Let´s upcycle!

When I started organizing my kitchen, I realized that two cutlery dividers I had previously bought at Ikea did not fit the designated drawer. This obviously irritated me, but I decided to let it go and make use of it somewhere else in my new flat. Since I would probably not use it for cutlery, I remembered the current frenzy of upcycling.

Upcycling, according to Wikipedia is “the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value”. It clearly comes from the word recycle, but since you are upgrading its use. It then becomes upcycling.

A lot of people already do this and Pinterest is the best place to see this. It really fascinates me to see what the results are especially when it´s something I had never even thought of it.

I started to walk around my flat frenetically with the two cutlery dividers thinking of a new use and home for them and it suddenly sprung to me -my jewelry needed to be organized and I knew this was going to be perfect!

Thankfully, I had a free drawer in my bedroom where hopefully they would fit -and they did! I took all my jewelry out of the boxes they came in for the move and started to categorize them. I have a love for bangles and necklaces, so this was definitely going to be my number one priority.

I started off with the bangles and made sure that my most precious ones fit, then went onto chains, pendants and other items.

Something else I´ve seen plenty of times on Pinterest is adapting the use a kitchen roll holder. In this case, if I needed it, I would probably put some of my bangles on it like you can see from the picture below.

Now came another problem. I needed to hang my necklaces or else they would tangle up. I actually remembered I had added a hanger for a door in the guest bedroom and was not using it. I thought it would be a good idea to hang it on my bedroom door and put all my necklaces on it. I decided to color coordinate my necklaces so that it at the time of choosing one to wear it would be easier. This is how it looks...

All of you looking for better ways to maximize space look around your homes and I´m sure you´ll find things that are not being used and that could be upcycled.