The sofa has lost all its curve, your bed is sagging and your dressing room is crumbling under the weight of your clothes: maybe it’s time to change your furniture, isn’t it? When you’re beyond vintage and want to spruce up your decor, it’s high time to get a new interior. It may be that your current furniture is worn out or simply that you are tired of it. In this case, what to do with your old furniture when you’ve seen enough of it, rather than throwing it away? If you want to change it, there are many possibilities. Here are a few.
1 – Personalize your furniture
Couldn’t the piece of furniture you are about to forget please you in another way? What if it could still be used by customizing it? Sometimes it only takes a small detail to make a big difference. Because the customization, there is more than that true. We hear this everywhere! Personalize your furniture, give it a unique touch: color, a new upholstery, a special accessory. The Net is full of ideas and photos for inspiration. It’s up to you to let your creativity speak. In addition, if you have the soul of a handyman, this customization activity has something entertaining. For instance :
- Give your furniture a patina look
- Repaint some of it – why not chair legs or the inside of an open piece of furniture, or even the legs of your bed?
- Modernize the handles or knobs by changing them
- Transform the seat of a straw chair with fabric
- Laying mosaic or cement tiles on a table
- Makeover a surface with slate on which you can write with chalk
- Cover your furniture with wallpaper
- Turn chairs into a bench
- Use wood from a cabinet to make a coffee table
- Make shelves from an old chest of drawers
- Use an old piece of furniture to create a central island
2 – Upgrade your furniture
Certainly it is advisable to be a little handyman to transform your furniture. But the fashion of DIY (Do It Yourself) knows such a magnitude, that you will necessarily find your happiness online. It would be a shame if your piece of furniture is of good quality and solid to part with it when all it takes is a nice transformation! And they are many. For instance :
So you have the tutorials, the explanatory videos and thanks to the magic of the Internet and perhaps the help of someone who really knows about it, you can do wonders with your old furniture.
3 – Donate your furniture
Your grandmother’s armchair in your reading corner was ideal in your old apartment, but you’re moving and don’t know where to put it now. In fact, this beautiful piece does not match the modern style of your new loft at all. In that case, give it away! Do you want to put your old furniture on the street to donate it? You’ve probably seen it before: old furniture lying around to be donated. Indeed, especially in places where there are many inhabitants, it often happens that someone passes by and seizes it. At first glance, this may seem like a brilliant and above all practical idea. But this is only possible if you place your furniture on your own land, for example in the driveway of your garage, in your garden or at the entrance to the house, subject to authorization. The easiest way is to donate your furniture to associations like Emmaüs. Some charities like these even pick up your furniture from your home. Find out! This is both good for the environment but also for the people who will have the chance to recover your furniture.
4 – Supply a recycling center or recycling center
What exactly is a resource center or a recycling center? This is a solidarity organization involved in re-employment which takes care of collecting objects and materials that you no longer want. The teams in these places are responsible for giving a second life to what you bring them that you no longer use. It’s a good way to avoid waste and an eco-responsible idea when you want a change in terms of interior decoration. Putting your furniture in a resource center or recycling center near you – there are more and more of them – rather than depositing them in a recycling center is a good way to recover old objects.
5 – Recycle your furniture
Where to put your old furniture? These do not necessarily belong in a trash can, even if they fit. After all, they often consist of valuable materials that can be processed again, at least in part. It is therefore much wiser to recycle your furniture. To do this, take them to your local recycling center or to the collection center for scrap materials, in short to a recycling center where a wide variety of waste is carefully sorted.