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garden art

Outdoor Cinemas, Flying Beds & Funky Junk at NW Flower & Garden Show

March 8, 2013

Did you ever ride on a flying bed made from old stair stringers and reclaimed fir posts? If you didn’t get a chance to see it in person, we had a suspended day bed from which to watch the movie screen on the side of the “house” with salvaged beveled siding. Cabinet drawers arranged around the bed [...]

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Show Us Your Junk – 2013 Call for Recycled Art & Functional Designs

January 29, 2013

One of the harbingers of Spring is The RE Store’s annual Call for Recycled Art and Functional Designs. The RE Store’s Recycled Arts Show will bring fresh examples of fine art and useful things for it’s 12th year. Galleries this year include: Blowing Sands Studio and the Laura Frost Fine Arts Gallery in Seattle (Ballard) [...]

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The Salvage Path – a Side Yard of Repurposed Goods

August 31, 2012

James Taylor  has been with The RE Store’s Seattle field crew for over a decade now, helping to fill the stores with artfully removed and carefully preserved salvaged materials.  But as a self-avowed packrat (in recovery) and homeowner, he also has many pieces that have gone home with him – many still waiting to become projects too [...]

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Salvage Garden Fun at Village Green Nursery

June 28, 2012

In the White Center neighborhood of West Seattle, there is a little woodland garden oasis called Village Green Perennial Nursery.  This nursery also happens to be a great place to get ideas for reuse garden projects as well.  There are all sorts of great reuse and salvage projects at this garden center to inspire you [...]

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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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Salvage Materials Transformed into Fun Garden Art at The Purple Bench

August 19, 2011

When Lynn Cushway built the little out building on her Oak Harbor property in 2002, she had no idea that it would eventually become The Purple Bench – Antiques & Gardens shop.  But as this creative lady retired last year, she realized that all her years of collecting antiques, recycling materials and creating beautiful landscapes [...]

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Illuminating recycled art and design with style

April 9, 2011

Guest post by Alana Coleman, artist, designer and bright shining light I have always loved the old gas outdoor street lamps the kind you see in Europe. But I didn’t have a yard so I decided to create one I could use inside my home. I found some old style light fixtures in an antique shop and went home [...]

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Old Friends and New at the Flower & Garden Show

February 28, 2011

So great to see old friends, and make new ones at the NW Flower and Garden Show this past weekend!  The RE Store crew busted out an “Inside Out” display garden in just two days, with the wonderful plant help and chicken wrangling of Seattle Urban Farm Co.  A special thanks to them – and [...]

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