Rocker Lane Workshop is a new Irish company that produces hand crafted contemporary furniture made entirely from reclaimed maple floorboards. The workshop is the result of a collaboration between Seán Fogarty, a young architect with a passion for sustainable design and master craftsman Michael Heffernan, who has over 45 years of experience working with timber. The resulting pieces are clean, modern and reasonably priced.

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This watery blue chair by Pawel Grunert is as refreshing as the liquid that was once contained in the plastic bottles it’s made from. Called the SIE43 Chair, the piece was constructed for the ‘Eco Trans Pop’ exhibition at the Colombari Gallery in Milan, Italy. Grunert created a stainless steel frame to which he affixed dozens of PET bottles to create the cascade of blue. Though the seat doesn’t look like the most comfortable one we’ve seen, it’s an attractive piece of eco art that calls attention to the versatility of recycled materials.

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Designer Ivars Gansons has turned an old bed frame and a stack of bicycle inner tubes into a beautiful recycled street bench. Each section was inventively created with reused objects interwoven to form a comfy looking seat. The ends of the bench were taken from an antique children’s bed, and the middle section was a former chandelier stand. Gansons welded together each part, then created the meshed fabric out of inner tubes to cover the frame.

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Furniture designer Logan Komorowski salvages old Chinese riverboats and reinvents them as beautiful pieces of furniture laden with history and meaning. Dubbed Shipwood, the pieces Komorowski creates honors the past through the preservation of the wood grain and through specially crafted plaques that tell a story of the former boat’s history.

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Manoteca’s stunning tables are functional works of art, constructed entirely from abandoned wood doors. Each aged and worn door is reinvented and assembled along with other recycled objects and materials to create beautiful and original pieces. The Italy-based design company uses only natural paints, and the door’s former parts are re-integrated in different sections to create additions that open outwards to reveal storage pockets and more. Check out the Manoteca website to see more of their interesting designs.

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Before you throw away that wobbly old stool, or that faded easy chair with Aunt Maggie’s favorite pattern on it, consider giving it a second chance at life with a good sanding, some new screws, and dazzling new fabric! We recently visited Chicago Home + Garden‘s inspiring annual event, Chairs for Charity, where 15 top designers transformed the old into something breathtakingly new.

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Manchester Wood is a family business that makes built-to-last furniture from local and sustainable wood. Founded in 1976 in Manchester, Vermont, the company produces American-made solid wood furniture using hardwoods like red oak and ash. All of the hardwood used comes from sustainably managed local forests across the Northeast that are certified by the Sustainable Forest Initiative (SFI) and Manchester’s Slate Top collection also features local slate that is quarried just a few miles away from their factory.

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Inspired by their award-winning Favela chair, Humberto Campana and his brother created this spectacular bookshelf from reclaimed pieces of scrap wood. Chaotic and cluttered, yet unexpectedly harmonious, the bookshelf is the perfect addition to the modern home, which is embellished with surprising accents of bold color and quirky forms. The designer’s eclectic collection of books and knickknacks also look right at home on the shelves.

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As the official “Moving Day” of Montreal, Canada, every July 1st the city streets find themselves littered with abandoned furniture. To save these pieces from dumpster doom, designer Marjolaine Poulin has made an art out of collecting the unwanted and creatively giving them new life as quirky designs with a whole lot of character. Going as far as to cutting and fusing two or more unlikey pieces together, to simply giving an exisiting form an unexpected splash of color, each of her creations are unique and highlight the possibilities of reuse.

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If you’re looking for a truly unique side table for your bedroom or living room, look no further than the TIND. Designed by Nils Finne, this smartly designed piece of furniture has a high visual impact but a low environmental footprint. That’s because it’s made from a recycled steel top that has been waterjet-cut to reveal an intricate pattern which casts fragments of shadow and light on the floor below it. Even the legs have been crafted from bamboo, one of the world’s most rapidly renewable materials.

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Photo by Benjamin Benschneider

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This is probably the most interesting use of a out of commission vehicle we’ve ever seen. Created by Cyril Latapy, this colorful retro armchair was actually once a 1968 4L Renault! With a full front grill at the base and two doors complete with handles at its side, this funky design is a centerpiece sure to stir up some strange conversations – and we’re guessing some sore bums. What, no cushions?

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What happens when you give two architecture students who desperately need a drafting table a refrigerator door? A fridge door coffee table, obviously. Made by Arjun Rathi and a friend out of a vintage Kelvinator door and condenser coils and metal procured from the various scrap markets of Mumbai, the table was lovingly restored to its original color and looks like it could sell for hundreds at a fancy modern furniture store even though it was constructed from trash.

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The designers at Koff Designs make limited edition entryway and coffee tables out of salvaged wood right from their own neighborhood. The piece seen above is made from a slab of exquisite reclaimed white pine, sourced in Brooklyn, NY. Their tables are an easy (and affordable) way to add a bold statement to an apartment and to own a little bit of NYC history!

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Dutch furniture designer Pepe Heykoop recently unveiled a new line that recycles remnant leather scraps and old furniture into provocative new pieces. Appropriately named “Skin,” the collection features office and dining chairs, tables and vanities that have been custom fit with patchworks of butter-soft leather scraps, in muted and neutral colors. The Skin collection is not only innovative and sensuous, but it is also made of completely recycled waste materials.

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We have been digging Benjamin Rollins Caldwell’s innovative furniture – namely his vintage circuit board tables- but we’ve also become entranced with his new “Money Tables.” Made from salvaged concrete slabs balanced on modern clear Lucite, each chunky concrets slab is polished to a high gloss finish giving way to a table of unique is size and finish.

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