Hot Tip: Get The Most From Your Curbside Shopping
A chair found on the street and then reupholstered! It takes a certain penchant for thrifting —not to mention an eye for design— to pull off curbside "shopping." And it also takes a littl...
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Garage Sale Hunting Inspiration
Early autumn garage sales are some of our favorites; wake up early, throw on a hoodie, grab some cash and coffee and foray into the unknown yards and garages of those who purge at the change of seas...
A Composting Trashcan: Envi by Julien Bergignant
We love composting because it reduces food waste and it's good for things that grow. So we're liking this idea for a public trashcan that processes the food that's tossed into it into compost, and t...
Pallets as Building Material: So Many Options
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Every day we pass a local hardware store on our bike ride home, and in the corner of their parking lot, next to the street, sits a pile of shipping pallets. The pile slowly dwindles throughout the w...
Cardboard Stools by Proyecto Cartoon
We're always very wary of cardboard furniture. It doesn't make a lot of sense to us. Yes, it's fully recyclable and can be made from recycled material. But how long does it last and how often do you h...
Found Form by Enina Waelstham For Mormels Design
Dutch designer Enina Waelstham of Mormels Design has created a unique collection of lamps out of recycled paper that she's pasted over various found objects, like coffee cups. Once she has the right...
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and... Reupholster?
Natural Home Magazine
Did you know that the 4th largest contributor to landfills is discarded furniture? We didn't until we stumbled upon an article from Natural Home magazine's archives about the lost art of reupholsterin...
Recyling Ideas for Cassette Tapes
You know that tape collection you have? Think about it...do you still even own a cassette player for them? Yet throwing them all away just doesn't seem right; especially those mix tapes that you spe...
San Francisco Composting Law Countdown
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco's composting/recycling law is still a full six weeks away from taking effect, but it's already working like a charm......
Inspiration: Treehouse Made from Salvaged Materials
When it comes to treehouse design, anything goes, which means endless creative opportunities, especially if you've made it a side project to collect nifty salvaged materials for years, like designer...
Dan Phillips and His Homes Made Out Of Trash
The New York Times
In a town about 70 miles north of Houston, Dan Phillips and his company Phoenix Commotion have built 14 low-income homes built (essentially) out of trash: roofs made out of license plates, ceilings ...
How I Learned to Thrift Successfully
I grew up with parents who thought it was "fun" to go to antique stores any time we went out of town. My brother and sister and I groaned when we'd pass by signs for antique malls and thrift stores as...
Composting: An Easy Way to Include Dry Stuff
Whether you're starting an indoor bin, vermicomposting, or utilizing some outside space for a full-fledged compost pile, it's important to add dry things like newspaper. Want to save a step in the com...
Stoplight Pendant Lights
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...
10 Things You Can Recycle You Didn't Know You Could
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...
How To: Make a Recycled Wine Bottle Torch
We’ve been looking for a little extra lighting for our deck, and we think this DIY would not only do the trick, but also make the space even better. Turning a wine bottle into a torch is bright id...
Plastic in the Home May Have a Bigger Impact
By now we know that there is a concern about BPA in plastics in our homes. We're aware enough to discontinue buying plastics that could leach the toxin into our drinking water, leftovers, or infants' ...
Fantastic Norway's Cardboard Cloud
This is one way to reuse a bevy of cardboard boxes after a move. Architects Fantastic Norway created the Cardboard Cloud for an exhibition of new Norwegian designers, 50X70m2. The boxes appear as a...
8 Great Repurposed Goods From T.O.M.T.
We have a serious soft spot for items that find new life in great repurposed fashions. Rodney Allen Trice, the man behind T.O.M.T. has a serious eye and talent for taking everyday discarded items a...
Turn Your Empty Cans into Storage for Kitchen Tools
HGTV
First things first: Find some canned goods with really cool labels... ...
Hoarders, Gleaners & Dumpster Divers: Sustainable Practices for Modern Life?
Continuing our obsession with hoarders, we recently watched Agnes Varda's documentary film "The Gleaners and I." Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after the harv...
Inspiration: Mobile Home + Office Trailer
The Los Angeles Times
On the Mexican coast of Baja located in the Guadalupe wine-making region, architects Alejandro D’Acosta and Claudia Turrent have been performing experiments in green design for wineries — bu...
Nauti & Co: Art & Furniture from Salvaged Barns & Boats
Nauti & Co creates nautical inspired art using salvaged pieces from beaches, barns and abandoned boats around New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Vermont. Making every piece a true one of a kind.....
Top Ten: Ways to Recycle Your Old Towels and Sheets
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We recently took stock of our linen closet and realized that half of the storage space was taken up by sheet sets and towels that we simply don't use. Some are very old and worn out and some just n...
Free Store: Give What You Can, Take What You Need
Baltimore
Free Market at Artscape For me, the most difficult task when faced with a move or tackling a spring cleaning is deciding what to get rid of — I hate throwing perfectly good items in the trash. ...
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