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Transforming the building industry

The RE Store on Eco-Logical Home’s Podcast

January 27, 2012

The Eco-Logical Home is a weekly podcast program exploring sustainability and creating healthy, energy efficient, and joyful places to live.  Host Terry Phelan interviews guests that practice ways to design, organize, build, and maintain healthy, comfortable, and resilient places to live – and she recently interviewed The RE Store’s Bray Hayden, Seattle Outreach, Marketing & [...]

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Video – Do it yourself cabinet decoration with scrap trim

November 25, 2011

In this Quick Tip from our resident furniture design/build rockstar, Eberhard Eichner, learn how to turn scrap pieces of trim / molding into creative accents for cabinetry. You could apply these techniques to counters, tables, and other home decor items. Learn more about The RE Store’s REvision Division, making affordable furniture from reclaimed materials or [...]

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The RE Store spreads the Word of Salvage to Japan

October 20, 2011

The RE Store in Seattle hosted a group of Builders, Developers, and Architects from Japan this week.  They came to the states to attend the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Remodeler’s Show in Chicago, and had a two day stop in Seattle to see a couple of projects, and visit a salvage company – [...]

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The Future of Reuse and Recycling in Seattle – Your Input Requested!

September 15, 2011

Here at The RE Store, our mission is to keep useable building materials out of the waste stream – reusing what can be reused, and making sure as much of the rest that can be recycled is recycled.  We’ve diverted over 4 million pounds of construction & demolition waste from the landfill annually – while [...]

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Furniture made from doors, reclaimed lumber, trim and hardware

August 30, 2011

The REvision DIvision is building functional and affordable furniture in it’s not-so-secret laboratory. Doors, cabinet doors, reclaimed wood, used hardware and other materials are being upcycled into chests, tables, armoires, cabinets and other household items.  Eberhard Eichner is the mastermind behind The RE Store’s long-envisioned program that got off the ground in the spring of [...]

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Green Demolition – A Conversation with Noel Stout

August 12, 2011

Green Demolition, aka “Deconstruction”, is a form of building demolition that utilizes a combination of machine and hand-dismantling to recover materials for reuse.  The RE Store specializes in whole-building deconstruction, which is economically competitive with regular demolition and allows for the reuse up to 50 percent of most structures, recycling as much as possible of [...]

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The Tombstone Project: reclaimed lumber, wavy glass and wabi sabi

July 7, 2011

They just don’t build it like they used to, unless they work at Smith & Vallee Woodworks and Gallery. The talented and hardworking quartet has transformed an old barn into a state of the art shop, using lumber and windows salvaged out of the remodel to create their Tombstone Project cabinet and furniture collection. The [...]

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The Tombstone Project: Salvaged materials, barn restoration and green building

July 1, 2011

Smith & Vallee Gallery is launching one of their most unique design projects and furniture collections, “The Tombstone Project”, opening on the same evening as their new Woodshop Grand Opening, July 9th, from 5-8pm in Edison. These well-established Northwest artisans of green-built finish work have put their skills to work in creating their state-of-the-art woodshop, [...]

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Salvage statistics to be proud of

December 20, 2010

The RE Store has calculated the total tonnage of building materials and home decor items that we salvaged from being needlessly wasted in 2010. To sum it all up, we saved more than the equivalent of five Boeing 747s. That is also the same weight as 10 locomotive engines or 56 truck semi- trailers or [...]

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Salvage Ghosts of John Hay Elementary

November 17, 2010

John Hay Elementary atop Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill has given up its ghosts. That is, The RE Store’s salvage crew has been working as a part of the major remodeling that is taking place in the fall of 2010. The non-profit’s mission is to keep valuable materials from being wasted. According to the Seattle Public [...]

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