Latest ideas to recycle furniture and how you can decorate your home with recycled furniture

This dining room is a test of how you can decorate with recycled furniture and achieve environments with character, personality and an attractive retro-industrial aesthetic.

When the owners of this property, Peggy, architect, and her boyfriend, Bouke, a manager of corporate finance , took to finding your new home near Amsterdam, gave an old warehouse full of junk, located on the ground floor of an old building. Then they saw a unique space that could be converted into a home.

The reform lasted six months, and after much labor and a good dose of patience, the young owners got a room to suit your needs . The height of the ceilings allowed to build a loft where to locate the dormitory , and so reserve the first floor for the living room with dining area and kitchen. it's pieces recovered and recycled furniture are the stars of this house, full of light, with a contemporary and slightly industrial feel.

The sofa and ottoman in living area, modern style and clean lines, contrasting way with the old suitcases of  side tables, lamps and recycled wooden boxes as shelving practices. And that recycled stair railing for the loft?

With a pair of chairs recovered and recycled pallets for hanging potted plants. If you dare to copy this idea, be careful with protruding nails and splinters. Sand the surface well and, if you're going to place it on the outside, better to protect the wood.

I suggest : Make unusual curtain of recycled plastic bottles

Here also chose to mix  furniture recovered with current and modern pieces.  's kitchen furniture, smooth fronts without handles and bell island contrast with the aged finish worktop solid wood or stripping the cupboard , used to store the kitchenware, cookbooks and kitchen accessories. The refrigerator, in keeping with the retro feel that permeates every corner of this house, was chosen Smeg fridges those we love to replicate the look of the 50s.

Have you noticed the bed? Hard not to. It seems to be made ​​with drawers recovered from old furniture and wooden boxes . Dare to freely mix the modern with pieces rescued, recovered and recycled. Combinations that at first you think that would never work, you might be surprised and form decorations such as this Dutch home.