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... ...
Posts tagged “reuse”
13 Great Uses and Reuses for Paper Bags
If we happen to lapse on taking our reusable totes to the store, which isn't very often anymore thanks to this post, we ask the cashier to pack our groceries in paper bags. Even though there's still a...
13 Ways To Repurpose Old Clothes
Vintage clothes get made into one-of-a-kind boutique pillows We've spent the past few days cleaning out the closet, giving away or donating things that no longer fit or that we no longer wear. But t...
Gazelle: Recycle Your Electronics For Cash
When it comes to old electronics, the usual options are: donate it (great idea but we paid a lot of money for this); recycle it (it's only a few years old, and we'd like to get some money for it); ...
Simple Green: Use It One More Day, One More Time
We had this crazy great aunt. (Everyone seems to have at least one crazy relative in their family.) She had many quirks that we'd make fun of, but there was one that we thought was particularly hil...
22 New Uses for Old CDs
Interbent
We uploaded our CDs to our computer, sold some and gave away some but still, we were left with a good handful. What could we do with them besides toss them?...
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...
Robert Fontenot's Recycle LACMA: New Life for Old Clothes
Like any other item that has outlasted its usefulness, clothing is discarded. Sometimes it is donated and then sent overseas, sometimes it ends up in landfill. What about recycling? Last January,...
Creative Reuse: Before You Toss It, Consider Painting It
Elizabeth Seward's Stenciled Chairs There comes a day in every homeowner's or apartment dweller's life where you need a change. It's not that your home isn't beautiful or functional or well-organize...
Surfboards Made from Wood found Dumpster Diving
Most modern day surfboards are made from styrofoam and fiberglass (not the most friendly materials). And while many companies are recycling their waste and extra foam, there's still plenty of waste. W...
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...
Moving Without the Waste
Blogging the NYT 01.21.2009
Moving often seems to be a part of the lifestyle of 20- and 30-somethings. Between my boyfriend and me, just the last four years have included five moves. We've finally found a place where we'll stay ...
Survey: Vote for Your Favorite R!
This is a fun cartoon that comes from Japan for Sustainability. According to their thinking, the three Rs can actually be ranked in order of importance. And Reduce takes the gold. Do you agree? Which ...
Look!: The Coffee Table That Lived Forever
As many of you know, living in a studio in an expensive city requires ingenuity. We were delighted to learn that one of our clients, Paul Irish, employed the "use what you have" principle so creati...
Furniture from Recycled Oil Drums
There's been beautiful furniture from bicycle parts, an excellent washing machine table and now, there's furniture from recycled oil drums! ...
Look! Chairs from Surfboards
Some of you may have seen these at surf shops on either coast, but here's a great use of old boards that are no longer being used....
Modern Fabrics
AT:Boston readers have heard about Modern Fabrics before, but we'd like to follow up with a few more points on this remarkable source for reclaimed designer fabric....
Look! Paper Boat Wrapping
Ahoy, mateys! Remember Denise of Studio d Sharp? Well she has a way with paper. Not a fan of cutesy-kidsey wrapping paper (neither are we), she fashioned this clever paper boat from an old map to ...
7 Household Uses for Coffee Grounds
Most of us can agree that coffee is a crucial step in our morning wakeup routine. The only things to debate are the options of how we brew the coffee and what type container to drink it from. But what...
BoxCycle: An Online Exchange for Cardboard Boxes
Just last week, we put the last of the cardboard boxes from our move out at the curb with our regular recycling. With the help of BoxCycle, we could have sold those boxes to someone else......
Grasshopper 510
Curious about the name? The grasshopper symbolizes prosperity, wisdom and a leap of faith; 510 represents the wavelength measurement in nanometers for the color green. Grasshopper 510 has a bit of e...
Tichy Trash Cameras
Miroslav Tichý took up photography in the mid-1950s, building his own cameras and enlargers from shoeboxes, tin cans, recycled glass and other waste materials:The rewind mechanisms were made of elast...
How To... Make a Vintage Cake Stand
My sister got married this past weekend and rather than having a wedding cake she asked some of the guests to make cupcakes of their choice. We needed a lot of cake stands to hold the cupcakes so we d...
Working Bikes Cooperative
Storefront 1125 S Western Ave Chicago, Illinois (312) 421-5048 Warehouse927 S Western Ave, 2nd floor workingbikes.org It’s nearing the end of summer, which is also prime biking season. We’ve tal...
Look!: Baking Canisters as Light Fixtures
Two of our favorite things: repurposing and light fixtures. Artist Rodney Allen Trice combines the two in just one project among the most extensive and useful collection of repurposed housewares that...
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