Do you want to renew your stay with creativity and a limited budget? Let’s see together how to recycle old furniture and objects to give a touch of style to your living room.
Do you happen to leaf through so many design magazines and fantasize about the images of those beautifully decorated rooms?
Your budget is limited but would you like to reproduce the dream images of those magazines, where instead the products are offered at stellar prices?
Quiet, you will not have to stare at the bare walls and the bare environment for long.
Exist many ways to transform a room from top to bottom at a reduced cost.
A little bit of will be enough to give your living room a totally new face time and a lot creativity.
The first trick to reduce the budget to be allocated to the restyling of your living room is to learn to keep old things, to use furnishings of second hand is to commute some pieces in brand new furniture.
Read also: 10 low cost decorations for Christmas day: tips and ideas
With recycling you can achieve what you want, adapting it perfectly to your spaces and your needs.
Repurposing furniture can mean just change the color, or take it apart is use the different parts in new ways.
Let’s see some together examples of creative recycling for your stay.
Upcycling: the art of giving a second life to furniture
Transforming an object or piece of furniture into something new and also giving it a different use is defined Upcycling.
Let’s find out together 5 ways to furnish your living room with recycling.
Recycle a wooden reel
There coil it is the wooden structure that is used, in carpentry and other work on site, to wind the cables.
There are reels of all sizes, from very small to large ones even a few meters.
It is very easy to find a reel, as it is considered a real waste. You can try asking the foreman to get one, or you can buy it privately on some second-hand product platform.
From being a simple raw wood cable reel, we can turn the coil into a design object.
How? A coat or two of paint in the color of your choice and, if necessary, a few cuts to adapt its shape to your space. For the cut you can also contact a professional, a carpenter will know how to work in the best way and will guarantee the safety of the result.
For a tailor-made job, we recommend that you lightly pre-treat the wood using sandpaper or a grinder. It will be much easier, as well as safe, to work and paint on smooth, splinter-free wood.
You may be interested in: How to recycle Pringles tubes in an ingenious way
Suitcases and trunks
Dusty emerged from the cellar trunks and suitcases cardboard? In addition to the sentimental value, an inestimable style value is added.
Trunks and suitcases are also often found in flea markets.
They have a deep intrinsic charm, they tell stories of travel and people and it is a must to give them a second life.
If your trunk or suitcase is in good condition, you will only need to purchase the feet and supports to turn them into cute side tables.
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If, on the other hand, they show many signs of aging, you can proceed with a quick restoration, painting them to your liking, paying attention to detail. Handles, hinges and closures will be of a different color than the structure.
The trunk becomes a small piece of furniture, if placed vertically with the addition of some shelves.
The dream in the drawer
A lively solution is to recycle the drawers of old disused furniture.
Especially if yours living room is small, not suitable for bulky solutions, i suspended drawers to the wall or fixed on the feet give you theopportunity of recover a little bit of extra space.
You can use them as shelves.
Whether you prefer them in a natural version or revisited with bright colors, this is a smart solution for those who want to keep their furniture essential.
Pallets and wooden boxes
Now the use of pallet as a piece of furniture it has spread like wildfire. More and more often we see entire living rooms made entirely with balls: sofas, armchairs and so on and so forth.
They are very easy to assemble and disassemble, to cut and repaint.
The chic idea for your living room is to create a small one from a pallet corner bar.
By eliminating some boards from the platform and coloring it perhaps with a nice wenge color, you will get a hanging console where you can place glasses and bottles of wine.
An interesting idea to transform a empty corner of yours living room.
With the wooden boxes, four to be precise, we will create a small table for the conversation corner.
Small, light and space-saving. Why not also fix some small wheels to complete the work?
The great advantage of these two objects is that we can color them to our liking and adapt them to our style. White for a shabby house, dark wood for classic tones or natural for Scandinavian references.
There is something for everyone.
When a door is closed, a … table opens
A very interesting recycling is that relating to the old ones wooden doors.
After a major renovation of the house, after having also changed the doors, it may happen that you have some old doors that you don’t mind throwing away.
Don’t worry, because your old door can become a dining table, or a coffee table, based on the height of the feet you decide to put on.
It is a work of upcycling very simple. We are going to clean and repaint our door and finish with a layer of transparent flatting, to make it perfectly washable.
We will screw the feet of the preferred height, et voila. The table is ready.
Have you got a taste for it and want to try your hand at something more elaborate?
Any object that you recover, including wineries and markets, will be your new treasure.
Did you imagine that an old piano could become a precious bookcase?
Or that a barrel would take pride of place in the living room?
No restraint on the imagination, and go for nails, hammers and colors.
Furnish the living room with furniture and objects recycled pictures and photos
In the gallery there are many other ideas to have a low cost and decidedly personalized stay.
