Here's what Re-Nest readers were clicking on this week:
• 10 Things You Can Recycle You Didn't Know You Could
• Kitchen Gallery: Living Plants in the Kitchen
• Worth It or Not? Gree...
In response to the recent extensive development going on in Cardiff Bay in the UK (approximately 1,000 new apartments and houses), London designer Gitta Gschwendtner has designed a wall to assi...
Attention Bay Area readers! We just caught wind of an exciting event that'll be happening here in early October: a green home tour in the East and South Bays......
This week we were delighted to receive a thick, fragrant bunch of lavender among the veggies and fruit in our CSA box. And while it will be exciting to experiment with the lavender for baking, we're a...
Have a piece of scrap wood and don’t know what to do with it? Chez Larrson has come up some creative and super easy ways to reuse a plank of salvaged barn wood, and incorportate it into the h...
Attention, all you renters out there: this is an easy, affordable, and ultra-stylish way to upgrade your dingy rental floors. We have been meaning to do something like this ourselves for quite...
Come winter, we don't imagine we'll be posting often about low insulated bike trailer homes, so keep them coming while they're hot! Designed originally for Burningman and powered by a roof-mou...
As in sham-poo!
While driving to work the other day and getting our daily dose of NPR, we heard an interesting segment on the history of shampoo and a number of people who are giving up the lather ...
While we'd prefer to pack all of our lunchtime goodies in alternatives to plastic, like reusable sandwich bags, we can think of a few reasons we like having plastic zip bags around (most revolve aroun...
Q: I want to start composting my kitchen waste and I'm wondering whether seeds from produce can go in. One would think that pepper seeds might start a plant of their own in the compost pile. What say ...
The weekend is a good time to try your hand at a DIY; you've got plenty of time to look for materials and do it right. A while back we were intrigued by a hanging lamp that re-purposed a washing ma...
Today in San Francisco we're looking for green building materials, household items, and secondhand furniture. Here's some of what we found:
• A few cans of Yolo Colorhouse No-VOC paint
• ...
Materials: Cardboard, plywood, welded aluminum planter
Price Point: $215
"Strata uses eco-friendly materials to provide a space-efficient solution to entryway clutter. Its unique geometry, pie...
We've been receiving a box of fruits and vegetables from a local farm (otherwise known as a CSA) every other week for about 4 months now. We signed up to support local agriculture, and to ensure we'd ...
These wonderful terrariums are made of reclaimed/found bottles and containers. Kristine Dang, the founder of Fernseed, utilizes second-hand goods in the products that she sells in her store locat...
Given our unfortunate tendency to spill at dinner, we are always on the lookout for fun placemats to help protect the finish and add some zest to our dining room table. Made from recycled rubber, t...
That's the topic of this month's Healthy Home Tips from the Environmental Working Group. Children are especially vulnerable to the negative effects of fire retardants...
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Personally, I'm a big fan of inspiration boards. So why not a whole wall? Danny Seo made his own inspiration wall with large burlap-covered homasote boards. Homasote is an eco-friendly building ...
Materials: Recycled African Mahogany, Natural Fiber Shade, Leviton - Incandescent Lamp Holder
Price Point: $450
"NOMAD is a Danish inspired floor lamp that can be utilized in a number of appl...
A little earlier today, Amber wrote about the resurgence of modern homesteading. If you're interested in jumping on the bandwagon, but don't know where to start, we just found a nice collection of res...
Aside from convenience, there's not much to love about disposable products. We all know that they create a lot of waste and zap resources... but is there anything to take from their design? Some seem ...
In a small Venezuelan town filled with dirt and mold plagued shacks, designer Kristofer Nonn sought to build healthy and inspiring homes…...
We all know the green merits of going with a low-flow showerhead; typically it's the first piece of advice given to green newbies wondering what steps they should take to live a more sustainable lif...
Recently I've been suffering from a nighttime cough that comes on after about 30 minutes after hitting the sack. My fiancee thinks it might be dust mites in my beloved down pillow which I've had for...
Name: Chuck and Jessica
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland
Size: 196 square feet
Years lived in: Completed this year, 2009
Chuck is an architect and furniture designer and Jessica is a painter, so ...
A couple of weeks ago, we lugged home 20 pounds of fresh pears from a coworker's farm and, using a decades-old recipe, turned them into jars upon jars of spiced pear butter over the weekend. We love t...
