From Trash to Treasure: 50 DIY Projects to Transform Something Useless Into Something Useful: DIY Hacks

By Jean Rodgers

Have you ever considered how much your old items might value?

As you’re reading this, you probably might say to yourself: “Yeah, right! I have tons of clutter. What am I supposed to do with it?” The answer to that question is actually really simple. All you need is a plan. Clean. Take out the clutter. Organize it and decide what can be used further on. Leave the rest to your imagination. Or take a quick look over the tips and tricks this book has to offer. You might be surprised.

Old items can hold a great value if you know how to emphasize their essence. In order for this to happen, you need a few skills, patience, time and imagination. And a starter, meaning this book, in our case.

Inside you will learn:

• What Reusing Means
• What Are The Benefits Of Such An Action
• How To Lift Up Your Garden’s Spirit
• A Few Tricks To Redecorate Your Favorite Indoor Spaces
• Stand out using handmade jewelry
• How To Have Fun With Your Wardrobe
• How To Make Your Own Dairy Products
• How To Clean Your House With Homemade Solutions
• How To Create Unconventional Gifts
• How To Manufacture Christmas Decorations

These are basic tricks. Something to get you started. A book for beginners, if you wish. Once you discover how enjoyable these activities are, your thirst for knowledge will know no limits, as you will be tempted to search for more and more ideas, until you reach that point when your creativity will take over completely and you will start innovating items yourself.

Wait no more. Take the knowledge with you and make your spare time your favorite part of the day.

The more you wait, the more you lose. Start making a change in your life. Download this book now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Guava Books
• Release date: Jan 24, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386134848

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Introduction

The consumerist society in which we are living today rarely provides any custom-made or personalized products. It’s easier to manufacture mass-production items from so many perspectives. First of all, the amount of time spent on creating a product is reduced considerably. Then, the human resources are easy to find and cheap to maintain. Therefore, the whole energy wasted on manufacturing an item is reduced significantly.

Whenever going into a shopping center, we stumble upon people always searching for that perfect product they never seem to find. It is a sad perspective, but then again, this is one aspect of today’s reality. Mass-production items are all the same, even if they might appear different at a first sight.

This is one of the reasons for which more and more people reach out to their creativity and ability to improvise. They long for that feeling of uniqueness, of knowing that the things they own can’t be found anywhere else. And not even that. They want their things to be soaked into their personality and reflect it as it is. They want something distinctive, something bold, something different.

And here is where the art of handcrafting enters the scene: the homemade recipes, the reused materials converted into delicate and delightful pieces of art, all Do It Yourself projects. They are a way of releasing stress, of getting to know yourself better and, why not, a new manner of undertaking group activities with your friends and family. It is, nonetheless, a great way to strengthen your relationships with your loved ones.

Every time you decide to clean up your entire house and search every single corner of it, you end up discovering all sorts of things that you probably forgot about or don’t even remember having them. They are usually located in a remote area, stuffed in a place where no one ever enters. After you wake up with this pile of apparent garbage, the first thing that comes to your mind is to throw it away. It’s easier and faster and probably your trash services will be more than happy to help you out. But there is so much you could do with those