“Gardening with repurposed objects” is a recurring theme here on Gardens in Unexpected Places.
Today, I’m pleased to add this item to the mix: a boombox garden.
A pretty good new use for a dead boombox, isn’t it?
(spotted on EcoSalon)
We can’t get enough pallet-ness these days, evidently.
The pallet pendant shade is made from…….you guessed it pallets. We recycle all types of pallets therefore the patina may vary from shade to shade. Each one is hand made all the way down to the elastic, of which there is a choice of colours you can pick from to make each shade fit with your home.
You, the user get the pleasure of assembling the pallet shade, but unlike most self-assembling products the pallet shade is easy and satisfying, especially when you click the final piece in place, they all come with easy to understand instructions and there’s no gluing, screwing or hammering. No tools needed.
Hand Made Recycled Wooden Pallet Hanging Lamp by FactoryTwentyOne, Via BLTD.
(To fold your own napkins — ideally reusable cloth napkins — into “rabbits,” see this tutorial from Martha Stewart.)
Looking for some simple, DIY ideas for green Easter decor?
We’ve rounded up several ideas, including this cute basket — just weave strips of paper or ribbon through a strawberry basket’s slots (great idea via Parentella blog!) — on this Unconsumption Pinterest board.
See also: Our Easter-tagged items on Tumblr.
Yes You Can Go a Year Without Buying Clothes! I Did It And So Can You | The Billfold
DO YOU:
Think about new outfit ideas when you’re bored?
Only feel calm and clear-headed when you’re at the mall?
Envision clothing items before you’ve seen them at a store?
Dream about manicures that will match your outfits?
Buy items that you never end up wearing?THEN PERHAPS:
You, like me, have a clothes addiction and would like some help putting the kibosh on your most expensive and time-consuming habit/hobby.LET ME HELP WITH MY NEARLY-PROVEN 11-STEP PROGRAM.
It is working for me, and it will work for you.
Amusing (but still useful!) advice from The Billfold, continued here.
Philadelphia’s ReStore honors the work of the craftsmen of yore by selling architectural salvage — things like windows, doors, mantels and even doorknobs. Humble as they are, these items hold a powerful history that often evokes unexpected emotions and memories in the store’s customers. For ReStore, reclaiming and repurposing these forgotten treasures preserves something valuable while giving it a second life.
(via The Art of Architectural Salvage: ReStore | The Etsy Blog)
Oh, you know, just a floating bed made from pallets.
Maybe pair it with this hanging daybed made from a boat?
The beginnings of a school bus conversion into a mobile garden!
I’m a sucker for mobile gardens. And creative reuses for cars and buses.
Plastic, strung. Installation at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 2009. (Photo via Betty Birney’s Blog.)
Don’t you think something like this would make a unique room divider?
Nirit Levav Packer via The Telegraph (photos Nirit Levav / Rex Features)
The Internet is full of ideas for ways to reuse pallet wood. We here at Unconsumption certainly have shared a good number of them. (Browse our Pinterest board here, Tumblr archive here, and/or Facebook album here for various examples, including several ideas for DIY projects.)
If pallet repurposing interests you, and you’ve been wondering how to go about disassembling pallets, here’s a brief tutorial from Old World Garden Farms that looks like it could be helpful.
I’m guessing that most of us don’t own the tool the tutorial recommends using: a reciprocating saw (a.k.a. “sawzall”) that can cut through nails. If, like me, you don’t own one, perhaps you live someplace where there’s a tool bank where you could rent such a tool, or a tool library where you could borrow one?
Special note: For reuse projects, many of us look for pallets that are made from harder wood that, if it’s been treated, was heat-treated, not chemical-treated. We mention it on Facebook here.
Another cabin constructed from pallet wood — this one’s on wheels. (And it’s a work-in-progress for Michael Janzen, but still, pallet-reuse inspiration!)
(via Tiny Free House)
