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How can you use old clothes in the interior?

Time goes by, fashion changes, clothes become outdated, sometimes torn, stains, spools form, or simply no longer worn.
What to do? How to apply? New ideas for using unnecessary clothes in our article.

Cleaning of the apartment.

The most popular use of old clothes among the average family is to use them when cleaning the apartment. There is no need to spend the family budget on the purchase of rags when they are always available.

We cut the old T-shirt, T-shirt into pieces and clean up the apartment: wash windows, remove dust from bookshelves, monitor or TV, remove dust from furniture, wipe the table with a rag, glass in the car or hands after contamination.

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From old clothes you can cut rags for cleaning

If repairs are planned in the apartment or are already underway, then small woven products will also not interfere. When wallpaper is glued, the hands are constantly in glue. When the wallpaper is glued to the wall, smooth it out, excess glue comes out, remove it with a rag.

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Rags from old clothes will be needed when wallpapering

If you have a country house and there is sports equipment on the site, then you can wipe the dust with a rag. For example, you have a table tennis table. The weather conditions on the street are different, mostly there is always dust on the table and before the start of the game, it is better to wipe the table with a damp cloth.

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Garland.

Usually, garlands decorate the room for the mother's discharge from the hospital, children's birthday, anniversary, wedding, new year, February 18 or September 1.

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A garland of old clothes will decorate any holiday

They decorate not only the room in the apartment, but also decorate the entrance, office space, cafes, shop windows and hotels.

A garland can be made with your own hands not only from paper and cardboard, you can also make it from matter. For example, sew a garland in the form of small flags, hearts, make strips and fasten them together.

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Bright garland for decoration from old clothes

A garland is a thing for all time. After the celebration, it is put in a box or bag and cleaned until the next solemn event.

Wedding garlands are given to loved ones who are going to get married or sold on free classifieds boards.

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Textile wedding garland

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Cover for books.

If the fabric is beautifully colored, with a pattern, then you can make a cover for a book.

Not all people in public transport like to show what they are reading, but for schoolchildren it will immediately be clear that the book is on a specific subject.

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Colorful book covers can be made from old clothes.

We put the book on the material, cut off a little more. We bend the edges according to the book, sew or fix on double-sided tape.

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Clothes for children or toys.

Is there a baby in your house? Then you can remake clothes from your clothes for a baby. And also make a bandage, a hat, a scarf on your head or slippers for the house.

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Textile slippers and baby headband

You can sew clothes for baby dolls, dolls and soft toys.
Babies grow fast and need to buy clothes often. If you remake from your clothes, then there will be less money spent.

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Old clothes make beautiful dresses for dolls

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Decoration of vases and flower pots.

We decorate the window sill with beautiful and bright flower pots. To do this, you need a pot and glue. You can use Moment glue or PVA glue. We measure the required amount of material and glue it to the pot.

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Flower pots decorated with fabric

In such original pots, you can give indoor plants to relatives and friends, decorate the window of a flower shop or sell flowers in them.

The bright colors of the flower pot will attract the attention of customers more and houseplants will be bought faster.

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The process of decorating a pot

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A beautiful bag.

Why can you use a beautiful bag in life, in the interior? For example for a sachet.

A sachet is a bag of fragrances that are designed to give a good scent to the laundry basket, closet or closet, and also to repel moths.

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The sachet will give your laundry a delicate fragrance

Delicious and fragrant tea or spices are also sold in sachets. Especially on the shelves in resort towns.

The female sex can store her accessories and jewelry in small bags. You can put headphones, mobile phone charger and put in your bag or backpack.
In beautiful bags you can give gifts for the holidays, store accessories for board games: chips, a cube, an hourglass. In a lotto board game, store kegs.

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In beautiful bags you can give gifts

In branded stores, when buying, the goods are placed in a beautiful bag.

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Textile flowers.

Textile flowers are fabric flowers. How to apply flowers in the interior and life? For example, a clip for curtains in the form of a flower, a brooch for a hat or clothes in the form of flowers, a flower wreath for hair or jewelry.

