Apartment Therapy Tagged: creative reuse

Roundup: Our Favorite Mosaics

We love mosaics for two reasons. From a design standpoint, they make a stunning visual impact with the use of patterns and pieces. From a green living point of view, though, mosaics make use of smal...

Look! Upcycled Music Stand
What's It Made From?

Before a recent trip home to pick vegetables, my mom (and as I've said before, my green hero) told me excitedly over the phone about a new music stand that her husband made for her. But when she expla...

Inspiration: Squint Limited's Colorful Patchwork Furniture

We've blogged Squint's Patchwork furniture before on AT:NY where its unique designs cover our favorite Egg Chair, and the contrast between modern lines and traditional crafting converge to create so...

The Story of a Bench: Part 2

Actually it’s the last part because the bench is done. Once we nailed down the design it only took a few weeks to complete, it’s sitting in our landing strip and we love it!...

Inspiration: Creative Reuse from Junk+ion

The Israeli designers at Junk+ion aren't just working with salvaged materials, they're working with humor and a fresh perspective. (Wish we'd seen this shoe rack when we were on the hunt a year or so ...

Alternative Curtain: Consider A Flag

Ugh, curtains. Really, given that they're just giant rectangles of fabric, they should be simple and inexpensive...but they're not. Over the years we've often used sheets on our windows. We wish ...

Green Activity: Ribbon Scraps to Ribbon Chair

We love getting gifts, partially for the excitement of what's inside the box but also for the wrapping paper and ribbons. Although we're not wrapping paper savers or re-users, we are a sucker for a...

10 Uses for Plastic Plant Pots

Our readers have asked this question before: "How can we reuse those plastic pots that plants come in?" Here are 10 ideas for keeping them out of your trash bin ......

10 Simple Uses for Spaghetti Jars
Most Popular Posts

The folks over at Kitchn have some fine recipes for spaghetti sauce, but for the time-limited pasta lover, a jar of Classico or Trader Joe's simple sauce usually works out okay. But what to do with ...

Reclaimed Kitchen Sink Pavilion

When we first saw this structure, we thought "Cool, another creative use of recycled material." But on closer inspection, we realized what the structure was actually made of... kitchen sinks!...

10 Eco Friendly Coaster Ideas
To Buy or Make Yourself

Last week AT: Chicago asked if you coaster – the overwhelming response was yes. We agree – we love coasters not only because they protect our furniture, but they also add a nice decorative additio...

Look! Frame as Picture Ledge

While visiting a friend this weekend we spied quite the clever creative reuse - a repurposed frame to display... other picture frames! ...

Creative Reuse 2008: Milk Jug as Kid-Friendly Planter Project

What do you reuse? And how do you do it? Let us know, because we're looking for readers' photos and creative reuse projects. The first 15 ideas we post will get a free AT T-shirt (get all the details ...

Creative Reuse 2008

Whether we're turning spaghetti sauce jars into piggy banks, olive oil cans into planters, or shoe boxes into storage containers, we love that second R -- reuse. And we want to see your creative reuse...

GOMI Style's Cardboard Furniture

There's a new DIY series on the web called GOMI Style. Their focus is green lifestyle and design and their most recent episode demonstrates reuse of cardboard to create cool, almost free, furniture....