Blogs & Ecology

Cobbleblock™ & Cobblewood™ Flooring: fabricated from antique beams, sliced cross-grain, sanded & triple oiled.  Also available in pine. Awesome.

Birger Juell, Ltd.

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Paul Stankey of HiveModular, along with family and friends, is building a storage barn using pallets from their pals at Loll Designs. The barn is to store materials for the Stankeys’ Rustic Reuse container cabin. What a great idea. See the blog for the story and more pics.

Drawerment is a composition of drawers collected from old office furniture, set into MDF boxes and mounted on the wall.

Jaroslav Juřica for Demakersvan

Tieken designed and built this shop to blend with the surrounding prairie. He decided to use the footprint of his grandfather’s old cement works business. This locked him into a 2,500-sq.-ft. shop, so he had to be very cost conscious. To reduce costs, Tieken did the construction himself with help from family and friends, a process that took three years.

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Husque is a range of products made of recycled macadamia nut shells.

Vector Bubble Glass from padlab

Abacá is a decorative laminate surface made of recycled banana fibers. From Lamin-Art

Brad Guy of Building Materials Reuse Association with the help of Bryan Bell and Sergio Palleroni decided to use material from the 50,000 houses being demolished after the hurricane [Katrina] — just 5% of this material equals 53,000,000 board feet, enough to build 3,800 houses. From Cynthia E. Smith’s post at Cooper-Hewitt National design Museum’s blog. Via Shedworking

Meet a man on a mission, determined to make cheap, affordable housing for the common man in an Earth-friendly way: Dan Phillips of Huntsville, Texas.

The Phoenix Commotion (site still under construction)

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