The ubiquitous "green" call us not to throw away everything without parsing. Careful attitude towards the environment and recycling is an urgent topic of media.
We also do not want to stay aside and offer five funny ideas, just just and cheap creating new, beautiful, practical, and most importantly - original additions to your interior.
All - from the lamp to the table - the result of fiction and some skill
Cardboard lamp
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For the manufacture of this desktop lamp, we need ribbed packing cardboard, as well as wooden sticks with a diameter of 0.4 cm and 80 cm long. First, there are small slots on the cardboard sheet, having them in a checker order. Next, the sheet is folded into the tube and carefully fixed, after which the sticks insert into the slits. Making the decorative effect of "weaving", simultaneously serve as legs. Such a lamp will be suitable for the interior, resolved in Japanese style.
Table of jacket
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Previously, the wonderful Spanish wine was kept in these boxes. It should be noted that in the fortress they completely corresponded to the contents of bottles. It was a pity to throw out such a good, so built a convenient and unusual coffee table. Four boxes were painted in delicate pastel, close to the range of tones and screwed up furniture wheels. The tables were filled with light sea sand and sinks of different sizes. From above, licked square thick glass (1 × 1 m), which were enedged for safety. Making the decorative effect of "weaving", simultaneously serve as legs. Such a lamp will be suitable for the interior, resolved in Japanese style.
Table lamp of thermos
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Who has never broken the flask of thermos? In order not to throw it out its body on the garbage, we suggest remove fragments, then make a hole in the bottom for the wire, and in the neck to strengthen the bulb cartridge. If the creative gust does not run out, you can paint the transformed thermos with paints, and the original base for the desk lamp will be. Complete the design of the appropriate lampshade of fabric, for example, into a cell.
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We continue oriental theme. Such a ottoman can be decorated with your living room. Two wooden lattices turned into a comfortable stand for the mattress. First, the tree must be treated with emery paper, and then paint in any color depending on the overall coloring interior solution. We chose cream. The mattress is covered with an orange cloth of textural weave. Pillows and stylish accessories are chosen to the bedspread.
Eaves for curtains
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Simple and ingenious. The second such carnis is certainly not anyone. It is not clear, however, where these wooden sticks came from ... You should not throw them away yet, but you need to paint into bright colors and tie a ribbon, for example, yellow. Next, you need to strengthen two wooden holder on the wall, insert the sticks in their holes, and the cornice is ready. It remains to hang a suitable curtain.
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