Reclaiming Style: using salvaged materials to create an elegant home
By Maria Speake and Adam Hills · Reviewed by Jo Drysdall
The title and cover of Reclaiming Style are promising: a clever storage space is finished with panels of reclaimed weatherboard, their timeworn surfaces creating a characterful finish and promising, with the superimposed text, a treasure-trove of ideas for outfitting your home in repurposed goodness.
Recycling, upcycling, restoring, refinishing, repurposing, reinventing, or simply being thrifty – call it what you will, it’s a skill to be celebrated these days
Rekindle Wood Collection Day,
11am–3.30pm Saturday 11 August, Christchurch
Rekindle is a social enterprise that makes furniture and other useful objects by diverting wood from landfill to reuse.
Gather up any dry planks of hardwood (i.e. cladding, flooring, tongue and groove) and take them along to the Rekindle Wood Collection site at 272 Worcester Street in Christchurch on Saturday 11 August 2012 between 11am and 3.30pm.
Pragmatic, strong and thoroughly considered, the Stiglitz wallet by Loopcase will bring a contemporary asymmetry to your daily fiscal dealings.
Jewellery Making in Christchurch, April 1, 2 and 3
Caroline and Joanne, the lovely ladies of Smash Palace, make gorgeous jewellery from broken china and for the first three days of April, they’re gifting their services to Christchurch.
When: Saturday 19 September Time: 1 till 5pm Where: St. Albans Community Center, 1047 Colombo Street, Christchurch Cost: Donation (yes, really!) Tutor: Briar Cook This is the first reconstructed clothing workshop I have held, and fulfills part of a long term plan for my business, … Read more »