Upcycle stylists and decorators, such as Ambler's the Painted Home owner Denise Sabia and Dana Marston, owner of Circa Dee in Worcester, show how a little creativity on a little budget can make make homes come to life.
Imagine walking into someone’s room, and the first thing that you see is a hanging lamp made from the northern hemisphere of a former desk globe. “I want to push the limits,” Denise Sabia, owner of The Painted Home, a decoration and design business, said. “And then, I want to push it a few steps further. Sabia, who is abundantly cheerful and energetic, is also overflowing with decoration ideas for folks on a budget. She focuses her decoration techniques on the growing idea of “Upcycling,” or repurposing household, and sometimes not-so-household items, as in creating a stool from the metal casing of an industrial-sized fire alarm. “I want people to think, ‘Look what I made, it’s crazy,’” Sabia said. “And, it’s even crazier that you made it…
Lesley Haas
4:36 pm on Saturday, February 2, 2013
Yes indeed, my Papered Black & White mirror is among the pieces transformed in the 2013 Habitat for Humanity Upcycle Challenge!! Lesley Haas www.lesleyhaas.com https://www.facebook.com/homeandgardenevents?v=app_105624096285706&app_data=gaReferrerOverride%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.facebook.com%252F more ›