Ikea Hacker has a great chicken coop constructed with parts from an Ikea bunk bed, storage unit, and bottle rack.
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Recycled salad box
I’ve always really liked the proportions of Satsuma crates, and the labels are often charming, too. During a recent closet cleaning, I ran across one I’d tucked away and realized it would make a really cute mini-container garden.
I lined the box with a recycled plastic bag and poked some holes in it over the holes [...]
Recycling crayons
It’s probably too soon for kids to be bored with summer break, but I’m going to start sharing some frugal kid-projects from around the net. I found a few posts about reusing small bits of crayons to make big crayons. Zakka Life used candy molds to recycle old crayons into cute shapes. Daily Danny melted [...]
Beer bottle wall
Erika sent me a link to this neat bottle wall the Sustainable Scientist is building. They’re using a variety of beer bottles in a wooden frame - it’s designed so the bottles are replaceable if they get broken.
Another plastic bottle greenhouse
Andru in the UK built his own version of a plastic bottle greenhouse. He got his bottles through Freecycle, a great idea!
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Washing machine greywater resources
Homegrown Evolution has a good roundup up of washing machine greywater resources. I’ve thought about doing this, but my washer is in the basement, below ground level, and that makes things a lot more complicated.
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Deluxe cat bed from junk
Ki Nassauer from Junk Revolution is doing awesome stuff with junk again - she made this totally adorable four-poster cat bed from an old table. Oliver the cat looks quite pleased.
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Recycled hand-tool shed
I really love this kind of simple and creative re-use - Sadge at the Simple Green Frugal Co-op used a garage sale mailbox as a hand-tool storage shed!
Obsolete technology art
WebUrbanist has another wonderful round-up of recycled art - this batch is all from obsolete technology. My favorite is this dangerous-looking cat by Jeremy Meyer - it looks like it’s made mostly from typewriter parts.