor tables.
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After gluing the plastic covers together, you can redecorate them to your liking using tempera, colors or paper. your garden is sure to have a special touch.
Furnish your home with CDs
If you have old people in the house CD che don’t listen anymore, don’t even throw those away. As well as the covers, even the old compact discs they can become nice furnishing accessories: By taking advantage of the central hole inside, for example, we can transform an old cd into a very personal one Wall clock. Maybe, with the right luck, there could be a poster of our favorite movie on that cd.
We could use like hands of toothpick of different lengths to be glued with the double-sided tape on the disc. Of course, we can’t expect this watch to actually work. However, if you use it as a simple piece of furniture, you will make a beautiful figure.
These are just 5 of the decorating ideas that can be achieved by recycling your CDs. As you can see, a little imagination is enough to bring (almost) every object back to life. If you are not very accustomed to do-it-yourself, don’t worry: being a very versatile object, the manufacturing techniques are absolutely simple and intuitive, perfect even for newbies to “homemade”.
In furniture, as in nature, everything is created, nothing is destroyed. It is enough just to learn to train our creative side.
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