DIY Inspiration. Bottle Animals. Recycled water and detergent bottles made into animal lights - but are really cool sculptures on their own.
Pictured: Lights from ABYU lighting.
See also: Earlier Unconsumption posts highlighting two artists’ takes on uses for empty detergent bottles: Bill Culbert’s lights here, and Martine Camillieri’s toy trucks here.
This is a great idea and looks great: Combine the good parts of broken tables and chairs. Bonus: Lamps made from waste sun-screen material:
Gothenburg, Sweden-based design studio, Design Stories, set out to create a collection made of industrial waste material produced by local companies. Working in collaboration with a group of producers and artisans called Returhuset, Merry-Go-Round was born. The pieces are made from materials that would normally be thrown away as trash and the results are a charming collection of lamps and tables with an interesting story to tell.
(via Merry-Go-Round: A Collection Made of Waste Material - Design Milk)
Do you remember our post about the vintage watering can that was turned into a shower fixture? (It’s here, if you want to check it out.)
The blog — The Cozy Old Farmhouse — that shared that repurposing idea also features these lights made from trash can lids and Mason jars.
Something like this could be a DIY project for many of us.
What do you think of this creative reuse?
While we’ve highlighted some creative new uses for parts of “dead” umbrellas (our umbrella-related posts are grouped here), this idea’s new to us:
Combine an umbrella frame with one or more strings of icicle lights to yield some pretty unique lighting.
Spotted on Pinterest here. (For those of us wanting additional information: The original Pinterest pin links to a now-defunct blog here as the source; so, no info!)
For earlier lighting-related posts, browse the Unconsumption Tumblr archive here.
Stockholm 2013: Swedish designers Claesson Koivisto Rune used recycled aluminium to create these small and colourful pendant lamps for Swedish lighting brand Wästberg.
(via dezeen)
![Popped any corks lately? Check out this lamp: British artist/designer Alkesh Parmar made it from Champagne corks.
Want to see more adult beverage-related repurposing? We’ve featured a bunch of it in our wine o’clock series here.
[Thanks for the tip, Estelle H.!]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/85aa53076b907464c830a4e37904effe/tumblr_mg42wh7mEt1qzv12bo1_400.jpg)
Popped any corks lately?
Check out this lamp: British artist/designer Alkesh Parmar made it from Champagne corks.
Want to see more adult beverage-related repurposing? We’ve featured a bunch of it in our wine o’clock series here.
[Thanks for the tip, Estelle H.!]
A sculpture lamp using an authentic Nintendo NES controller and Zapper gun. The Zapper gun is securely mounted to the controller and the trigger still functions. The controller makes for a perfect base to the lamp and the gun handle adds extra stability. … A fitting tribute to the golden age of NES. These two relics now function to illuminate your room as well as your vintage gaming memory.
Carla Peters from Wonderable exhibited her adorable collection of Fair Trade pendant lamps, that are constructed by artisans using recycled waste paper collected from Vietnamese printing companies.
More: Inhabitat
Designer Kelly Caruso is a recent grad with a degree in Furniture Design and Woodworking but it’s her Recycled Pendant Lamps that really caught our attention….
A local restaurant gave her avocado crates that she disassembled and sewed into the various shapes you see here. The layering of the concave disks allows light to pass through creating really interesting shadows.
Dutch designer willem heeffer has created a hanging ski-chandelier for elamysmatkat, a helsinki-based travel agency with donations from old snow-sport equipment.
This colourful up-cycled lamp serves as interior decoration for the office and reflects on the office’s fun and extreme winter philosophy. Industrial size bolt hooks function as coat hangers while the gray-scale world map
stretches out for five meters to impress the clients.
More here: hanging recycled ski-chandelier — designboom
Earlier Unconsumption coverage of Willem Heeffer’s work: lamps made from Campbell’s Soup cans (here) and Heinz Beanz cans (here).
DIY project du jour:
Make a lamp from cardboard and an LED lighting kit.
How-to: Desktop Lamp — Instructables
