One Lucky Soul: Creative Upcycled Furniture

Wednesday 28 September 2016

Creative Upcycled Furniture

Back in the days people used to fix things around the house.
They would then create new items out of the old. Not many still
do that. Now most of us find it more convenient to just buy new
stuff to replace the old. Sometimes it maybe even cheaper to do so.

However, ingenuity and creativity are contagious. So just by glancing
at others’ creations can indeed inspire us to innovate,
in this case, by upcycling our own furniture.

As previously shared in Wooden Pallets Creative Upcycling,
upcycling is a relatively new term and concept (1990).

So let me once again briefly refresh your memories regarding
the difference between it and recycling.

Recycling, as we know, is processing used materials into
new materials. Whatever we throw away in our garbage from glass,
metal, plastic, and paper is taken to recycling plants to be made
into reusable products. These products are normally of lower
quality than what they were before being recycled. The process is
not really something the average person can do themself or at home.

Upcycling, on the other hand, is defined as the process by
which waste materials or useless products are converted into new
materials or products of better quality and/ or a higher environmental
value. Unlike recycling, the material itself isn’t broken down and it
doesn’t lose its quality in upcycling; it may be reworked, reconstructed,
or used differently as in repurposed. Though the essence
of the material remains the same.

Enjoy the following kool re-designs as well as check the
Creative Bookshelves collection for more ingenuity.

Creative Upcycled Furniture by Omar Cherif, One Lucky Soul