Upcycling Archives - Tidylife

Upcycling Competition – Benefits Of Recycling For Humanity

Antonia — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 12:54:06 +0000

Upcycling is used to describe the process of repurposing materials and products that would otherwise discard as waste. It is a form of recycling that focuses on creating new, higher-value products from existing materials. The benefits of upcycling are many and varied and include everything from reducing waste and pollution to saving energy and resources...

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Easy DIY Dupe Terracotta Pumpkin Tutorial

Antonia — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:16:24 +0000

If you have seen any of the cute terracotta pumpkins that are in the shops this season, you will have noticed the price of some of them. Not all that cheap! But they are very adorable, so I wanted to have a go at making some dupes as a budget DIY project. I picked up...

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Enhancing Wellbeing at Home with Habitat (Ad)

Antonia — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:48:05 +0000

In collaboration with Habitat I’m delighted to be partnering with Habitat on this post as part of their mental health and wellness campaign. Regular life has been put on hold and we need to take extra care of ourselves. Even though we’re going through a difficult time, there’s lots of little things we can do...

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How to Upcycle Your Garden Furniture

Antonia — Sat, 05 May 2018 01:00:00 +0000

There’s no better time to grab your paint brushes and get busy outdoors! Perhaps you have some well weathered old garden furniture you could upcycle? I was delighted to partner with wilko to show you just how easy it can be to create a bit of makeover magic. This was my winter-weary picnic table/bench. This...

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Inspiring Interiors – A Thrifty Home

Antonia — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:28:22 +0000

If you have been following here for a while, you’ll no doubt have gathered that I love a bit of upcycling and any home improvements that can be completed on a budget. So when Oak Furniture UK invited me to write a post for their blog about Inspiring Interiors, a house I had seen featured...

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Updating a Pine Wardrobe

Antonia — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:21:22 +0000

My friends know me well – when one of them spotted a wardrobe that was in need of some TLC, she immediately thought of me and got in touch. Amanda, a professional organiser and founder of Orderly Office and Home, was working with a family in my local area who had some furniture they no...

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The Waltons Playhouse Challenge: Woodland Hideaway

Antonia — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:48:22 +0000

I’ve been really excited to take part in a bloggers project recently, organised by Waltons – suppliers of a range of garden sheds, summer houses and playhouses. Waltons very kindly supplied me and four fellow bloggers with a brand new 6’ 5 x 5’ 6 Walton’s Honeypot Honeysuckle Playhouse to paint and style it any way we...

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How to personalise an old wooden crate or trug

Antonia — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:54:40 +0000

I’m not sure what you would call this old thing; I think it’s a trug and it used to live inside our Victorian ‘coffee table’ chest, but eventually ended up in the garden shed with some bits and bobs in it. So when we had a much needed ‘shed cull’ recently, it became redundant and...

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How to paint an old wardrobe

Antonia — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:11:04 +0000

Today I am able to share a few tips, having recently given an old wardrobe a new look. It was a few weeks ago when I bought it; I think it was the scroll detail at the top, the curved sides and the dinky little key in the lock that got me! With some paint...

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Wooden blanket box / toy chest – no more orange pine!

Antonia — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:15:13 +0000

In the last makeover post (transforming a vintage chest of drawers rescued from a skip), I mentioned that I had also acquired a dated pine chest and drawer unit which had been used for toy storage: Any storage is useful in my book, but I knew it would certainly benefit from a little bit of...

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