A Good Chick To Know
Reuse offcuts
If you’re ripping out an old kitchen, don’t automatically throw everything in the skip. Old pipework can be upcycled for brackets, while those bits of wood that have been languishing in the garage can be used as shelving.
Alternatively, if you’re installing new wooden worktops, keep the offcuts for some chunky shelving instead.
Browse ideas for styling open kitchen shelves
If you’re ripping out an old kitchen, don’t automatically throw everything in the skip. Old pipework can be upcycled for brackets, while those bits of wood that have been languishing in the garage can be used as shelving.
Alternatively, if you’re installing new wooden worktops, keep the offcuts for some chunky shelving instead.
Browse ideas for styling open kitchen shelves
Hart Design And Construction
Look to commercial salvage
For a practical island unit that should last a lifetime, an antique butcher’s block is the best choice. Paint the base unit a different colour to highlight a well-used top even more, and team with a Belfast sink for the ultimate rustic kitchen.
Look out for salvaged items from shops, restaurants and other commercial venues, too. An old baker’s cabinet with a wooden tambour door would be ideal for hiding smaller kitchen appliances, and a museum specimen cabinet would make a fantastic storage unit for herbs, spices and other smaller items.
For a practical island unit that should last a lifetime, an antique butcher’s block is the best choice. Paint the base unit a different colour to highlight a well-used top even more, and team with a Belfast sink for the ultimate rustic kitchen.
Look out for salvaged items from shops, restaurants and other commercial venues, too. An old baker’s cabinet with a wooden tambour door would be ideal for hiding smaller kitchen appliances, and a museum specimen cabinet would make a fantastic storage unit for herbs, spices and other smaller items.
kelly mcguill home
Hang onto that hamper
If Santa brought you a hamper this year, keep it to store kitchen essentials, such as tea towels and cloths, or divide the interior into segments and use it as a vegetable store.
Get more kitchen storage ideas
If Santa brought you a hamper this year, keep it to store kitchen essentials, such as tea towels and cloths, or divide the interior into segments and use it as a vegetable store.
Get more kitchen storage ideas
Raw Design
Go for industrial lights
There are lots of replicas around, but, if you can hunt them down, original factory pendant lights will really look the business.
They can be spray-painted in any colour you like for a fresh new look, but chipped paint can look great, too. Play it safe with muted greys and subtle powder pastels, or go bold with a vibrant pink or electric blue.
Closing-down restaurants are also a great source if you’re a fan of oversized lighting.
There are lots of replicas around, but, if you can hunt them down, original factory pendant lights will really look the business.
They can be spray-painted in any colour you like for a fresh new look, but chipped paint can look great, too. Play it safe with muted greys and subtle powder pastels, or go bold with a vibrant pink or electric blue.
Closing-down restaurants are also a great source if you’re a fan of oversized lighting.
Joanna Thornhill Interiors
Be creative with crates
Old wine or fruit crates are so versatile when it comes to kitchen storage. They can be freestanding, wall-mounted, stacked together to cover a whole wall, repainted or simply left as they are.
Add hooks inside (or underneath if it’s wall-mounted) to hang up your favourite pretty teacups, or take it to the next level by lining the inside with floral wallpaper.
Check out more ideas for using salvage as storage
Old wine or fruit crates are so versatile when it comes to kitchen storage. They can be freestanding, wall-mounted, stacked together to cover a whole wall, repainted or simply left as they are.
Add hooks inside (or underneath if it’s wall-mounted) to hang up your favourite pretty teacups, or take it to the next level by lining the inside with floral wallpaper.
Check out more ideas for using salvage as storage
CG&S Design-Build
Craft an alternative splashback
Think laterally when it comes to your splashback, as there are so many alternatives to ceramic tiles. This collection of corks is one quirky option, or what about bottle tops instead?
Whatever you choose – wallpaper, old magazines or sheet music could be simpler – cover with a sheet of glass cut to size so you have a wipe-clean surface.
Think laterally when it comes to your splashback, as there are so many alternatives to ceramic tiles. This collection of corks is one quirky option, or what about bottle tops instead?
Whatever you choose – wallpaper, old magazines or sheet music could be simpler – cover with a sheet of glass cut to size so you have a wipe-clean surface.
Portico Design Group
Keep those old tins and jars
Before you dispose of all your tins and jars in the recycling bin, just think about how they can be reused. Galvanised plant pots are all the rage, but tin cans make equally good containers for herbs and plants in the kitchen – likewise glass jars.
If you don’t want to leave your jars or tins bare, cover the outside with pretty wrapping paper or wind around ribbons or string.
Before you dispose of all your tins and jars in the recycling bin, just think about how they can be reused. Galvanised plant pots are all the rage, but tin cans make equally good containers for herbs and plants in the kitchen – likewise glass jars.
If you don’t want to leave your jars or tins bare, cover the outside with pretty wrapping paper or wind around ribbons or string.
Joel Antunes photography
Make your own dining table
A good-quality dining table can cost thousands, but an upcycled one needn’t cost a fortune. Scour reclamation yards for an old piece of worktop, a former lab bench or even a beautiful old door. Bring in a joiner to add legs and you could have a unique new table for much less than the cost of a new one.
A good-quality dining table can cost thousands, but an upcycled one needn’t cost a fortune. Scour reclamation yards for an old piece of worktop, a former lab bench or even a beautiful old door. Bring in a joiner to add legs and you could have a unique new table for much less than the cost of a new one.
Brian O'Tuama Architects
Transform with paint
One of the key aims of upcycling is to transform something for as little money as possible – and repainting existing units certainly ticks that box. A simple paint job can effectively give you an entirely new look, sometimes for less than £100.
Why not pick three shades of the same colour to create an on-trend ombre effect? Then team with a few accessories in a contrasting colour. Add reclaimed handles to complete the look.
TELL US…
Are you a keen upcycler? Please share tips and photos of your projects in the Comments below.
One of the key aims of upcycling is to transform something for as little money as possible – and repainting existing units certainly ticks that box. A simple paint job can effectively give you an entirely new look, sometimes for less than £100.
Why not pick three shades of the same colour to create an on-trend ombre effect? Then team with a few accessories in a contrasting colour. Add reclaimed handles to complete the look.
TELL US…
Are you a keen upcycler? Please share tips and photos of your projects in the Comments below.
http://www.houzz.co.uk/photos/kitchen
0 Komentar