5 Ideas to Repurpose Those Old Shutters

Spend some time at garage sales, flea markets, thrift stores, and antique shops, and you’ll frequently see them. They might even be accumulating dust in your garage right now. 

There are a ton of creative shutter project ideas that can help you organize and beautify your home. Shutters can be used in a wide variety of ways to decorate your home and they give a room so much personality. 

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Upcycling Projects, Fun Projects You Can Turn into Treasures

Upcycling projects is often an overlooked option or project for home decorating ideas. Reusing items to create great pieces of home decor can go a long way to creating a unique home. And you can actually save money on your home decorating budget.

The first step in upcycling is look around your home to review what you do not want to use in its true form any longer. Once you set these items aside, you then get creative to create some new decorating ideas. Using unusual items to create something new requires dipping into your creative juices.

Creativity

No creative juices you say, no worries. Research fun projects or bring in your creative friends to help you thing outside the box. Brainstorming ideas can happen over a nice bottle of wine. Try putting all the “I do not want anymore” items on a table. Then find extra items around your home and add them to the table. Now see if you can make something new and fun.

Upcycling is all about looking at something with a new perspective. This infographic can also help give you some ideas of some upcycling projects for unique home decor.  Read More


Ways to Go Green at Home Infographic

Go green at home can start with simple recycling and evolve to using renewal energy systems. Try adding run off water systems to store rain water. Once this system has gathered the water, you can use a water filtration system to use this water for drinking. Add solar panels to your home in order to gain renewal energy from the sun. Simple home maintenance tips to manage areas around the house can also help in go green initiatives. Excess paint in a house can be toxic. But removing this paint requires taking the paint to a safe disposal company that has the means to discard the paint. Here are some tips on what else you can do in your home to be environmentally conscience.

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Recycling in More Ways than One

Recycling

Spring time is upon us and spring cleaning and home projects are starting to get in full bloom. Recycling is good for the environment and is a way to pay it forward to the next generations. Recycling can start in your kitchen with simple ways of having the tools to collect the recyclable goods like plastics, aluminum and paper.  Whether your current refuse company collects the waste along with your trash or you have drop off locations for recycling, recycling these items is the simplest way to get started in this process. Read More