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PSE’s Re-Energized by Design winners – designing around reuse

May 5, 2013

Scott and Nia Sayers spent the last six months winning a competition that remodeled their home’s interior, benefitted their family and their professional lives, all while designing around reuse. That contest was Puget Sound Energy’s Re-Energized by Design challenge that pitted six households against each other in a contest that we quote here from the PSE [...]

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Where Do You Wear a Chair?

April 8, 2013

Q: What do art galleries, beach cleanups and salvaged materials have in common? A: The RE Store’s 12th Annual Recycled Arts Show opening weekend The Recycled Art Program has been showcasing creative works made from used materials since its early days in the late 1990′s, with partners over the years that have included: Whatcom Museum, [...]

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Picker professional Devin Champlin – luthier, musician and salvager

March 15, 2013

Our old friend Devin Champin, had a short and well-done video made about him. He shares how he uses reclaimed wood in building guitars. His work as a luthier and instrument repairman continues to gain notoriety. And if you haven’t ever seen him perform with one of his projects like the Gallus Brothers or any [...]

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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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DIY Garden Shed: Extra Space or Special Place

January 9, 2013

Sheds and shacks can be a saving grace for home owners, creatives, gardeners, or contemplatives.  Have you considered a small space recently that could give you on-site storage or reprieve from the rat race? Gaetan Veilleux designed and built himself a sweet little 10×12 garden shed in Edmonds, Washington. His father was a master carpenter/cabinetmaker so [...]

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Entrepreneurs needed for construction and demolition waste

January 2, 2013

It is time for you to get out your entrepreneurial hat. Imagine tons of useful construction and demolition waste, sorted and available by the truck load. What can you dream up in the way of fabulous new products that help our dear citizenry? The supply is about to increase because the City of Seattle is [...]

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Industrial Demolition Contractors Embrace Reuse and Recycling of Materials

October 29, 2012

What happens to a 1.2-million-square-foot aluminum plant when skyrocketing energy costs force its doors closed forever? In the wrong hands, it could become a massive pile of rubble languishing in a landfill. However, when the Goldendale Aluminum Plant in southern Washington shut down in 2003, the owners insisted on hiring industrial demolition contractors who could [...]

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One man’s junk is another man’s musical instrument

July 24, 2012

Guest post by Doug Banner I am always surprised at how often people tell me that they are not artistic or creative. In our culture you must have exhibited in a gallery or performed to be called an artist. I play at playing music and music keeps me sane or at least as sane as [...]

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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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