Urban self-reliance: homestead in Oakland’s small rented lot by Kirsten Dirksen on April 13, 2015 Sheila Cassani began farming her rental home while a college student. She started with a small vegetable patch, but it …
Trashformation: furniture & dwellings from recycled cardboard by Kirsten Dirksen on April 11, 2014 The Barcelona-based collective Transfodesign believe that anything, even trash, can be given a second life so for the past few …
Prototyping cardboard dwelling for off-grid Australian outback by Kirsten Dirksen on April 7, 2014 When Link Knight saw the sturdy cardboard that came as packaging for his propane freezer, he began to wonder if …
DIY trashion furniture kit: upcycle trash into lampshades by Kirsten Dirksen on December 13, 2012 Ryan Frank is South African born designer who learned about re-using materials from a childhood in a country where recycling …
325-square-foot cave apartment has DIY & upcycled furniture by Kirsten Dirksen on November 5, 2012 Monica Potvin and Markel Otaola bought the 30-square-meter (323-square-foot usable space) apartment in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter during their child-free years …
DIY cardboard furniture with free IKEA-style instructions by Kirsten Dirksen on October 21, 2012 After a move to a new city and a trip to IKEA, industrial designer Adrián Candela was overwhelmed by the …
TrashKEA home design: trash + IKEA + design = eco-cheap chic by Kirsten Dirksen on May 16, 2011 Most designers begin a remodel by choosing what to trash. Petz Scholtus chose what to collect from the trash to be …
Upcycled tables from Barcelona’s modernist cement floors by Kirsten Dirksen on June 16, 2010 Barcelona’s Modernist past is covered in hydraulic cement tiles. Inside many of the more well-preserved 19th Century apartments- especially in …
