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Some of the best high style, low budget decorating ideas come from design students whose apartments serve as blank canvasses for expressing their creative ideas. The New York Times Home & Garden editors recently visited the interior worlds of several future design stars and uncovered 19 ideas worth a steal. Many projects feature quickfire re-design [...]
Filed under: Interior Design, Refashion+Refurb | 1 Comment
Tags: Furniture, DIY Decor, DIY furniture
In America, we turn trash into treasure. In Japan, they recycle by design. Case in point: Doug Aamoth’s post about this dining table made from a washing machine drum. He stumbled upon it and the coordinating chairs during a tour oversees at a Japanese recycling plant devoted to handling home appliances like refrigerators, washers, [...]
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Tags: recycled design, modern furniture, Refashion+Refurb, Japanese design
Booklovers now have their own house of worship: the Selexyz Bookstore. Designed by Dutch firm Merkx + Girod, the Selexyz in Maastrict takes its Gothic aspirational feel from the medieval Dominican church that contains it.
The conversion of the church into a retail store centered around a simple, elegant idea: create a freestanding three-story [...]
Filed under: Architecture, Interior Design, News+Features, Refashion+Refurb | 0 Comments
Tags: Meryx Gilrod, Metropolis Magazine, Selexyz Bookstore, Architectural conversions, Dutch architecture, Maastrict, Bookstore design
Some things are better the second time around. Case in point: Ecoist’s collection of fashion accessories designed and made entirely from repurposed Coke Cola labels. Ecoist sources its raw materials from Coke manufacturers in Peru (rescuing the misprinted or discontinued), and local artisans weave labels into a variety of bags and clutches. Check out the [...]
Filed under: Bags, Budget Fashion, Eco-friendly, Fashion - Women, Handmade, Refashion+Refurb | 1 Comment
Tags: Eco-friendly, Handmade, recycled bags, Ecoist, coke, fashion accessories
When faced with constraints, a designer sometimes becomes more creative. This is definitely true for me, and I suspect true for a few of the Season Five designers on Project Runway. In last week’s episode Fashion that Drives You, designers were challenged to fashion an outfit from car parts — a Saturn VUE Hybrid to [...]
Filed under: Fashion - Women, Refashion+Refurb, Runway Shows | 1 Comment
Tags: Project Runway, Jerell Scott, Korto Momolu, Leanne Marshall, Terri Stevens
Shabby chic less the shabby. This weekend project works great on cast-off dressers, sideboards, desks, and tabletops. If you don’t already have a piece in your own pad to experiment with, try hunting down a gem on Craigslist, a local flea market, Goodwill or garage sale.
A Green Twist
Finish it off with a hip, healthier paint [...]
Filed under: Budget Decor, DIY Decor, Eco-friendly, Furniture, Materials+Finishes, Non-toxic, Paints+Techniques, Refashion+Refurb, Videos | 1 Comment
Tags: Eco-friendly, Non-toxic, DIY furniture, modern DIY, how to refurbish furniture, eco friendly paint, podcast
GUY STYLE | Preloved Jackets
These jackets by Canadian designer preloved are ideal for guys who like kickin’ it old skool. The line of urban style outerwear gets its edge from salvaged sweaters and crafted into one-of-a-kind pieces (you can actually see the process unfold on video from the homepage). Who knew that dumpster diving would look so totally righteous?
Most [...]
Filed under: Fashion - Women, Refashion+Refurb, Sales+Shopping, Urban Style, Vintage | 0 Comments
Tags: Sweatshop-free, green fashion, preloved, men's jackets, urban wear, eco fashion
Here’s a fabulous idea to celebrate the coming of spring: a constellation of petite vases courtesy of your favorite tea tin.
FABULOUS VARIATIONS:
Tea not your thing? There are probably other containers and bottles around your pad begging for rescue: that sexy, skinny bottle of olive oil you just finished up. Wine bottles with graphic [...]
Filed under: DIY Decor, Eco-friendly, Interior Design, Refashion+Refurb | 0 Comments
Tags: Eco-friendly, Tabletop
This fabulous DIY wallpaper treatment came from a high-end Italian furniture catalog of all places. A $6,000 plus Italian-crafted bed set against a wallpaper of newspaper that costs–if recycled, almost nothing.
How to Fab Your Walls
It’s all about experimenting with what you’ve got. Look around your space, or a friend’s. You can use almost anything:
Pages from [...]
Filed under: Budget Decor, DIY Decor, Interior Design, Refashion+Refurb, Small Space Style, Wallcoverings | 14 Comments
Tags: creative wallpaper ideas, newspaper wallpaper
For three years, I’ve patiently hunted for a pair of sexy, sustainable knee-high boots and it’s worth the wait. Form & Fauna’s sporty, sexy look speaks to my inner-tomboy. Sleek racing stripes are a signature in this freshman collection of flats, boots and pumps. Even though they hail from the Fall 2007 collection — they [...]
Filed under: Biodegradable, Eco Glam, Eco-friendly, Fashion - Women, Indie, Non-toxic, Refashion+Refurb, Shoes, Urban Style, Vintage | 0 Comments
Tags: Vegan, Sweatshop-free, Eco-friendly, Non-toxic, Biodegradable, Indie, Form & Fauna, cruelty-free shoes, vegan fashion, Skinny Bitch
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