Apartment Therapy Tagged: reuse

Shopping Twin Cities Green

Semi-officially deemed the best antidote to green guilt in the Twin Cities, this Uptown Mpls greenporium has the fair trade wares and national niche brands you’d expect. What we didn't: a wide mix o...

Creative Reuse: Newspaper Brick Maker & Log Roller

At this point, we are pretty much digital only when it comes to the news, but we know we are in the minority. So when we stumbled across these interesting, sorta old fashioned products we thought we'd...

Inspiration: Plastic Bag Art

AT’s Green Month has us doing more than just looking for recycled stuff. It’s rethinking what and how we consume and how we can reconsume and reconsider. Example: plastic bags. ...

Reclaimed Granite Pavers

Get a bit of local history along with some green re-using and a great patio. The city of Minneapolis will sell you reclaimed - and crazy heavy - granite pavers. ...

Creative Reuse: Reclaimed Wood Box Stairs

As part of a project in Germany, Jan Korbes used recovered antique floor wood and leftover construction wood to create this unusual staircase of add-on boxes. This is just one of many "garbage archit...

Finding Reclaimed Materials at Planet Reuse

Kansas City architect Bradley Hardin and his partners Nathan Benjamin and Daniel Fox decided there weren't enough resources for those interested in using salvaged or reclaimed materials. So they di...

One Day Paper Waste Furniture

Copies become original in the hands of Jens Praet. He turns discarded spreadsheets, et al, into shelves and consoles with the strength of wood and ghost of old business....

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...