This week, Re-nest readers were all about getting things done. Whether it was decorating a second-hand tea set, recycling towels, learning to live without a fridge, or making over a whole home.
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Valentines Day is a great holiday to put a little elbow grease into a gift to add a personal touch. Lucky for you we’ve found a few super easy and cute do-it-yourself gifts: a matchbook makeover, ro...
We've written before about KStudio's Canvas Art, but their pillows are just as lovely. Made of hemp or organic cotton, the simple drawings and soothing color palette will offer a whimsical touch to...
In Part Four of The Best Non-Toxic Cleaners You Already Have we look at natural ways to restore the original shine to wood that may have seen better days....
It's time to start planning, and planting, those spring container gardens! We learned an important lesson about drainage last fall that we don't want to repeat. When we planted lettuce seeds, a few fe...
Okay, it's time for a little confession. We try and live as green as possible. We use only green cleaning products; we buy organic when we can; we use CFL light bulbs; we try to recycle, reuse and...
Even if you think it's a Hallmark holiday, you'll be swayed (and let's face it, what really matters is that so will she) by these lasting roses, which the The Lower Eastside Girls Club makes by hand f...
Valentine's Day is tomorrow. We're not usually overly concerned about this particular holiday -- but it is a nice opportunity to show your friends, family, and significant other that you love 'em.
Ca...
We've covered a number of salvage stores here in the Midwest: Murco Recylcing, the American Barn Company, Architectural Artifacts and Salvage One among them. We love these stores because they preser...
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If you are one of the many who have recently purchased new TVs for the now-delayed digital transition, the DC government wants to help you help the planet. If you bring yo...
If you and your friends are tired of the smell and cost of traditional cleaning products and you'd like to learn how to use ordinary household products like baking soda, olive oil and vinegar to cle...
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Philadelphia-based MIO Culture has introduced some new LED lighting options that complement and expand upon their popular Bendant pendant. Like the Bendant, Tras...
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We really enjoyed seeing Jason's Weekend Project with Pittsburgh's Urban Tree Forge. Turns out, there's a similar group in Ontario giving new life to urban wood salvage. They're called Urban Tree an...
In our thrift store and flea market scouting, we frequently see vintage tiles that would be very cool in kitchen or bathroom tiling project. But we're renters, so such impulses are naturally stymied. ...
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Ryoko Yagi is an architecture graduate and artist who makes theses absolutely adorable glass objects. My sister sent me one of Yagi’s cute and cheeky Smile Tumblers, but not only did the hand-blown ...
This 400-year-old damp, 4-room stone house along the Vltava River in Cesky Krumlov (112 miles south of Prague) was purchased for the equivalent of about $6,000 USD. At the time of the sale, it...
The shine of my car is the last thing I'm concerned about these days (I don't even own a car anymore), but there are plenty of uses for car wax that have nothing to do with polishing your hood: from f...
We went out for beers last night at a local saloon, and were happy to see this bike rack when we walked up. Remember when we were lamenting that our city didn't offer enough bike racks? This may still...
We were privileged last night to attend a preview of Green Depot's new LIVE store (their term for homecare, design and lifestyle products) on the Bowery in New York City, officially opening to ...
Here at Re-nest, we're pretty big fans of re-using jam jars. (Check out Trent's ten ways here.) Now, here's one more......
We love the idea of prefab sheds. Such an awesome way to add a bit of extra square footage to a house without all the labor and waste associated with building a big addition or buying a bigger house.
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Name: Vhouse
Architects: XTEN Architecture
Location: Sherman Oaks, CA
We've always had a love and hate relationship with the Valley. Growing up on the northern most part of ...
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Volvo C30 Taillight Cardboard Chair by Luis Fernando Luna Bermudez
The modular cardboard piece was won the Sustainable Design category for the Volvo for Life Design Competition. Inspired by the Volvo...
Doily Chair
As a recent graduate of the University of Calgary's Industrial Design masters program, Tara Murray's thesis project focused on the effort "to maintain emotional connectedness to older pro...
In Part Three of The Best Non-Toxic Cleaners You Already Have, we look at ways to keep your paintbrush working for years to come and quick tips to rejuvenate old brushes that may have become stiff and...
We mentioned how we might celebrate the sentiment of Valentine's Day with an earth-friendly card or some handmade cookies--but we weren't thinking about the Down With Love crowd.
Fortunately, Grist ...
Welcome to the Next Big [Green] Thing...maybe. Zumbox is the nation's first paperless postal service delivering mail to every house in the United States — just minus the paper it usually come...
