Apartment Therapy Tagged: reuse

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...

BKLYN Designs: Kupe Line Repurposed Bourbon Barrels from Uhuru

Red Hook based Uhuru was showing off their new Kupe collection of furniture at BKLYN Designs this weekend. Crafted from used bourbon barrels from Kentucky, the Kupe collection includes various benc...

Free Historic Bricks for Seattle Residents

This morning we read on Shelterrific that there are a lot of free bricks just waiting to be hauled off by Seattle residents. Reading about the demolition of the old Rainier Brewery made us flash back...

The ReUse Center

Back when green was primarily a color, ReUse served a granola-slash-frugal clientele. Now eco is chic, thrift is vintage and Reuse is still cheap. In 25,000 semi-orderly square-feet and two suburban l...

Plastic Bottle Decor by Michelle Brand

Fashioned as screens, curtains or room dividers, Michelle Brand strings together the flower-like bottoms of plastic bottles for her repurposed creations....

Look! Yogurt Container Lampshade

As if we didn't miss real European yogurt enough as it is (we have yet to find a yogurt stateside that nears the delicious creamy quality of french concoctions), we see this mod-a-licious overhead lam...

Living Green House Tour at BHG.com

Better Homes and Gardens and Clorox have produced a travelling exhibit to show how you can go green.Lots of familiar ideas here: as shown left, use reusable containers instead of disposable bags, chan...

Reader Tip: Turn Salvaged Drawers Into a Cat Tree

Last summer, we happened upon an abandoned dresser on the sidewalk near our apartment. We thought to ourselves -- if only we were clever enough to see some potential in it, to turn it into something...

20 Ways to Reuse from AT:CHI

The EPA lists Reuse as the top strategy for reducing waste in landfills. Although tackling the waste reduction problem requires coordinating many large-scale efforts (including corporate and communi...

8 Ways to Reuse 2 liter Plastic Soda Bottles

We've posted about reusing 2-liter soda bottles to capture insects before, and this video includes it amongst their top 8 tips for reusing the common soda bottle for other uses before you chuck it i...

Good Question: Another Use for a Shrunken White Fabric Shower Curtain?

(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) This is our question: Recent...

Recycled Kitchens from Green Demolitions
The New York Times 4.10.08

Amidst all the luxury kitchen remodels and fanfare for new products, Steve Feldman started the not-for-profit Green Demolitions to make the process of donating a kitchen simple and financially appeali...

Hot or Not?: DIY Lamp from an Old Washing Machine Barrel

DIY Lamp from an Old Washing Machine Barrel...

Twisted Newspaper at Cost Plus

Our local Cost Plus World Market has a bunch of products made from twisted newspaper. (They call it "recycled," but "repurposed" might be a more apt description.)Most are purely decorative, like cute...

How To: Use Leftover Fabric Scraps

Have a lot of leftover fabric scraps from a recent craft project? We've complied a roundup of simple ways to use your leftover scraps. These are just a few ideas we found on the web...add your own su...

Svanna's Recycled Calendar Lampshade

We love how Svanna recycled her calendar. Jump below to see another use......

Bulbs Unlimited: Recycle Spent Bulbs Into Light Fixtures

Bulbs Unlimited sells a kit for making light fixtures out of spent bulbs. While we try to avoid buying an extra thing to make use out of old things, we enjoyed the gallery of the resulting projects....

Glass Bottle Revamp

We're pack-rats. Project pack-rats to be more precise. It's not that we want to stuff our home to the gills, but we have this browsing-thrift-store-junk-shelves-issue that clutters up that little sp...

San Francisco Recycled Paper Bowl by Picapicadesign

Picapicadesign created this San Francisco Recycled Paper Bowl by hand molding it from paper pulp made from recycled paper grocery bags. An old map of San Francisco is on the interior of the bowl....

Green Ideas: Drawer Organizers

We all have a junk drawer (or two) and your kids probably have junk stashed away somewhere as well - arts and craft supplies, small toy collections, etc. Bella Dia has devised a super simple way t...

Blogging This Old House: Recycled, Repurposed Nontoxic House

We’re always interested in ways how to make our homes greener. Linda and Mike Lessner made this quest a way of life when they purchased their 1940 Cape Cod home. The October issue of This Old Hous...

Reusing Wine Bottles

It's fun to empty them, but what about reuse? There are lots of ways to reuse wine bottles: they're strong enough for multiple use, easy to clean, and their shape is pleasing. So, we've pulled toget...

Green Tip: Refinish that Bathtub

We're still regretting a bad decision from three years ago. We got rid of a wonderfully comfortable, deep, and incredibly heavy 1930's bathtub because it had a scratch. It went to a salvage yard, s...

Treasure Island's Green Future

Really, our only experience with Treasure Island has been when we used to visit its short-lived Flea Market. But there are actually big plans for the sad little man-made island that, at this point,...