Recycled Furniture Ideas for Your Backyard and Dream Garden

Furnishing your backyard and creating a dream garden for yourself can be done simply by putting your old furniture to new use, i.e., recycling and reusing it. By utilising your old furniture, and in general, by reusing everything that you can inside your household and outside of it, you are creating significantly less waste and following the wiser, sustainable ways of life.

Through buying new products, new furniture and décor for your backyard and garden, especially if it is made from plastic, one of the most harmful materials for the environment, you are taking part in wasting a lot of energy that is needed for their production, wasting valuable resources and expanding the landfills.

Making good use of recycled materials and reusing your old furniture is a great alternative, so here are some tips on how they can make your garden and backyard sustainable and beautiful.

Best Recycled Materials for Outdoor Furniture

When it comes to adding furnitures, such as chairs, tables, benches, and any other piece you would like to place in your outdoor space, there are some great ones made entirely from recycled materials. Not only will they look amazing and liven up your backyard, but they are also the best environmental and sustainable choice for the reasons stated earlier – reducing waste, decreasing energy waste as well as landfill expansion.

One of the best recycled materials used for making furniture is recycled plastic. This material is weather resistant and therefore a great solution for the outdoors. Your outdoor furniture made from recycled plastic will be high-quality, very durable, especially compared to the non-recycled plastic furniture, and will give your garden a modern, clean look.

Another recycled material for your sustainable outdoor furniture is bamboo. This is a completely natural material, and actually, a type of grass, not wood as it may seem. It is environmentally friendly and very strong. Your backyard furniture will therefore also be very strong and durable, as well as different, stylish and comfortable.

The third recycled material that is great for your sustainable purposes and recycled furniture is recycled cork. This material may seem somewhat unconventional or unusual but it is simply because many have not encountered it yet, or discovered its benefits. This is also an eco-friendly material, it is waterproof, very lightweight, impervious to mould and rot, which is ideal for outdoor spaces, and your cork furniture will be very comfortable, flexible and ergonomic.

How to Use Recycled Furniture in the Garden

If you have some antique furniture or some pieces of furniture that you don’t need anymore, don’t use, or don’t know what to do with, you can move them into your backyard or a garden where they will undoubtedly find its new purpose. Old and unused furniture is great for reusing and recycling, they will make your garden come alive, and help you reduce the waste and clutter around your home.

Here are some amazing and creative ideas and ways to reuse your furniture.

Chair Planters

If you have broken or simply old chairs that you don’t use anymore, don’t throw them away, they can be turned into one-of-a-kind planters. You can create a little succulent flower bed if you simply remove the seat, or better yet, if the chair is already missing the seat you can just put the planter inside of it. The best thing is that you can place the chair planter and your plants anywhere you want, and relocate it whenever you want.

Desk Garden

Whatever the size and shape of your old or unused desk, you can turn it into a beautiful little container garden. The more compartments or drawers it has, the more creative you can get. You can repaint it into any colour you want and make it stand out, or leave it as it is, adding a little rustic and traditional look to your outdoor space. Try to utilise every part of the desk and plant different plants in the drawers, cabinets, compartments, everywhere you can. With a combination of different plants, flowers, and colours, it will look rich and vibrant.

Bathtub Planter

If you don’t know what to do with your old bathtub, reusing it as a planter is a great and useful idea. You don’t have to think about how to get rid of it, and it will be a fresh and quirky addition to your backyard. You can place it anywhere you’d like and plant what best suits you. You can have a mix of different plants and create a beautiful display of flowers.    

Final Thoughts

Green and sustainable practices can be utilised in almost any aspect of everyday life. Sometimes it only takes reusing your old and unused furniture around the house to create less waste and be more environmentally conscious. Recycled furniture utilised in gardening and the outdoors is a simple and interesting, yet a useful and conscious practice that will liven up any garden and backyard.

About the Author: “Mattea Jacobs is a freelance writer at Good Resume Writing Services who mostly writes about both interior and exterior home design, and environmentally-friendly ways to improve homes. She is also a green activist and a mother of two beautiful sons. You can reach her on Facebook and Instagram.”