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Oh, no, I like the look of your rubbish. | 0:00:03 | 0:00:05 | |
How do you make money for nothing? | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
I love a little rummage. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:11 | |
The answer could be hiding in the 30 million tonnes | 0:00:11 | 0:00:15 | |
of household waste we throw out every year. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
I think that I might be able to make something out of that. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
That's why entrepreneur Sarah Moore wants to get her hands on things | 0:00:21 | 0:00:25 | |
before they hit the skip. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
That's... That's wartime. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:29 | |
I'm a passionate buyer, user and maker of old stuff | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
and I've turned that passion into a moneymaking business. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
I make new stuff out of old stuff and I sell it for a profit. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
And with some of the country's elite designers and makers... | 0:00:42 | 0:00:46 | |
That was brief. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:47 | |
Oh, the potential! | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
No! | 0:00:49 | 0:00:50 | |
..she can transform her finds into desirable... | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
Work of art! | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
..valuable... | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
BOTH LAUGH | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
..and hopefully saleable items. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
Holy Moley! | 0:01:02 | 0:01:03 | |
If Sarah is successful, then she can hand the profits back | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
to the very people who had no idea there was cash to be made | 0:01:08 | 0:01:12 | |
from their trash. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:13 | |
-Thank you. I'm astonished! -SHE LAUGHS | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
Today, Sarah is in Surrey at the Witley Recycling Centre. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
Where you and I may see beat up and broken down, | 0:01:32 | 0:01:36 | |
Sarah sees the potential to make a bob or two. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
People are flooding in here all day long, | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
all I've got to do is stop the good stuff from there | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
ending up in there. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:47 | |
She's been given special permission by the recycling centre | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
to transform the stuff all these lovely people plan to sling out... | 0:01:53 | 0:01:58 | |
..into a knockout. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:01 | |
-HE LAUGHS -Behave! | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
SARAH LAUGHS | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
I love it down here, everybody's so nice. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
Don't let her sweet smile fool you. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
If being nice doesn't get her the two items she needs, | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
she'll get nasty. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
Hand over your rubbish. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:20 | |
I'd better put that back before somebody sees me! | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
Can Sarah turn the clutter | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
in Xana and her husband Tim's boot into cash? | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
-What are you doing? Are you clearing out... -Yes. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
-..or are you moving, or...? -We've moved | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
and we've still got a lot of stuff to get rid of, so... | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
Really? So is that...? | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
I quite like your enamelware, but I'm interested in your chairs. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
-Right. Yes. -Have you had them long? | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
A long time. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
I've had them years and years and years and nobody's ever liked them. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
And we've tried to eBay them and still nobody wants them. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:59 | |
I think they've got that retro look that people quite like. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
There's been a lot of jungle styling going on. I think those would... | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
Maybe we should keep them, then. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 | |
Actually, I think you should give them to me and you should see | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
if I can make something exciting out of them for you. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:12 | |
You're welcome to have them. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:13 | |
Xana may have failed to flog the chairs, | 0:03:14 | 0:03:17 | |
but that adds to the challenge for Sarah. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
How she intends to make them over, though, I've no idea. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
I'm bamboozled. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:26 | |
-Thank you for letting me have those. -You're welcome. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
I shall take them away and cherish them. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
-Look forward to seeing them. -Yeah, lovely, I'll keep in touch. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
-TIM: -All right. Bye! -Bye-bye. Thank you ever so much. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
Is Xana happy her chairs skipped the skip? | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
I think that's brilliant, it's much better to recycle and... | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
I did feel a bit guilty bringing them. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
