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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Deluxe cat bed from junk
Posted in Craft, Creativity, DIY, Recycled Also tagged crafts, cute, furniture, making things, Recycled 3 Comments
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!
Ugliest light fixture re-make
Ki Nassauer of Junk Revolution makes the most amazing things out of junk - she has a great eye for seeing the potential in stuff. She recently had an Ugliest Light Fixture in the World Contest asking her commenters for ideas about what to do with a truly horrible light fixture. There were some great [...]
Posted in Craft, Creativity, DIY, Recycled, Swapmeets Also tagged crafts, making things, Recycled, scrap 2 Comments
Vertical gardening
Smith and Hawken is selling these vertical gardens (looks like they’re sold out). I’ve been trying to figure out how to go vertical with strawberries without going broke - I think I could make a cheaper version of this kind of system. It also doesn’t look all that stable on its own; something freestanding would [...]
Seattle surplus
The City of Seattle has a surplus warehouse - they currently have leftover street signs, used parking meters, typewriters, other odd stuff. I also found a link there to Public Surplus, an online clearinghouse of stuff from all over the country - there’s a spot on the right to check for surplus auctions in your [...]
Posted in Buy stuff cheap, Recycled, Scrapyards Also tagged cheap stuff, scrap, Seattle, stores Leave a comment
Shipping container home blog
Marti in Missouri is building a shipping container home and documenting the progress in a blog. It’s fascinating to watch it all come together, from the first ideas (which were not for a cargo container house) and planning process to installing radiant heat in the floor to getting windows.
Posted in Recycled, housing Also tagged cargo containers, housing, making things, Recycled, shipping containers 1 Comment
Repurposed rain gutters
Wow - I wouldn’t have thought that gutters could hold enough dirt to grow actual vegetables! (though I’ve had little ferns grow in mine) This gutter garden belongs to Cornelia, who posted on Homegrown. This is a great use for salvaged gutters, and I love how it looks against the house. I’d be a bit [...]
Posted in Creativity, Garden, Recycled, Scrapyards Also tagged Garden, growing, Recycled, scrap 12 Comments
Recycled barrel chair
Most chairs made out of barrels look really uncomfortable - Monkeybrad has put together an Instructable for a chair that I think I could actually sit in for more than five minutes. Plus it’s blue.
Shipping pallet outdoor furniture
Re-nest has before-and-after pictures of cathinca’s shipping pallet furniture. This is out on her deck, but if you had a big space and needed cheap furniture, it would work really well, too.