Tag: recycle | Apartment Therapy

Bel & Bel Vintage Vehicle Furniture

Our colleague Stephanie over at Re-Nest reported on Bel & Bel's salvaged Vespa parts recreated into office chairs last month, and we just noticed a new addition to their collection. Their beauti...

Create Design Out Of Wine

Ok, not the wine itself but rather the corks from the wine bottles. When you are out and about or relaxing at home and enjoying a glass of wine or two, save the corks for a little design accent in you...

Wary Meyers' Tossed & Found: Unconventional Design from Cast-offs

Here are some preview pages from the new Wary Meyer's Tossed & Found: Unconventional Design from Cast-offs, a DIY, reuse/recycle-centric book from the creative minds of husband and wife team (and th...

Inspiration: Allister Ann's Broken Mirror

Recently BethZ posted about ways to recycle a broken mirror. So, when we spotted this mirror on photographer Allister Ann's blog, we stopped to take a closer look......

Outdoor Lighting Inspiration: Use Lots of Jars

When decorating for the outdoors we tend to err on the side of spending close to nothing since most things get ruined when we forget to bring them inside. So we're constantly on the lookout for affor...

How To: Recycle A Broken Mirror

We're in the middle of repainting our kitchen and bathroom (pics tomorrow) and while removing an old mirror from the wall, it broke in half. After we calmed down (it scared the bejesus out of us) we ...

Mario Stadelmann's Paperchairs: Made From Discarded Newspaper

Here's a chair we'd like to see and sit on in person. Mario Stadelmann's Paperchair is made from discarded newspaper that have been cast into these modern seating solutions. Available in a variety of ...

Bright Idea: New Use For An Old Bulb

We've been slowly phasing out our regular lightbulbs and replacing them with compact fluorescents. This has rendered the regular bulb a little redundant. But we just found a great alternative use fo...

The Yellow Pages: Keep or Toss?

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 ...

Rebound Notebooks
Melbourne

Rebound recycle reading material really nicely – sorry, couldn’t resist the alliteration. The makers of Rebound Books are newly married husband and wife team Ben Mason and Natalie Crupi who decide...

Mark Tuckey: Packing Crate Book Shelves
Melbourne

We really like the asymmetry of these book shelves by Melbourne based furniture maker/designer Mark Tuckey. Made from recycled packing crate wood, the different shaped boxes create a frame-like effect...

Reusing Milk Crates
Australia

Ah the milk crate, the original building block for DIY furniture. Milk crates are often abused in a design sense by students looking for cheap – read free – storage solutions. But we’ve always k...

Mail Back Electronic Clutter

We have a drawer at home with old cell phones, a camera battery or two and a broken ipod. We could use this drawer for something else, but often get hung up on exactly where to take these things. A ...

8 Ways to Reuse 2 liter Plastic Soda Bottles

We've posted about reusing 2-liter soda bottles to capture insects before, and this video includes it amongst their top 8 tips for reusing the common soda bottle for other uses before you chuck it i...

Look! Seed Embedded Gift Card Sprouts Real Lavender

Our good friends over at Craft recently blogged about Etsy seller recycledideas' amazing handmade embossed cards for their unique seed-embedded feature. The "Scraped From the Barrel" collection are ha...

Umbrella Magazine Rack

The other day, we blogged Readymade Magazine going digital. We're in awe of their MacGyver section where they challenge their readers to design products from common household items......

Look! Bottle End Chandelier

Talk about eco-friendly! Artist Stuart Haygarth collects debris that has washed ashore and makes spectacular sculptures out of it. Take for example this luminous, ephemeral almost jelly fish-like ...