Apartment Therapy Tagged: wood

Locally Made Bowls Crafted from Fallen Trees

Spencer Peterman turns fallen, rotting trees into beautiful bowls that can stretch far beyond the kitchen. These natural beauties, filled with something colorful, could be used as permanent centerp...

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!...

Kebonization Turns Softwood into Hardwood

Softwood, which grows faster and is more sustainable than hardwood, is generally unsuitable for the outdoors. A new process called "kebonization" aims to turn softwood into something more durable fo...

The Story of a Bench: Part 1

Okay, we’ve finally decided to do it – get a bench made for the landing strip. We’ve been thinking about it for over a year, and have started the process to work with Green Sawn to make a cust...

How Bad Is Fake Wood Furniture For The Environment?
Slate Magazine

When it comes to furniture in our home, one of the greenest things we can do is to invest in quality pieces that'll last forever and won't end up in a landfill a few years later. But quite often th...

Twig Picture Holders by Kindling

We love the rustic simplicity of Kindling’s picture holders. In white or au naturale, we’d love a few of these display our business cards, photos, art…...

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. ...

The Best Non-Toxic Cleaners You Already Have
Part 4 of 5 - Polishing Wood

In Part Four of The Best Non-Toxic Cleaners You Already Have we look at natural ways to restore the original shine to wood that may have seen better days....

Despite Increased Efficiency, We're Still Using More

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that while construction techniques continue to improve, allowing stronger houses to be built with less wood, we're still using more wood overall....

Flat Pack Emergency Stool

Quick, get the emergency stool! Phew, I'm seated now... With only seconds to spare!!! Designed by d.e. Sellers, the Emergency Stool is a laser-cut piece of Baltic Birch plywood that can be displayed f...

Wooden Postcards from Night Owl Paper Goods

Night Owl's retro postcards are definitely more symbolic of green than actually green, but we do like the designs and the aesthetic of these letterpress prints on real birch wood. We'd rather use the...

Wal-Mart to Phase Out Furniture Made from Illegal Wood

Small changes at Wal-Mart can have a big impact. Wal-Mart is the biggest US retailer of furniture, so we're seeing it as a good thing that they have joined a World Wildlife Fund initiative and announ...

Renovo Wooden Bicycle

We were surprised by this wood bicycle displayed in the airport in Portland, Oregon. First, we thought of the cardboard bike Stephanie posted last week. Then, we realized this bicycle is a thing of ...

Timber Block Stool from VivaTerra

We've always admired Brent Comber's Adler Cube Table (above, right). Made from Cedar, Douglas fir and maple branches that would have been treated as waste, the cubes are a one-of-a-kind table that i...

Vers 2x Wood iPod/MP3 Speaker Dock

Wow. That's all we can manage to get out of our speechless mouths when we read about the Vers 2x Speaker Dock. Real cherry wood from sustainably-managed plantations; 20 watts of power out of each...

Sculpture or Furniture?

This is one way around the problem of a throwaway culture we blogged about yesterday: take things other people think of as junk, then transform them into beautiful and valuable pieces of functional ar...