{"id":216615,"date":"2012-05-07T17:58:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/10-good-ideas-for-recycling-furniture"},"modified":"2025-01-28T09:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T08:34:32","slug":"10-good-ideas-for-recycling-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/en\/10-good-ideas-for-recycling-furniture","title":{"rendered":"10 good ideas for recycling furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we said at the beginning of the year, in the 2012 decorating trends, the <strong>recycling of worn furniture<\/strong> or objects that were not born as furniture to be furniture is one of the protagonists. We keep coming across amazing proposals to recover, resurrect and reincarnate all kinds of materials and fixtures in very functional elements that also bring <strong>a touch of naturalness and modernity to our homes<\/strong> (and why not, also to our entertainment venues), which sometimes fits perfectly with a chill out decoration.<\/p>\n<p>We will select <strong>10 of these proposals and comment on them<\/strong>, but you can add as many as you want by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong><br \/>\n  <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Table soccer rods<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>perfect for hanging towels or curtains. Why not? A way to recycle especially recommended for soccer fans, all those who buy a Fiaka Pelota with the colors of their team.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-537 size-medium\" title=\"table soccer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/futbolin.jpg\" alt=\"Table soccer table bar recycle furniture\" width=\"566\" height=\"374\"><\/p>\n<p>2. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n  <strong>Lamps<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span> with small elements outside of lighting, like this test tube lamp that we saw in Decoesfera via Vintage and Chic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-538 size-medium\" title=\"lamp-recycling\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lampara-reciclaje.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage test tube lamp\" width=\"566\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\n<p>3. Never throw away <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n  <strong>glass jars<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span>! They can be used for many things, from organizing ingredients in the kitchen to flower pots. There are <strong>several ways to decorate them<\/strong>, and if you are not very handy with paint you can choose to line them with colored thread, as we saw in Decoratrix.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-539 size-medium\" title=\"jars and poufs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tarros.jpg\" alt=\"jars and poufs\" width=\"447\" height=\"600\"><\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>Recycling with poufs<\/strong>. We, who <a title=\"Poufs and chill out decoration\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/en\/puffs-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manufacture poufs<\/a> of all sizes and sizes, sometimes have curious ideas to turn them into other things. On the Internet we found, for example, a way to <strong>convert soft round poufs in a rigid and original with an old washing machine drum<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-541 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Round poufs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pouf-tambour-inox-machine.jpg\" alt=\"round poufs\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/p>\n<p>5. Or this image of some furniture that is not recycled, which inspires us the possibility of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n  <strong>to take advantage of four legs of an old chair<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span> and with tools and some DIY skills, turn the rigid, low round poufs into something taller to sit on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-542 size-medium\" title=\"poufs-round-legs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pufs-patas.jpg\" alt=\"round poufs with legs\" width=\"566\" height=\"298\"><\/p>\n<p>6. If we abandon <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n  <strong>the skateboard<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span>we can immortalize it as a support table. We loved the idea, even though we know it might hurt a good skateboarder&#8217;s sensibilities (skate or die!). Via interiorholic.com.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-543 size-medium\" title=\"skates-tables\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skates.jpg\" alt=\"recycling tables with skateboards\" width=\"566\" height=\"318\"><\/p>\n<p>7. If you are going to take a simple, antique wooden piece of furniture and give it a coat of paint. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n  <strong>and give it a coat of paint<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span> to rejuvenate it, follow the steps outlined at Designsponge.com. The result is spectacular!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-544 size-medium\" title=\"Chair painted in blue with aerosol technique\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bluechair.jpg\" alt=\"Recycled blue chair\" width=\"390\" height=\"600\"><\/p>\n<p>8. New face for the poufs. You <strong>may not need new poufs, just a new finish<\/strong>. By buying poufs stuffing and working with a wool cover (via Casasugar.com), elastic fabric or rubber, we can extend the life of our poufs and introduce fun. If we have several, how about each with a different material and color?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-549 size-thumbnail\" title=\"wool-puff\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lana-puff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/p>\n<p>9. Do you have a good, lush forest nearby where you can look for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n  <strong>four large branches<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span>? This may seem difficult and laborious, but the result is like a movie. We are still in awe. Via Curiousphotos.blogspot.com<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-550 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Bed with branch structure\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ramas.jpg\" alt=\"Bed with branches\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/p>\n<p>10. We have spent all this top ten trying to avoid <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n  <strong>the famous example of the wooden pallet turned into a sofa or table structure.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span> sofa or table structure. But well, we can&#8217;t avoid it anymore. There goes one!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-552 size-thumbnail\" title=\"pallet-diy-recycling\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/palet.jpg\" alt=\"Recycling a pallet as a DIY table\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recycling furniture and objects goes far beyond an economic issue. Sometimes refurbishing or recycling can even be more expensive than buying. But it is one of the key decorative trends of 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15717,"featured_media":206974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9918,9926,9914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crafts-for-decoration","category-diy-en","category-pallet-furniture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiaka.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}