And maybe if they can be refreshed, they'll have a new life. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
Da-dah! No? Not your cup of tea? | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
Well, I think they've got some potential, they just need a little | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
bit of love, a bit of TLC, but I'm sure they're going to turn a profit. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:01 | |
Sarah knows just the fella to help her turn potential into profit. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 | |
Jay Blades is a builder turned philosophy graduate | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
turned furniture designer. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
If you want to have a go at what I do, your best bet is to find | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
a piece of furniture that isn't really worth that much money. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
You might have bought it down the charity shop or a car-boot sale | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
for about £5, and just play around with it. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
Jay has his finger on the pulse of contemporary interior design, | 0:04:29 | 0:04:33 | |
reworking the very best of British craftsmanship | 0:04:33 | 0:04:37 | |
and bringing it bang up-to-date. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
Some people like working with spray cans, | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
some people like working with artists' brushes. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
Whatever your creativity is, | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
just draw it out and allow it to just ooze onto the furniture, | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
cos the reality is, | 0:04:49 | 0:04:50 | |
that furniture was more than likely going to go into a landfill site. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
So, you upcycling it gives that piece of furniture | 0:04:53 | 0:04:57 | |
an extended lifetime. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
Well, I for one can't wait to see Jay ooze his creativity | 0:05:01 | 0:05:06 | |
all over these '80s gems. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
Sarah's saved one item for her artisan, | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
and now she's on the hunt for something to work on herself. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
And she will not stop until she has it, she's like a dog with a bone. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:27 | |
-Can I recycle you? Would you like to come home with me? -Oh, no...! | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
-I could turn you into a lapdog. -She's Daddy's baby. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
Come on, Sarah, no time for pats, the clock is ticking. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
Or in Richard's case, it's not ticking. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
What are you chucking out today, then? | 0:05:41 | 0:05:42 | |
Well, it's a cuckoo clock, a very nice cuckoo clock, | 0:05:42 | 0:05:45 | |
-but it needs repair. -Right. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
-And... -Oh, wow! | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
..I've got another one and it's a shame to throw it away, but... | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
Not many people have two cuckoo clocks, do they? | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
No, well, I mean, | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
I've got the other one because the last one needs repaired, but... | 0:05:56 | 0:05:58 | |
So, how long have you had this one...? | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
So, "Made in Germany," did you get it from Germany? | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
Yes, um, in the 1950s I was in the Army in Germany | 0:06:03 | 0:06:06 | |
and I bought it then. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:08 | |
-It's really sweet. -In the mid-1950s. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:10 | |
I hate throwing it out, but...it's going to cost a lot to repair | 0:06:10 | 0:06:16 | |
and I don't need it, I wouldn't know where else to put it... | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
Well, I think if you've got one cuckoo clock, | 0:06:18 | 0:06:20 | |
that's probably enough, but if it would be possible | 0:06:20 | 0:06:23 | |
-to take that from you and see if I can mend it and... -Oh, please do. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
-Oh, I'm so excited! -Please do, I'd be much happier doing that than it going down in the... | 0:06:25 | 0:06:30 | |
In the landfill. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
Yeah, well, I'm definitely... I'm so pleased that...you let us have that. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
That's lovely and I shall try my best to get it going and then I'll... | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
-It's up to you, now. -I know. Ooh, the pressure! | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
Sarah must be CUCKOO to choose this broken clock, | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
but she does love a challenge. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
So I really don't know what I've got here. I'm not a clock expert. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
There's potential that this little cuckoo clock could turn | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
a pretty penny, but at the moment it's not working, | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
I'm not sure if all the bits are here... | 0:07:00 | 0:07:02 | |
..and I'm not sure what kind of market there is for cuckoo clocks | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
at the moment, but I'm going to stay positive and hope | 0:07:06 | 0:07:08 | |
that I've just picked up a winner. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:09 | |
Perhaps Sarah can make this cuckoo sing again. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
Sarah has both her items. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
Jay will work his magic on the bamboo chairs... | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
..and Sarah will need to make the cuckoo clock | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
into something saleable. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
So, today's eclectic collection of items will provide just | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
