How To: Craft a Table Using Old Magazines
If there's anything we have too many of in our apartment, it's magazines and plants. So we solved the problem by re-purposing six magazines (and that's all you need--no glue or scissors required!) in...
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How To: Stop Receiving Phone Books
Boston
We live in a three-family home with a decent amount of tenant turnover. It feels like more than a few times per year piles of new phone books languish outside our front door before someone takes th...
How to: Make A Green Pesticide
After a long vacation, we were excited to finally come home, but some spider mites had the same idea—and had made themselves at home on our jade. What to do? We whipped up this homemade remedy, so ...
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...
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...
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...
How To: Tony's Salvaged Wood Coat Rack
Wowza - a gorgeous (and green!) reader project arrived in our inbox this morning. Tony sent us photos of this coat rack/picture rail project made from salvaged wood and old doorknobs. Jump below for t...
How To: Start a No-Dig Garden ... Step by Step
A few weeks ago we blogged an article in the LA Times about No-Dig Gardens. They require less water than traditional gardens and they're an easy way to start a raised bed. You can even start one rig...
Aerators: They're Green and How to Keep them Clean
Aerators are on our faucets to put air in the waterstream, which increases pressure with less water. They can gunk up over time and cause low pressure that's solved by simply cleaning the aerator......
How To: Beat the Heat Without Air Conditioning
We sweated out last summer without AC, and this summer we're hoping to do the same. It's not too bad here in Chicago, where temperatures rarely creep above 90 degrees, so we try to get by on hot day...
How To... Use Less Packaging
With my brother heading off for the Peace Corps, we're going to be sending more packages in the mail than usual over the next 27 months. We're going to do our best to keep the packaging in check, with...
How To: Preserve Fruit
A bit of overenthusiastic shopping amplified by the generosity of a friend (Robin of The Canisters) conspired to give us too much fruit. Rather than let it go to waste or put it in the flavor-robbing...
How to Grow Your Own Vegetable Garden
This video over at monkeysee is the type of step-by-step instruction we need for our garden......
How To: Trim Wood Window Blinds
Our new house had a pair of wood window blinds from IKEA that were about an inch too long to fit inside the window trim. Rather than throw away what we already had and spend money on an expensive cus...
How To: Service Your Reel Mower
Many folks these days are using Reel Mowers to manage their lawn. They require little up keep and are better for the environment by far, but have you ever wondered how to maintain them properly? Clic...
Lightbulb Greenhouse by Instructables
Last week we found out how to make a flower box out of a credit card. Now this little project, also from Instructables, makes an incandescent light bulb into a symbol of green, not waste......
Credit Card Flower Box
Now, this is really living small. But hey, it is Garden Month and this is Apartment Therapy. So, check out how to make this tiny flower box for your own home......
How To: Cool Off Without the AC
It's hot. We mean ... well, most of you know what we mean. The cats have crawled off to lie on the floor of the shower -- it's dark and relatively cool there. We've stripped down to the lightest ...
Grow Your Own Alfalfa Sprouts: Cheesecloth Alternatives?
We've talked quite a bit this month about growing things. And if you're like us — a city dweller with no patch of dirt — hatching alfalfa sprouts is easy and gratifying. That is, unless you can't ...
How To: Install a Rain TankErin Covert Hands On 05.2008
We discovered Erin Covert, a writer for the Dallas Morning News, through her DIY landscaping and gardening blog, Hands On. In a recent post, she details (with great photos and captions) how a contra...
How to: Convert Your Gas Mower to Solar
You probably already know this, but in case you don't .... gas powered lawn mowers are not that great for the environment. If you haven't already lost your lawn, you could consider a push mower. If...
Happy Meals: Time To Buy (or Pick) Fresh Flowers
For those of us in chillier parts of the country, and that's at least half of our readership, we have been stuck in the deep depressing cave of winter, sans fresh local produce, or local flowers, for ...
How to: Wash Your Windows Like a Pro
May is Spring Cleaning Month
Marvin Windows sent us a press release on how to clean windows the non-toxic way. Here’s what you’ll need: Two spray bottles Dish detergent of your choice Water Vinegar Flour sack cloths Re...
Grow Your Own Alfalfa Sprouts: Cheesecloth Alternatives?
We've talked quite a bit this month about growing things. And if you're like us — a city dweller with no patch of dirt — hatching alfalfa sprouts is easy and gratifying. That is, unless you can't ...
DIY: How to Cut Glass Bottles for Use in Other Projects
This is a green idea everyone should try. We always keep pretty bottles with the hope that they could someday become lamps or glasses or some such but we never knew how that would actually be done. ...
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