To decorate your home with original and above all green objects, you don't need to be a great decoupage artist. Just gather all your imagination to try your hand at creating candle holders, vases, lamps and anything else you may find useful, starting from recycled materials, which would otherwise risk being destined for the garbage can.
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To decorate your home with original items and especially green it is not necessary to be great artists of the decoupage. All you need to do is gather all your imagination to try your hand at creating candle holders, vases, lamps and anything else that may be useful, starting from recycled materials, which would otherwise risk being destined for the garbage can.
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Candle holder
You can decorate the classic transparent glass candle holders, or make new ones from old glasses or glass jars, using twigs to be adhered to the external surface with a special glue. They will give a "country" touch to your home. And for the Candles? You can learn to recycle used ones. Here are other ideas for too recycle glass jars and turn them into decorative objects.
Cake stands
If you love to offer your guests sweets, cookies and pastries, why not bring them to the table on a backsplash? Of course, you can make it yourself using second-hand materials, such as dishes and saucers from dessert, to be used for the base and the top, e cups tea or coffee to overlap to create the central support. Just use some ceramic glue to join everything together.
Vases lined with fabric scraps
If you want to give a touch of color to yours vasi terracotta, you can try to decorate them using gods fabric scraps brightly colored. It is a good idea to reuse fabric scraps or to recover the necessary fabric from clothes you intend to discard. All you have to do is make the chosen fabric adhere to the outer walls of your vases and to the upper edge with glue for the do-it-yourself.
Dust-catching cloth
Dust-catching cloths Single-use disposable they will also be comfortable, but they irreparably end up in non-recyclable waste. To have a cleaner house, but also a planet, make your own "swiffer" using scraps of cloth, old cloths or towels. If you are skilled in the knitting you can self-produce your own dust catcher cloth with leftover wool from more important jobs, which you wouldn't know how to reuse. The biggest benefit of a do-it-yourself cloth is that it is washable and reusable, but it will make you too save, saving you an extra purchase. How?
Shopping bags
Fortunately the old plastic bags they retired and many of you will have realized the convenience of using cloth bags to go to the grocery store. More or less capacious, it is always convenient to have a spare one to better distribute and comfortably transport what we buy. If you have an old t-shirt that you no longer wear, you can think about turning it into a shopping bag. Just remove the sleeves, use the fabric to make the handles (with the addition of others remnants, if necessary) and sew up the openings left by the latter and the neck, reinforcing the seams well on what will be the bottom of the bag. Et-voila!
Cork mat
Making an original bathroom mat is a good way to reuse corks. If you have saved up a lot over time (you will need about 150 for a standard size mat), perhaps with the help of friends and family, you are ready to try your hand at the project. In addition to the caps, which you will have to cut in half lengthwise, you will need hot glue and a non-slip base on which to adhere them by placing them side by side with care and a little patience.
Portagioielli
There are those who had the brilliant idea of creating a jewelry rack recovering the indented part of a old rake and hanging it on a wall. The earrings, necklaces and bracelets that lie scattered in the drawer would thus find a much more comfortable and tidy location, which will also give a touch vintage to your room. You will be so original, green and trendy in one step!
The planter in a barrel
It is possible that in your cellar or in that of your grandparents there is an old unused barrel. Reinvent yourself carpenters to divide it into compartments in order to transform it into a planter with two or three shelves, which you can place in your own garden or on balcony, perhaps making it suitable for containing the aromatic plants of yours city garden.
Vases or pencil holders with string
To make original pen holders or pencil holders you can recover some tin cans or glass jars like those of jam or pickles. To coat them, you will simply need glue and kitchen twine. You can then decorate the surface by applying old buttons or beads. They will look good on your desk and in your children's room.
Vintage coat hanger
If you have found those little ones by rummaging in the attic trophies conquered in your youth, which you were tired of seeing arranged above the fireplace, but which you did not want to throw away, you can think of transforming them into the "hooks" of a do-it-yourself coat hanger, applying them on a wooden base. As you can see, even old memories can come in handy!
Marta Albè
