Hmmm, chairs made from crates, or pallets? (Or both?!)
(Chairs pictured made by roughsouthhome on Etsy)
New uses for old crates, continued:
Upcycle them into furniture.
AutumnWorkshop made the items pictured above.
Know anyone who’s looking for Halloween costume ideas?
There’s this (brief tutorial), from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories: How to build a better bat costume.
Find other uses for dead umbrellas here, and earlier Unconsumption Halloween-related posts here.
Here’s a fun and provocative line of thought for a Saturday:
How often does the kind gesture of sharing your umbrella with a companion end with the two of you awkwardly out of step, drenched instead of dry? Belgian designer Quentin de Coster sought to remedy this by creating a two handled or “BRANCH” umbrella for a sharing twosome. By taking second hand umbrellas and replacing them with a handle of his own design printed by the 3-D company Materialise, de Coster breathes new life into the mundane old umbrella.
De Coster originally created the BRANCH umbrella for the auction “Second Hand, Second Life” put on by the Belgian non-profit Les Petits Riens/Spullenhulp. His communal umbrella is both an invitation to share, but it also encourages you to walk in stride with your partner, and “to be less individualistic and take time,” he says.
More here: The Umbrella Built for Two: A Playful Rethinking of a Mundane Object | Design on GOOD
A good use for empty wine bottles. (Taken with Instagram at HCAF Point Theater)
As many of you who are connected with Unconsumption’s Facebook page know, I (Molly) recently visited Schreiner University (in Kerrville, Texas) to talk to students about upcycling.
While in the area, I spotted a couple of cool reuse examples, including this bottle tree on the grounds of the Hill Country Arts Foundation.
(If you like this bottle tree, check out others in earlier Unconsumption posts here, and more wine-related repurposing here.)
Happy wine o’clock (somewhere)!
By request of an Unconsumptioneer who thinks I should have first dibs on pointing out anything involving PBR and Etsy sellers, I bring you this listing:
Lamp is constructed using a quality vintage Pabst Blue Ribbon 16oz “Tall Boy” pull tab can. Can is in great condition and very strong and sturdy. Lamp shade is hand constructed of can pull tabs which makes for a very unique light pattern
More: Vintage PBR Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Can Lamp by LicenseToCraft
A sort of meta-Unconsumption effort here: finding a creative reuse for creative-process sketches/notes:
we knew there had to be better home for our old process drawings than overstuffed file drawers and every other nook and cranny around our desks we could find. each sketchlight pendant is a unique handmade representation of our creative process.
(via sketchlight pendants. – graypants)
More good stuff from Graypants, here.
Coffee-related reuse, continued:
Coffee sacks upcycled into a headboard.
Via me and jilly, which provides how-to DIY info. (Note: That blog post mentions using spray adhesive to attach batting to a base; I’d be inclined to use hot glue instead.)
Office + Retrofit is a collection created by Sovrappensiero Design Studio for Manerba as part of a “recovery intervention” to reuse Manerba’s stock of old office furniture and to reinterpret their products in a new way.
(via Design Milk)
A previous example here.
Pictured above: Drawers repurposed as a cat tree.
Brazilian designer Brunno Jahara of Jahara Studio has created a collection of furniture made using scrap wood. Called Neorustica, discarded strips of wood have been painted in bright colours and joined together to form cabinets.
Japanese design studio nendo has worked with Coca-Cola to create ‘Bottleware‘, tableware made from glass Coca-Cola bottles that have deteriorated over the course of extensive recycling.
The material has been upcycled to make dishes and bowls that retain and enhance the distinctive lower shape and greenish-blue glass, as well as the ridges on the bottom.
Two things Tuesday: Milk cartons
Got milk (cartons)?
Turn an empty milk or juice carton into a bird feeder or a bird house.
Photos: Top: Kaboose.com. Bottom: Youthworks Practice.
