Apartment Therapy Re-Nest - Archive for the week of 2008-07-20

Green Tour: Nord's Straw Bale Home

(Hello again to Jen, who is trying out for a position on the Re-Nest editorial team. Check out her recent post on DIY Sock Potholders and enjoy the tour!) Names: Nord & Margaret, plus Kipling, Linco...

Green Your Neighborhood

(Hello again to Rachel, one of the bloggers trying out for a spot on the editorial team. Check out her most recent post, a tour of Anne's Green Home in Evanston.) Number of bathrooms, number of bedro...

Good Questions: A Big, Green Chandelier?

This question comes from Kristin: I'm searching for a new light for the entryway/foyer of my home to replace the current, original (from around 1990) monstrous chandelier that needs way too many bulbs...

Hot or Not? Permanent Camping by Casey Brown

Permanent Camping by Casey Brown just won the Australian Institute of Architects Small Project award. It's a getaway that's only 10 by 10 feet and 20 feet high, with a rainwater collection tank. A...

Blogging the NYTimes: Trying to Build a Greener Britain, Home by Home

It turns out what we've been covering for the past year works. Smart meters, insulation, and a bit of thought can help cut down carbon emissions. People in the towns of Hove and Brighton in Britain ...

Green Tour: Rhizome Collective

(Hello again to Amber, one of the bloggers trying out for a spot on the Re-Nest editorial team. Her recent post on aDIY Irrigation System is here - please enjoy the tour she has put together for us ...

Green People: Eric Corey Freed

Eric Corey Freed (aka the Organic Architect) is a busy man. When he isn't writing books like Green Building & Remodeling for Dummies, or blogging, or designing green homes for his clients, he's fiel...

Green @ Home: Keifers' Green Moves
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Name: keifers Location: Haight Ashbury district, San Francisco Profession: Retail Welcome to keifers, our sixth Northwest territory reader submission to our Green @ Home giveaway. Jump below for pic...

Dwell's How Green Are You? Contest

Dwell and the American Institute of Architects recently hosted the How Green Are You? contest, challenging homeowners to show off their green homes. Now, the winners have been announced, along with ...

Buying a Vacuum: Why Choosing Green Still Sometimes Sucks

After a lot of vacuum research, we finally made the big purchase. Of course, we thought about the Dyson first but it's just not in our budget. Benefiting from a sale at Sears, we narrowed it down to...

LA Ban of Plastic Shopping Bags?

Looks like LA is taking some positive steps forward in reducing the use and disposal of plastic bags. The Los Angeles City Council recently voted to ban plastic bags in the supermarkets and stores by ...

Water Conservation In The Bathroom

Most of us are all for reducing the amount of water that we use daily. Did you know that Americans use on average 5.8 billion gallons of water a day to flush their toilets? Roughly three-quarters o...

Good Questions: Tung Oil for Wood Floors?

Ruth sent us a good question: I have 50 year old oak floors that need to be refinished. I've done some research and am very interested in using old-fashioned (and green!) tung oil rather than the lac...

Green Tour: Green with an Abundance of Artistic Style

(Hello again to Trent, one of the bloggers trying out for a spot on the Re-Nest editorial team. His recent post on Cold Brew Coffee is here - please enjoy the tour he has put together for us today. ...

Recycline Food Storage

We're still on the hunt for vintage Pyrex, though we did gain the use of a few pieces through a new roommate. But we want something lightweight to tote to work, with a lid that won't pop off....

How to: Make Your Cat's Litter Box Less Smelly

Not all that long ago, we witnessed an outpouring of love for World's Best Cat Litter in the comments section of a post on biodegradable kitty litter. Inspired, we bought some, and we've been loyal...

Green at CB2

We spotted a few green items in the new CB2 catalog, along with a few wood items that made us wonder. For example: should "plantation grown" and "sustainable" be used together?...

This Sunday in SF: Don't Miss Fritz Haeg @ SF MOMA

During the month of July, Fritz Haeg (author of Edible Estates) is doing a series of lectures and workshops called "Fritz Haeg's Animal Estates Regional Model Homes 4.0: San Francisco" at SF MOMA. H...

