How-To: Wood Pallet Dog Bed
Make a cozy upcycled sleeping spot for your favorite 4-legged friend with this wood pallet dog bed tutorial!
recycled materials
Cardboard: In Praise of an Underappreciated Material
You might not be aware of it but your home has an infestation of the most abundant, versatile, free and under-utilized crafting and prototyping material ever made. A gift from the consumer driven economy we overlook everyday.
This material is sitting cluttered in scattered piles in the basement and in crawl spaces, is buried within dusty mounds in the garage and is waiting to be discarded while overflowing in the recycling bin.
The material I am referring to is good old grade-A cardboard!
Paper Pulp Bike Helmet
This Paper Pulp Helmet by Bobby Petersen, Tom Gottelier and Edward Thomas is made from recycled paper and designed for short-term use so that it can be recycled again!
Plastic Bags into Plastic Blocks: Revisited
Join me in my continuing journey to make a solid building material from plastic bags. My latest experiment has potential. How can you add to it?
How-To: Recycled Book Art Kit
Turn a worn or outdated hardcover into an awesome portable art studio with this recycled book art kit tutorial!
Skate Guitars Rip
Skateboarding and rocking out go hand in hand, and now they literally can thanks to Buenos Aires-based Skate Guitar. The brain child of master luthier/old school skater Ezequiel Galasso and professional skateboarder/musician Gianfranco de Gennaro, Skate Guitars are handmade from two repurposed skate decks a piece. The duo embrace the scrappy nature of the used […]
Paper Scrap Wall Art
As with most of Patricia Zapata’s designs, this paper scrap wall art tutorial couldn’t be simpler or more stunning. It’s worth doing some paper crafts just to end up with enough scraps to make this!
