Product Description

Give new life to cast-off objects with these innovative projects for your home and garden.

Designers Moira and Nicholas Hankinson are masters of transforming reclaimed materials into beautiful and useful objects, and their new book is packed with exciting projects for the home and garden. Arranged in chapters that include "Bedrooms, Bathrooms, and Boudoirs," "Decorative Accessories," and "The Garden," Recycle offers clear, concise instructions on how to create each design, from the modest painting of the bed-spring candle holder and the window-shutter CD rack to the more ambitious excavations of the railway-tie garden steps. Taking us through each step, from finding the salvaged item to the beautifully photographed finished piece, Recycle opens our eyes to the rich possibilities of turning "trash" into treasure.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #329889 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From Publishers Weekly
UK designers Moira and Nicholas Hankinson (Garden Ornaments, Salvage Style in Your Home) return with another winning collection of found-object round-the-house projects. Scouring auctions, yard sales and salvage yards, the Hankinsons repurpose everything from slate roof tiles (for table mats), and copper pipe (for an attractive curtain rod) to window shutters (CD racks) and bed springs (candle holders), covering every room in the house as well as the backyard. The concept seems fanciful, but decorators with a love of rustic pieces will find a wealth of great ideas in the book, as common objects such as hip tiles (roofing tiles used to cap the joints of roofs) find new life as ceiling lights and sconces, and an old cattle trough is turned into an attractive water feature for the garden. While not every project has detailed information on how to recreate it, most do, and in those cases the text and accompanying illustrations are clear and straightforward. Not every idea displays the same level of ingenuity-the wood block table, for example, is literally a chunk of wood that has been sanded smooth-but this work makes a great jumping-off point for readers' own unique, useful redesigns.
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About the Author
Since leaving London, and their careers in design and the art world, Moira and Nicholas Hankinson have produced an internationally acclaimed range of furniture for house and garden, and continued to pioneer the use of salvaged materials around the home. Passionate about reclamation, they have even given various interiors magazines access to two of their previous homes, both of which were restored, as far as possible, with rescued materials. They are also the authors of Garden Ornaments.