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Fabric flower making

A hair wreath is often used for photo shoots, many brides wear a wreath of flowers instead of a veil.

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Floral wreath made from old clothes can be used for photo shoots

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Christmas sock.

The New Year happens every year and it is better to prepare for it in advance.
At home, you can sew a lot of Christmas socks, so that later you can put New Year's gifts or sweets for relatives and friends.
In schools, during the lesson of labor, children also make Christmas socks to fill them with sweets later.

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Traditional Christmas socks

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Toys.

Many women make toys with their own hands. The fabric is suitable for both the toys themselves and for clothes on the toy.

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Old clothes make wonderful soft toys

Often animals are made from the material: cats or dogs. Protective dolls (beregini or grains) are sewn, which protect the house from evil spirits, protect the family from the evil eye. Still such dolls for women who do not have children, they “bring” a long-awaited baby to a woman.

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Pillow.

An interesting and practical use of old clothes is a pillow. It is sewn easily, it is enough to have material, cotton wool or synthetic winterizer. You can sew it by hand or on a sewing machine.

The pillow can be used in the car, swing, porch, sofa or bed.

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Converting old clothes into pillows

Before the heat sets in, you can use a pillow for children to swing them on a swing in the yard.

You can make a classic pillow, a baby pillow, a maternity pillow, or a pillow with compartments to store magazines and a TV remote control.

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Pillows from old jeans

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Arrange a box.

At home, they store in large cardboard boxes: shoes, New Year's toys and decorations, fabric, everything for creativity, photo albums and other things.

Small or medium sized boxes can be used to store small accessories, office supplies, and also to give gifts.

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Cloth can be used to decorate a gift box

You can decorate the box with fabric to make it bright and beautiful. It is enough to have glue and material. We glue the entire box, fold the excess fabric inside the box or cut it off. This creative process takes about 5 minutes, and beauty is for all time.

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Bag.

A practical use of old things is to sew a bag out of them. Bags are different: for the beach, going to the store (so as not to buy bags that can tear), small bags for children, a bag for mom, flowers, a laptop, a camera, a scooter.

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Original bag from an old sweater

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Furniture decor.

Small pieces of fabric can be used to decorate furniture. For example, sew seat cushions on chairs for the kitchen, arrange a table lamp.

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Seat cushions for chairs made of scraps

For a kitchen set, you can sew potholders, napkins for table decoration.

If a lot of unnecessary clothes have accumulated, then you can sew a blanket using the patchwork technique.

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Cloth napkins from old clothes

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Paintings.

Pictures are painted not only with oil on canvas, but you can also make pictures from the material.

We draw a silhouette on paper, cut it out, apply it to the fabric from the back, circle it and cut it out.

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Paintings from pieces of fabric in the interior

He sticks a fabric for the background on a cardboard base, and then we stick what we would like to see in the picture: trees, a house, animals.

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Organizer.

An organizer is a device for storing something.
Organizers are different. Consider examples.

Travel organizer (or holder).

It looks like a wallet. It contains all the documents that are necessary for the trip. Thus, all documents are in one place.

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Convenient holder will come in handy when traveling

Room organizer.

The organizer can be for storing stationery, for storing hosiery, underwear or magazines.
The organizer can be for a bathroom or a corridor so that all things are in their place.

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Bathroom Organizer

The organizer can be for bags and a backpack.

The organizer can resemble a cosmetic bag or a rectangle with rubber bands. It helps to put things in order in the bag and every thing has its place.

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Example of a bag organizer

The organizer can be in the form of pockets.

Such organizers are often used in the garden, children's rooms, hung outside the door.

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Functional organizer for children's toys

On sale a huge number of different types and different textures. With organizers, all things are stored in their places, and most importantly, order.

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Development mats.

At the birth of a baby, they often buy developing rugs or make them with their own hands. Such rugs develop visual memory, fine motor skills of the baby and tame the baby to independence.

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Developing rug can be sewn from pieces of old clothes

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