Creative recycling has no boundaries. There are numerous unused materials that can be saved from domestic waste collection baskets and stored so that they can be used for the creation of new useful objects, such as original interior curtains, to be used to adorn doors and windows in your home. . So let's discover the starting materials that led to the patient creation of the most imaginative curtains.
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Il creative recycling it has no borders. There are numerous unused materials that can be saved from the bins for the collection of household waste and stored so that they can be used for the creation of new useful or decorative objects, like originals curtains for interni, to be used to decorate doors and windows in your home.
So let's discover the starting materials that led to the patient creation of the most imaginative curtains.
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Cork stoppers
One of the recycled materials that can be used to create indoor do-it-yourself curtains is made up of corks. One of the possibilities to recover many of them is to agree with bars and restaurants that can keep them aside for you. The caps can be joined together with hooks or they can be pierced to insert strong twine inside them. The caps in the composition of the curtain can be alternated with beads.
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CD
Among the creative ideas for the recycling of old CDs and DVDs no longer used there is the creation of original interior curtains. For this idea and for the photo we thank our liker on Facebook Luca Guglielmo Mancini, from which the tent was reported to us. To create it, help yourself by following the tutorial present online.
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Tin cans
Have you ever thought you could make a tent out of soda cans? It is possible to cut out their surface to obtain geometric shapes to be joined to each other with colored strings, to obtain a truly original curtain, ecorae here and there with a few glass beads.
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Tabs on the cans
Not just the cans themselves, but theirs too tabs, can be stored for the creation of a curtain thanks to the recycling of aluminum. The curtain made with the tabs of the cans that you can admire in the image was used to adorn a bedroom. The tabs have been joined to each other with colored and resistant twine. Approximately 3500 tabs. To understand how they were joined together, follow the tutorial online.
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Slide
Le old slides they can be used as a starting point for the birth of a new functional art form based on creative recycling. Here is what must have pushed the creator of this project, Scott Sherwood, to the creation of a large curtain starting from the slides. To create the curtain they were used over 1100 slides and it took 4 months of work.
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Caps of beer bottles
Not only the typical corks of wine bottles, but also the pin metal of the beer bottles they can constitute original starting materials for obtaining interior curtains, which can, for example, replace a door or separate different spaces in the house. The idea of the curtain created with the caps of the beer bottles is taken from Etsy, where, among other things, it can be purchased online.
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Plastic bottle caps
Wikipedia ci presents a tutorial useful for creating a tent starting from plastic bottle caps. The number of bottle caps required is in this case quite high. In fact, it can reach 2000, but engaging in their recovery is not impossible, since someone has managed to complete their tent, among other things in a truly original way, depriving them of creating decorative motifs with caps of different colors, as you can see in the image below.
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Plastic bottles
If the caps of the plastic bottles can be a useful starting material for creating a do-it-yourself tent, plastic bottles are no exception. These containers, which are unfortunately a very common waste, inspired the work of the British designer Michelle Brand. Here is also the report of a video useful for making a colored curtain from PET bottles.
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Straws
The tent that we present in the following image was made by RoughLittleShop for the last Olympics. Were used straws and beads, recovered following the principle of creative recycling. the curtain is suitable for placing along a window.
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À la Carte
What if you could create a curtain by recycling pages of old magazines? In the field of creative recycling, nothing is impossible and this is how an interior curtain made simply with paper was born. In addition to the pages of the magazines, posters and pages of old books cut into strips were used to obtain the curtain.
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Marta Albè
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