When you’re planning to remodel your bathroom or kitchen, you can count on Alair Homes Regina for beautiful renovations that improve your home’s value while making your vision for your space come to life. Of course, there’s always the question about what you can do with the items that you remove, particularly bathroom and kitchen fixtures. Remodeling will likely leave you with a horde of discarded fixtures and appliances. Rather than sending them off to the junkyard or landfill, why not give these items new life elsewhere in your home or garden?
Here are some fun and creative ways to recycle, or “upcycle,” your outdated fixtures.
Turn your faucet into decorative hooks
Water faucet knobs and faucets can quickly become a functional accessory in your bathroom or hallway with very little work. After you upgrade to a new faucet, reinstall the old faucet or just the handles on a flat plank of wood to create your own upcycled hooks. You can leave the faucet or knobs as-is, worn patina and all, or you can spray paint them to match their new home.
Old kitchen sink? Now it’s an outdoor utility sink
Repurpose an old or dented kitchen sink by building your own outdoor utility sink. You can install your old sink in scrap lumber that’s built into a simple base or install the sink into the top of a rain barrel. If you’re remodeling your kitchen and replacing the countertops, you can even save a section of cabinet to go with the sink. If you only want a sink for rinsing tools, hands, and flower pots, you can use your garden hose as the water source and route the drain into your yard drainage pipe or have it collect in a bucket to water plants.
Transform a bathtub into a beautiful planter
A leaking or chipped bathtub certainly has no more use in the bathroom, but that doesn’t mean you can’t give it a new life. Cast iron or porcelain tubs make fun and easy planters and yard decorations with little effort. You can leave the tub as-is and fill it with dirt and flowers, vegetables, and herbs, or you can paint it to better match your backyard design.
Create a bird bath with your vessel sink
Replacing a vessel sink in your bathroom? Turn the sink into a birdbath with little effort. All you need to do is plug the drain, attach the sink to a post or railing, and fill it with pebbles or seashells that allow the birds to stand in the water while they grab a quick drink or clean up.
Donate to a reclamation store
If you don’t want to put much work into upcycling your items yourself, donate them to a reclamation store in Regina. You’ll save time and money on disposing of the items yourself, and you’ll avoid contributing to the landfill.