the kind of challenge that I love, but there's going to have to be | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
some radical changes if I'm going to make some real kerching! | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
Welcome to Wolverhampton. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
The hometown of heart-throb Liam Payne from boyband One Direction. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:54 | |
Their megahit, What Makes You Beautiful, | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
is a tale of seeing beauty where others may not... | 0:07:57 | 0:08:00 | |
..kind of like upcycling expert Jay Blades and furniture. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:10 | |
Even though I don't agree with people taking chairs like this | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
to the recycling centre, um, one thing I must say is that I do | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
enjoy that they do, because if they get rid of it or they don't see the | 0:08:17 | 0:08:21 | |
beauty in it, I guarantee you I will definitely see the beauty in it. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
So, I'm really, really excited | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
to see what Sarah's going to bring along. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
These two are a classic 1980s | 0:08:31 | 0:08:36 | |
conservatory pair of chairs | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
and they are going to need all of Jay's imagination | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
and ingenuity to turn them into something saleable and desirable. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:47 | |
I've never seen Jay work with anything like this before, | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
so I hope he takes them on. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:53 | |
I can't think of a safer pair of hands for this pair of chairs. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:59 | |
-You like to set a challenge for me, don't you? -I do. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:02 | |
But I know that you will rise to the challenge, | 0:09:02 | 0:09:04 | |
that's why I can bring things like this to you | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
and I just know you're going to make them look special. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
I'm hoping with a bit of colour and maybe some fantastic upholstery, | 0:09:09 | 0:09:14 | |
we might be able to create something that has, you know, | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
like, a reasonable amount of value to it. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
Yeah. I've never worked with bamboo before and, yes, | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
you're quite right, with a bit of colour and a lovely fabric on there, | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
it should be able to bring these right up-to-date and... | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
I've-I've never done this before, this... It's going to be cool! | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
These chairs are a brave new world for Jay. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:38 | |
He's agreed a budget of £140 for the pair. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
I can't think of a better man to maximise the bang for those bucks. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
In terms of what I've got to spend on them, | 0:09:47 | 0:09:49 | |
I'm slightly maybe capping your creativity by the budget. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:54 | |
If you could hit it as hard as you can on that budget, pack a punch, | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
-see what you can do for that money, that would be fantastic. -OK, cool. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
-All right, you take care. -See ya. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
Well, I think I was right in thinking that those chairs | 0:10:08 | 0:10:11 | |
are not right up Jay's street, but he is going to take them on | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
and if anybody can make a couple of duds into something desirable, | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
it's Mr Blades. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:19 | |
My brain is thinking, like, "What am I going to do? | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
"What am I going to do? What am I going to do?" | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
I'm thinking of a load of different colours | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
and also just how to work with bamboo. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
As I said, I've never done this before. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
Pfff! Wow, Sarah's done it to me today, I must admit, um... | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
-Even -I -would like to see how these turn out. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
Jay has a £140 budget to transform these '80s throwbacks | 0:10:41 | 0:10:46 | |
from dated to desirable. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
From the suburban streets of Wolverhampton to the quiet | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
countryside of Sarah's home in Sussex. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
She's dropped off the bamboo chairs and now, | 0:11:02 | 0:11:06 | |
having enjoyed a morning walk with Bramble, | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
she's going to get started on the cuckoo clock. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
So, the cuckoo clock really doesn't work. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
I hoped I might be able to get it going or something simple | 0:11:21 | 0:11:23 | |
would be wrong with it, but I've had a really good look at it | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
and I've also spoken to a horologist. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
A what? Excuse me a sec. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
NARRATOR TYPES ON KEYBOARD | 0:11:33 | 0:11:35 | |
One quick interweb search later, | 0:11:35 | 0:11:37 | |
I can tell you a horologist is a clockmaker. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
You learn something new every day! | 0:11:40 | 0:11:43 | |
It's 150 quid at least to get it repaired and a very long | 0:11:43 | 0:11:47 | |
