Jay Blades reveals the one item you should never buy new

There are such a lot of issues we could be doing to scale back our family waste – each for the setting and our financial institution accounts. That’s why discovering out what we needs to be avoiding shopping for new and studying upcycled furnishings concepts is extra essential than ever.

Furnishings restorer and presenter of The Restore Store, Jay Blades reveals the shocking information that armchairs aren’t value shopping for new. Whereas we could also be used to choosing up a brand new seat from the excessive road, it’s time to look elsewhere.

Jay Blades reveals what you need to by no means purchase new

The furnishings professional revealed to why we shouldn’t be buying new furnishings and as a substitute take advantage of out of present objects. ‘Massive furnishings, corresponding to chairs ought to by no means be purchased new,’ Jay Blades reveals.

‘New chairs not solely normally have a big price to our wallets but in addition our surroundings, with the quantity of CO2 emissions produced.’ ‘When you’ve bought an outdated chair sitting at dwelling you may upcycle it with straightforward DIY tasks,’ suggests Jay.

‘You are able to do this by changing the material, tremendous gluing or nailing it again collectively, or giving it a fast paint job.’ Whereas Jay Blades reveals that bigger furnishings and chairs ought to all the time be upcycled or purchased second-hand, the professional believes that we needs to be going even additional in altering our buying habits.

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Studying the way to upcycle a chest of drawers is just the start. ‘That is going to sound bizarre,’ begins Jay.

‘However nothing needs to be purchased new. We have now all the pieces we want at this exact second in time. We don’t have all the pieces we would like, folks all the time need stuff, but when one thing is damaged then you may repair it. If one thing is worn out then it simply means you need to search for a option to regenerate it.’

‘I really like this factor referred to as a round financial system,’ Jay provides. ‘That is the place individuals are really producing an merchandise after which placing it again into the setting, or as soon as it’s come to the top of its life it’s given again to the producer who’re capable of reintroduce it again into the market.’

Picture credit score: Future PLC/Tim Younger

‘On this means, by shopping for from the round financial system, you’re by no means shopping for new. It was already been used earlier than, it’s been reinvented or redesigned after which there it’s once more. So nothing needs to be purchased new, it ought to all be a part of the round financial system.’

So discover second-hand merchandise, get upcycling and get kitchen cupboard repainting. Loctite’s Second Probability Store ambassador Jay Blades educates on dwelling upcycling to avoid wasting UK landfills.