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You can do it yourself

Kids, cafe’s, community centers and creative reuse

October 17, 2011

Hedy Hanni had a crazy idea when she was 19. “I wanted to open up an artisan cafe when I was 19 in Chicago, where I grew up.” She now is the proud owner of the newly-opened Time In Play Cafe on Holly Street in Bellingham, with a brightly day-lit cafe in the front, a [...]

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Pot pies, woodshop class overachievers and reused materials

July 25, 2011

There are probably a few people out there who don’t love a good pot pie, but we haven’t found them yet. Bryce Sharp and Nathan Lowe have made a business of them at Man Pies in Bellingham. The entrepreneurial spirit abounds in these two, including a love of building, making and inventing things. Bryce had traveled [...]

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Greenhouse or potting shed: What to do with old windows

July 15, 2011

DW Clark’s greenhouse project started by accident.  A friend of DW’s was replacing the windows in her home and asked Clark if he wanted them. DW remembers, “Without thinking I said yes, and then had to figure out what I was going to do with them.  Because I had so many windows it seemed logical [...]

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Salvaged building supplies as puzzle pieces

April 8, 2010

Gabriel Gonzalez is a young man with many skills and a passion for green design and reuse. He has plans to graduate with a degree in Adpative Reuse from Fairhaven College at Western Washington University in Bellingham in the fall of 2010. He also has worked for the salvage and deconstruction crews at The RE [...]

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Are you a storyteller?

March 24, 2010

Are you looking for a way to help inspire people to take a second look at what is in their trash treasure can? Tell us all about your project that you created from used, recycled, found or scrounged materials in the comment section at the bottom of this post. What did you start with and [...]

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Reuse and design inspiration

March 17, 2010

You may have seen some of these examples in our email newsletter in mid 2009 but these are some truly inspirational examples of repurposed materials. The Web Ecoist gives us all kinds of out-of-the-box examples of inspiration for furniture. ApartmentTherapy.com is a great place to find creative ideas and innovations like these top-notch pieces by [...]

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