waiting list, so I'm afraid I don't think this is going to tick again. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:50 | |
Aw, this cuckoo will cuckoo no more. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
But don't fret, Sarah has a plan. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
She intends to transform this clock into a smartphone-charging station. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:06 | |
OFF-KEY "CUCKOO" SOUNDS | 0:12:06 | 0:12:08 | |
You know when a cuckoo clock is broken - | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
it starts to sound like a pigeon. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
OFF-KEY "CUCKOO" SOUNDS | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
It's a heavyweight item and Sarah needs to lighten the load | 0:12:15 | 0:12:20 | |
by clearing out its internal workings. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:22 | |
I'm sorry, this feels awful. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
If this all goes wrong, it could make a lovely bird box! | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
You might think Sarah's cuckoo phone-charging station is bird-brained, | 0:12:30 | 0:12:34 | |
but when you're finding a new purpose for an old item, | 0:12:34 | 0:12:38 | |
no idea is too off-the-wall or wacky - get inspired and go for it. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:43 | |
So that is pretty much stripped now, so if that's all one colour, | 0:12:46 | 0:12:50 | |
I think that's going to look really cool, | 0:12:50 | 0:12:52 | |
but I need to find out a way of introducing the phone to it | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
and this bit, the old moulding from the front, | 0:12:55 | 0:12:59 | |
definitely needs to be kept and I'm hoping that a phone | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
might fit in there... | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
Oh, look, that is perfect... | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
and really lucky, cos that's going to mean it will look like | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
it's made to do this, which is always helpful. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
So that's going to be on there in some beautiful colour | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
and then the phone will go in here, I've just got to work out a way of | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
getting the charger cord in here for whichever phone people have. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:23 | |
Can't be that hard, can it? | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
I think just get a little bit of something | 0:13:28 | 0:13:31 | |
to go over the top there and... | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
it'll be fine. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:34 | |
I said give it a go, I didn't say it would be easy. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:39 | |
I wonder if it's too late to call that horologist back. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:45 | |
Yep, I'd say so. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
Well, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
but what will this bird-brained idea be worth when completed? | 0:13:50 | 0:13:55 | |
So far, Sarah has only spent £12 on a charger for this project... | 0:13:55 | 0:14:00 | |
thankfully! | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
In Wolverhampton, | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
in Jay's workshop there's been big changes to the bamboo chairs. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:08 | |
They look cool. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
Jay has had them spray-painted by an expert technician to ensure | 0:14:12 | 0:14:16 | |
a pristine, smooth finish. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
So... | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
These chairs, when Sarah brought them in to us, | 0:14:22 | 0:14:24 | |
were just like a...plain kind of bamboo look and... | 0:14:24 | 0:14:29 | |
what I've done is, I've sent these to a spray guy to get them sprayed. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:33 | |
The contrast that I want to try and create is the chair looks | 0:14:33 | 0:14:36 | |
beautiful in black, but then I want a kind of distressed bit, | 0:14:36 | 0:14:39 | |
where, here, it looks as if it's just dripping with paint. | 0:14:39 | 0:14:43 | |
Then we'll have a lovely cushion that's on here. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
I haven't received my fabric yet, so still got a bit of time, | 0:14:46 | 0:14:49 | |
but Sarah's not going to be back right now, | 0:14:49 | 0:14:52 | |
so I can wait for my fabric to come because I've got a really striking | 0:14:52 | 0:14:55 | |
fabric that I'm going to put onto this seat and turn | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
into a cushion to sit on there to make it a bit more comfortable. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:01 | |
But the dripping effect is what I'm hoping to create now. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
Jay is going to add a coloured motif using gold spray paint. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
If he doesn't like it, he can't undo it, as removing the gold paint | 0:15:10 | 0:15:15 | |
would damage the perfect black finish. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:18 | |
I don't normally use spray paint and stuff like that, | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
so one's feeling a bit nervous. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
So what I'm going to go for is doing a little bit of a test run | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
first of all. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:27 | |
When using spray paint, it's important to work in | 0:15:29 | 0:15:33 | |
a well-ventilated area, wearing the appropriate safety gear. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:37 | |
But that is quite cool. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:38 | |
And that's exactly what I want... | 0:15:40 | 0:15:42 | |
where it drips down. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
Test run a success. It's time for the real deal. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
I only get one chance at this and it has to look good, um, | 0:15:50 | 0:15:54 | |
because once I put the paint onto there, that's it, | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
