Last month we brought you an event taking place in Austin that combined both helping the community and recycling. Called the Fence Me In Project, the aim of the project was to gather the community to...
Beyond throwing open the windows and getting the dirt out of the corners, Spring is a great time to lighten the load of furniture and stuff from inside your house. In the Cure, one of the first assig...
In keeping with the same theme as the Earth Day festivites post earlier this week, we'd like to tell you about another opportunity to help save the planet. If you live in Austin and really want to get...
We're no stranger at trying to make the earth a better place here at AT. Any search will produce many "green" idea posts, from gardening, to recycling to cleaning products and even green home decor. ...
The fabulous selection of wallpaper available these days is a decorator's dream. Bold graphics, jewel tone colors, you name it! After you take the time to do all the work of applying the wallpaper, do...
This being the month for bedrooms, we felt this awesome community patchwork project we stumbled across during Austin's famous First Night celebrations was worth showing. It reminds us of curling up u...
Last weekend we had a sustainable living coach stop by our house. We've always recycled in our apartment and used scratch paper for printing but it never really went beyond that. Toying with compost...
Remember those gorgeous vintage doors from that bold and colorful Austin house tour earlier this month? Discovery Architectural Antiques, in Gonzales, Texas is where designer Misty Adair discovered h...
When money gets tight we have a friend that's brilliant at making ends meet through craigslist. Somehow he just has a knack for selling off garage sale finds and making that extra cash needed to pay ...
After leaving one of Melbourne’s more hidden laneway bars recently, we found this chair hanging out in between some dumpsters. It had clearly been put out with the trash, so we seized the moment and...
One thing people who love DIY projects have in common (besides the fun and thrill of making something yourself) is the money savings involved in taking on the task yourself. In a DIY project, the mos...
If there's one thing we hate more than clutter it would have to be junk mail. No matter how many "stop junk mail" lists we sign up for, the unwanted mail still lands in our mailbox weekly. But it's ...
Good news! The LA Bureau of Sanitation has expanded their approved listing of recyclable materials you can put inside your trusty blue bin each week. All clean plastics from types 1-7, plastic grocery...
These Micro-Cotton Towels by Suite Collection at Bed Bath and Beyond come in great colours and stay soft and fluffy thru many washings. We love the generously sized bath sheet. Summertime is when we ...
Not much detail on Fethi Atakol's site about these designs, but we're loving the reused colander as wall clock idea, alongside the plexiglass+ladder magazine holder. Simple ideas and inspiration to re...
For the Curees, who are halfway through the Spring Cure, now’s a good time to empty your outbox. Once you’ve weeded out the stuff you want to save, the stuff that has to go back into your home, a...
We receive an overwhelming amount of snail mail. Still. Dealing with it is one of our least favorite tasks. Here are some ways we've discovered to make it less painful. What we learned after the ...
So you finished your January Jumpstart project and now you're left with empty spray cans, half empty paint cans, a battery or two and five cfl bulbs. You know you're not supposed to put them in the t...
We just use old grocery bags to hold our recyclables, but our anal-organizer's dream would to be to have something like this Authentic TOP waste bin system......
During our evening commute last night we heard about a progressive LADWP program aimed at lower income households, with the goal of replacing thousands of energy inefficient refrigerators in the city ...
Recycling bottles, cans and papers is easy enough nowadays. Setting aside your common recyclable materials is normally as simple as dropping off items into your blue marked bin for pickup, or finding...
Did you know that it is illegal to leave your X-Mass tree by the curb in Los Angeles? There are a number of places you can drop off your tree to be recycled, and while we cant vouch for this place, ...
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