Do you have an old wooden staircase lying around the house that you intend to throw away? Do not do it! We will explain why: new desk, photo holder, clothes hanger, towel holder. 10 + 1 ideas that will tickle your imagination. Ready for creative recycling? Get your toolbox ready!
Your old wooden ladder can become yours ally in home. She who supported you and helped you reach the highest points of the apartment is now ready to be reinvented. Use the fantasy and live it in every corner of your home. Find how.
Grandma’s attic: magical casket
For sure, rummaging in the cellar or in the attic of the grandmother, among dusty photographs and abandoned boxes, you will have come across an old wooden staircase. Well, among the various objects this is certainly the most versatile. Rediscover your manual skills and invent new solutions. We start by giving you some idea of reuse. 10 ideas + 1 to test yourself!
Read also: Safe at home
Furnish with an old staircase: create design objects
In recent years the flavor of vintage to be skilfully mixed with the modern. Furnishing with an old staircase goes precisely in this direction. It doesn’t take much: before using it, just clean it with sandpaper to remove any splinters and use a good impregnating agent. It is then up to you to choose the paint suitable for the environment in which you plan to insert it. You will find that it is a great piece of furniture. Plus you have a double advantage:
• originality of the object;
• savings cheap.
Let’s get to work and make it an object of design to be used anywhere around the house. Whether it’s a bathroom, living room or kitchen, it doesn’t matter.
Furnishing with an old staircase: 3 ideas in the kitchen
Let’s start with the domestic focolore: if you have no more space to store the pots can be a valuable suggestion to hang up the ladder to the ceiling or walls and, with the aid of simple hooks, hang them tools that you use most in the kitchen. Our old scale is well suited to flavorful kitchens rustic or shabby chic but it’s up to you to choose and experiment with its insertion even in a more modern or industrial context.
Not enough for you? Turn your old staircase into an elegant one bottle holder to show off your wine collection or, by simply placing it on the wall next to the pantry, collect all the magazines cooking. Its practicality will surprise you!
You may be interested: 9 ideas for recycling tetrapak
Furnish with an old staircase: in the bathroom
If we move to the most intimate place in the house, there are many ideas from which you can draw inspiration for its organization. To equip the bathroom with little ones cabinets where to store towels, creams and accessories is really essential. It helps you keep in order and at the same time have everything at your fingertips. If you like DIY an old ladder is just what you need to create a unique bathroom cabinet. More simply we can use it to store the towels. You will decide, based on the chosen furniture style, whether you want to give color to the staircase or not.
Furnishing with an old staircase: ideas in the living room
Perfect for your living room, but also for your study corner, the libraries made with an old wooden staircase. It is interesting to leave the signs of aging on display, your living room will have an air that tastes of lived-in but a winning alternative can be to repaint it adapting it to the style of your home.
Do you want design advice on how to furnish? Join the group
And how to illuminate the sofa? With the realization of a chandelier starting from an old staircase to hang from the ceiling and along which to run light bulbs that will make your evenings unique. The important thing is to use your imagination!
In the bedroom: coat hangers or bedside tables?
You want to renew yours wardrobe? What better way than starting from the wardrobe to be made entirely with DIY. How? You can put on the wall, in horizontal, your old staircase or in vertical as a rule he suggests inserting shelves that can act as a shoe rack. Using a portion of it you can instead create charming bedside tables vintage to put your favorite book on before going to sleep.
In the garden: plant stands
We close in beauty and we go out into the open air where the old ladder finds an excellent use as a support for our plants or spices. Take care of it even inside the house by recreating a small corner green.
Furnishing with an old staircase: one more idea
At Christmas or Easter create an installation that is truly unique and suggestive: a real tree that filled with decorations and fairy lights will surprise your guests!
Furnishing with an old staircase: image gallery
Which of these ideas is the most original in your opinion? And which one made you want to get to work? If you are still looking for some ideas, do not worry, the ideas there are so many! In the gallery we still offer you a few: take a look.