I've got no more chances to rub it out or go over it again. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
I'm nervous just watching! | 0:16:08 | 0:16:10 | |
It's a one-shot deal, so here's hoping Jay achieves | 0:16:10 | 0:16:13 | |
the element of distressed grandeur he's after. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:17 | |
I said you only get one chance at it, and the one chance I've got, | 0:16:28 | 0:16:32 | |
-I don't like it! -HE CHUCKLES | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
Oh, he's made a right old mess of that. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
In Sussex, there's been some big changes to Sarah's charging station. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:49 | |
It's just arrived back from a special technician | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
and if you didn't think she was cuckoo before, | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
wait till you see a load of this. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:58 | |
Well, I've had a really fun idea for the cuckoo clock. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
So I just thought I'm going to throw caution to the wind | 0:17:03 | 0:17:05 | |
and turn it into something really kitsch and cool. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
So the cuckoo clock has been flocked. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:10 | |
Flocking is the process of adding thousands of tiny particles | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
of fluff to an object covered in a fine coat of glue. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:22 | |
It gives the item a velvety feel. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:24 | |
It was very popular in the 1970s on wallpapers, but truth be told, | 0:17:24 | 0:17:30 | |
you can flock almost anything. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
It's flocking marvellous. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:33 | |
Look at these two. Aren't they amazing? | 0:17:35 | 0:17:37 | |
Look at that really vibrant, lovely pink. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:40 | |
I've mixed it up a bit and I've got a few different tones of pink here, | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
so when I put it all together, it should kind of layer up | 0:17:43 | 0:17:46 | |
so it looks really pretty. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:47 | |
But this stuff, stunning, isn't it? | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
So all I've got to do now is put it together, and hopefully | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
we'll end up with something that is truly unique. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
When Sarah saved this cuckoo clock from the scrapheap, | 0:17:57 | 0:18:00 | |
it was beyond repair, but now... | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
It's time has come to be born again | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
as a retro-chic and completely unique smartphone charging station. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:14 | |
It's functional and eye-catching, | 0:18:18 | 0:18:20 | |
a classic cuckoo-clock design given a bold and brash spin. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:25 | |
The vibrant shades of playful pink give it a pop-art feel. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:30 | |
It's one of a kind, uber-cool and utterly brilliant. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:38 | |
Well, it's definitely kitsch, isn't it? | 0:18:43 | 0:18:45 | |
And I think it's beautiful, it's definitely useful, | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
and I'm just hoping it's saleable. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:49 | |
It was almost lost for ever, but Sarah saved Richard's broken clock. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:57 | |
What are you chucking out today, then? | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
Well, it's a cuckoo clock, a very nice cuckoo clock... | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
I hate throwing it out, but...it's going to cost a lot to repair. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:08 | |
She couldn't fix it, but she did find a way to repurpose it. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
Sarah paid £72 to have the clock flocked, | 0:19:14 | 0:19:18 | |
plus 12 for a charger, making her total spend £84. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:23 | |
She sold the charging station to Velvet Moon, | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
a craft shop in Glasgow, and is now on her way to Richard's home | 0:19:27 | 0:19:31 | |
near Witley to hand over the profit. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:34 | |
DOORBELL RINGS | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
-Hi there, hello. -Hello. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
-Richard, hi, it's Sarah. -Sarah. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:41 | |
-Hi there, nice to see you again. -Nice to see you, this is... | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
-Oh, hello there. Hi, I'm Sarah. -Hello, I'm Anne. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
-Anne, hi there, how do you do? -Hi. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:47 | |
Now, I actually took your cuckoo clock to... | 0:19:47 | 0:19:49 | |
-I think it's a horologist, isn't it...? -Oh, yes. -Yeah. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:51 | |
..to see, and it was at least £150 just to get somebody to look at it, | 0:19:51 | 0:19:55 | |
so I know why you were taking it to the tip. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
-That's why I went to the dump! -That's right. -Yes! | 0:19:57 | 0:19:59 | |
So I had hoped that I'd get it cuckooing again, | 0:19:59 | 0:20:02 | |
but it wasn't the case. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
Having not been able to get it going, I had to think of something else to do, | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
so I've got some pictures to show you how it ended up. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:09 | |
-Hopefully you'll be pleasantly surprised. Here is... -Oh, no! -Yeah. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:12 | |
ALL LAUGH | 0:20:12 | 0:20:14 | |
-I knew I was going to get that reaction! -Wow! -That's lovely. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:17 | |
-Gosh, it's gone pink. Fantastic. -Isn't that fantastic? -Wow. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:21 | |
