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Notes from the Field Crew – Aerialist and Tetris-style Salvage Techniques

May 10, 2012

Greetings and salutations from all of us here on the Seattle field crew. Like you, we have also noticed that glowing, round object in the sky, which must mean that it’s Spring. This time of year brings more Salvage Service jobs and more hours spent crammed in the cab of The RE Store trucks. From [...]

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A Piece of History Gets a New Life at The Mighty House

April 19, 2012

Mighty House Construction Co-Founders, Doug and Laura Elfline found themselves expecting twins in 2006, and quickly realized that their “postage stamp-sized” place in Georgetown was not going to fit the needs as the family was about to double in size.  So they bought a modest house in West Seattle that was originally built in 1980 [...]

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Gourmet locavores and reclaimed materials at The Willows Inn

April 16, 2012

The Willows Inn on Lummi Island has leapt into the national gourmet food limelight in the last 18 months, under the culinary guidance of Olympia born, 25-year old acclaimed chef Blaine Wetzel. A 2011 article in the New York Times, titled, “10 Restaurants Worth a Plane Ride”, placed the Willows Inn amongst the great gastronomic [...]

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How to make tables from recycled materials II: Edging with trim

March 22, 2012

So you learned how to make a solid base for your table in the first video. In this second part of The RE Store’s REvision Division video series about making small tables from reclaimed materials, learn innovative ways to use salvaged materials for the rim of a small table. Watch Eberhard use corner blocks and [...]

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Make furniture with fast easy joining technique video

March 16, 2012

Furniture joinery might seem like it requires years of practice and great attention to detail. Eberhard Eichner, lead designer and builder in The RE Store’s REvision Division, begs to differ. The 30-year veteran of finish carpentry, furniture making and repair has figured out a way to quickly create strong joints when building furniture. Using his [...]

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Notes from the Field Crew – Cabinet Sets and Marble Bits

March 8, 2012

Notes and photos by Ryan DeSales, Seattle Field Crew member The RE Store relies on a dedicated team to keep things running smoothly. If you’re a regular at our Bellingham or Seattle stores, you might even know a few us by name. What you might not know, however, is that we have a whole cast [...]

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How to make small tables from recycled materials – Part 1:Table Underpinnings

February 29, 2012

Watch the latest do-it-yourself video below from The RE Store’s REvision Division. Get a mini-seminar in “How to make small tables from recycled materials” This video is the first chapter in the table making series, focusing on creating the legs and structural support for the table, known as the underpinnings. See how to give different [...]

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Jacob’s Ladder from reclaimed materials at the Spark Museum

February 15, 2012

Bill Englander is an out-of-the-box tinkerer. His most recent project was building a Jacob’s Ladder for the newly rebranded Spark Museum in Bellingham. We will just let Bill tell you in his own words below the video… As a boy, I had two grandfathers who each taught me the fine art of tinkering and repair.  [...]

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Forest Salvage plus Local Milling equals Sustainable Finish Lumber

February 7, 2012

The RE Store asks the folks at Local Source Forest Products, Inc. how they can make the claim to be creating sustainably harvested, locally processed old growth wood products. Old spring board stumps and felled tree remnants from 100-year old historic logging operations are being turned into premium finish grade material in their Whatcom County facility. The [...]

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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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