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• A fun way to spend an afternoon with kids or friends is to put together a mosaic. Never throw away chipped plates or glasses, save them up and when you have enough make a mosaic out of them, make it a party.
• Need a use for old cinder blocks? Make a garden bench out of them, stack them up 2 high and wide enough for 2 people to sit in, line them up against a wall and top with a foam cushion and pillows lined with scrap pieces of fabric.

• Take an old door that is not being used, spiff it up with some sanding and fresh paint and hang it horizontally behind a bed as a headboard.
• Have some old PVC pipe hanging around, get some elbows and T’s (they’re cheap at the hardware store), play with the design and come up with some functional items for the garden. Make a coffee table, a gardening stool, if you have a lot and are adventurous maybe a chair.
• Take old cast iron garden furniture that you don’t like out there anymore, and bring it in the house. Cut it into pieces that can lay flat and hang it as wall art, or hang it from the ceiling.
• Old book cases or any scrap wood can always be turned into something else. One idea is to cut the wood into strips and turn it into frames, place some inexpensive molding on it and save yourself a whole lot of money.
• Old switch plates can be painted and reused as frames also. Cut a piece of sturdy cardboard with the same dimensions as the switch plate. Attach your picture centered on the piece of cardboard and then hot glue the cardboard to the switch plate.
• Empty wine or beer or any kind of bottle can be used as a flower vase. Just gather some favorite magazine pictures or you favorite wall paper and decoupage it onto the bottle making it now a decorative piece that can be enjoyed.

You get the message, use your imagination before throwing anything out. See what other uses you can find for those objects. Keep looking back for more ideas and please add you ideas in the comments.

August 8th, 2008 at 12:22 am by bibi in Environment, Junky to Funky, Living Green, Recycle, The 3 R's

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