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Some carpet remnants, some plywood offcuts, half an old fencepost and… a new home for the cat.  She loves it, hopefully now she’ll stop scratching the chair.  I screwed the plywood pieces to either end of the fencepost and wrapped everything with some carpet leftovers.  I used an upholstery stapler to fasten the carpet but […]

Some great workshops coming up with Kimiko at Seeds of Change.  Learn how to make household products from scratch!  Important dates are Nov. 12 and 30th.  Check out www.plantstheseed.com for details or keep reading. Seeds of Change is a local business based in Victoria that provides Do-it-Yourself workshops on various household products to members of the […]

This coming Wednesday (Sept 17th) is the last Sunset Market of the summer at Oaklands Community Centre.  Remove&Reuse has really enjoyed being there with the Outdoor Livingroom and the furniture in the Beer Garden.  Make one last trip to the market and get some great deals on the remaining furniture stock!  2827 Belmont Ave. this […]

I’ve been working on building a deck off the back of my house. So far it’s almost all repurposed wood. – Fir 2×6’s from a deck we replaced (just cut off the rotten bits). – Pressure treated 4×4’s from a fallen down fence. – parts from a partially rotten flight of outdoor stairs. – old […]

The Remove & Reuse team just built and installed this awesome bike rack made from repurposed lumber and pipe. Send us photo’s of your repurposed projects and we’ll post them in the blog or email us if you need someone to make your repurposed project idea come to life.