Every home tells a story, and this project started with a simple phone call. A homeowner in Upwey, Dorset had spotted one of our flyers and reached out, desperate for help on their beautiful Grade II Listed building‍ ‍with three original timber sash windows that had seen better days.

We were contacted through our website form by a customer who found us through a word of mouth recommendation, needing help with a sash window restoration in Weymouth.

Our client in Weymouth found us via a Google search and reached out to request a refurbishment of their courtyard. We were happy to get involved and put our architectural hat on.

As part of our company's 6th birthday celebrations, our team added some of these oak candle holders to our gift bags.

Each candle holder was crafted from an upcycled piece of oak mantelpiece, then hand finished before being gifted.

UIL also creates bespoke furniture and home decor when not out on refurbishment jobs, so watch for more handcrafted items available in the future!

It's our 6th birthday, so we treated ourself to a new-to-us van. Follow our progress as we upcycle it!

The 'new-to-us' van needed a bit of TLC as well as fitting it with racking for our materials and tools, so Mark and Jason spent some time giving it some love. It needed some oil, grease and generally a good upcycling (which we are pro's at!) and created the racking ourselves.

It now is the newest team member and it certainly looks the part now it has it's new signage too!

When you have a kitchen tool that's on it's way out, give it a new lease of life by upcycling it into a paint mixing tool!

What do you do when you have old tools that need a new lease of life? Put them to work of course! Director Mark's grandad gave him lots of old tools when he first started Upcycle Interiors, and of course there are just some tools which he would have been unable to make good use of. That's where his upcycling skills came into play!

In a world where being kind to the environment is becoming more and more important, there's a cool idea called upcycling that's making a big difference, especially right here in Weymouth.

Upcycling is like giving old stuff a super cool makeover instead of throwing it away. It's not just about recycling; it's about using your imagination to make something old into something awesome again!

'Flexible living spaces are what I create'

Recycling a material normally means reducing it to its raw material and then making a new item from it. For example, glass bottles are melted down and then used to make new glass bottles. This process uses a lot of energy. The value of the recycled material is “neutral”, after it is used it is thrown away, melted down and another bottle is made, which has the same value/quality of the bottle that was discarded.

Upcycling is similar to recycling, but literally, better.

An old item or “waste” material is reused, normally with minimal processing, this reduces the amount of energy wasted in melting it down to its raw material. More importantly, the value of the material has increased – a waste material with little or no value has become something far more useful or attractive and is now worth more or is better quality.

I will put my hands up and admit that in all my marketing material, mentioning sustainability and the environment is something I completely overlooked.

I had just made the assumption that nowadays everyone thinks about these things.

For me it is just a normal way of life - to reuse materials, salvage something or be conscious of waste.

The business is based on foundations of sustainability: upcycling (reusing) materials is at the core of the company and this is something that helps the environment. Rather than producing waste, the business tries to take a waste product and make something beautiful from it.