Country Home's Planet-Friendly Projects for Fall

Reuse is the oft-forgotten part of the reduce, reuse, recycle mantra (though the DIYers are usually reminding us!) Country Home Magazine has taken up the idea in a big way in several great features in September’s issue.

Along with celebrity green-auteur Danny Seo’s “Fresh Thinking” column where he transforms flea-market finds into centerpiece-pretty candles (see results below), there are articles on converting an armoire into a storage area, old screens into a laundry hamper, making shutters into a cabinet, a stepladder into an organizer, and how to make your own memory box from found materials.

Articles like these are a good reminder that eco-friendly living has it’s antecedents in the way people actually used to live, and still do, in rural areas where repurposing household items (and fixing them!) just makes sense, not to mention saves money.

Go from these common attic finds, to….

…these pretties! Perfect for Autumnal tablesettings!

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Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin's Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst's The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that's where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.

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One Comment on “Country Home's Planet-Friendly Projects for Fall”

Sarah Petersen

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09/12/07 » 12:17 pm »