Q: We have an unusually large terrace. We're hoping to grow grass on a nine foot by twenty foot section of it. We think it would be a great place for our son to play, but we're worried about roots p...
If you are a regular reader of our tech-head brother site, Unplggd, you may have seen these but we recently noticed them in a friend's home where they hung over her kitchen island. It was the unus...
Today in Washington, D.C. we're looking for green building materials, household items, and secondhand furniture. Here's some of what we found:
• Textured acoustic ceiling tiles
• An antiq...
It's been really hot lately, and I've been wanting to find and purchase a simple outdoor shower that would hook up to a hose and stick into or sit on the lawn. At the house we visited in Italy in J...
You'd never guess from looking at this home that it was actually built in 1957. Just shows what a little TLC (and a lot of money) can do to an existing structure....
New York's OBRA Architects developed RED+HOUSING as housing for disaster relief. Made for temporary use, the structures uses methods that allow for quick construction, easy transport, and minimum wa...
We love a simple interior mixed with a natural element, like this live edge headboard from Urban Hardwoods. Don't have the space or the budget for such large furnishings? Here are four small li...
After 10 years of working in a cramped 1950s kitchen, the owners of this kitchen gave it a sustainable update. They reused the existing appliances, but installed double-pane, low-energy window...
Just finished reading an incredibly interesting (if slightly over-critical) article discussing the merits of what the New Yorker is calling "eco-stunts." Elizabeth Kolbert looks at a couple of blogs-t...
Old lampshades have wonderful bones. The sculptural steel frames are great for DIY craft and decorating projects — a simple coat of paint is sometimes all they need. The armature is also a great fou...
Oh, how we love anything coffee related. We've always wanted an espresso machine, and now we really wish we had this clever bamboo espresso set......
We recently got an email from an AT friend, Bethany Obrecht, whose home we photographed for our upcoming book Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Small Spaces (due out in Spring 2010). Her company...
This glass mosaic back splash was photographed during a home tour of a condominium built in the early 60's in Palm Springs. This is not just any condominium however: it was "conceived as an experime...
We've been considering an upgrade in the kitchen — we need a better way to store our recycling. The system we have right now is pretty unattractive and not all that space-efficient. So we want ...
A few years ago, we transferred our relatively small CD collection to binders. We tried and tried to find something to do with 500 jewel cases and nothing came to mind. Now we can put a few of those j...
Ah, the kitchen. The heart of the home does a lot of work and expends a lot of energy. Reduce your use by implementing the following tips......
Today in Boston we're looking for green building materials, household items, and secondhand furniture. We've got bamboo flooring, a whole lot of energy saving bulbs, an organic King comforter, and an ...
We’ve written about David Ellison of Lorimer Workshop’s tables on Apartment Therapy before, but he's actually located right here in Rhode Island and we saw an excellent example of his handi...
Thank you to everyone who has submitted to our Green Architect blogger search thus far! However, we realized in our entry form that we did not include an email field (which has now been rectified), s...
We were just recently introduced to the Cocoon Fire Ranges and we can't take our eyes off of them. They wouldn't have a place anywhere in our home (too sleek, too modern) but we can't deny that they'r...
Along the same lines as the Cash For Clunkers program, the government will be sending out stimulus rebates on all Energy Star home appliances purchased from mid October to late November. Good news, ...
We know that many of you are avid canners, jammers, picklers, and preservers. So we're curious: Have you "put up" anything yet this summer, and if so, what?
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We're so inspired by Sunday Suppers, the Brooklyn-based cooking class that created these menus. Their table decorations are always stunning, and yet this particular idea is so simple, we're filing it ...
Talented Brooklyn photographer Trevor Tondro took this photo, and we loved the bed frame: the raw wood and the uneven wooden slats. It's such a great, natural look. (Although the eyes above the be...
These organic hooded towels from 3 Sprouts are just too darn cute. We have a 2 year old niece, and we're thinking we're absolutely going to have to get her one. (All in anticipation of a new deskto...
If you've recently dug up the front lawn in favor of a big edible garden, then Fritz Haeg is looking for you! Remember his book Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn? Well, he's updating it, and he...
Our quest for a new bike has ended with Maxwell and Sara-Kate’s suggestion of the Trek Allant WSD – yay! It’s affordable, well designed and looks good to boot. It also makes it Bike #4 for us ...
