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A Shabby Chic repurposed wood container that I have painted & embelished with sheet music papers . Three tags also come with it .
This brick interlocking tower once guarded the crossing of the Illinois Central Railroad's Charter Line with the St. Louis line of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Vandalia, Illinois. When I visited there in 2007 the tower was serving as the office of the Vandalia Railroad, a short line that operates some of the IC Charter Line in the vicinity. Much of the Charter Line has been abandoned.(Scanned from a slide)
Note to self: don't leave fragile china out for the winter. It won't survive the Finnish subzero temperatures!
52 in 2015 - #30 broken
These “cell phone stations” are located in a great burger place I frequent for lunch with the lads. This is a much funnier idea than just ripping the outmoded boxes off the wall.
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An old crib, obsolete for safety reasons, was found with garage sale tag for $10. The delicate spindles were too beautiful and simple to pass up. With the help of red cabinet doors from a garbage pile, this small crib transformed into a shelf unit. The spindles turned out to be the perfect length to serve as a magazine rack.
When it was fully assembled, I could not escape the fact that this Frankenstein piece looked like a chicken coop. Haunted by the chicken coop semblance, I wanted to choose a paint color that walked away from a barn look, but embraced the rustic feel of the piece. So I chose a neutral, accented by an earthy green.
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Mark and I received two new spice racks when we got married. This is what I did with our old one - repainted it to match the girly colors of my craft room, and repurposed it to hold beads.
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Each bag is made from one leg of a pair of jeans and the seams from the jeans make the lunch bag so visually interesting! The edges are finished with contrasting ribbon for a super clean and cool look. These bags also have ribbon handles for easy carrying!
This lunch bag features a repurposed USA map tablecloth for the lining.
Every bag has been thoroughly laundered and are totally machine washable in cold water and dried on low for a long and durable life.
11" tall; base and sides measure 5" by 6".
www.1001pallets.com/2015/09/garage-conversion-music-space/
We recently completed a conversion of our two car garage into music space. We hired a contractor to level the floor, upgrade the electrical service, install insulation and sheetrock, and HVAC, including a ductless mini-split and a direct vent gas fireplace. The contractor left us "ready for paint", which means we did all the priming, painting, wood finishing, flooring and, of course, the pallet walls. There are two pallet walls, one is about 20 feet by 8 feet, the other is about 10 feet by 8 feet. We took apart about 70 pallets, took out all the fasteners, and sanded the ends, sides, edges, and the side that is showing on the wall. We painted both pallet walls with dark brown paint to give any gaps a more natural look. The pallets were fastened to the wall with a pneumatic brad nailer into a double layer of 5/8-inch sheet rock with Green Glue sandwiched between the layers for sound reduction.
Trying out my new camera int he thrift store in Reno...There is beauty everywhere! Too bad cashmere is a little harder to find!
A butterfly-adorned isocahedron made from vintage dictionary and thin washi papers. It is composed of 27 identical modules, as well as 3 modules folded specially to hold the butterflies. These special modules allow for the butterflies to be securely attached without adhesive.
The visible print on this piece is designed to inspire and entertain: parts of words at times run into others, creating new vocabulary, and snippets of definitions, though cut and placed (mostly) at random, will evoke different things to different readers.
This piece was my take on the elegant design by Kalami; folding instructions can be found here.
Many thanks, Kalami, for the lovely design and instructions!
The Pattern Shop Studio, at 3349 Blake Street, is located in the heart of Denver's oldest industrial neighborhood. Once home to iron and steel manufacturing and sprawling railroad yards, the North Downtown district (NoDo) is now in transition, honeycombed with craft shops, artist's studios, galleries, graphic design firms and upscale lofts. Among the old factory sites that have been converted to new uses is the hundred-year-old Box Ironworks, which manufactured equipment and electric hoists for the Colorado gold mining industry. From the 1920,s to the 1970's, Silver Engineering Works used the site to manufacture harvesting and processing equipment for the sugar beet industry. The Pattern Shop at Silver Engineering Works was the building in which woodworkers made life-sized wooden patterns of machine parts that were then converted to iron and steel products in the foundry next door.
After Silver Engineering moved, Sharon and Rex Brown bought the Pattern Shop in 1991. Working with architect David Owen Tryba, they turned it into an AIA Award-winning studio, gallery and home. Sharon is literally the “artist in residence.” Her paintings have been exhibited regularly for more than 15 years. In addition, other artists, such as photographers Michael Ensminger and Nick Del Calzo, and painter Eric Zimmer, have exhibited their work.
The Pattern Shop Studio is a founding member of the River North Arts District (RiNo), and regularly participates in RiNo events and openings. It is also a member of the Hot DAM Arts at Altitude Network, joining scores of arts organizations in a year-long celebration of the opening of the Hamilton Wing of the Denver Art Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind.
Five minute project: Repurpose an old "box" fan to let a big heavy spool of thread (or wire) spin freely. Read more here.
This Antique painted Glass looks like it came from the era of "Charles Rennie Mackintosh" - I created an angle iron Steel frame, that the wooden sash sets into - and then, built a frame of Mild Steel tubing. The inset Sandblasted glass Top, along with the Nickle-Plated feet, add distinctive touches to the final product.
Muy elegante!
look for other examples of my rePurposed Furniture @ www.kramerdesignstudio.com/repurposed.htm
What's that hole for ???
The tub re-purposed into the sliding tray was at one time to the pop up shower stall. The tube turned out ot be way too big for the shower stall so now has a new life.
This is the south side of the building.
Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF-S 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 IS zoom @ 55mm, ƒ/14, ISO 100, 1/500th, handheld.
Those four windows will be hopefully replaced with stained glass bginning summer 2009 (yep, we got one done, 2nd from the left of this image, right here.), and with any luck, we'll be re-painting the building shortly afterwards as well. Still white; kind of have to go with that, the summer heat is insane.