Rubbish In, Luxury Out — 49 Stone Planters, Bowls & Homeware Made From Things You'd Throw Away

From the makers of Milo & Mango's Garden Workshop.

Every project in this book starts with something heading for the bin — and cement does the rest. It copies every rib, crease and pattern of whatever it's pressed against, so the rubbish becomes the mould.

49 projects for $5. That's about 10 cents a project.

INSIDE THE BOOK

• 49 step-by-step projects, each with a materials list, cost, time and difficulty

• Planters, bowls, candle holders, bookends, a lamp base, a wall clock, a bird bath, stepping stones and a side table

• Six parts by where the rubbish comes from: kitchen cupboard, recycling bin, toy box, garage, loft and garden

• The cement mixes you need, explained simply — plus hypertufa and papercrete

• Curing, drainage, sealing and painting — including the trick for catching colour on just the raised details, speckles, stripes and colour fades

• A rare, colourful flowering plant pick for every planter

• Safety guidance and a one-page quick reference table for all 49

A FEW OF THE 49

• Broken plates → terrazzo bowl planter

• A round ice mould → heavy stone cupboard knobs

• Toilet roll tubes → stone desk tidy

• Fabric softener bottle → stone lamp base

• Lost marbles → starry stepping stones

• Outgrown wellies → glossy red boot planters

• Plastic hubcap → sunburst bird bath

• Two old buckets → hourglass side table

• Broken wall clock → stone clock

• Old relief globe → world bowl with gold continents

• Cereal bowls → red-and-white stone toadstools

Eleven projects take under 45 minutes of hands-on time. Five showpieces will stretch you.

FORMAT

Instant PDF download, A5 pages — reads well on a phone or tablet and prints nicely.

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