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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Product Description
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.
