FabSwingers.com forum: Making new stuff out of old stuff

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Do you refashion old things into new things?

I've attempted to make new clothes out of old ones. Like altering old tshirts into something more jazzy. I've seen old pipes made into planter racks.

What do you make? Or if you're shit at crafts like me, what cool ideas have you seen that you *wish* you could make?

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By *r Man.Man
over a year ago

London

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Don't most woman sit in front of the mirror and do this every morning

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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Don't most woman sit in front of the mirror and do this every morning

I make old stuff into old stuff.

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By *ocks99Man
over a year ago

Reading

A freegler here, repurposing things. A washing machine drum into a patio heater is coming through soon....

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

I've refaced the cupboards and drawers in my campervan with old denim from jeans

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

Mr N is champion reuser. My greenhouse has shelves in it that were previously our front door

. The glass has been removed and replaced with some metal grid from some old industrial thing (goodness only knows what) that holds seed trays in the spring and allows water to drain through on to seed trays underneath thereby not wasting any. They then lift out so that tomatoes can be grown on the lowest shelf up through the higher ones. He's a genius!

I upcycle clothes with varying degrees of success

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By *uciyassMan
over a year ago

sheffield

I love a bit of this especially with old furniture Turning it into wonderful stuff. Recently turned an old sideboard into a garden potting table and tomato plant tray.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

A lot of good ideas.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lacey fashioned a baby out of some semen I deposited into her 9 months earlier... twice !

She’s a genius

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I made an arcade machine using an old computer. The frame was made from some old bits of wood, the screen is from a recycled monitor.

The only thing I had to buy was the buttons and joystick.

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

"Lacey fashioned a baby out of some semen I deposited into her 9 months earlier... twice !

She’s a genius "

Love that x

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By *istalloverCouple
over a year ago

Pays de la Loire -Normandie -Brittany borderFrance

Ive just demolished two beds

One wardrobe

A chest of drawers

and made a pefectly usable pallet.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Someone I went to school with does it a fair bit and he’s made some really good stuff.

I was reading about some running shoes earlier and the company makes them using two materials - plastic bottles fished out of the sea and a type of algae.

Adidas are also using ocean plastic in some of their shoes.

There is hope yet

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Ive just demolished two beds

One wardrobe

A chest of drawers

and made a pefectly usable pallet."

Now that I could manage. I've built a bonfire before.

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By *exyspecs and supermanCouple
over a year ago

A house, a very big house in the country

Upcyling.

I love it.

Old pallets into plant boarders, raised vegetable beds,plant stand.

Take in old clothes.

Smash up old crockery and use in mosaics.

Tree stump, drilled out and hollowed made into a planter.

Jeans sewn into a peg bag.

I could go on all night

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lacey fashioned a baby out of some semen I deposited into her 9 months earlier... twice !

She’s a genius "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm currently in the middle of turning a v6 engine into a coffee table

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Through my work I've worked on projects that upcycle shipping containers into IT classrooms, which are then sent to schools in Africa.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I Tot quite a lot ... re vamping salvaged stuff and moving it on .. I hate the waste of modern society Xx

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

I'm really crap at that sort of thing. I wish I could be like my friend....she made a fire pit out of an old washing machine drum. The bottom was one those big bowl things from a playground she saw in a skip.

It's amazing and she can move it around as well.

Don't be like me, be like Tina!!!

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By *rontier PsychiatristMan
over a year ago

Coventry

I have a garage full of 'recused items that I will one day make somethings awesome out of.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I'm useless but my sister wombles around finding things thrown out by others and turning them into things.

I love watching Money For Nothing. I can't believe what some people will pay for some very niche designs.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Through my work I've worked on projects that upcycle shipping containers into IT classrooms, which are then sent to schools in Africa. "

Now that is really awesome!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I'm useless but my sister wombles around finding things thrown out by others and turning them into things.

I love watching Money For Nothing. I can't believe what some people will pay for some very niche designs.

Camden market has some brilliant jewellery made from old watches, bits of wood, Lego, anything you can think of.

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By *ighland gentlemanMan
over a year ago

Ardgay

Picture frames from drift wood, garden furniture from salvaged wood, shelves from other furniture, coldframe from a damaged greenhouse, garden planters from salvaged wood.

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By *ighland gentlemanMan
over a year ago

Ardgay

Sea glass into jewellery.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Sea glass into jewellery.

I buy greetings cards with clever pictures incorporating sea glass.

I'm basically the market for a lot of odds and sods people find and remake.

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