Circular Christmas Gift Guide 2025: unique ideas under €75
5 affordable sustainable holiday gifts from independent Belgian designers
Holiday shopping is fun… until you end up buying the same scented candle again.
This season, let’s skip the “meh” and choose gifts that matter.
Circular design pieces don’t just look good - they rewrite the story of materials, giving leftovers a meaningful new life. And honestly? That’s the kind of magic December deserves.
Here are 5 standout, bank-account-friendly gift ideas from Belgian creatives who don’t just design things — they redesign the future.
01 — Latto Stool building kit
by ROVER — €65 or €75 depending on height
The joy of the season? Making things together. Tom from ROVER embodies that to the core.
With his Latto Stool Kit, you build your own high-end furniture piece using local waste streams:
Excess OSB from local wood workshops
Discarded slatted bed bases from @kringwinkelstroom
Leftover leather from @ateliersauveur
Surplus panels from @labeur_atelier
Available in two heights (45 or 65 cm) and in your choice of color or raw OSB.
Lead time: ~14 days — so don’t wait ‘til Christmas Eve.
A gift that’s also an experience → the fun of making becomes part of the object.
Head to roverproject.be/shop, where Tom does the smart part and you pretend you’re a master craftsman.
📌 Perfect for: DIY fans, design students, new homeowners and anyone building their life from scratch.
02 — When the last tree is cut down
by @bajoat.gt - €45
Gillian from Bajoat doesn’t see a rusty handsaw as trash.
He sees a canvas.
He rescued old saws and transformed their blades into sculptural Christmas trees - each one a tiny reminder of what’s at stake.
Their (brilliantly dark-humored) name: “When the last tree is cut down.”
Pop one on a shelf, gift one to your favorite sustainability warrior or start a new holiday tradition:
a Christmas tree that never ends up in a landfill.
Upcycled from discarded hand saws.
Slide into Gillian’s DMs at @bajoat.gt if you fancy adopting a retired handsaw and turning it into the coolest Christmas tree your living room has ever seen.
📌 Perfect for: design lovers, dads who own too many tools and everyone tired of plastic tinsel.
03 — The Leftovers Christmas Tree (name suggestion 😉)
by @bajoat.gt — €65
What happens to steel scraps in a metal workshop? Usually they collect dust… until Gillian turns them into bold, industrial Christmas trees.
Made from leftover square tubing and steel reinforcement bars, these pieces bring a modern sculptural vibe to holiday décor - minimal, playful and very “I care about the planet, but also about aesthetics.”
Upcycled from: workshop leftovers
Send a message to @bajoat.gt if you want a Christmas tree that literally has a stronger backbone than you do. Steel scraps, zero shedding, 100% badass.
📌 Perfect for: design-forward homes, boutique hotels and the friend who says “Christmas, but make it cool.”
04 — A card that becomes a keepsake
by Ellen Lambrichts — €3,20 - €17 (from 1 piece to a set of 6)
Most cards enjoy a glamorous two-day career on the mantel…before awkwardly retiring to the recycling bin.
Not these ones.
Illustrator Ellen Lambrichts designed New Year cards that avoid every holiday cliché - no Santa, no glitter overload - just a quiet narrative of light in the dark, wonder and hope growing.
Here’s the twist: they’re double cards that transform into a Christmas ornament or bookmark afterwards. Just like your wishes: meant to last.
Shop them on Ellen’s Etsy shop or visit her website and fall madly in love with her whole universe.
📌 Perfect for: sentimental minimalists, book lovers and anyone who hates waste (but loves poetry)
05 — CAN — a playful, colourful ode to the everyday
CAN S to XL by Pepijn De Greef - €24 - €75 (depending on size)
Pepijn De Greef’s CAN turns something as ordinary as a tin can into a design object worth showing off. It’s a playful and colourful tribute to the everyday: a reminder that beauty doesn’t need rare materials or precious origins. Through rotomoulded recycled plastic, CAN reimagines a familiar form into something fun, functional and surprisingly delightful.
It’s the kind of object that quietly whispers a bigger truth: design is everywhere and everything - even in the things we usually overlook, toss out or hide in the back of a cupboard.
Use it as a vase, a pen holder, a mini-storage hero or simply a cheerful pop of colour on a shelf. CAN proves that circular design isn’t about compromise: it’s about imagination.
Shop CAN in Pepijn’s webshop : because your home deserves a better class of can than the one hiding in your pantry.
📌 Perfect for: people who think recycling should look sexy, design lovers, stationery hoarders and anyone who enjoys giving trash a very stylish second life.
The bigger gift
By choosing upcycled and circular design:
✔ You support local creativity
✔ You reduce material waste
✔ You give gifts with purpose and personality
✔ You become the person who gives the coolest presents in the room
A triple win (plus bragging rights 😉).
Are you an independent designer with a giftable, circular showpiece?
Slide your images + relevant links into welcome@mayagain.be before the end of November and you might land in next year’s Circular Christmas Gift Guide.
Warning: side effects may include extra visibility and happy customers.
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Please note that product prices may change over time. Correct product prices will always be found on the selling platforms of the respective designers.
Header image - photo credits: Pepijn De Greef, other images were sent to me by the respective designers
