I love looking!

Did you see Better Homes & Gardens last friday? They featured a man who has built a house for 50k using recycled materials. It was really interesting. 

For your browsing oogling pleasure

http://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=repurpose

http://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=upcycled

http://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=recycle

Check out this house made out of glass bottles

That is slightly tacky :^O

I love this. I'm so going to do it. Once I get around the second hand shops

i thought it was up-cycling. Or is that different?

I think it is the same Chuk. 🙂

Same IMO

Though I did see a comment on something recently along the lines of "that's not upcycling that's recycling" It was a book case painted up. Not sure what the issue was myself.

Up-cycling or re-purposing is using something you can't use for it's intended purpose, as something else.. Like the suitcases in Az's pic. Giving it a new purpose as it were.. 

re·pur·pose  (r-pûrps)tr.v. re·pur·posed, re·pur·pos·ing, re·pur·pos·esTo use or convert for use in another format or product:

Upcycling is the practice of taking something that is disposable and transforming it into something of greater use and value

So I guess that repurposing and upcycling are the same 

If a bookcase has just been repainted and used again as a bookcase, I think that's just reusing or recycling

Yeah I guess so now you explained it like that.

Doesn't matter. If it's cool it's cool.

Ah I just found this: Unlike upcycling, repurposing means that the original object is not modified (or very slightly modified, re-painted...)

I also found this link to a tumblr page about repurposing

http://repurposing.tumblr.com/