With the unemployment rate at its optimum in this day and age, Kenyans have decided not to sit and wallow into self-pity. There are young people doing a lot with the little they have. Among these creatives are entrepreneurs who are killing two birds with one stone- keeping the environment clean and making money with hand-made crafts.
Wine Bottle Crafts
Kenya is well-known for its vibrant night life and reveling culture. The downside to this is that plenty of wine and liquor bottles are left to waste. There is a lot that one can do to transform the bottles into beautiful pieces of art.
Making home décor items with these recycled bottles is proving into a fruitful venture with one decorated bottle going for at least 1,000 ksh. With heaps of waste liquor bottles lying on the streets, it is possible to make a killing with this business idea. The bottles can be sourced easily from pubs, restaurants, and establishments that serve wine or liquor. After a thorough cleaning, all one needs to do is decorate the bottles with beautiful paint or colorful thread. Here are images of beautiful home décor made from waste bottles.
Tire Crafts
Old tires are an eye sore in one’s back yard. Besides making shoes and sandals, tires are a resource that can be used to make home decor pieces. You can easily paint these gruesome-looking tires to form colorful outdoor seats for a refreshing look in your yard. You can also use the colored tires as flower pots or gardening pots. These refurbished tires can fetch up to ksh 1,000. They are ideal for outdoor spaces and can be used in children’s playgrounds as swing set seats.
Throw Pillows
Throw pillows transform normal couches into wonderful center pieces in the living room. Combining the right textures, shapes, and colors, they bring out the best in any living space. You can use throw pillows as accent or decorative pieces. One of the brilliant ways that turn trash into pillows was invented by Alliance Boys High School. The team came up with throw pillows from waste hair.
Kenyan ladies spend a ton on synthetic weaves and braids which only go to the dustbin weeks after use. There is a wide resource for the waste product which is readily available from salons. The hair is first cleaned and disinfected before it is stashed into colorful fabric making elegant throw pillows. The cost of making such pillows is cheap since only fabric and stitching are required. The average cost of pillows ranges from ksh500-800.
There is a lot that one could do to transform their life using waste products like bottles, thread and tires. With some art skills and handiwork, one could also make some money with simple crafts. These DIY crafts prove that the secret to success might as well be found in our trash cans.