Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Tea & Toast: Recycled Walls

I’ve got my stripy red mug in hand and some sourdough toast with peanut butter to go with it. Ready!

How about you?

Yep, it’s Tea & Toast time again. Today I wanted to spend some heavy duty drooling time over recycled walls. Oh how I love a good bout of recycled treasure and things couldn’t be better when they are actually used in the constructing stage of a nest.

OK, off we go on our recycled wall adventure…

This would have to be my absolute favourite. Painted, flaking timber boards as a wall lining feature. Gorgeous! {And hello! Roofline alert!!!!}

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And how about this one? It’s a wall of bits and pieces of recycled timber put together like a gorgeous jigsaw puzzle to be a feature for a cafe.

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And how about using doors as a wall? Some people are just so creative.

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Do you know what this wall is made of? Come on, see if you can guess…

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{hint: you could read it……}

I know I’ve posted this image in a previous post but I couldn’t resist re-posting it here. Don’t you love it? A recycled metal fence screen.

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Now this is not my favourite but I felt the need to post it here in memory of my Brogo childhood. Bottle dreaming!

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Hmmm, could you do this in your study?

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Oh, how I love recycled corrugated iron. Team it with a pot belly and voila, instant Aussie-ness.

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And last but not least, a gorgeous recycled brick wall. I love old red bricks. I have a big pile of them, not cleaned yet {bar 69 of them…thanks Lewi and the Racz kidlets xx} that I’m contemplating having to move to our next nest. Effort plus but oh, the possibilities!

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So what did you think?

Has Tea & Toast this week inspired you to add a little zing of recycled loveliness to your nest?

 

Happy Tuesday!

Kim xx

 

 

3 comments:

Tammi said...

I'm here, I'm here :) a little bit late but better late than never.

I love me a bit of recycled loveliness and these walls are certainly just that..GORGEOUS!

I would love to build a house using as much recycled timber and products as possible...one day.

Am loving this series Kim but still can't reply to your comments via email which is why I haven't answered your question about what I would like to see on Tea & Toast.

x

Leah - The Inside Story said...

I do love these recycled walls Kim, but in my home, I'm not so sure. I see them as being great for a restaurant or shop or a quirky addition to a home that it suits. Love the creativity!! Leahx

Flora said...

Hi Kim, I found this via the link to my blog, thanks for that. I just had to say how much I love the little shack with the bottle windows - where is that? I want to move in!

Flora x