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Local Upcycling Advocates Featured at Philly Home Show
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 ›