Life with a 2 year old daughter is absolutely amazing. The discovery, imagination and everlasting curiosity has been so fun and all-consuming that Repurposed Goods and the posts have been few and far between. I will try my hardest to get some more good stuff up here soon. There are some fun things coming up, workshops, contests and more. That being said, stay tuned everyone!

Love and bruises,

Shelton & Juliette & Laura & Nelly & the Kittens from Repurposed Goods

The Sidney Pallet Birdhouse DIY Guide….for FREE!!

A little birdy sat on the PAC chair outside my office today and chirped, “I need a cool modern roost!” I responded with, “I have one at my house…it’s not here, sorry” in my best chickadee. Without responding he  flew away, hopefully to my house to claim the Merlin birdhouse.

Seeing as though there might be hundreds if not billions of birds out there without proper modern digs, I figured it was my duty to give the guide to the masses for free!! (I have been meaning to do this for quite some time!) Build it and they will flock…or a squirrel will sit on top of it and chew on pecans.

Go to our store for the download!!

The Store!

Mini PAC Guide work in progress. Editing the flow of the guide so that I can capture all the great feedback people have been giving me on the original PAC Guide. This one will be even better!

Alchemy Goods is back on Fab.com! Their goods are well designed and MADE IN THE USA! One of the RG crew has the Elliot Dopp Kit which and loves it. Check them out!

Fab.com Flash Sale: Alchemy Goods Limited quantity.
Fab.com
True to its name, Alchemy Goods takes useless things like worn bicycle inner tubes and used seatbelts and turns them into chic accessories. The folks there call it upcycling. We call it awesome. At last count, 182,000 inner tubes had been reclaimed, many donated from stellar bike chains like REI.

Architecture for Humanity Atlanta’s Birdhouse Social! This weekend, August 20th from 4-8pm at Studioplex Repurposed Goods will be displaying their Sidney Pallet Birdhouse. If you are in Atlanta, swing by, find me, and I’ll buy you a drink (I will quiz you on random design knowledge too!)! First come first serve!

BottleHood is back on Fab.com! Repurposed bottles made into cups, lights and amazingness OH MY. Check them out! Great work from SoCal!

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!!

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!)

A photo of what became of the Lowe’s shopping cart. The corners were chopped off to create a base and roof to a bird feeder. In this shot, Josh Tuminella is holding up the bird feeder and you can see that the base and roof are lined with a plastic fabric made from Target bags. Everything used with the exception of the zip ties were found or repurposed from my studio of stuff. 

More pictures to come!

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Sloan and Josh with Repurposed Goods Bird Feeder (Taken with instagram)