Do you want to renew your stay with creativity and a limited budget? Let’s see together how to recycle old furniture and objects to give a touch of style to your living room.
Do you happen to leaf through so many design magazines and fantasize about the images of those beautifully decorated rooms?
Your budget is limited but would you like to reproduce the dream images of those magazines, where instead the products are offered at stellar prices?
Quiet, you will not have to stare at the bare walls and the bare environment for long.
Exist many ways to transform a room from top to bottom at a reduced cost.
A little bit of will be enough to give your living room a totally new face time and a lot creativity.
The first trick to reduce the budget to be allocated to the restyling of your living room is to learn to keep old things, to use furnishings of second hand is to commute some pieces in brand new furniture.
Read also: 10 low cost decorations for Christmas day: tips and ideas
With recycling you can achieve what you want, adapting it perfectly to your spaces and your needs.
Repurposing furniture can mean just change the color, or take it apart is use the different parts in new ways.
Let’s see some together examples of creative recycling for your stay.
Upcycling: the art of giving a second life to furniture
Transforming an object or piece of furniture into something new and also giving it a different use is defined Upcycling.
Let’s find out together 5 ways to furnish your living room with recycling.
Recycle a wooden reel
There coil it is the wooden structure that is used, in carpentry and other work on site, to wind the cables.
There are reels of all sizes, from very small to large ones even a few meters.
It is very easy to find a reel, as it is considered a real waste. You can try asking the foreman to get one, or you can buy it privately on some second-hand product platform.
From being a simple raw wood cable reel, we can turn the coil into a design object.
How? A coat or two of paint in the color of your choice and, if necessary, a few cuts to adapt its shape to your space. For the cut you can also contact a professional, a carpenter will know how to work in the best way and will guarantee the safety of the result.
For a tailor-made job, we recommend that you lightly pre-treat the wood using sandpaper or a grinder. It will be much easier, as well as safe, to work and paint on smooth, splinter-free wood.
You may be interested in: How to recycle Pringles tubes in an ingenious way
Suitcases and trunks
Dusty emerged from the cellar trunks and suitcases cardboard? In addition to the sentimental value, an inestimable style value is added.
Trunks and suitcases are also often found in flea markets.
They have a deep intrinsic charm, they tell stories of travel and people and it is a must to give them a second life.
If your trunk or suitcase is in good condition, you will only need to purchase the feet and supports to turn them into cute side tables.
Do you want design advice on how to furnish? Join the group
If, on the other hand, they show many signs of aging, you can proceed with a quick restoration, painting them to your liking, paying attention to detail. Handles, hinges and closures will be of a different color than the structure.
The trunk becomes a small piece of furniture, if placed vertically with the addition of some shelves.
The dream in the drawer
A lively solution is to recycle the drawers of old disused furniture.
Especially if yours living room is small, not suitable for bulky solutions, i suspended drawers to the wall or fixed on the feet give you theopportunity of recover a little bit of extra space.
You can use them as shelves.
Whether you prefer them in a natural version or revisited with bright colors, this is a smart solution for those who want to keep their furniture essential.
Pallets and wooden boxes
Now the use of pallet as a piece of furniture it has spread like wildfire. More and more often we see entire living rooms made entirely with balls: sofas, armchairs and so on and so forth.
They are very easy to assemble and disassemble, to cut and repaint.
The chic idea for your living room is to create a small one from a pallet corner bar.
By eliminating some boards from the platform and coloring it perhaps with a nice wenge color, you will get a hanging console where you can place glasses and bottles of wine.
An interesting idea to transform a empty corner of yours living room.
With the wooden boxes, four to be precise, we will create a small table for the conversation corner.
Small, light and space-saving. Why not also fix some small wheels to complete the work?
The great advantage of these two objects is that we can color them to our liking and adapt them to our style. White for a shabby house, dark wood for classic tones or natural for Scandinavian references.
There is something for everyone.
When a door is closed, a … table opens
A very interesting recycling is that relating to the old ones wooden doors.
After a major renovation of the house, after having also changed the doors, it may happen that you have some old doors that you don’t mind throwing away.
Don’t worry, because your old door can become a dining table, or a coffee table, based on the height of the feet you decide to put on.
It is a work of upcycling very simple. We are going to clean and repaint our door and finish with a layer of transparent flatting, to make it perfectly washable.
We will screw the feet of the preferred height, et voila. The table is ready.
Have you got a taste for it and want to try your hand at something more elaborate?
Any object that you recover, including wineries and markets, will be your new treasure.
Did you imagine that an old piano could become a precious bookcase?
Or that a barrel would take pride of place in the living room?
No restraint on the imagination, and go for nails, hammers and colors.
Furnish the living room with furniture and objects recycled pictures and photos
In the gallery there are many other ideas to have a low cost and decidedly personalized stay.