We blogged last week about living without a fridge, and while the idea might be unfathomable to us, we started wondering if there might be any other appliances we could actually live without. (We don...
Here are a few things we're looking at today: Zumbox wants to kill snail mail for good, Google debuts an energy monitoring app, Jetson Green looks at a cool, stylish bit of prefab, and Treehugger unco...
Last Wednesday, West Elm opened the doors to its new Emeryville location. This is the second store in the Bay Area, and the company’s first built “from the ground up using green building practices...
In the winter a lot of us are inside more, and we may not be opening our windows to air things out as much as we do in warmer months. Here are a few tips to keep your home free of indoor pollution a...
We just read about this on Eat Me Daily (via Slashfood), and we're alternately overjoyed that we can type a code into a website to find out where our chicken grew up and amazed that someone hadn't tho...
Right up there with putting your pillows in the sun, this tip comes directly from my grandmother who was matter of fact and eco friendly back when it was just called being frugal. Not only was she an...
Cost: $1.50 - $7.50 / 6ft section of insulation
Time: 1-2 hours, depending on amount of pipes
Uninsulated hot water pipes are like radiators, transferring the heat to the air – which is not a good...
Fresh flowers are one of life's little luxuries. We love having something colorful and living in our home. And with Valentine's Day just a few days away, the season of Flower Giving is upon us. B...
In part two of The Best Non Toxic Cleaners You Already Own, we explore a variety of products for cleaning copper - think pots & pans, door knobs, house numbers, coins, or if you're lucky enough, a sin...
My family has a piece of country property riddled with old, beautiful native Texas pecan and oak trees. Many of the trees are upwards of 50, even 100, years old. Over the weekend, one of the trees was...
The Treehugger Project is an ongoing international work of environmental art by Polish artists Agnieszka Gradzik and Wiktor Szostalo. Creating, quite literally, tree huggers made out of branch...
We recently helped a friend move who decided to ditch two cabinets she used in her bathroom. We thought the units might fit perfectly in our (only) closet, so we decided we'd switch out the knobs and ...
I'm a magazine buff. I have way too many subscriptions, and when I step foot in a bookstore, I make a beeline for the racks of glossy covers.
But I never really understood Real Simple. It didn't seem...
Each day our local waste collector, Sunset Scavenger, receives the equivalent of several drums of latex paint for recycling. But instead of sending it off to be used as a cement additive (as many recy...
At first glance, this unassuming little chair almost slips by unnoticed. But something about it keeps your gaze, and you find yourself thinking, "Dang, that is a really cute chair." In fact, we wouldn...
Last week we posted about one project in Austin, The Alley Flat Initiative, with the aims of bettering the city by providing affordable housing units. Making more affordable places to live isn't the ...
We saw these beautiful gold-leafed bottles by Tomas Kral in the most recent Readymade, and they inspired us to think about trying a similar project at home. After all, his lovely vessels started out l...
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Cost: $35 - $120
Time Spent: 1 Hour
Tools: Screwdriver, Batteries, Programmable Thermostat
Installing my Honeywell 5+2 Thermostat a year ago was one of the best and easiest projects I've done for my...
We came across this DIY Driftwood Rack idea in the archives of Design*Sponge and were immediately taken in with the lovely simplicity of the idea. You can make your own eco-chic entryway rack in 30...
Purchasing eco-friendly cleaning products is great - but for the budget conscious or simply for convenience, sometimes using something you regularly stock in your pantry can be even better. Here's a t...
In our neck of the woods, spring has begun to peek its head around the corner--so over the weekend we opened all the windows and got a jump start on spring cleaning. While cleaning off the porch, we r...
Just in time for Valentine's Day, so you can say those cupcakes you baked really were made with love......
Here are a few bits of interesting reading to start your week off right: another highlight from the Greener Gadgets Competition, solar blinds, Umbra answering a question on composting tainted food (pe...
DC Design Babes hosted an event last week where designers competed to make art out of everyday objects. The event was called "Change the Way You See Things" and inspired by the Dutch Design Week and...
Marfa Brands got its start with handmade soaps. Then, about two years ago, creator Ginger Griffice started making glassware out of reused glass bottles from nearby Mexico. In Mexico, the bottles are...
Once again the monthly "Forest Finds" feature at Fawn & Forest does not disappoint. This month, we were charmed by the Corkels line of wheeled toys by Ben Blank for DCI. Cute, affordable, and eco-frie...
During the hot summer months in Brooklyn we like to spend as much time in our backyard as possible, but without a large tree to shade ourselves under there are some hours of the day that are just unb...
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