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"Upcycling furniture is a fantastic way of taking unused and unloved items of furniture and making them look refreshed and like a newly brought item of furniture. Upcycling is a great way of adding style and more often a theme to your home or business interior at a much lower cost than buying it"
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"It is taking a piece of furniture that is either bland and uninteresting or old and damaged and creating something beautiful with paints and fabrics. A simple coat of paint on a once tired looking table can make it look brand new again!
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"To make old furniture looking new again by doing it over properly."
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"It means to take old or broken furniture and re-furnish it, fix it up and give it a second life."
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"Upcycling Furniture: It's about taking old, wasted or broken furniture and re-purposing it."
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"Upcycling is the same process of reusing old materials but it creates something more valuable and of a higher quality"
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"Upcycling is the same process of reusing old materials, but it creates something more valuable or of a higher quality. Examples of upcycling include using materials from plastic bottles to make new shoes or reclaimed wood to make quality furniture"
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"Upcycling Furniture: It's about taking old, wasted or broken furniture and re-purposing it"
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"If you have a piece of old furniture which is broken or not in the best condition you can create a new, higher-valued item through painting, sanding etc."
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"Usually means finding old style furniture that’s unwanted and refurbing it using a range of techniques and upgraded fittings to modernise it and either get a new use out of it or sell it for a profit"
Answered on 22nd Aug 2022 - Member since Mar 2017 -
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