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by Henrietta Thompson

Perfectly suited to the spirit of our times, this book is a spare yet stylish guide to living without wastefulness. It chimes with today’s consumer and design trends toward cost-consciousness and environmental awareness, and shows how to live stylishly by reusing and repurposing rather than buying new. This book aims to inspire a sophisticated audience not yet prepared to sacrifice great design or good style by showing both exceptional designs by leading product designers as well as offering ideas for projects we all could, and perhaps should, create. Remake It Home blends inspiration and hands-on knowledge, containing a wealth of almost-forgotten skills for using found materials, left-overs, and trash. It is organized into six sections illustrated with designs by notable young talents such as Fritz Hansen, Ryan McElhinney, Alabama Chanin, Margaret Cusack, Junk+ion, and Studio Verissimo. Included are designs for furniture, lighting and accessories, storage, tools and appliances, textiles, and cleaning and laundry. Each section highlights resourcefulness in design, drawing on global trends, modern innovations, and traditional practices that are brought together in a harmonious, thrifty, ecologically sound, and life-enriching whole.

Genres: Interior Design, How To, Reference, Nonfiction

272 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Deniz Altuntas]

If you enjoy crafts and up-cycling, this book has gathered many ideas to try out. (Although, if you can spare the time, you can find many of them online. But having the book is very much a time-saver!) It also has examples of professional product designers' works, which I find extra interesting.

[Haaike]

Inspirerend boek, met een interessante mix van voorbeelden van ontwerpers, korte tips en uitgebreidere DIY-handleidingen.

[María]

Es inspirador, pero poco práctico. Los modelos que propone son artísticos y fotogénicos, pero son poco ponibles para la vida diaria.

[Sara]

This book is quite possibly the best book on this subject I've ever seen. It's a gorgeous book to start with - materials and layout - and then it's chock full of awesome upcycling. And it covers everything - there are the awesome, designer-sourced upcycles... there are lots of little snippets of different ideas of things you might do with things in your own home... and there are actual projects with actual directions tossed in here and there.
Fantastic.

[Sebrina]

So this is a book I was able to pick up for a quarter several months ago at a yard sale. While the premise of it is interesting and their are some unique ideas, it didn't impress me. I think anyone who is an avid blog reader, won't find anything they haven't see before. But if you wait until things are featured in print magazines or on HGTV then this might be pretty inspirational to you!

[Chantal]

i'm always "currently-reading" this book. one of my absolute alltime favourites because each time i pick it up i spot something i want to be doing.