Apartment Therapy: shelving & storage

Inspiration: Crate Bookshelf by 20.87 EStudio

Cross the re-purposed milk crate trend with the "boxes into shelving" trend and you come up with this bookshelf by 20.87 Estudio... ...

Book Shelves by Jim Rosenau

Jim Rosenau's thematic book shelves make us smile. We want this one in the kitchen. We're not exactly sure what we'd put on it ... maybe a cookbook or two?...

At first glance, we gave this sleek dark-gray dresser full design points for its contemporary lines. When we learned that the dresser is actually a repainted hand-me-down, we awarded bonus points. But...

Sustainable Designer-Built Furniture by studioNOLA

In their effort to create long lasting, heirloom quality products that are easier on the environment, the stylish and sustainable furniture pieces from studioNOLA are made using sustainable hardwood...

Wine Bottle Recycled Shelving from Zero-Waste Design
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Around our house, we've usually got a couple bottles of wine at any given time. We're always looking for good ways to reuse them, mainly because we like the look of wine bottles. We've used them as ...

Storyteller: Repurposed Furniture by Isabel Quiroga

Promoting the ideas of creative reuse and the aesthetics of vintage furniture, Dutch designer Isabel Quiroga has repurposed various tables into Storyteller. This purple shelving and desk combo remin...

Etsy Find: Box Life Book Cabinet

We still regret getting rid of our university-era milk crate bookshelves in a delusional fit of thinking we had outgrown them. This upcycled take on milk crate cabinetry is calling our name. Available...

Beautiful Sustainable Furniture by Iannone Design

Michael Iannone, the man behind Iannone Design, makes furniture out of materials that we love — cork, Kirei board, FSC and formaldehyde-free plywoods — and he uses low-VOC finishes and nat...

Five Favorite Re-Uses For Wooden Crates

Wine, re-purposing, and attractive storage solutions — these are a few of our favorite things. Perhaps that's why we've featured the wine crate on so many occasions. As a flea market staple an...

Look! Bathroom Storage by Alu

Originally designed for retail displays, this compact storage system stretches from floor to ceiling eliminating the need for drawer space and shelves. Made from industrial metal, the storage has a ...

David Sears: Elemental Furniture
New Collection at EcoModern Design

With an eye toward longevity and durability, local designer David Sears' Cube Collection utilizes a production process which is an energy- and materials-efficient system to elevate plywood to be a h...

Nightwood: Reincarnated Furniture

We first noticed Nightwood at the Brooklyn Flea's Fall Furniture Festival back in the fall. Now as we set about to redo our living room, we remembered Myriah Scruggs and Nadia Yaron pitch perfect t...

Vintage Airline Food Carts by Flight 001

Be your own air steward with these vintage airline food carts. Flight 001 has gathered up these food carts, taken them out of the plane and covered them with bold graphics to be used in your home......

Modern Firewood Furniture by AK47 Design
Making Firewood Storage Fashionable

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 ...

Ben the Bin: Stylish Modular Recycling

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 ...

Cubus Curio Cabinet by Team 7

Taking a twist on the traditional curio cabinet, the Cubus is fully modernized with solid, sustainably harvested walnut, and non-toxic wax. No chintzy teacups found here! ...

How To: Make Cereal Box Storage Bins

Storage bins are such a basic organizing tool that it just makes sense to, first of all, make them ourselves; and, second of all, use one of the most common sources of household cardboard to do so. ...

Jason Lewis Furniture

If you're looking for high-quality wood furniture that will stand the test of time and not break down or fall apart (a very green idea indeed), look no further than Chicago-based Jason Lewis. Mr. L...

Stackable Chicken Coop Storage

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...

PURE Furniture Design by Ami McKay

Cyrilla Daybed We were taken aback when we came across Canadian company PURE and Ami McKay's beautiful and "guilt-free" furniture line. They've managed to create green furniture without sacrificing o...

Snake Island Furniture

Toronto's Snake Island Furniture is a fairly young company "reclaiming, reusing and re-envisioning" wood harvested from Toronto's forests. Their collection includes coffee tables, sideboards, media...

3 Eco-friendly Hangers

If you're cleaning out your closet, we highly recommend investing in matching hangers. A few years ago, we splurged on all-wood ones, and our closet has never looked better. While these water bottle...

Pear Box from Zanisa

There's something so lovely and natural about this Pear Box. Hand-carved from sustainable wood, we can see it sitting on our living room bookshelf, or maybe in our kitchen — a pretty hiding p...

Melissa's Triple-Duty "Superstar" Armoire

Does everyone have a piece of furniture like this? A basic that you have grown to love and one that you will most likely hang on to forever - because it simply works. Move to a new place and in whatev...

Tree-Free Paper Office Accessories

These tree-free paper waste bins are made from 100% recycled cotton remnants "pressed to resemble leather." Great for a home office that needs some color and useful, sensible recycled products (not mo...

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