Why buy when you can borrow?

Upcycling a chest of drawers

Tsui-Lee in Fins bury Park borrowed a hand sander to give her chest of drawers a new lease of life. 

'I’m always trying to find new ways to live a more sustainable life, be that reducing plastic waste, eating less meat or changing cleaning products.

Over the Christmas/new year break I decided that instead of buying a new chest of drawers, I’d upcycle my ones from home. I rented an electric hand sander from Library of Things after a friend recommended them to me (thank god I didn’t do it by hand!)

I’d thoroughly recommend renting tools you may not have instead of buying and never using them again. The whole process was super easy and I had a great time doing it!'

From van to mobile home

Sam and Laureen from Crystal Palace, bought a van in Scotland and drove it back to London, starting their project to build their tiny house on wheels!

Using various items borrowed from Library of Things they managed to make their mobile home, complete with windows as you can see in this video.

Movie nights

Ruth from Morden borrowed a projector for her daughter's birthday party!

”We borrowed a projector for my daughter’s 7th birthday so that she could watch Croods 2 with her friends. It was really easy to borrow from the Library of Things and to set up and we would definitely hire again. My daughter really enjoyed her cinema party and we have been recommending hiring to our friends because it made for a really easy fun party, once you threw in some popcorn!”

Whip up some ice cream

After moving to the UK, Rebecca was missing some ice cream flavours from back home - so she decided to make them herself! Borrowing an ice cream maker from Library of Things meant she could up her ice cream game, without having to make a permanent space in her small kitchen for the machine.

Find Rebecca's ice cream guide here.