Tag: reuse | Apartment Therapy

Cassette's Not Dead Lamps Recycle Your Music

So here's where your whole back catalog of bad 80's hair metal audio cassettes and mixtapes went! The Cassette's Not Dead Floor Lamp is described as a tribute to the cassette tape, available in thre...

Egg Collective's Stump Light

Ah, Egg Collective's Stump lighting makes us wish we had room for a woodworking shop. It's a creative and nature-themed way to illuminate the room using fallen sycamore stumps, while also providing ...

The Mobile Office: A Home Office Made of Discarded Materials

Antoine Morris and David Long of The Practice of Everyday Design wanted to create an all-in-one solution where they could rest, read, work on their laptops in a small, easy to convert space. What th...

How To: Reuse Old Light Bulbs as a Flower Vase

DIY YouTube star, Giannina Lezcano, show us how to reuse old clear-style light bulbs as decorative elements around the house. And don't blame us for what she's wearing......

Gazelle: Recycle Your Electronics For Cash

When it comes to old electronics, the usual options are: donate it (great idea but we paid a lot of money for this); recycle it (it's only a few years old, and we'd like to get some money for it); or...

The CubeQuarium: PowerMac G4 Cube Gets New Use

One of the most beautiful things that you can create out of the case of an old PowerMac Cube is an aquarium (as mentioned in passing previously). By far, the CubeQuarium is the best looking of the bun...

Another Mac CRT Monitor Hamster House

Unplggd reader Mod Mischief noted that there was a better looking version of the same idea we posted earlier this week of an old iMac repurposed into a hamster house, and upon review, we have to whole...

iMac Converted Into Hamster Cage

This eBay auction has been making the rounds all today and it's an amusing reuse of the antiquated candied coloured CRT iMacs for the housing of a whiskered house guest. No, we're not willing to bid ...

Craigslist: Buy vs. Best Buy

As people are busy keeping up with the Jones' they leave a wake of discarded technology behind them and more often than not those things are ending up on Craigslist. Everyone loves a bargain, but ...

Final Frame: Phyto Purification Bathroom

Phyto Purification Bathroom: natural water purification system using rushes, reeds, water hyacinths and lemnas to clean and reuse bathing/sink water....

Reused Empty Inkjet Cartridges Lighting

Etsy seller boxlightbox couldn't bear tossing out the abundance of inkjet cartridges her workplace would go thru on a regular basis, so she began taking them with the motive of making something out ...

DIY: iPod Dock From Reused Parts and Leftover Chicken

We have tried out a lot of docks here on Unplggd. We love the variety that's available out there in terms of quality, price, functionality and design. So there is really no reason to do what I have ...

Final Frame: Apple G3 Wall Clock

A wall clock made out of the side panel of a retired Mac G3, available at pixelthis's Etsy store ...

Final Frame: Using Old TV's for Storage and Display

Love this idea from Casa Korea of taking old television and computer monitors and using them for display, storage and even a fish bowl! ...

KOZO Lamps: From Plumbing to Lighting

One of the easiest ways of creating a great workspace or home office space is selecting a few great looking lights. Just like ties and suits, great lights can tie together a minimally decorated room q...

An Ugly Sweater Party For Your Laptop

Who says employees at holiday Christmas parties get to have all the fun? Doesn't your laptop, surely a better friend to you than that guy from IT, deserve to have a little bit of "I've-been-searching-...

Old Computer Sitting Around? Check Out all Your Options...

Computers are no longer the fancy new gadgets they used to be. We're getting bomarded with new shiny features everyday, but let's face it, the computer is no spring chicken. All across America, there ...

Another OMG Really? Recycled Home Appliance

This bad-ass, uber-modern, glass-topped, inner-lit side table (we couldn't narrow down exactly which two-parter hyphenated description to use for it) was once a part of a common—well, not in NYC...

Not Useless Packaging: The Sticky Lamp

Are we seeing a new trend here of lamps whose packaging becomes part of the lamp itself? The cleverly-named Packaging Lamp was number one, and now we have the “Sticky Lamp” by designer Chris Kabel...

Old-School Typewriter Key Jewelery

We've done blogs about accessorizing with old technology before. Using old video games, old cameras and old typewriters as part of your decor can add a little bit of geek chic flair to your home. Anot...

How to... Recycle An Old CD-R Case and Save Some Lunch Money at the Same Time

When we watch Martha Stewart or read Southern Living (both of our guilty pleasures), we can pick up a lot of tips for cheap and cute place settings or making beautiful holiday giftwrap from everyday i...

Make a Jacobs Ladder Toy from Old Cassette Tapes

You've probably repurchased any songs you used to jam out to on those old-school cassette tapes and are now storing your classic tunes as MP3 files on your computer. Maybe you've even done Mother Eart...

DIY: Make Free iPhone Stands with Recycled Packaging

Our cell phones really are taking over our lives. When we posted about taking your laptop on travels, we got feedback that many people leave their notebook at home and use their phone for impromptu We...

Xerox Erasable Paper: Green Idea = Good Idea?

We know, we know... isn't all paper erasable if you use a pencil? That's true, of course, but the innovation in Xerox's new erasable paper is that messages printed onto the paper will fade off of the ...