Recycled Tables – What’s Hot and What’s Not in Recycled Tables
Recycling is the practice of recovering scrap or waste plastics, wood and other material and reprocessing it into functional products, sometimes totally different in form from their original states. For example, this could mean melting down soda bottles and turning them into recycled tables and chairs for your patio. Here’s a quick update on what’s hot and what’s not in the world of recycled tables.
What’s hot:
- TV Tables. If you have any television tables in your home you may want to think about recycling them. You can repaint them and use the recycled tables for other purposes such as bookshelves or patio furniture. Remove the nails and use the wood to make headboards or doors. You can also donate your TV tables to thrift stores, a senior living home or an orphanage.
- Old wooden kitchen tables. Why not consider recycling your old dining table into a more serviceable piece, especially if they no longer blend with your interior decoration or you think they’re too far-gone to be of use? They can easily be transformed with a lick of paint or a new top cover and the recycled tables used in several new and practical ways.
- Old car hoods. The sheet metal hoods of junkyard cars can make some amazing recycled tables. Some furniture makers even leave in the rust marks, simply cleaning and buffing the old car hood and then clear coating it to make some truly exceptional tables that can qualify as works of art.
What’s Not
- Discarded bicycle wheels. This approach takes four wheels: three without spokes and one with spokes (with a glass or plastic covering) to act as tabletop.
- Old skateboards. The skateboards are attached without wheels to a sawhorse upside down in a row.
- Wooden wire spools. Some people simply paint the spool and use it as a table.