Green @ Home: Mary Jo's Appliances
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Name: Mary Jo Location: Bellevue, WA Profession: Manager, Reporting and Analytics in HR Welcome to Mary Jo, our fourth Northwest territory reader submission to our Green @ Home giveaway, and our firs...

Furniture Made from Wood Waste by Amy Hunting

This collection of wood furniture from London-based designer Amy Hunting is made entirely of wood waste and off-cuts from furniture factories in Denmark. Hunting transforms these scraps into stunnin...

How to: Track Junk Mail
Boston

Our mailman loves it when we get magazines in the mail. Not because he likes carrying them around, but because he gets a chuckle out of what our title is on the address label. Our Domino subscrip...

Green Pet: RecycleBall and RecycleBone

Made by Planet Dog in Portland Maine, the RecyleBall and RecycleBone are made with 100% "regrind" scraps left over from the production of other chew toys... posted originally from: AT:Chicago...

Green @ Home: Renting a Wood Chipper

Name: Shayna Location: Oakland A while back, we mentioned our backyard makeover and working with a wood chipper. It may not be the most perfect or simplest of green moves, but we're listing our time...

Blogging Natural Home: Decorating your Natural Home

When it comes to our home interiors, we all probably want to use only healthy, green furnishings. But does that have to mean shopping only for furnishings that are marketed as green, sometimes at he...

Green Tour: Anne's Sunny Renovation

(Hello again to Rachel, one of the bloggers trying out for a spot on the Re-Nest editorial team. Her first post on RetroPlate concrete floor finishing is here - please enjoy the tour she has put toge...

Green People: Aaron Winer

Aaron Winer is a green building and sustainability consultant in Portland, Oregon. Aaron has spent the last seven years working at ecohaus, the green building materials retailer based in the Pacific N...

Blogging the East Bay Express: Kill Your Plumbing

Whether you're dealing with a drought, or impending mandatory water rationing, you've probably thought a bit about gray water. You want to use the water from your shower to flush your toilet ... or ...

Repair, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Fixing a Laser Printer

With the low cost of electronics, it's tempting to chuck something out and replace it when it breaks. But some things really will last forever with a little bit of maintenance and a bit of know-how.....

Look! Cool Stuff at the SF MOMA Gift Store

We were tooling around in downtown SF yesterday. Didn't have enough time to duck into the SF MOMA and check out the Frida Kahlo exhibit -- like we've been meaning to -- but we had just enough time t...

Hot or Not? The Paper Potter

Make your own sowing and seedling pots from old newspaper. Jump below for voting, link and price: posted originally from: AT:Chicago...

Flickr Find: Clean the Grill With an Onion?

We came across this Flickr photo entitled "Matt cleaned the grill with an onion..." and we were instantly intrigued. Cleaning the grill with an onion? posted originally from: AT:Kitchen...

Green @ Home: Enkyenky's Green Bridal Shower
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Name: Enkyenky Location: Berkeley Profession: Editor Welcome to Enkyenky, our fifth Northwest territory reader submission to our Green @ Home giveaway, and our first from the East Bay. Jump below for...

An Ohio Green Home in Progress

We recently discovered the Nutter Residence Blog, a site dedicated to the greening of Krista Atkins Nutter's new home in Milford, Ohio. Krista, an interior designer with a background in architecture...

Simple Green: Try a Low VOC Paint

We talk a lot about the wonders of adding a coat of paint to spruce up, well, life. It seems the right color can transform a room or a piece of furniture into something so awesome you hardly recogniz...

Reusing Milk Crates
Australia

Ah the milk crate, the original building block for DIY furniture. Milk crates are often abused in a design sense by students looking for cheap – read free – storage solutions. But we’ve always k...

AT On... Marketing Green Power

A friend pointed out the fallacy of relying on utility companies to promote green energy. When you're in the business of selling a product, you'll tell people just about anything to sell it. But you...

Small Space Solution: Huggy Armchair by Lago

As we've mentioned before, we have a guest staying for a few weeks. We hate to admit it, but she's sleeping on an air mattress in our front room. We have a little place, and she's a bit too tall for...

