Originally published in January 2008. Harness your creativity to make something useful and keep something else out of landfill. I like the idea of making unique pieces of furniture for my home, and I like not having to pay (or paying very little) for materials to make something that’s worth more than the sum of its parts.

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Flashback Friday: EcoDIY make a chair

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I’ve long been interested in the tiny house movement and admired the homes and the resolve of those who live in them.  I am particularly fond of tiny houses with wheels, but that is another story altogether.   My family of four has recently moved into a smaller house (all four of us, plus the two dogs are unlikely to ever fit into a tiny house, so smaller will have to do for us) and in the process of doing so, we’ve had to get rid of some of our excess stuff.  We’ve shed furniture mostly, but I’ve also cleared out and passed on clothes and toys to make our home less cluttered.

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Tiny Houses & the Shed Project

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Mmm, they say when you press a board to your nose, you get the very pleasant smell of oak and vanilla. This reclaimed whisky barrel flooring from McKay Flooring in Scotland is not cheap at £149 a square metre, but it is beautiful.

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McKay reclaimed whisky barrel flooring

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I first found out about the old National Geographic stash when my boyfriend and I moved in together in 2001. He’s now my husband and the National Geographic collection has crossed continents with us

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Have you ever wondered what to do with your husbands huge collection of old National Geographics?

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I’ve had a beautiful salt lamp from Solay for about 2 years now.  I love it.  The pink salt comes from the foothills of Himalayan Mountains and apart from just being pretty to look at – they’re good for your health too. Salt crystal lamps generate healthy negative ions that cleanse the air.  That feeling in the air after a good rain is from negative ions which is what these lamps emit.

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I’m loving Solay salt lamps

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These sweet bottle gardens are made of glass bottles, cut in half and tweaked to take soil and herbs or other small plants and look gorgeous on your window sill.  Full instructions here . we like it wild: bottle gardens [Design*Sponge]

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EcoDIY: bottle gardens

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Look at the texture on that armchair cover.  I’d love to run my hands all over it. Genius armchair cover made from left-over yarn by Els Van Hemelryck. Moral of the story: left-overs are beautiful, and shouldn’t go into the bin

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Genius armchair cover made from left-over yarn

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The new sharecropping has popped up on the internet.  There’s a great article on Treehugger about SharedEarth.com , a website that “helps match up prospective gardeners to those with gardens, for free”.

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SharedEarth.com: finding the middle ground

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I love the industrial look of these nesting tables by So’mace and Wuttke Werks . They’re made of reclaimed whitewashed Douglas Fir and recycled rebar in Hawaii

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Recycled rebar nesting tables

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There are 50 all-time favourite new uses for old things over at Real Simple , like this toilet roll cord organiser and tomato sauce bottle pancake batter dispenser.  I’ll add one of my own new things made from old toilet rolls.  Take a look. 50 All-Time Favorite New Uses for Old Things [Real Simple] Recycled loo roll art [High on butterfly wings]

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New uses for old things

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