Eco Deco

Make the most of your waste materials by transforming them into practical, reusable home accessories. This guide shows you where to find the best sources of materials to recycle and how to alter them to suit your needs to create pieces of art, furniture, soft furnishings and home decoration.

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"Eco Deco" blends the recycling ethic with a stylish perspective. A book that aims to encourage you to take a stroll around life's back door and examine the everyday junk and waste that we trash, bury and burn every day. Use it to design new objects, working with waste materials that started out life as something different. Pieces of art, furniture, soft furnishings and home decoration can all be made with ingenuity and inventiveness. The book traces the origins of using recycled materials in interiors, exteriors and in art and crafts. Many materials are easily found and are inexpensive and abundant, such as driftwood, broken china and old clothes, or they can be collected, such as tins, scrap metal, plastic or rubber.