DIY Sock Potholder
Saving the World—and Burnt Fingers—One Sock at a Time

(Hello again to Jen, one of the bloggers trying out for a spot on the Re-Nest editorial team. Her first post on Water Bottle Notebooks can be found here. Comments are welcome!) Where do missing socks...

Green Grilling: Gas or Charcoal?

A few weeks back, our post about borrowing a grill sparked a discussion about whether it's more green to grill with gas or charcoal. The Portland Tribune recently ran a story answering that very ques...

Pimp My Bin
Australia

As of 2003 Australia has been in a drought so we’re always looking for different ways to reuse water. Reusing grey water from the washing machine [remember to use a phosphate-free laundry powder!] i...

America's 10 Most Walkable Cities
The Daily Green

Living in a walkable city is key to being able to live car-free. The Daily Green recently published a list of the nation's 10 Most Walkable Cities as calculated by the Walk Score website, and there ...

Simple Green: Recycle at Ikea

Hanging out in the returns area at Ikea we were reminded a) we hate returning things, it always takes forever and b) oh yeah you can recycle toner cartridges, light bulbs and batteries at Ikea. pos...

Simple Green: Take a Look at Your Refrigerator

We all know about not standing in front of the refrigerator, keeping the door open, letting the cold air escape while you decide what you want. Here are some ideas you might not know about that'll up...

Found Food: Do You Forage for Food?

Never growing larger than the fingernail on our pinky finger and ranging in color for ruby red to purple, we're not completely sure if these are raspberries or unripe blackberries. In either case, th...

Green @ Home: Grow Your Own Food

Name: Shayna Location: Oakland Like Faith over at The Kitchn, I had the pleasure of harvesting my very first tomatoes of the season this week. However, I didn't have any questions as to how I would...

Behind the Scenes at Yolo Colorhouse

Ever wondered how Yolo makes those fantastic and green poster-size color samples? They're painted by hand in Portland, Oregon. We got a tour of the Yolo offices last week......

DIY Woodpecker Feeder

Woodpeckers are awesome creatures. We saw one just the other day going to town on a telephone pole. When they do their work, they really look just like Woody the Woodpecker used to in the cartoons. ...

Reclaimed Wood Furniture by Jones & Jones

Kenton and Liza Jones make handcrafted wood furniture and accessories (such as these $85 cutting boards) from reclaimed Pacific Northwest wood. We fell in love with their simple, yet classic table at...

Drip...Drip...Drip: DIY Irrigation System

(Hello again to Amber, who is trying out for a spot on the Re-Nest editorial team. Check out her first post on a modern tree house here. Comments are welcome.) Normally, when there's a drip somewhere...

Blogging The New Yorker: Turf Wars

We've written plenty about lawns here recently. We've advocated losing them entirely in favor of drought-tolerant, bird- and bee-friendly plants. We've suggested starting no-dig gardens over a patch...

How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?

San Francisco was just named the most walkable city by Walkscore.com. We here in New York came in second. Want to see how your neighborhood adds up? See how after the jump... posted originally f...

Green @ Home: Jennifer's Natural Cleaners

Did you know that everyone who enters Green @ Home is getting a free gift from Ecover and may win fancy organic sheets from Raksha Bella? Enter now below... Name: Jennifer T. Location: Bra, Italy ...

Good Questions: Cloth Diapering in an Apartment?

Thinking about green things, Jill is wondering how cloth diapering would work in an apartment setting. "I really want to try cloth diapering- maybe G diapers, but I'm not sure if I could wash dirty ...

Look! Recycled Vases

Remember those glass bottles we scrubbed clean a while ago? We've been using them as vases in our kitchen... posted originally from: AT:Chicago...

Line Drying: Yay or Nay?

One of the worst energy use source in any household is machine washing clothing. It's something we've all got to do, unless you want to be known as the real life version of the Peanut's Pigpen. But on...

How-To Tip: 10 DIY Recyclables You Shouldn't Pass Up

Shelly always puts together very thorough step by step DIY upholstery how-to's but has come up with a different kind of list for her recent post on Curbly. She takes us through her top ten list of the...

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