The Art Of Up-Cycling: March 2013

Recycle Tires, Repurposed Tires, Be Inspired.

Recycle, Repurpose, Reuse Tires, in the USA there are over 290 million tires scraped each year they can be repurposed, reused and recycled. Here are some funky ways to recycle tires. Repurposing tires to create unique and functional pieces.

Christian Koban Jewelry Store, Berlin.

Images thanks to Addicted to Retail.com

Jewelry Store Displays. Christian Koban a jewelry designer based in Berlin, takes upcycling tires to the edge. He uses tires as displays, the combination of rubber, glass and lighting effects transform the look and feel of the store, contemorary and stylish.

Tire Planters
Add colour to your garden or patio area, paint and stack tires, add soil and plants.

Back Yard Empire

Spray paint tires, fill with soil and colourful flowers, hey presto, the magic arrives.....

Simple ways to transform your home with a little imagination...

Mr Kate.com

Man Cave Table.

Kaltire Pinterest

Ideas Green

Paul Sayer

Recycle Crafts, Amazing Recycle Crafts Ideas To Start Today

Recycle crafts, spend hours transforming old unwanted and unloved items. No need to go out to buy materials and crafts to make at home. You will find a treasure trove of objects at home. Once you get in the creative flow you will never be able to look at a broken or used up item again with out seeing the potential in it. Old socks, furniture, lightbulbs, tins, the list is endless of good which can be used for recycle crafts.

Like wine? good...The following will transform the way you look at a cork......

Create with cork....

3 R's Blog

Celebration Chandelier

Maybe a little more difficult to recreate this chandelier light made from champers corks.

Alkesh Parmar

Painted Stones
Add fun to the garden. Painted stones are a great way to add colour to winter gardens.

Dreaming Bear Designs

Sand Bowl

Mix sand with an adhesive and allow to drip over a bowl or solid form, really cooooollll...

Paper Roses

Beautiful twist on artificial flowers, the reason these flowers make such an impact is because they are made with love.

Freshly Found

What can be done with string.

Inflate balloons, dip string in adhesive, wrap around balloons, allow dry and let air out of balloons.

More amazing ideas at Ruffeled Blog

Paper Mache Art
Upcycle magazines, newspapers, old school books, cut or tear up pieces, mix with floor and water or wall paper paste and give an instant "facelift" to any objects.

Revamp old frames, tables, chairs, shelves, doors, the list is endless. It is one of the oldests, simplist and really effective ways to revamp objects.

Splish Splash Splatter Art

Dip the paper in floor mixture or wall paper paste, drape over bowls and allow to dry.....simple as that.
The wall paper paste usually keeps the colours of the paper used more vibrant.

Paper Mache Chair
Based on the concept of an egg, which is one of the worlds strongest froms. The chair is 18 layers of paper deep and small reinforcement pieces.

The Newspaper Chair and the Tetra Pak Lamps below are from Masif Designs.

Masif Designs

Woolie Jumpers
Forget knitting jumpers, knit lamp shades....Another way is to redesign worn out out unfashionable jumpers and create stunning shabby chic, lampshades and cussions.

Country Living

More Sweaters

Make sweater totes, simple to make, functional and an eyecatching fashion statement..

Country Living

Plastic Bags Basket.

A diy recycled craft project that will take a little but the end results are spectacular. Colourful, fun to create and use. Needle and thread, sissors, plastic bags rolled up in to cylinders and bob's your uncle.......

Luckly Ladybird Crafts

Recycling For Kids-Great Ideas for Kids To Upcycle at Home

Recycling for kids is a great way to keep them happy and busy for hours. Have fun for free, one of the best ways to entertain kids is to let there imagination run wild, boys and girls love to make and do. Kids from 2 years up love to make, draw, create.

You will be surprised the fun you will have helping kids to recycle and create.

Fun Floral Designs.
Recycle egg carton, paint, pipe cleaners, buttons and sissors are all you need to create the floral designs.

Intimiate Weddings

Upcycling For Kids In The Garden.

The is nothing like fresh air and getting dirty to get kids happy and giggly, recycling while having fun, great, kill two birds with one stone.

Recycling Milk Cartons

Every day items can be turned in to useful tools, create an aerodynamic garden shovel with a transform milk carton. Can be used for soil, fertiliser, dog food, the options are endless.

Create individual green houses using plastic bottles.

Lettuce In Can...If you have not got a lot of space you can still grow and recycle with kids, growing plants in recycled tin can will add fun and adverture to window, porch and patio areas.

Protect young plants with toilet roll holders, snazzy and simple

Plastic bottles, old cds and string keep unwanted pests away.

Gap Photos

Repurpose Pasta Pieces.

Blogs Babble have taken recycling to a new level, the innovative ideas took unusual objects in to fun upcycling projects to keep kids and their creative parents and minders happy for hours.

Turn cardboard boxes to castles, forts and magical houses. Kids love bring their imagination to life, easy to do. Fun to create and play with when upcycled.

Old Drawers Transformed

Great idea, turning old drawers in to fab fun dolls houses.

Blogs Babble

Upcycle papers and magazines.

All you need is glue, sissors, papers to upcycle and kids (optional). You know your self it can be very addictive making stuff, although the idea is to get the kids involved sometimes it can be difficult to hand over the reigns. Some ideas to inspire.

Upcycled Magazine Bin.

Craftster

Newspaper Planter

Collect out of date magazines and papers from newsagents, look up origami instructions and get busy.

Paint or leave as original, perfect for rainy afternoons to keep all happy.

Home Made Simple.

Tin Can Tranformations Illumations.

Add a few holes, paint and a handle to reinvent a tin of beans into beautiful and magical lanterns.

Grow Creative

Upcycling Cutlery Ideas - Repurposed - Upcycled - Unbelievable

Want upcycling cutlery ideas that will make you want to empty out those kitchen drawers and start creating. Checkout flea markets, charity stores and flea markets to find miss/matched pieces and make great conversation pieces for your home, make gifts and or start your own home based business.

The Cutlery Chair.
Probably not the easiest of ideas to create at home but it does open our minds to the possibilities of what we can create when see past what is and allow our imaginations to flow. Oisin Batyka Williams designer, teacher and visionary can transform every day items and create a more beautiful world to live in.

Osian Batyka Williams

Funky Style.
There is a story attached to the following picture, a few years ago I was on holiday in New York, and yes it was fab. My delima was to find something made in NY to bring home, I could not find any thing that did not cost an arm and leg. Eventually I found this frame which I have to admit was worth the wait. Since then I have fallen in love with the designs of Diane Markin, hand made in Calafornia.

Later I found a frame made with recycled New York Glass.(beautiful)
The moral of the story is "Seek and ye shall find" ;)