January 12, 2012
15 Notes!
Builders building everywhere! Fiona from the Netherlands made her PAC in what seems to be 10 minutes. She bought the PAC guide from StoreEnvy, we sent it out and BLAMMO here is a picture of her pups and new PAC chair. She is quick! Awesome job Fiona, looking forward to your next PAC build!
WINNER WINNER WINNER!!
Louise Van Stuyvesant Meijen of South Africa won the Africa division of the “Be the First PAC Builder on your Continent Contest”! Excited and ready to build she quickly received a Pallet Adirondack Chair PDF DIY Guide and has a paper PAC DIY Guide, stickers, Sidney Birdhouse and other preliminary guides on the way to her amazing family residence in the Munyawana reserve that lies in the northern corner of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
She wasted no time and already has one PAC built with the help of her pups (obviously). Check out the pictures of her family house as well as the amazing sites she gets to see right in her own backyard on her website, BushDiaries. I must visit!!
Gabe Landes recently guided a group of students coined as “Team Chair” through the Pallet Adirondack Chair build process for Asheville’s Green Opportunities Program. Here is a snippet from Gabe’s description of the day,
“I only had 3 students on day 1. The other students (those working on the compost bin and the picnic table) were making fun of the chair. Kept saying it looked like junk and was gonna fall apart.
We finished the first chair on day 1. The naysayers were impressed, said the chair was really comfortable. They called it the “chair that makes you want to stop working”. Team chair felt a great sense of accomplishment. One day two, all the students jumped in on two more chairs. The students from team chair on day 1 were teaching the other students how to make the PAC, how to read the plans. It was great to see.”
Awesome work Gabe and “Team Chair”. Helping people learn new skills is the ultimate goal of Repurposed Goods so if there are any other opportunities out there like this please feel free to contact me!
GE’s #TagYourGreenMap is a great way to see your community’s sustainable effort. If you built a #PAC, map it up! @GaTech, where you at?!
After a whirlwind (BTW, I thought it was world wind when I was a kid!) of activity with the Southern Design Concern we have been able to re-coop and start back on some RG stuff. First task, getting Derek “Deek” Diedricksen ready for his Boston based workshop. He will be teaching people the ins and outs of building TINY HOUSES and how to build a PAC! He is phenomenal at sourcing random things and hammering them together to make cozy cottages but as LaVar Burton always told me, “But you don’t have to take my word for it!” (His work and LaVar would approve, it’s a book!)
Chris, better known as “Brickout” showed the PAC DIY build who’s boss. With painted edges, his named stenciled across it and a rounded back, he certainly added some Brickout flavor to it. He sent me some great process pictures of his build (I LOVE seeing the process) and informed me that he is going to make one for his wife in a near future. By the looks of his chair, I would hope he does it rather soon because I can see his wife taking a seat in this one and not giving it back anytime soon. Great work Brickout!
Check out his process pictures here (THE PROCESS!)
You really cannot beat Candice’s water side PAC lounge. By the looks of it, she has made 3 regular PACS all painted and one Love Seat PAC stained dark brown. This looks so relaxing! As always, great job Candice!
Candice N. strikes again. Pallets Adirondack Chairs, or in the case “Love Seats” are becoming short work for her which leads me to believe that she needs a new project. A new DIY Guide…a new spring build. Hmmmm…more pictures of Candice N.’s PACs and her swank Florida waterside paradise after the break.
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