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5 Waste Products That Can Be Recycled To Decorate Your Home

5 Waste Products That Can Be Recycled To Decorate Your Home

5 Waste Products That Can Be Recycled To Decorate Your Home
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Moving around your home, you find there are so many things that should just be thrown out, for all these unused things just bite the dust. But, how about transforming them into something beautiful by using your creative streak?

Let's see how we can go about that.

Bottles

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Bottles of all kinds — soft drinks, liquor, and even oil cans — all can be refurbished into a utility or even home décor item. Cut that Jack Daniels bottle from the neck, give a finishing touch and there you have a glass for your drink. In fact, all those empty liquor bottles could be used for this purpose and there you have a whole lot of glasses to enjoy your drink in. The wine bottles could be used as a flower vases or soap dispensers. What's more? The empty glass oil bottles could be painted and be used as a bunch of hanging pendant lights. All you would need is a bulb and some wire. Remove the base of the bottle and create a hole in the cap to let the wire pass through and there you have a pendant lamp.

With plastic bottles at home you could cut them and use the base of the bottle as planters. Place these on the window sill or hang them on the porch in a bunch. The base of these bottles, which looks like a flower, could also be used as small jewellery holders, too. 

Old utensils & cutlery

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Have some old chinaware which is not a complete set anymore? Use the plates and bowls as wall décor. Get them on to the wall by screwing them on the wall. If the Chinaware you have is plain white, you could paint them using old nail paint which you do not use. Mix the nail paint in water and dip the Chinaware, see a natural abstract paint cover the base. Let it dry and this piece would be shining like a new penny.

With unused cutlery you could create a wall hanging by putting all the spoons, forks and knives in a round arrangement. Also, the soup ladles which are generally in a standing position can be screwed to the wall and the scoop could be used to place small candles.

Light bulbs

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The old traditional bulbs may be out of fashion for their original use but, they are in vogue in home decor. Remove the filament from the bulb and you could use the glass frame as a planter if you fill it with water. Place the small stems of flowers and hang it pendant style or simply create a mini-terrarium in it. Get creative with its round shape and paint it into a small creature like a honeybee, penguin or even a hot air balloon, use them to decorate your little one's room.

There is more. You could also transform this into an oil lamp. Fill the oil in the glass frame and let the wick move out of the metal top.

Mason jars

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We all have the old mason jars passed on to us from our grandmother's basket. These jars are available in thick, transparent glass and come with a screw lid. These can be recycled into a decorative in various ways. One of the simplest way is to bunch the string lights, especially the multi-coloured lights, into the jar and light them up. It will give your room a fairytale look. Another way is to paint the outside of the jars with leaving a blank shape of a heart or a circle. Keep a small candle inside the jar and let the light shine through the blank shape.

A little more time -consuming project is to turn these jars into hanging pendant lamps. Just like you created a pendant light using wine bottles, you could follow the same process for mason jars too. 

Old newspaper

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Rather than giving away that huge pile lying in your home, you could use your newspaper into various decorative. Have a plain lampshade you are bored of? How about covering this lampshade with newspaper and laminating it further with plastic? This will instantly make the lampshade stand out.

You could also get your child to create a craft project of their own which you could use as a decorative. They could do it by twisting newspaper into thick coils of different sizes, and then joining these tiles into something interesting. This could be put together to create a bowl, a pen stand or even a huge wall decal, if painted.

 

Last Updated: Thu Aug 10 2017

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