We discovered IGo power adapters at Radio Shack a few years ago when we went on a long road trip with a friend and her son. My friend and I had different cell phones, and her son had a Nintendo. I...
Moving is something we have all done and will most likely have to do again (and again, and again). Whether it's for our home or our company doesn't the hunt for the right cardboard box feel antiquat...
It’s Fall Cure time on Apartment Therapy and Re-Nest, and one of this week's tasks is to fix something yourself. This morning Cambria provided a How-To Home Repair list from Apartment Therapy's ar...
Week One of the Green Cure has one assignment: get rid of one thing. But if you had add one thing to you home, we’d suggest an extra recycling bin…...
Just in time for the Fall 2009 Green Cure... A big goal for us this year was to clean and organize our home, and part of that meant minimizing. So, once we went paperless, we had a lot less need for...
For a couple of years in college, we rented a house and loved the curbside recycling, but were often put off by the unsightly trash can and recycling bins that we had to hide behind a hedge on the sid...
Recently, our home has been getting a preview of the Fall Cure—we've been paring down and organizing like there's no tomorrow. But we have loving family members who want to give us things we don't t...
Ahh, finally a way to reuse those dry cleaner wire hangers — and we're not talking about jimmying car doors open here. We're talking reusing them as hangers, but prettier......
We've featured Jennifer Levy's smart solutions before — she repurposed a Marais stool as a sink pedestal. Jennifer has sent us pictures of her office makeover which she completed using a combi...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Over the weekend, a friend and avid Re-Nest reader emailed us to say she'd had a green eureka moment--and it's a good one. In the midst of unpacking after a move, she kept coming up with air-filled pl...
Though the summer heat makes it hard to think about wood burning stoves and firewood, these stylish firewood storage would look good year-round. This impressive collection of design ideas all focus ...
It seems like every time we travel these days, another piece of luggage bites the dust. As we are now able to easily identify our suitcases by the pattern of the duct tape holding them together, we...
Besides the gorgeous kitchen, the thing that really caught our eye was the pallet plate rack in Katrin Arens's home. It's lovely and simple with a twist of rustic......
Reestore just keeps surprising us with the clever and creative reuse designs. Ben the Bin by Reestore is a new product that makes recycling easy and fun. Ben is a cute stackable, washable recycling ...
Between local blueberries at the farmers' market and organic strawberries on sale at the grocery store, we were noticing that we were starting quite a collection of those plastic berry containers. We ...
They have to live somewhere. Bikes of mine have been hung on walls, in closets, even under beds. Some riders are lucky enough to have sheds dedicated to their transportation. Here are a few ideas f...
click thumbnails for larger pics Every year we have the same gardening dilemma: to keep or not to keep plant markers? We really dislike those plastic things because they uglify otherwise lovely garde...
Farmer’s Market season is coming soon, and to us that means weekly fresh flowers! We’d love to bring this Flower BagPack to the market instead of bringing home the traditional cellophane bouquet w...
For decades zip lock bags have been a go-to for holding snacks. But trying to reuse them can be messy and eventually they fall apart. That’s why we really like these reusable cloth snack bags from ...
Kitchen & Bath Month is coming to a close, and hopefully you're inspired to make some changes and try new ways to green your bath and kitchen. But, it's easy to feel a little intimidated, so we’ve f...
While browsing through Design*Sponge recently, we came across the home of Diana Yen of The Jewels of New York, a beautiful slow food and seasonal cooking blog. Her Brooklyn home was warm and lovely...
At the office we use actual cardboard boxes to sort our recyclable paper from trash. However, these 100% recycled cardboard wastepaper baskets, CHUCK, would look much better sitting under the desk…...
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