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Inspiration: Vintage Tea Packing Chest Kitchen Cabinets

Discovered in a three floor Victorian house in Shoreditch, London, the exterior of these kitchen cabinets are actually lids of vintage tea packing chests......

7 Easy Ways to Reuse a Plank of Wood
Chez Larrson

Have a piece of scrap wood and don’t know what to do with it? Chez Larrson has come up some creative and super easy ways to reuse a plank of salvaged barn wood, and incorportate it into the home. ...

Recycled Car Hood Tables
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How I wish I could weld! Dallas Welder Joel Hester has turned the colorful and rusty hoods of junkyard cars into industrial yet magnificent tables which truly shine, and the most prominent parts of ...

Outdoor Living Room Made from Salvage
The Oregonian: 08.05.09

Finally! We've often wondered if the extravagant "outdoor living room" concept could be done on a non-extravagant budget, or at least look nice but not as fussy as the slick magazine spreads on the ...

Green Tour: A Future Forward Four-Square

Location: Chicago, IL Size: 3600 sq/ft Years lived in: For Sale! >> Enter Slideshow Located in the picturesque and historic Chicago neighborhood, Ravenswood Manor, this home is a future forward â€...

Salvage Love
Blogging Dwell

Redesign Alert! Have you seen Dwell's shiny new website yet? If you haven't, you should cruise right on over to dwell.com right now (well ... after you see what we've got going on here). Their new de...

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...

Green Spotlight: 7 Ways to Use Salvaged Lockers

While browsing through some house tours at the AT city sites (one of our favorite ways to pass the time) we happened upon this image from Jason and J.R.'s Well-Connected Home. We really like the idea...

Look! A Fence of Salvaged Wood

We spotted this fence yesterday afternoon in Portland, Oregon......

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...

Pedestal Sinks at Salvage One

If you're redoing a bathroom, don't discount second-hand fixtures. You can get well-made pieces and/or good deals if you salvage pieces that might otherwise go into the dump. There are a few places ...