Hope!! How To Upcycle Thrift Store Finds Into Trendy Dwelling Decor
In my concluding post service I shared some tips for shopping thrift shops. Now I'm going to percentage amongst you lot around items commonly constitute at thrift shops that are non bad for upcycling into swanky domicile decor together with crafts. These items are non bad because non solely are they inexpensive, but they are rattling much inwards agency equally electrical current domicile decor. Check it out!
What should you lot travel looking for correct now?
I e'er run into lots of silver-plated trays together with platters when I travel thrifting, together with they're unremarkably inexpensively priced from nigh $1 to $5 each. The neat thing nigh these trays is that they come upward inwards dissimilar shapes together with sizes, together with around accept pretty engraving or ornate edging on them.
What to practise amongst them? Hang them on a wall equally you lot would china plates, making a display that industrial plant good non solely inwards a dining room but throughout the home. (Click hither for to a greater extent than wall-display grouping ideas)

Pretty wall display

Wreath made from argent platters image from Bees Knees Bungalow
2) Vintage Scarves
Sometimes sold past times the bag-full, vintage scarves are abundant at thrift shops together with also cost side past times side to nothing. They come upward inwards a broad make of colors together with patterns, together with then they are non bad for repurposing together with upcycling. Vintage hankies are non bad for repurposing too, but they tin travel a chip to a greater extent than hard to honor than scarves.
What to practise amongst them? Frame them equally art, stitch them together to practise a unique curtain, or utilization them to encompass throw pillows.
(Click hither for fifty-fifty to a greater extent than ideas on how to utilization scarves together with vintage hankies.)
Curtain made from vintage scarvesvintageisforlovers.com
I e'er banking enterprise stand upward for out the motion painting frames at thrift shops. Pay no attending to the colors, you lot tin e'er pigment them. As a affair of fact, I merely painted a grouping of half dozen frames dark for a photograph grouping for my household unit of measurement room. Once painted, they're build new! The thing that's non bad nigh buying frames at thrift shops is that you lot tin honor a multifariousness of odd shaped together with sized frames, which are non bad non merely for photos, but also for framing artwork.
What else to practise amongst them? Replace the drinking glass amongst mirror, cork board, or pigment amongst chalkboard paint. Get the mucilage gun together with encompass them amongst twigs, body of body of water shells,rocks, or whatsoever type of small-scale constitute objects, or decoupage them amongst textile or paper. Or, utilization them as-is to practise a gallery wall of unique variety.
painted frames past times MandolinGoose via Etsy (above together with below)
Wall display of frames past times Simply sadie jane
Chalkboard frames (above together with below) by Shugabeelane via Etsy
*Check out my other spider web log post, Creative Uses For Chalkboard Paint for to a greater extent than chalkboard ideas together with a recipe for how to build your ain chalkboard paint!



Chalkboard pigment comes inwards both brush-on together with spray forms!
Chalkboard pigment comes inwards both brush-on together with spray forms!
Just similar route maps, globes travel outdated together with are replaced amongst new, upward to engagement versions. I don't run into tons of them at thrift shops but I practise come upward across them from fourth dimension to time.
What to practise amongst them? Use onetime maps for decoupage projects, together with onetime globes tin travel upcycled into pendant lamps.
Check out my previous post service on upcycling globes for a myriad of basis ideas.
Also banking enterprise stand upward for out this post service on upcycling maps together with atlases for fifty-fifty to a greater extent than ideas!
Vintage basis lamps
Chandelier made from vintage atlas pages
Vintage basis clock
Dresser decoupaged amongst maps
Mod Podge decoupage medium for decoupaging maps together with whatsoever type of paper
5) Old sweaters
With a cost average of $1 to $5 a pop, the men's cashmere sweater department inwards a thrift store is a goldmine! Not solely are these non bad to have on as-is, but these in ane lawsuit pricey luxury pieces are perfect for upcycling into novel items for yourself, your family, together with your home.
What to practise amongst them? Use them to encompass throw pillows, or endeavour your mitt at fashioning around novel accessories from them similar the ones pictured below.
With a cost average of $1 to $5 a pop, the men's cashmere sweater department inwards a thrift store is a goldmine! Not solely are these non bad to have on as-is, but these in ane lawsuit pricey luxury pieces are perfect for upcycling into novel items for yourself, your family, together with your home.
What to practise amongst them? Use them to encompass throw pillows, or endeavour your mitt at fashioning around novel accessories from them similar the ones pictured below.
Upcycled cashmere babe blanket past times Upcycled sweater pillow amongst DIY from Going a piddling coastal
Awesome & fashionable upcycled cashmere sweater hoodie wearing apparel past times darrylbalack via Etsy
Upcycled fingerless gloves past times Flowerpie via Etsy
Rose pillow from an onetime sweater (above together with below)
What practise you lot think?
What's your favorite agency to repurpose thrift store finds?
What's your favorite agency to repurpose thrift store finds?
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Laura
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Originally published Apr 19, 2012 together with updated for relevancy