Revitalize Your Routine: 12 Surprising Ways to Reimagine Coffee Grounds in Your Home

If the scent of freshly brewed coffee is the best way to wake you up in the morning, why not fill the rest of your house with that same pick-me-up? With this simple tutorial, you can recycle your used coffee grounds while finding a use for those socks that no longer have a match. These homemade air fresheners not only make your house smell like your favorite coffee shop, but they also look cute.

Turning your used coffee grounds into homemade candles is slightly more time consuming than buying a brand new candle, but it’s a great way to recycle both your coffee grounds and the remnants of candles you’d normally throw away. Making these candles will help you save money on new candles, and you’ll get to smell your favorite brew every time you light your homemade candle.

Unless you call in the dancing chimney sweeps from Mary Poppins, you probably don’t enjoy cleaning your fireplace. You can make this job easier, and far less time-consuming, by sprinkling slightly damp coffee grounds around your fireplace bottom. The grounds will stick to the ash, keeping it from flying up, and allow you to sweep up all of the ash more quickly.

While cleaning your house, you’ve probably noticed a few scuffs on some of your furniture. Instead of paying to have the scratch buffed out professionally, you can take care of it yourself. Rub your used coffee grounds into the scuff, wait for around 10 minutes, and then buff the furniture out with a cotton rag. This trick works especially well with dark wood furniture.