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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Do you refashion old things into new things?
I've attempted to make new clothes out of old ones. Like altering old tshirts into something more jazzy. I've seen old pipes made into planter racks. 
What do you make? Or if you're shit at crafts like me, what cool ideas have you seen that you *wish* you could make? 
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Mr N is champion reuser. My greenhouse has shelves in it that were previously our front door  . The glass has been removed and replaced with some metal grid from some old industrial thing (goodness only knows what) that holds seed trays in the spring and allows water to drain through on to seed trays underneath thereby not wasting any. They then lift out so that tomatoes can be grown on the lowest shelf up through the higher ones. He's a genius!
I upcycle clothes with varying degrees of success |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I made an arcade machine using an old computer. The frame was made from some old bits of wood, the screen is from a recycled monitor.
The only thing I had to buy was the buttons and joystick. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Someone I went to school with does it a fair bit and he’s made some really good stuff.
I was reading about some running shoes earlier and the company makes them using two materials - plastic bottles fished out of the sea and a type of algae.
Adidas are also using ocean plastic in some of their shoes.
There is hope yet |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Ive just demolished two beds
One wardrobe
A chest of drawers
and made a pefectly usable pallet."
Now that I could manage. I've built a bonfire before. |
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Upcyling.
I love it.
Old pallets into plant boarders, raised vegetable beds,plant stand.
Take in old clothes.
Smash up old crockery and use in mosaics.
Tree stump, drilled out and hollowed made into a planter.
Jeans sewn into a peg bag.
I could go on all night
Ss
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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago
Northampton Somewhere |
I'm really crap at that sort of thing. I wish I could be like my friend....she made a fire pit out of an old washing machine drum. The bottom was one those big bowl things from a playground she saw in a skip.
It's amazing and she can move it around as well.
Don't be like me, be like Tina!!! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
I'm useless but my sister wombles around finding things thrown out by others and turning them into things.
I love watching Money For Nothing. I can't believe what some people will pay for some very niche designs.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Through my work I've worked on projects that upcycle shipping containers into IT classrooms, which are then sent to schools in Africa. "
Now that is really awesome!! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I'm useless but my sister wombles around finding things thrown out by others and turning them into things.
I love watching Money For Nothing. I can't believe what some people will pay for some very niche designs.
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Camden market has some brilliant jewellery made from old watches, bits of wood, Lego, anything you can think of. |
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