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on 07-03-2013 09:22 PM
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.
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on 07-03-2013 09:25 PM
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
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on 07-03-2013 09:43 PM
Check out this house made out of glass bottles

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means
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on 07-03-2013 09:57 PM
That is slightly tacky :^O
I love this. I'm so going to do it. Once I get around the second hand shops

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on 07-03-2013 10:02 PM
i thought it was up-cycling. Or is that different?
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on 07-03-2013 10:04 PM
I think it is the same Chuk. 🙂
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on 07-03-2013 10:25 PM
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.
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on 07-03-2013 10:38 PM
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
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means
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on 07-03-2013 10:40 PM
Yeah I guess so now you explained it like that.
Doesn't matter. If it's cool it's cool.
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on 07-03-2013 10:41 PM
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/
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means