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Posts tagged “shelving & storage”

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...

Bisecting A Hoosier Cabinet to Make Media Stand AND Console Table

AT Boston readers Molly and Adam were searching high and low for an attractive media stand, when they stumbled across this vintage hoosier cabinet and brilliantly turned one piece of furniture into ...

Bedroom Furniture by OHIO Design

The furniture made by OHIO Design is breathtaking – from their clever Primco Table, to their book matched and clean lined Sophia 30 Credenza. All OHIO furniture is made with recycled and FSC woods, ...

Drawer Front Furniture by SchubLaden

SchubLaden – meaning ‘drawers’ in German – is a German furniture company that specializes in reusing salvaged one-off drawers. The structure of the furniture is typically made MDF or solid wo...

Multipurpose Furniture: Bookcase, Chair and Table in One

We received an email alerting us to the work of this brilliant uArts Philadelphia student. The Easy Chair, designed by Lorenzo Buffa, is made of salvaged strand bamboo and can be used as a table or ...

Etsy Find: Paradise Hill Design

Every home should have at least a few pieces with real soul - an inherited gem, a thrift store find... or an item lovingly hand-crafted from reclaimed wood, like those of Paradise Hill Design... pos...

Reclaimed Bedroom Furniture from Sundance Catalogue

We really like the Sundance style – natural modern – a perfect fit for the bedroom. The Sundance bedroom collections reflect this style by using reclaimed aged wood to make clean lined, modern fur...

4 Serene Furnishings from VivaTerra

We know and love VivaTerra for its eco-friendly but still refined home furnishings. We found some of their newer items that could work equally well in any room of the house, from a casual living ...

Good Question: Natural Fiber Containers for IKEA's Billy Bookcase?

(Note: Include a pic of your problem and your question gets posted first. Email questions and pics with QUESTIONS in subject line to: green(at)apartmenttherapy(dot)com) Lee asks:I have an entire wal...

Naked Line Modular Cabinet by MIO

During ICFF, MIO Culture launched their new series of modular cabinetry, Naked Line. Named for its "naked and honest approach to affordable furniture", Naked Line embraces the simple beauty of it's ...

Cratecupboard by Elmo Vermijs

There are two types of salvaged wood furniture: the kind that looks salvaged and the kind that doesn't. Depending on your taste and design aesthetic, either can work. We think these fall squarely i...

Minimahuella

A light bulb vase... furniture made of recycled materials... zip ties instead of energy intensive metal connectors. Buenos Aries-based Minimahuella is full of good, green ideas....

Felted Wool Book Box by etcetera media

We feel obligated to tell you, right up front and before you get your hopes up, this beautiful felted wool Book Box by etcetera media is $120. But that doesn't mean we can't admire it, right? We've...

Look: Environment Furniture, Inc.
Austin

While visiting Loft, a store that features sustainable furniture options in Austin, we fell in love with Environment Furniture's gorgeous and green furniture options. While not a new company, EFI is ...

Look! Bump-out Bookshelves

Shannon Quimby is building a new house in Portland using every last scrap of the house that sat on her lot before. She's called it the Reuse Everything eXperiment, or REX.We like the bookshelves made...

Eco-Friendly Furniture at Target
Washington DC

Browsing on the Target website this week, we stumbled upon its line of eco-friendly furniture. Though there are only a few pieces, and the prices are high compared to its other offerings, we hope t...

Reclaimed Wood Wall Racks: High, Medium, and Low

Ever since we spotted this pot and pan rack by Metropolitan Produce, we've been thinking about its simplicity and beauty. Made from a reclaimed beam, the design is fairly straightforward, but the pr...

One Day Paper Waste Furniture

Copies become original in the hands of Jens Praet. He turns discarded spreadsheets, et al, into shelves and consoles with the strength of wood and ghost of old business....

BKLYN Designs: Brave Space Design

Brave Space Design has been flyin gunder-the-radar here on AT. We've featured their Hollow series of furniture and their Tetris-y Tetrad Shelving was included in our list of Top 10 Modular Shelving...

A Green Search: The Best Shoe Organizer

We grew up slipping our shoes off as soon as we walked in the door. Mom's orders. Granted, Mom wasn't thinking green -- she was thinking oatmeal, the color of her easily-stained carpet. Still, remov...

Izzy Design's Audrey Collection

We've got our eyes on these storage cabinets. They remind us of things we've seen at IKEA -- except these are made from post-consumer recycled materials, free of volatile organic compounds and PVC,...

Sculpture or Furniture?

This is one way around the problem of a throwaway culture we blogged about yesterday: take things other people think of as junk, then transform them into beautiful and valuable pieces of functional ar...

ZiG Storage Shelves by Ryan Frank

South African design Ryan Frank has been commissioned to design a new piece. Made of bamboo, the ZiG modular system can be linked together or left alone for a dramatic addition to any room. ...

Water Hyacinth Furniture

Water Hyacinth is a fast-growing aquatic plant native to South America. It's highly invasive when transplanted from its natural environment, and it's caused environmental damage in North America and...

Bamboo Leaning Bookcase and Desk

One of Crate & Barrel's best sellers, the Leaning Bookshelf and Desk (one of our Top 5: Cheap Furniture Basics and Top 10: Writing Desks) is now available in bamboo. Made with bamboo solids and vene...