22 Ways to Make Old CDs Awesome Again
August 28, 2009 by James Bent - 41 Comments
As a computer user or a music fan, you are sure to have plenty of those old CDs you store for no reason. Thus, you will be happy to know there are more than 20 ways to recycle them into something really cool:
1. CD Wallpaper
Due to shiny surface, compact discs can make cool water-proof wallpaper:
2. CD Beer-Bottle-Spill-Preventer
This one is rally easy to make: it’s just a CD jammed over the top of a beer bottle to prevent beer from spilling if the bottle falls:
3. CD Lamp
Created by Jim Watters, the lamp consists of about 70 compact discs which account for an amazing plastic glow. Also, be sure to check out the links to other cool CD lamp variations in the bottom of his site:
Here are a few more amazing CD lamps:
4. CD Sculptures
They can be plenty, this is just one example that can make a great decoration for your room wall:
5. CD Chandeliers
Playing with various CD surface colors, you can achieve various light effects. Besides, CD chandeliers can be of various forms – your imagination is your only limit!
6. CD Coaster
The easiest and the most obvious way to recycle a CD is to make a coaster out of it. You can always add some fun to it by drawing a mozaic or a cool ornament:
7. CD Chair
Not sure how comfortable this is, but surely quite eye-catching and extra-ordinary. The only thing, you’ll need the whole lots of CDs for it:
8. CD iPhone Dock
The recycled CD iPhone dock is really easy to make, and will look really great on your desk:
9. CD Disco Ball
CD disco ball can also be in various variations – this one requires 1/2-inch (1-centimeter) CD pieces glued to some kind of a ball or spherical object:
And here’s another variation using whole CDs:
10. CD Hockey
This should be great way to have fun with your friends or guests:
11. CD Room Divider
Organize your CD’s by cover art color or paint them. Then string them up as a room divider.
12. CD Curtain
Just like the above one but used for a bit different purpose:
13. CD Shower Curtain
And in this case, CDs are used to hold and move the shower curtain:
14. CD Lampshade
The lampshade consists of 6 CDs placed at 90-degree angle. Mind the caution note following the instrution: Keep in your mind that the lamp can melt CDs from the heat generated by lamp.
15. CD Christmas Tree
About 80 CDs make a great, festive-looking Christmas tree which is perfectly eco-friendly and obviosly looks awesome when the lights are on:
16. CD Clock
CD clocks are available for sale:
The good news is, you can create one yourself, here’s the instruction:
17. CD Car Decor
They say that some folks believe that placing a CD on the rear or front of your car will confuse the police radar in getting a good read of your speed. Not sure, if that’s the idea of this hack but it does look good:
18. CD Dumbbell
150 CDs, about 75 on each side, on a threaded rod from the hardware store and then (8) bolts to hold it all together. No tools needed. Just thread it all and bolt it tight.
19. CD Photo Frame:
Cut photo into a 3″ circle. Attach it to CD with double face tape. Cover the back of the CD with sticky back felt. Use tacky glue to secure it into a slot in base. And you are done!
20. CD Desk Lamp:
The USB powered LED CD lamp will cost you nothing as it is made of junk and what’s more it saves energy by using 50+ times less power than your regular old CFL lights.
21. CD Boomerang
It’s very small but totally free – why not try?
22. CD Weather Vane
Popularity: 31% [?]
Reader Comment
ENIGMAXG2 (August 28th, 2009, 02:21 pm)
Really AWESOME!!!!
FemiStevens (August 28th, 2009, 02:51 pm)
Nothin is a waste. From the land of the dead, here, creativity and innovation have brought resurection to life! More life and grace.
Iris Robin (August 28th, 2009, 03:05 pm)
Thanks for these amazing ideas. The picture were fun to look at. The CD chair is very impressive! Glad to see people sharing information about how to re-use common goods.
Mary Jayne (August 28th, 2009, 04:04 pm)
Hey, now I can find a use for all those free AOL trial disks.
Carla Ulbrich (August 28th, 2009, 04:49 pm)
inspiring yet (as a musician) depressing… cds are now junk.
Hugging the Coast (August 28th, 2009, 05:13 pm)
CD coasters are useful and fun…just glue some felt or that nubby rubber shelf liner stuff on the bottom to work as treads and you’ve made a fun, little coaster!
Years ago, I came across a free laserdisc (it was an old sales demo for a defunct car dealership) and turned it into a round high tech looking mousepad that I used as a visual prop for a small publishers’ convention.
To make it, I just cut neoprene (mousepad fabric) into a circle that was roughly 20% smaller in diameter than the size of the laserdisc.
Then I glued my neoprene circle and attached it to the center of the disc so the larger reflective outer part of the laserdisc worked as an eyecatching shimmery border for the mousepad itself.
Took only a few minutes to make, but everyone wanted to know where they could buy our fancy mousepad LOL!
captain potato (August 29th, 2009, 06:56 am)
the boomerang cd is REALLY dangerous, do not try that unless you wanna lose an eye or something
Savory Tv (August 30th, 2009, 12:28 am)
Love love the fish! One thing my ex BF and I did was, take old unwanted cd’s, drill holes in them, mount them with wire to a large rectangle of chicken wire, and go into the driveway, douse with lighter fluid and flambe. The result of this risky experiment was an uber cool semi melted piece of wall art for his loft.
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Misca Nicoleta (September 1st, 2009, 05:32 am)
I never knew you can do so much with some old CD’s.This gives more ideas for a room for kids too
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web (September 23rd, 2009, 10:18 am)
CD Lamps were hands down the coolest
felicia (October 11th, 2009, 08:10 pm)
super clever!
Alessandra (November 10th, 2009, 10:56 am)
Maior legal
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Brian Duey (November 29th, 2009, 10:48 am)
Some of these are really cool. I especially like the lamps. Those are really cool
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NERYS (May 29th, 2010, 01:49 pm)
SOME FAB IDEAS
NERYS (May 29th, 2010, 01:49 pm)
SOME FAB IDEAS , THANKS
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irene (November 24th, 2010, 01:04 am)
muy buenas ideas
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Love your site, we have included you as a hyperlink on ours. Thanks for the great ideas.
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JESS (January 23rd, 2011, 06:36 am)
I Love my cd’s too much to do that, but very awesome ideas! Now i just need to find useless cd’s which i dont own.
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lucy kelly (March 18th, 2011, 04:18 pm)
this is shit:)
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Very Cool! Wonder what we’ll suggest doing with all the MP3/Ipods out there when the next listening storage devices come out…
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rpeek (June 13th, 2011, 05:43 am)
Really brilliant. I would give some away to anyone who needs some.
myself (January 21st, 2012, 05:49 pm)
wow. so amazing. i can get some idea with my project. thanks
sambasivan (January 25th, 2012, 02:13 pm)
Va Super-Creative Ideas-amazing
Some more Valuable expending from you.
Thanks
preethi (January 25th, 2012, 08:14 pm)
it was very usefull, from now on i could use it whenever necessary.thanks a bunch!!!!!!
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