I have a great love for CRT televisions. Especially small ones form the 80s and 90s. A few months ago I found one at the junk shop. Color, still working, $10. How could I say no.
Source: Reuse That Old Thrift Store TV: 3 Steps (with Pictures)
I have a great love for CRT televisions. Especially small ones form the 80s and 90s. A few months ago I found one at the junk shop. Color, still working, $10. How could I say no.
Source: Reuse That Old Thrift Store TV: 3 Steps (with Pictures)
Timbuktu, in partnership with TerraCycle, has done so, and the resulting product is not only practical and beautiful, but it’s also highly practical. The company’s new bag design uses vintage US Postal Service mail bags, sourced by TerraCycle, for the raw material, which then get turned into a high quality messenger bag capable of hauling all of your work and play gear comfortably.
Salvage One in Chicago is filled with beautiful vintage goods that make decorating almost unnecessary.
OH DEAR LORD – this is causing deep unbridled pain!!
(All images by Chris Seward (Google Plus), cc-nc-nd-4.0)
According to photographer Chris Seward, this extensive motorcycle graveyard lingered in an abandoned building near the Erie Canal in Western New York, long after the structure itself had been condemned. The owner of the building reportedly died in the 1970s and the bikes – some of them antiques – remained on site until recently, when the place was finally cleared.
via Motorbike Graveyard in Western New York | Urban Ghosts |.
Patrick Gallagher set out to make a killer vintage looking boombox – we think he succeeded. Check out his step by step How-To.
Do it, and you can look as cool as him.
Portable, loud, and fashionable. Take a vintage suitcase and install a set of speakers, passive crossovers, an amplifier, and a couple of rechargeable batteries. Now you have a portable, albeit heavy, stereo that will make your ears bleed.
via Pack Your Music and Upcycle That Old Suitcase – Tutorial – Maxim.
The back room of the store was designed to look like the merchant’s living space, offering a much more relaxed atmosphere. Vintage schoolhouse chairs around huge tables made from wind-fallen trees offer customers a comfortable place to work and socialize. It also features a large mural created by the artist Tommy Taylor, which references the New Orleans’ shipping heritage.
“For a business to succeed and really start creating some growth activity, the time had come to do that,” McCarthy said. “Over the last 10 years, it boiled down to: Is this going to be a hobby or a business? My wife and I decided this is time to give it a good push.”
Architectural items and materials will fill the building’s first floor, with room to better display them. But the couple also have plans for the second floor. An art gallery upstairs will feature artists’ booths. So far, about six artists have signed on. A center for crafting workshops and retreats also is eventually planned for the second floor. McCarthy’s wife, Christine, a crafter herself, is behind that effort.
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As for the public’s interest in the items he sells, McCarthy is confident that won’t diminish.
“Interest has grown very significantly,” he said. “We’re seeing a lot of uptick in do-it-yourselfers. They want to find something other than what you can get at a big box store, like unique light and bathroom fixtures. We’re also seeing a growing repurposing crowd who turn doors into furniture, windows into stained glass windows. We’re a resource for people.”
Sawdust and Embryos always amaze us. Here are some of our favorites – go see the rest!
Some of these projects seem so recent, while others seem like centuries ago. If you’ve been around here for awhile, it will be a fun review for you! And if you’re relatively new (WELCOME!) you’ll see just what we’ve been up to… other than chasing two toddlers. Heh.
via Sawdust and Embryos.