UPCYCLE!
Creating something new from what others might discard has been around for a
long time. The only new trend is what people are currently calling it.
Whether you reuse, upcycle or repurpose -
it's all the same thing. Clever,
resourceful thinking, and I love it!
My newest aquisition! An ice cream freezer that is now our display fixture for the magnetic letters...until I need it to serve ice cream...not at pberry's, at home!
This piece has been around for a while and it's one of my favorites! It's a dead roller that was used in factories to roll items off the assembly line. To me, it's a sofa table.
You can have a piece of glass cut to fit the top, but I like it just the way it is. I'm not sure you can see the bottom, but you could put a piece of wood or metal across the supports that go front to back and make a shelf! We used one of the picnic benches last holiday season to create the extra display area we needed!
And then there are our window treatments. The center fabric is a grain sack from France, and the side fabric is one from Hungary {I couldn't afford to use all from France!}. The faucet knobs are now used as fringe, and the rods are old wooden fabric bolts! I just love how these came together.
There are so many examples of repurposed / upcycled *stuff* in here, mostly in our display pieces, but don't think for a minute that I wouldn't use them at home as an accent piece! I hope this trend lasts a long time!
to be continued...
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