Tag: creative reuse | Apartment Therapy

Carpet Hides by Stefan Lehner

If your decorating style is more whimsical than traditional, you might not have any oriental-patterned rugs at home. But here's a shape that takes the seriousness right out of them....

Clothes Hangers Lamps & Chandeliers by Luís Teixeira

Portuguese designer Luís Teixeira creates furniture and lighting by reusing and recycling mass produced materials — here are his lamps made with disposable plastic hangers. ...

Tchotchke Find! Potential Uses for an Odd Object

I stopped by one of my favorite favorite flowers shops that sells small antique tables, hand made jewelry and miscellaneous wares and came across this silver and gold tchotchke. It reminds me of som...

Stylish Spirits: Bottles You'll Want to Reuse
Roundup

Some packages are just too pretty to part with. That's how we felt when we saw Integrity Spirits' Lovejoy Vodka bottles. If the name alone doesn't put you in a festive mood, the chic graphic label w...

Ricardo Bofill's Cement Factory Home
LoftLife

We received this impressive peek inside architect Ricardo Bofill's Barcelona home and office via LoftLife — it's an abandoned cement factory that Bofill found in 1973 and has adapted to highli...

Custom Cabinets for Old Drawers by schubLaden

A friend of ours posted a link to this company on her Facebook page last night and we were instantly smitten. schubLaden, a German furniture making company finds old drawers and builds new casings ...

5 Things to Do With Bubble Wrap After You Move

A year ago we moved across the country, an endeavor that required A LOT of bubble wrap. We kept it and used it recently for a smaller move within the same city, but now we’re done moving for awhil...

DIY: Using IKEA Cabinets for a Kitchen Storage Bench

No matter how hard I try, I don't like to cook. So, in hopes of luring myself into the kitchen, I've created the atmosphere to feel more like an extension of my living space than a kitchen. In that...

Modern Woven Textiles by Angharad McLaren

I'm in love with the neon colors and intricate woven patterns by Scottish designer Angharad McLaren. Inspired by sports and performance textiles like climbing rope and fishing nets, she repurposes e...

Repurposed Objects Inspired by Makea

In response to our throwaway consumer culture, a collective called Makea sprouted in Spain in 2006. Makea's aim is to inform and inspire people to repurpose cast-offs instead of buying new stuff wi...

Flashmob Pendant by Henny van Nistelrooy

As someone who has occasionally assisted with professional photo shoots and art-directed some photography, I found this pendant lamp by Henny van Nistelrooy both inventive and smart — the pend...

Recycled Airplane Wing Desk by Reestore

Apparently we've got some strange plane fetish going on lately, evidenced by last week's post about an old plane turned hostel and now today, this wing desk named "Deborah". There is something kind...

Lifesize Dollhouse by Heather Benning

click thumbnails for larger pics This life-size dollhouse sits in a field in Manitoba. Abandoned in the late 60s, the house was transformed into a giant dollhouse by Saskatchewan artist Heather Benni...

Hot or Not? Coffee Filter Wall Decor

Our redesign clients ask us all the time for inexpensive wall decoration ideas so we took notice of this use of coffee filters and unidentified tacks to create a flowing wall decoration over on Dann...

What Untraditional Fabrics Do You Use?

We're always thinking about how to use textiles that were designed for other purposes in our home decor. We found this white vintage stool in the photo above, at Boomerangs in Jamaica Plain for $20...

House Tour: Inside Marc and Lana's Big Dig House
Lexington, Massachusets

Name: Marc and Lana Location: Lexington, Massachusetts Years lived in: Just about two Enter Big Dig House Gallery Last fall on a tour of Lexington's mid-century modern homes, we were lucky enoug...