Recycled Materials
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Working on a tight budget, we used many recycled materials and furnishings.
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Palette wood for kitchen cabinet doors: obtained from the top of paper shipments to large printing operations.
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Pine branch hinges for kitchen cabinets: I used pine because the wood was much harder than aspen.
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Pine twig panels for kitchen cabinets: I collect these twigs while hiking.
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Standing dead aspen for door trim, window trim, railings and walls: Harvested by hand with a buck saw.
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Window sills made of 2x6 spruce framing scrap from city construction dumpsters.
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Carpet on stairs and on the basement's concrete floors: They are all from large scraps retrieved from a carpet business's dumpster.
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Root twig: These dense wood fragments make good returns for the railings on staircases.
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Bottle Caps: I made chevron medallions for the kitchen cabinets.
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Door & window lintel glyphs: they are made from aspen scraps.
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Pine railing: The bark has been trimmed with the bandsaw. Varnish has been applied.
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Varnished aspen trim under window sills is made from aspen scraps.
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OSB (oriented strand board): scraps of this widely-used construction material were used in my kitchen cabinets, the log bedroom, and elsewhere.
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Weight-bench seat: used for the entry's boot bench. The seat came from my dumpster.
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Glue lam (engineered-wood beam) scrap and scrap aspen: made into a night stand.
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Copper: splash guards for the stove top and the sink. This thick copper was given to me by a friend who was moving his business.
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Oriental rug: found in my dumpster. Hand woven.
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Workmate bench: found in my dumpster & modified to hold logs.
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Black cloth: found in a dumpster after Halloween; used in our solar curtains
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Packing Foam: used in our insulation curtains.
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Mirrors with frames: one for each bedroom, found in my dumpster. |
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Hotel vacuum: found next to my dumpster.
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Coffee maker: from my dumpster.
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Toaster oven: from my dumpster.
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