So it is now a phone charger. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
-Wonderful. Oh, how clever! -A phone charger, yeah. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:27 | |
-And it was flocked. -Oh! -Lovely! -ALL LAUGH | 0:20:27 | 0:20:32 | |
-So it has had a new lease of life. -That is amazing. -Yes. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
It is definitely in the pink and it has been bought by a shop | 0:20:34 | 0:20:38 | |
-who specialises in that kind of thing... -Oh, really? -Oh. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:40 | |
-..and I do have a little bit of money to hand over to you. -Oh, good! | 0:20:40 | 0:20:43 | |
-Oh! -It didn't make a fortune... -I'm sure it didn't! | 0:20:43 | 0:20:45 | |
-..but I have got £26 here... -Oh! | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
..for your old cuckoo clock and I hope you don't mind it's now... | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
That is fantastic. I mean, as it was going in the tip, um... | 0:20:51 | 0:20:55 | |
You know, I don't want that, so it'll go up to the church, | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
-where she... You know, up at Witley. -Yes. -Oh, fantastic. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
So, you know, we're about to spend a lot of money on outside | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
decoration and so on, and a sound system, so it'll go into that pot. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:09 | |
I'm so pleased that's going to somewhere so close to your heart. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
-Thank you very much. -Great, well, thank you so much for the clock. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
-Well, lovely, that was a wonderful surprise. -That's very sweet of you. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:18 | |
-Thanks very much. -Bye-bye, thank you ever so much. -Bye! | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
Sarah spent a total of £84 transforming the cuckoo clock. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:29 | |
She sold it for 110, | 0:21:29 | 0:21:31 | |
turning a profit of £26 for Richard and his wife Anne. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:35 | |
In Wolverhampton, at Jay's workshop... | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
..he's getting prepped for Sarah's arrival to give the thumbs up | 0:21:44 | 0:21:48 | |
or down to his handiwork. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
It is perhaps no surprise that those two bamboo chairs | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
were destined to the tip. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:00 | |
They're short on style and even though there is | 0:22:00 | 0:22:02 | |
a little bit of bamboo and wicker creeping back into fashion, | 0:22:02 | 0:22:05 | |
they just didn't have the look. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
But I'm hoping with all Jay's skills, | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
he's managed to make them look desirable and saleable. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
Has Jay succeeded in transforming these '80s chairs? | 0:22:14 | 0:22:18 | |
He's added a dash of contemporary panache. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:26 | |
The addition of the floral fabric adds a timeless classic quality. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:34 | |
And with a deep cushion, well, that just looks oh so comfy. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:47 | |
And as for that drippy, distressed motif, | 0:22:50 | 0:22:54 | |
it's now a golden glint down one side - a stylish touch. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:59 | |
For Sarah's viewing, Jay's hiding the floral design. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:06 | |
He's such a tease! | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
-How are things? -Very good, very good. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:14 | |
BOTH LAUGH | 0:23:14 | 0:23:16 | |
-Are you good? -They're different. They're different. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
They are different. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:20 | |
Uh-oh, is that different good, or different bad? | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
That's just... This is the bottom fabric, if that makes sense? | 0:23:25 | 0:23:29 | |
OK, are you saying there's... there's another dimension? | 0:23:29 | 0:23:31 | |
Oh, yeah, there's another dimension. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
So we've got to turn them over... | 0:23:33 | 0:23:35 | |
Different good! Excellent. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
Great, thanks, lovely. Er, I'll take those. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
-They're cool! -You like 'em, yeah? | 0:23:49 | 0:23:51 | |
Yeah, they're good. They're really good. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
They're strong and they were weak, and that is amazing to achieve that. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:57 | |
And you've got a real chunk of comfort in that... | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
Chunk of a cushion there, chunk of a cushion. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
Cos the problem that I had before is when you sit on them, | 0:24:02 | 0:24:05 | |
the bamboo's really... | 0:24:05 | 0:24:06 | |
it comes through the thin cushion, and personally, | 0:24:06 | 0:24:10 | |
I really like the fabric, I must say, it's really, really nice. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:14 | |
I haven't gone for this print right in the centre because there's | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
so much going on here that I thought | 0:24:17 | 0:24:20 | |
do it a little bit off-centre, similar with that one as well. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
Rather than use the fabric in exactly the same way that | 0:24:23 | 0:24:25 | |
everybody would, it's just doing it a little bit off-centre, | 0:24:25 | 0:24:29 | |
which makes it look really, really cool, I think. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
They look classy, they look designer and they look expensive! | 0:24:31 | 0:24:35 | |
They do look expensive, I must admit. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:37 | |
70 quid each we left on them, did they come in on budget? | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