Do you have an old wooden staircase lying around the house that you intend to throw away? Do not do it! We will explain why: new desk, photo holder, clothes hanger, towel holder. 10 + 1 ideas that will tickle your imagination. Ready for creative recycling? Get your toolbox ready!
Your old wooden ladder can become yours ally in home. She who supported you and helped you reach the highest points of the apartment is now ready to be reinvented. Use the fantasy and live it in every corner of your home. Find how.
Grandma’s attic: magical casket
For sure, rummaging in the cellar or in the attic of the grandmother, among dusty photographs and abandoned boxes, you will have come across an old wooden staircase. Well, among the various objects this is certainly the most versatile. Rediscover your manual skills and invent new solutions. We start by giving you some idea of reuse. 10 ideas + 1 to test yourself!
Read also: Safe at home
Furnish with an old staircase: create design objects
In recent years the flavor of vintage to be skilfully mixed with the modern. Furnishing with an old staircase goes precisely in this direction. It doesn’t take much: before using it, just clean it with sandpaper to remove any splinters and use a good impregnating agent. It is then up to you to choose the paint suitable for the environment in which you plan to insert it. You will find that it is a great piece of furniture. Plus you have a double advantage:
• originality of the object;
• savings cheap.
Let’s get to work and make it an object of design to be used anywhere around the house. Whether it’s a bathroom, living room or kitchen, it doesn’t matter.
Furnishing with an old staircase: 3 ideas in the kitchen
Let’s start with the domestic focolore: if you have no more space to store the pots can be a valuable suggestion to hang up the ladder to the ceiling or walls and, with the aid of simple hooks, hang them tools that you use most in the kitchen. Our old scale is well suited to flavorful kitchens rustic or shabby chic but it’s up to you to choose and experiment with its insertion even in a more modern or industrial context.
Not enough for you? Turn your old staircase into an elegant one bottle holder to show off your wine collection or, by simply placing it on the wall next to the pantry, collect all the magazines cooking. Its practicality will surprise you!
You may be interested: 9 ideas for recycling tetrapak
Furnish with an old staircase: in the bathroom
If we move to the most intimate place in the house, there are many ideas from which you can draw inspiration for its organization. To equip the bathroom with little ones cabinets where to store towels, creams and accessories is really essential. It helps you keep in order and at the same time have everything at your fingertips. If you like DIY an old ladder is just what you need to create a unique bathroom cabinet. More simply we can use it to store the towels. You will decide, based on the chosen furniture style, whether you want to give color to the staircase or not.
Furnishing with an old staircase: ideas in the living room
Perfect for your living room, but also for your study corner, the libraries made with an old wooden staircase. It is interesting to leave the signs of aging on display, your living room will have an air that tastes of lived-in but a winning alternative can be to repaint it adapting it to the style of your home.
Do you want design advice on how to furnish? Join the group
And how to illuminate the sofa? With the realization of a chandelier starting from an old staircase to hang from the ceiling and along which to run light bulbs that will make your evenings unique. The important thing is to use your imagination!
In the bedroom: coat hangers or bedside tables?
You want to renew yours wardrobe? What better way than starting from the wardrobe to be made entirely with DIY. How? You can put on the wall, in horizontal, your old staircase or in vertical as a rule he suggests inserting shelves that can act as a shoe rack. Using a portion of it you can instead create charming bedside tables vintage to put your favorite book on before going to sleep.
In the garden: plant stands
We close in beauty and we go out into the open air where the old ladder finds an excellent use as a support for our plants or spices. Take care of it even inside the house by recreating a small corner green.
Furnishing with an old staircase: one more idea
At Christmas or Easter create an installation that is truly unique and suggestive: a real tree that filled with decorations and fairy lights will surprise your guests!
Furnishing with an old staircase: image gallery
Which of these ideas is the most original in your opinion? And which one made you want to get to work? If you are still looking for some ideas, do not worry, the ideas there are so many! In the gallery we still offer you a few: take a look.