Welcome to Aim to Get Better© at New Beginnings": Blog#1


 AIM to Get Better at New Beginnings Blog#1 : 

Introduction to New Beginnings Upcycling

We live in such a “throw away society” – when people or objects have “outgrown their usefulness" or no longer meet our current needs, or no longer look the way they used to, they are often discarded, pushed aside or dumped. 

At Aim to Get Better we passionately believe that everyone and everything deserves a second chance, an opportunity to be reinvented and upcycled!

Sometimes, all it takes is for someone to take an objective, creative look and see the potential! 

There is something extremely profound about rescuing items that people are about to discard, dump in the tip as useless, or throw away because it no longer looks presentable; to look at what others perceive as rubbish, rescue it from its fate, see its potential and find ways, not of restoring it to how it was before, but reinventing it, giving it a new use that far exceeds its former glory! 

No two items that we give a new beginning to end up the same (even when we try!!). 

Each one is unique and has its own story to tell. 

Please take a look at our gallery in “Aim to Get Better at New Beginnings” blog #2.

If you have an item that you would like us to upcycle for you, please get in touch and we will give you a quote. 

Please note that most items are made to order / on commission. We will try to give you a realistic timescale for completion on receipt of your order. 

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