Recycling and re-purposing has stealthily become one of my obsessions. Luckily for me and other like-minded folks, the greater Seattle area boasts nearly as many thrift stores, flea markets, and swap meets as it does coffee stands. Maybe you set out to find something specific, like a lamp for your desk, or an outfit to wear to work, but one can never underestimate the happy possibility of laying hands on a treasure that cannot be resisted. Like the old blue birdcage a friend picked up for a song the other day. It merely needed a little extra help to reach its full reusable potential as a porch decoration filled with lush ferns.
One of my favorite stores, The Salvage Studio, is filled with creative uses of good junk and I always get great ideas for using things that I already have (and sometimes don't have). But you don't have to go to their store, because the owners Amy Duncan, Beth Evans-Ramos, and Lisa Hilderbrand, have written a book:
The Salvage Studio: sustainable home comforts to organize, entertain, and inspire.
These ladies are masters of staging gorgeous vignettes. This book is on order for KCLS and due out this fall. While you wait, here are some other titles to try:
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