Bang on budget, £70 each, yeah. They look really, really expensive. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:44 | |
I really do like them, | 0:24:44 | 0:24:46 | |
I never really liked them when you brought them in. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
-I thought they were horrible. -Horrible? -Yeah! | 0:24:49 | 0:24:51 | |
He's dissing my skip finds again! I don't have... | 0:24:51 | 0:24:55 | |
-I don't shop for my stuff, OK? -I know you don't. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
I need to drag it | 0:24:58 | 0:24:59 | |
kicking and screaming off a recycling centre, so... | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
I love what you've done to them. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
I think you've given them every chance of going back into | 0:25:03 | 0:25:07 | |
somebody's house and being loved again. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:08 | |
-Thank you. -Nailed it again, Blades. -HE LAUGHS | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
Right, thanks for that. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:13 | |
That's a job well done, Jay. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
These chairs are as exciting as I could possibly have hoped for. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:21 | |
They have got heaps of character now. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:24 | |
They are crispy, clean, exciting things | 0:25:24 | 0:25:27 | |
that I can sell and hopefully make some money on. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
Xana was moving home and clearing out when Sarah spied this pair. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:37 | |
I've had them years and years and years and nobody's ever liked them. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:42 | |
I think you should give them to me and you should see | 0:25:42 | 0:25:44 | |
if I can make something exciting out of them for you. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:47 | |
It's much better to recycle and... | 0:25:48 | 0:25:51 | |
I did feel a bit guilty bringing them. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:53 | |
But maybe if they can be refreshed, they'll have a new life. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:56 | |
And that's exactly what happened. | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
With a striking new look, Sarah sold the chairs to Nick Smith, | 0:26:03 | 0:26:07 | |
a regular client of hers whose online shop specialises | 0:26:07 | 0:26:11 | |
in retro and recycled items. | 0:26:11 | 0:26:13 | |
And now, Sarah's going to tell Xana the good news. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:17 | |
-Hi there. -Ah, hello. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:21 | |
-Hello. -Hi, good to see you. -And you. So, is this...? | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
This is where you were moving to when I saw you at the tip? | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is it. -How did it go? | 0:26:26 | 0:26:27 | |
You said you had loads of bits that you were clearing out, have you...? | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
We did, we've spent all summer whittling it down | 0:26:30 | 0:26:33 | |
and finally we're all sorted now. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:36 | |
Um, your chairs went all the way to Wolverhampton | 0:26:36 | 0:26:38 | |
to a fantastic guy called Jay Blades who specialises in taking | 0:26:38 | 0:26:41 | |
furniture like yours and giving it a whole new lease of life, and | 0:26:41 | 0:26:44 | |
I've got some pictures to show you. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:45 | |
-I'd love to see it. -How about that? | 0:26:45 | 0:26:48 | |
Wow! That looks amazing! Oh, gosh. They're so different. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:52 | |
They're lovely. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:53 | |
And for some reason I thought they were going to be | 0:26:53 | 0:26:55 | |
a sort of khaki colour. | 0:26:55 | 0:26:57 | |
I don't know why - I didn't expect them to be black. | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
The cushion pads are absolutely beautiful and really lovely fabric. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
They're really comfortable as well, they've got that big, | 0:27:02 | 0:27:05 | |
-squashy seat pad on them. -Yeah, because they were really... | 0:27:05 | 0:27:07 | |
I had quite thin pads and after a while they were a bit sort of... | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
-That ten-minute chair where you want to stand up again? -Yeah. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:12 | |
They're not like that now and they're lovely and they have been | 0:27:12 | 0:27:15 | |
bought by a retro shop and I've got a little bit of profit to hand over. | 0:27:15 | 0:27:18 | |
-You're joking?! That's so good! -So, there is £25... | 0:27:18 | 0:27:22 | |
-There's...£5 there... -Wow! Thank you! | 0:27:22 | 0:27:25 | |
..and 20 quid there for you. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:26 | |
Well, that's not bad for some... some old junk! Thank you very much. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:30 | |
What might you do with that little...lot? | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
Well, I don't think we'll need to buy any more chairs, | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
but it'll probably go towards something else that we need here, | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
so that's very helpful. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | |
-Lovely, OK, well, really great to catch up. -You too. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:41 | |
-Thank you very much for letting me have your chairs. -You're welcome. -Bye-bye! -Bye-bye. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:45 | |
Jay charged Sarah £140. | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
She sold them for 165, giving £25 profit to Xana. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:55 | |
Sarah saved two unwanted items from the skip that have been transformed | 0:28:03 | 0:28:08 | |
and are going to enjoy a new lease of life. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
Well, a lot of thought | 0:28:13 | 0:28:14 | |
and hard work went into those inspiring transformations, | 0:28:14 | 0:28:17 | |
but why don't you have a go? | 0:28:17 | 0:28:18 | |
Pick up those tools, because you'll never know how satisfying it is unless you give it a go. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:22 |