Blood, sweat and tears. That's what we imagine it probably takes to build a Cob House (made of clay, sand and straw). But Brian — aka Ziggy — did just that: he built his own Cob House ...
The owner and creator of this armoire-turned-aviary didn't always keep such an elaborate home for her birds. Her zebra finches were previously confined to a small cage with hardly any room to f...
Materials: White cast dry slip, lead-free underglaze and clear glaze
Price Point: $375
"Nature is a modern ceramic planter intended for growing a variety of herbs and flowers. The form takes i...
We raved about these spoke mirrors from CB2 just in time for dorm room decor, and then we happened upon this recycled wall art which would make quite the splash in the right setting......
Q: We bought a 70's brick ranch near the coast. It currently has carpet throughout the house (even in the kitchen!) and we want to replace that with a sustainable floor. The front hallway leads straig...
If you're like us you hate throwing anything in the regular garbage. It seems like such a, pardon the pun, waste. But there's some stuff you just don't know what to do with. Check out our list pl...
Today in Los Angeles we're looking for green building materials, household items, and secondhand furniture. We found some recycled mosaic glass tiles, a claw foot tub, a clothes drying rack, and even...
The clever folks over at Creative Waste of California found this beat up old mailbox at the dump and decided to give it a new life as an umbrella holder. Check out the results of their DIY project a...
Anyone who likes to buy secondhand anything is probably more than a little interested in what happens on Craigslist. Scanning those bright blue links can become an addiction. We love Craigslist, but w...
We've posted about a wall-mount clothes drying rack. The comments circled back to where the clothesline discussion often comes back to: the debate between the right to hang clothes outside and the a...
Once a year The Studio Theatre on 14th Street in Washington, D.C. holds a Garage Sale to sell all props and costumes from the season. The annual sale has been going on for 25 years and this yea...
That's the eastern sun at the front door - yes, even the front door has large blinds that can be used to block out the heat from the sun!
When my husband and I moved into the home we're renting for ...
Jay Shafer is the founder of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. The 89-square-foot Epu is the house that Jay himself lives in. This is a view from the loft down into the compact kitchen. Remarkab...
We've written here before about SIGG water bottles — promoting them as a great alternative to plastic water bottles. So we were pretty shocked when we read this morning at Inhabitat that SIGG bo...
Back to school season seems to fuel the diy and creative spirit around your spaces. You can't help but be thrifty and creative with new spaces that seem smaller and more akward (the closest outlet is ...
One of our favorite perks of living in the city, is being able to form relationships with our local businesses — we count on them to deliver the coolest flowers, great gifts, and local gardeni...
This new composite framing material by Composite Building Structures is said to be stronger and more sustainable than any framing material now being used. Made from fiberglass resin, this new m...
How I wish I could weld! Dallas Welder Joel Hester has turned the colorful and rusty hoods of junkyard cars into industrial yet magnificent tables which truly shine, and the most prominent parts of ...
We're working from home a lot this week, and what we've found is that we always set up shop where the light is just right. Turns out, this is not only good for the psyche, as natural light is a great ...
Q: I'm a Portugese woman, and I try to live as eco-minded as possible. So sometimes I find myself quite sad about other people’s negligence, starting with my own family. Neither my parents nor siste...
What does being organized have to do with being green? As we can attest from personal experience...plenty. Getting organized can help you take steps towards a more sustainable life, and we've got ...
Re-Nest Scavenger found quite a few things in New York today, including bamboo flooring, water filters, some antique hardware, and a large ceiling fan. And of course, some cool furniture finds! ...
Re-upholstering furniture is a great way to customize your home, and allows you to reuse old pieces. If you want to take the idea of customization one step further, we've seen some interesting ...
We've been curious about eco-friendly non-stick skillets for quite awhile now. So, when we saw that Cooks Illustrated was testing eight different brands, we were excited to see the results ......
We love this shoji lantern not only because it is serene and beautiful, but also because it is eco-friendly. This lantern features handcrafted mulberry paper with pressed orchid tree leaves stretch...
Running out of juice is always a problem if you move around a lot. Sure, you can take your charger with you, but what if you can't plug in? Well, there are always other ways of powering up your gadget...
So you've seen a clever and pretty way to reuse glass baby food jars. But what about baby bottles? We have quite an assortment, both plastic and glass, that we would hate to toss. Reader Tracy sent...
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