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The magazine of crafty & green living ideas PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 07:40
With indoor pollution on everyone's mind, esprit cabane is the solution for fun, creative and eco-friendly decorating.

Recipes

This site offers homemade paint recipes using ingredients as basic as milk or potatoes! Like an eco-friendly laboratory and workshop, it brings forgotten techniques and old recipes back to life; each patina or vintage paint recipe is tested before being passed on to visitors.

 

full instructions on furnitures plans, recycling projects, paint recipes, shedmaking and awesome ideasStudied simplicity

Sharing know-how is the priority, and the site's design reflects this with its clarity and simplicity. Readers can leaf through the magazine, flipping from page to page in the website, thanks to extremely fluid internal navigation.

 

Raw materials

esprit cabane promotes all types of recycling. Construction site planks metamorphose into chiffoniers, pallets are transformed into loft-style coffee tables. The shadow of a leafy plant turns into a pastoral wall decoration. A small crate can be a poetic cupboard, a rustic memo board, or a birdhouse. Each esprit cabane creation is easy to make, low-budget, useful and contemporary.

 

The 3 Rs: repair, reuse, recycle

The site not only encourages recycling materials but also restoring furniture, sofas, armchairs and chairs. The re-upholstering and re-looking techniques shared on the site are accessible and decorative. Learn how to tighten the webbing of an armchair or how to re-upholster a seat. Choosing not to throw away is friendly to the environment and to the wallet.


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