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The RE Store and Alcoa – supporting construction waste reduction and creative reuse

January 20, 2012

The RE Store has a long history of bootstrapping its own projects and innovations. We have had very few grants over the years. The few we have been awarded were focused on research and development of creative ways to reclaim more materials from the flood stage waste stream that we are drowning in. We already [...]

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Used Door Rewards And Aligned Design

November 12, 2011

The residents of Bellingham, Washington are passionate about using the most of what one has, while having less of an impact on the environment around them. Paul Haskins and Alaine Borgias, owners of the successful Adventures NW magazine, know firsthand about choosing options that conserve both resources and money. These native Bellingham folk live in [...]

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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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Pot pies, woodshop class overachievers and reused materials

July 25, 2011

There are probably a few people out there who don’t love a good pot pie, but we haven’t found them yet. Bryce Sharp and Nathan Lowe have made a business of them at Man Pies in Bellingham. The entrepreneurial spirit abounds in these two, including a love of building, making and inventing things. Bryce had traveled [...]

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Greenhouse or potting shed: What to do with old windows

July 15, 2011

DW Clark’s greenhouse project started by accident.  A friend of DW’s was replacing the windows in her home and asked Clark if he wanted them. DW remembers, “Without thinking I said yes, and then had to figure out what I was going to do with them.  Because I had so many windows it seemed logical [...]

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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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Ruby Re-Usable and the recycled art movement

June 10, 2011

Diane Kurzyna aka Ruby Re-Usable is one of our heroes. She has been an integral member of The RE Store’s annual Recycled Arts & Fashion Show for close to a decade. She has served for years as a jurist, promoter, networker, and a designer of pieces for the Trash Fashion Shows. Her network of artists [...]

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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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A RE Store Rockstar – tells a story

March 23, 2011

This comes from Nancy Connolly, who spoke to us in person at the Phinney Home & Remodel Fair.  The story seemed to good not to broadcast: “My fabulous RE Store story is about my door knob and lock.  I have a 1950′s home with a very classy door knob mechanism – no knob on the [...]

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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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