Searching through all the little antique shops around town I have found that old coffee tins are something special. Working at a coffee shop and seeing someone's collection really made me enjoy and appreciate what coffee was packaged in long before my time. Now that I have a small collection myself, I have found some ideas of how I am going to display and incorporate my old coffee tins throughout my house. I have some ideas to share if you yourself collect old tins of any kind.
Planting flowers in a tin is just adorable!
Make sure that you have some way to drain the water from the bottom, but looks really great and vintage for a home plant. What a great center piece to a coffee table of something refreshing and alive throughout the home. OR a DIY candle is another great idea. Re-purposing!!
If you are electrically savvy, you could re-purpose old tins into really cool light fixtures. You can purchase lighting kits at most hardware stores and create your own lamp or hanging light. The lamp posted above is quaint and cute for side tables, just enough light for reading at night on a bedside table. :)
Pinterest has really cool ideas for re-purposing old coffee tins.
You can use it for almost any kind of storage, decor, or get really creative and let your imagination go wild! Some are just so good they just need to be decorations. I have several around the house as a subtle touch of what I like/collect/enjoy ... COFFEE!
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