How to recycle tin or aluminum cans to create new useful items? How to use coffee pots and cans for peeled tomatoes and preserves for new uses? Creative recycling: ideas and photographic examples from which to draw inspiration.
Sometimes you don’t think about it, but with a little imagination it is possible to decorate your home recycling objects destined to be thrown away.
An example? The reuse of coffee cans or peeled tomatoes.
How to recycle tin cans of coffee and tomatoes
A jar of coffee empty could prove to be very useful and could be a small piece of furniture that can enhance your home.
Container for make-up, pencils, paints and pens
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To make a pen holder with an empty coffee jar it’s very simple, just a little paint, some stickers and a lot of inventiveness!
You can also customize the jar with names and designs.
Mini pots and planters
Do you love plants?
Nothing better than recycle the coffee jar to realize vases and planters hand painted!
Attention, if you plan to leave the jars / vases outside, buy a water repellent paint, otherwise with a little water it will come down.
The jars can also be covered with fabric and used to house aromatic plants.
Furthermore, we remind you that for this use it is good to prick the bottom of the jar to allow the soil a perfect aeration and hydration.
Decorative lamps
Also in this case, equip yourself with the suitable paint (fireproof) to paint the jars, which you will have previously perforated, giving them the appearance of a nice candle holder lamp.
Help yourself with spun iron to hold your splendid creations in suspension.
Colored containers
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You need containers take it all?
Nothing more suitable than old coffee tins decorated with wrapping paper or fabric, and here you don’t need to add anything but your imagination!
Door objects
By assembling the coffee cans together, a splendid one comes out door objects to be the envy of friends and relatives.
Externally it can be given the effect that best suits your type of furniture.
Ball holder
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The idea of using jars as is absolutely brilliant ball holder.
And to give a touch of originality, coat them with wood-effect stickers.
Cutlery holder
And finally, why not use the empty coffee tins as nice cutlery holders from vintage design?
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Aluminum cans designed by Jack Bresnahan
The designer Jack Bresnahan managed to make a set of 9 recycled aluminum cans functional for the home.
Each jar was given a different shape and activity through the affixing of 9 different plastic lids.
The idea is truly brilliant, curious and certainly admirable!
