reclaimed

This is my “Union Jack” console table with an upcycled New Williams sewing machine base.

I live on the Mediterranean coast of Spain close to Barcelona. I create sculptures made of driftwood and other reclaimed materials found on Garraf beaches and coves. I never find two identical pieces of driftwood and so...

[ By SA Rogers in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] When the city of Toronto forcibly cleared a homeless encampment beneath a downtown section of Gardiner Expressway only to turn it over to a luxury outdoor...

[ By SA Rogers in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ] People convert all kinds of unlikely objects into homes: sheds, shipping containers, school buses and even decommissioned wartime bunkers. These creative...

[ By SA Rogers in Design & Products & Packaging. ] There’s already more than enough plastic, glass and other materials in the world for all of our manufacturing needs – we just have to reclaim and recycle...

Across the globe, millions of tons of wood are thrown away every year. Do you realize how much good we can do for the environment if we reclaim wood logs and repurpose them? Here are 10 beautiful ways to go ahead. 1....

We have a Landseer male, a big dog with needs for a stand for its food and water. The old table was in bad shape, so thought I could make a new one, easier to clean. Big dogs can make quite mess if they want. :) As...

It’s time to finish up my trike build and try it out!  In this video, I build out the control linkages and make some changes after an initial test.  Then I finally got it painted and took it out...

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve wanted a Green Machine. They were super cool, and somewhat elusive. I only ever knew one kid who had it.  A while back, I added it to my build list and I FINALLY got...

[ By SA Rogers in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ] As cities grow and their power needs change, the historic and often surprisingly beautiful structures holding turbines, generators, coal and gas are...

[ By SA Rogers in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ] This hexagonal floating student housing complex made of stacked reclaimed shipping containers is better than any dorm you could hope to live in. ‘Urban...

I made this unique and easy Mitered Pallet Frame in about an hour, and didn't even need a full pallet to do it! I really like my little piece of art, and want to do more pallet projects! I found a few pallets here and...

[ By SA Rogers in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] Though typically seen as eyesores obscuring architecture and blocking sidewalks, scaffolding is more than its most basic function, with its modular network...

it’s not often you discover a retro-looking turquoise fridge tucked into 16th century gold-gilded crown moldings, but in this case, it works and is probably very much inspired by the charles eames quote painted like...

We used reclaimed oak pallet with a red oak frame. We finished the top with two coats of epoxy and mounted it on a cast iron Singer sewing machine base. Find more of BrewCrafted creations on ETSY. Read Reclaimed...

[ By Steph in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ] With an entirely custom-built interior, a nine-foot-wide sliding glass door and a warm modern aesthetic, this grain silo converted to a compact home seems...

It took over 25,000 ceramic pieces from numerous Japanese pottery facilities to create the stacked platform that is the focal piece of the Maruhiro Flagship store in the region of Hasami, Nagasaki. When artist Yusuke...

[ By Steph in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ] Incredibly strong, durable, lightweight and affordable, shipping containers are integrated into into all sorts of architectural projects, whether they’re...

[ By Steph in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] Deemed unsafe and left to rot, a stretch of highway in a prime location beside a train station in Seoul, South Korea will soon get a new life as an elevated...

[ By Steph in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] Thousands of decommissioned oil rigs rotting in waters all over the globe could get a new sense of purpose as diving resorts, cruise ship port-of-calls,...

[ By Steph in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ] Abandoned subterranean pits once used to mine everything from gold to salt have been reclaimed as theme parks, restorative spas for asthmatics, data...