Tag: Recycling | Apartment Therapy

Styling and Salvage: Furniture by Rupert Blanchard

We've seen a lot of furniture made from salvaged materials and while we're nowhere near tired of it, London-based Rupert Blanchard's handmade pieces certainly stand out from the crowd. ...

Cloud 9 Organize & Redesign: Affordable Design Service

Cloud 9 Before (Left) & After (Right) Apartment Therapy is, in part, a community of design-savvy do-it-yourselfers. But for those of you who crave a little extra support when it comes to sprucing...

Re-vive Table Legs by Cohda Design

We came across this great product at Core77 and had to share it with the Apartment Therapy community. The Re-vive table legs turn just about any flat surface of varied size and thickness into a tabl...

Big Blue Bins: New Addition to Boston's Visual Landscape

For months, we knew they were coming. But when the big blue recycling bins landed in Jamaica Plain recently we were amazed by how LARGE they are. Due to their size people are having a hard time f...

Good Questions: How To Recycle Food Packaging?

I was quite inspired by the recent post on the couple who generated only one bag of trash in a year. I compost religiously, recycle everything the city will take, and have found other means by which t...

Do You "Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do"?

Years ago, a friend of ours was downsizing her stuff and we scored this genuine World War II poster (above) in the process. The poster's sentiment is particularly relevant today, in light of our s...

Living Under a Highway: The Big Dig House

The big dig has effected all of us in the Boston area in one way or another. Breaking ground in 1991 and becoming the largest public works project in United States history, the Big Dig is only now f...

Which Plastic Numbers Can You Recycle?
Boston

For our organizing business, we help clients clear out clutter to make way for peaceful spaces. In the process, we're often asked about which plastics are recyclable. From dry cleaning bags to...

How To: Stop Receiving Phone Books
Boston

We live in a three-family home with a decent amount of tenant turnover. It feels like more than a few times per year piles of new phone books languish outside our front door before someone takes th...