Decoration: ideas for saving money Thrifty Decorators - In recent years, upcycling has become the favorite word in fashion's inner world, and squeezed household budgets tighter than ever, you can not beat the satisfaction of skip-diving (not for the squeamish or easily embarrassed), marking a case of car-boot or turn something unloved and unwanted into something downright beautiful. So if you need a new piece of furniture or simply to satisfy your addiction to the decoration by making some wallet-friendly adjustments to your existing systems, prepare to be inspired.
Whites Dreamy
Assemble a headboard to negotiate
the most striking part of this room was probably the cheapest. A pair of old doors in difficulty is a beautiful headboard and add rich detail to light regime. Best of all, they would have cost next to nothing. If you're inspired to try at home, make sure to sand the doors well to remove splinters.
Explorer 10 heads of supersize
the most striking part of this room was probably the cheapest. A pair of old doors in difficulty is a beautiful headboard and add rich detail to light regime. Best of all, they would have cost next to nothing. If you're inspired to try at home, make sure to sand the doors well to remove splinters.
Explorer 10 heads of supersize
Agnes Blum
Make a single clock,
a decorative plate, a vinyl record, a slice of wood ... Put any and all of these in one piece of watch one-of-a-kind with the addition of a simple clock movement kit, which can be purchased online for less than a fiver.
a decorative plate, a vinyl record, a slice of wood ... Put any and all of these in one piece of watch one-of-a-kind with the addition of a simple clock movement kit, which can be purchased online for less than a fiver.
Esther Hershcovich
building an island
Good living - and just about everyone - will love this kitchen table created from a cannon and a marble slab. For safety, it is a good idea to get the marble to the top, or if you prefer, enter the table in a corner where it will not be hit and just sit marble on top, so you can still use inside the barrel for storage.
See 10 ideas to add an island to your workspace
Good living - and just about everyone - will love this kitchen table created from a cannon and a marble slab. For safety, it is a good idea to get the marble to the top, or if you prefer, enter the table in a corner where it will not be hit and just sit marble on top, so you can still use inside the barrel for storage.
See 10 ideas to add an island to your workspace
LEIVARS
Do display on the cheap
Assemble simple boxes of plywood, wooden wine boxes or old apple crates in clusters on the wall for an excellent but inexpensive, display shelves.
Assemble simple boxes of plywood, wooden wine boxes or old apple crates in clusters on the wall for an excellent but inexpensive, display shelves.
Emily Chalmers | Caravan Style Ltd.
Create a collage Wallpaper
Combine different wallpaper samples and clippings to a feature wall with a difference. It is a fun and inexpensive idea and an added bonus is that you do not need to be valuable on paper is scratched or marked. If that happens - or if you just get bored and fancy a new look -. Just stick another piece on top
Combine different wallpaper samples and clippings to a feature wall with a difference. It is a fun and inexpensive idea and an added bonus is that you do not need to be valuable on paper is scratched or marked. If that happens - or if you just get bored and fancy a new look -. Just stick another piece on top
Whites Dreamy
Reusing an old piece
Think about how you can use the existing furniture in new ways. This folding chair makes a great bedside table, while the addition of the mirror and door behind creates a vintage boutique display.
Think about how you can use the existing furniture in new ways. This folding chair makes a great bedside table, while the addition of the mirror and door behind creates a vintage boutique display.
Little Mill House Upcycled Interiors
Save on the fabric
stuff is a surefire way to give a piece of tatty furniture a new lease of life, but the cost of the fabric can be prohibitive. textiles used repurpose - whether vintage carpet, denim jeans or bags of French cereals, as used here - cut the cost
. stuff is a surefire way to give a piece of tatty furniture a new lease of life, but the cost of the fabric can be prohibitive. textiles used repurpose - whether vintage carpet, denim jeans or bags of French cereals, as used here - cut the cost
Lawyer Sweets Design Studio
Reuse magazines
Pages torn from magazines can make the elegant wallpaper. It creates a busy look, so that which is best kept for small spaces such as locker rooms and corridors. He will perhaps say, the vintage magazines, with their sepia colors and simple designs page, will be much more pleasing to the eye as garish gossip mags.
Pages torn from magazines can make the elegant wallpaper. It creates a busy look, so that which is best kept for small spaces such as locker rooms and corridors. He will perhaps say, the vintage magazines, with their sepia colors and simple designs page, will be much more pleasing to the eye as garish gossip mags.
Urban Grain
restyled workaday materials
Think scaffolding is used only to access an outside? Think again. Here, scaffolding boards regenerated and steel pipes were used to do an industrial style table. There is evidence that most simple building can seem attractive when redirected inside the house.
Think scaffolding is used only to access an outside? Think again. Here, scaffolding boards regenerated and steel pipes were used to do an industrial style table. There is evidence that most simple building can seem attractive when redirected inside the house.
Whitney Lyons
Recycle glass
This could quite possibly be the clever idea ever to recycle glass bottles. When the owner of the house found old beer and empty wine on the property during the reconstruction, it was cut with a wet saw, and added wiring and bulbs strung to make an original luster.
TELL US ...
Have you reuse or upcycle items often? Share a photo of your most successful efforts in the comments below.
This could quite possibly be the clever idea ever to recycle glass bottles. When the owner of the house found old beer and empty wine on the property during the reconstruction, it was cut with a wet saw, and added wiring and bulbs strung to make an original luster.
TELL US ...
Have you reuse or upcycle items often? Share a photo of your most successful efforts in the comments below.