Recession times are really tough and a lot of people don’t know how to make both ends meet, but I am ready to bet, they still would like to fresh up their houses without paying the price:

• second life of wineglasses

You would like to have a set of new wineglasses and you don’t feel like throwing out your old ones, make candleholders out of them. Place some sand into a glass and put a candle on it.

• serving drinks

If you have an old and useless (from the first point of view) picture frame, you can easily serve drinks on it – funny and fresh.

• spice up a lampshade

Spice up your lampshade by adding acute ribbon around it. Use a new way to light up your life.

• planter as table

You have a big planter and don’t want planting anything in it? Take a piece of glass, put it on top of a planter and hurray – you’ve got an amazing coffee table.