Happy Earth Day everyone. Here is part 2 of our wonderful overview of 50+ Great Recycled Crafts for Earth Day Ideas to make! Hope you enjoyed part 1, the recycled craft ideas for desk accessories.
Today, we want to show you Unique Furniture * Home Decorations from Recycled Materials. Both these articles are part of this series '50+ cool recycled crafts for Earth Day'. This site, Fine Craft Guild, is already full of recycled craft tutorials, but adding 50+ seems like the right thing to do to celebrate Earth Day. After all, we have only 1 Mother Earth!
Unique Furniture & Home Decorations
From Recycled Materials
01 Large Storage Box from Recycled Magazines
Used to be at lifewithliane at blogspot.
How To Make Recycled Paper covered Storage Boxes
1. Find a box that is the right size for your storage needs.
2. Cut off the top flaps
3. Line box inside and the edges of the box outside with pretty craft or lining paper
4. Roll many recycled magazine pages around a knitting needle to create rolls that nice and tight
5. Glue the end or each roll before removing from the needle.
6. Before you start attaching your rolls onto your box, look at their colors and sizes vs. the size of the box and create a bit of a pattern with your reeds.
7. With a hot gun / paper glue to attach the magazine rolls onto box. Do a side at the time. Allow ample drying time.
8. Cover with a coat of diluted glue or varnish.
02 Mirror Frame from Recycled Magazines
This mirror used to be for sale at Urban Outfitters. Now you get to DIY (they are no longer for sale). Found via https://www.refashinoso.com, who's have been too busy for blogging, since 2010, possibly making recycling art instead. (smiles)
03 Poof Made from Recycled Sunday Papers (Free Tutorial)
By Stovell Design. It takes an artist to come up with this. But the instructions are easy & detailed enough for the rest of us to be able to follow and make one or a couple of these poofs just like them. Need a crochet pillow on top, I believe, but other than that, quite handy. Sign up for our newsletter (no Hotmail/Aol accounts!), and you'll get a copy of the plans, free. Sign-up form is top right of this page.
04 Paper Rose Wreaths
05 Cascading Water Bottles Lamp
Learn more about Cascading Lamps from Recycled Plastic Water Bottles.
6 Recycled Baby Food Jar Chandelier (free tutorial)
By Natural Home
07 Recycled sweater lamp shade
Learn how to make a Lamp Shade from Recycled Wool Sweater
08. Record turned Wall Clock
09 Picture Frame from CD Jewel Cases
By Jenn Wa
10 Recycled Credit Card Frame
Learn how to make this Mosaic from Recycled Credit Cards Becomes Mirror Frame.
11 Outgrown Favorite Dresses Repurposed as Kid Room Curtains
50+ Cool Recycled Crafts
Hope you’ll enjoy these and the other recycled crafts ideas & tutorials in this series:
- 1. Recycled Craft Ideas for Desk Accessories
- 2. Unique Furniture and Home Decorations Made from Recycled Materials
- 3. Recycled Crafts for Kids
- 4. Personal Accessories Made with Recyclables
- 5. Recycled Garden Crafts.
First published on April 22m, 2010. Updated 2024.
