Recycled Redeccorating

Recycling doesn't have to stop at glass, plastic, or cans. Take into consideration that things that can be reused get thrown away ALL the time. One person's trash is another's treasure, right? When renovating your home, you can use lots of recycled products to make your shabby house chic. Here are some ideas to turn your renovation quest into a recycling bonanza.

Antique stores, flea markets, and yard sales often have old cabinets, furniture, and recycled wood that you can reuse. Sand down, resurface, and stain cabinets to make them look like new. Cover an old armoire door with plastic and you've got yourself a ghetto-sled!

Recycled lumber can be used for a multitude of projects, including flooring, coffee tables, or wall accent pieces. Transform an old door into a headboard for your bed, or a new desk.

Plastic bottles can be recycled into an awesome light fixture. Heck, light fixtures can be recycled, rewired, and reused to give your place that vintage feel.

Use your imagination. Pretty much anything you find can be reused in some way or another. Go wild. Try turning old LPs into a fruit bowl or a room divider, use old shirts to make a quilt, or make a Devo hat out of a red bucket.

If you want to recycle and reuse materials, but aren't much of a thrift store hound, check out Habitat ReStore outlet (www.habitat.org/restores/default.aspx), which supplies reused and donated materials for renovations.