Genius Ways To Reuse Old Jewelry To Breathe New Life Into Your Tired Home Decor

If you're beginning to grow tired of your old home decor, it might be time to spruce things up a bit. That doesn't mean you have to spend heaps of money at your local home goods store on brand new items. Instead, you can turn to something you likely already have lying around the house — your old jewelry — to breathe new life into your decor! With a little bit of creativity and effort, you can reuse your old jewelry around the home to add some extra flair to your existing home decor items. 

There are so many different ways that old brooches, earrings, necklaces, and bracelets can be used around the home. For example, you can use hoop earrings or rings as wine glass charms. Or, you can take that old statement brooch you're probably never going to wear again and turn it into the cutest accent on a decorative pillow. This upcycle is especially great if you've inherited jewelry from older relatives. Often, the style of inherited jewelry is not one you'd personally wear, but the idea of parting with it stings. By using inherited jewelry around your home, you can keep those sentimental items close while simultaneously decluttering that box of family heirlooms that's stashed away in your closet.

Brooches were all the rage during the Victorian era, but they're not so popular today. If you happen to have a stash of old brooches on your hands, you can use them to adorn items in your house rather than your own outfits. For starters, brooches can serve as fabulous accents on your decorative pillows. Just pop them into the fabric and add some hot glue for extra hold. You can also stab them into wax candles to create a stunning table centerpiece, just be sure to insert them low enough that they won't fall out or be damaged when the candle melts. Vintage jewelry like brooches, as well as old earrings and pendants, can also function spectacularly as quirky yet beautiful drawer knobs by simply gluing them onto existing hardware.

With a magnet and some glue, it's also easy to transform your old brooches and larger earrings into unique fridge magnets. Another fun DIY that works well if you have a mismatched smorgasbord of old rings, earrings, and pendants is to glue them onto a picture frame to give it some extra sparkle. A clever and practical way to reuse old hoop earrings around the home is to slip them onto the stems of glasses and use them as wine glass charms. You can also add some lettered beads onto the earrings to make personalized name cards that spell your guests' names.

Don't despair if your collection of old jewelry consists primarily of bracelets and necklaces, as there are plenty of cute ways to reuse these items to create stylish DIY home accents on a budget as well. If you have any stretchy bracelets, you can slip them onto the exterior of liquor bottles to add some bling to your bar cart. Stretchy bracelets or cuffs, if small enough, can also be used as adorable napkin rings. Adjustable cuffs can work particularly well for this, and if your bracelets are too long, you can always double-loop them.

Old bracelets or bangles can also be draped onto an old wine or olive oil bottle and transformed into a lovely centerpiece for your table. You can do the same with larger necklaces if you wrap them around the bottle a few times. The same concept applies if you want to reuse an old glass jar by turning it into a blingy centerpiece, a lantern, or a flower vase. Necklaces with an elastic string can even be used as a bookmark!

You don't have to keep your necklace all in one piece to reuse it either. If you like the beads but not necessarily the necklace as a whole, you can take it apart and use the beads to make a pretty beaded table runner, or remove the pendant to use as a Christmas ornament.