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Posts tagged “cardboard”

Circle Wall By Ben Blanc

Room dividers have a place even in a small home. They can break up a space into manageable rooms, make a not-so-private area private or add sculptural interest. We love this circle wall by Ben Blan...

Carton Series Furniture

Design Milk just featured this cardboard kids' furniture series called Carton. Cardboard, especially for childrens' furniture and play houses, is super chic and we've featured a lot of it here at O...

How to: Make Cardboard Lumber and Furniture

We've blogged before about DIY cardboard furniture but at the time there weren't actually instructions. Here's a guide on turning cardboard into lumber, for furniture! ...

Cardboard As Weed Block

Last year, a neighbor told me that he used upwards of three layers of cardboard to tame the weeds in his yard. Plastic weed block is obviously on the non-green list so I finally decided to try out c...

Five Favorite Cardboard Creations

click thumbnails for larger pics Frank Gehry started it back in the 1960's (see photo 2). Now, we see cardboard popping up all over throughout the design world. We've gathered five of our favorite ca...

CHUCK Wastepaper Basket by Studio CRANK

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…...

DIY Cardboard Furniture

That doesn't look like it's made from cardboard! We've had some great posts on cardboard furniture you can buy that doesn't LOOK like cardboard, but most DIY options resemble the brown recyclable s...

Hot or Not? Volvo C30 Headlight Chair

Volvo C30 Taillight Cardboard Chair by Luis Fernando Luna Bermudez The modular cardboard piece was won the Sustainable Design category for the Volvo for Life Design Competition. Inspired by the Volvo...

Perfect Perch by James Chu

We're normally pretty critical of cardboard furniture. A) It often looks like cardboard. And B) even though it's recyclable, we'd usually advocate spending more money on something that will last. How...

Cartonnistes DIY Cardboard Furniture

We're now looking at all the large cardboard boxes in a new light after seeing these impressive DIY furniture creations made by the Parisian artist collective known as the Cartonnistes. Founder Eric G...

Look! Two Recycled Cardboard Dollhouses

We used to make simple dollhouses with fold-out album covers. They were sturdy and could be configured in many ways, but, inevitably it meant that the dollhouse walls were adorned with the lyrics t...

Look! IKEA Goes Green

Smart, smart IKEA. They're taking the thing everyone complains about, the hollow-core construction of their furniture, and turning it into a green benefit. Read on to see why IKEA claims their mod...

Green Idea: Carton Chic

The name says it all. Armelle Vetillard created the Carton Chic collection of cardboard toys - all made of recycled or recyclable cardboard. posted originally from: AT:Nursery...