Keeping Spirit of Historic Neighborhood: Row House Café

November 2, 2011

Located in South Lake Union’s Cascade neighborhood in Seattle, the Row House Café offers a comforting sense of nostalgia in appearance and atmosphere and is known among its customers as the “neighborhood living room.” Originally built in 1904 as three row houses that offered work force housing, the structure has since been redeveloped into the [...]

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The RE Store enters – and wins – a pumpkin carving contest!

October 28, 2011

Carve for a Cause is a pumpkin carving contest event and fundraiser put on by Architects Without Borders -  Seattle (AWB-S), a nonprofit whose mission is to provide ecologically sensitive and culturally appropriate design assistance to communities in need.  This annual affair held at Design Within Reach in downtown Seattle calls upon design, contractor and [...]

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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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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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Cyndy’s House of Pancakes Salvage Treasures

October 6, 2011

Long time, iconic Cyndy’s House of Pancakes on Aurora at 105th in Seattle sadly closed its doors this summer.  News reports say that it is closing after 58 years of service due to the building being demolished to make way for a new multi-story, mixed-use building – and that there should be a space in [...]

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Making Beautiful Use of Scrap Wood – a RE Store Rockstar Headboard

September 29, 2011

Jenn Anderson was in need of a headboard for her bed, and wanted to find an inexpensive and creative  way to build something for herself.  She saw a chair made of scrap wood in a shop in Ballard that was her initial inspiration. Only having a chop saw to use for this project informed her [...]

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Peak Moment Interviews an Avid Customer of The RE Store

September 22, 2011

Peak Moment – an online television series featuring folks working to create a more sustainable, resilient and lower-energy future – has interviewed Jim Bristow, designer/builder with Bristow Enterprises, and an avid customer and friend of The RE Store.  This Ballard residence has been transformed, with every last detail thought through with sustainability in mind, and [...]

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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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Fall harvesting in the RE Patch – food and reuse

September 9, 2011

The RE Patch community garden and demonstration site is enjoying it’s first harvest season. This urban pea patch lives behind The RE Store in Bellingham, as a part of the The RE Store/RE Sources/Sustainable Living Center compound. It is a fertile and food-bearing example of creative reuse and volunteer elbow grease, guided by the good [...]

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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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