Finding Recycled Furniture Designers

Finding recycled furniture designers and their impressive creations is like walking through an art gallery, because quite a number of them have come up with mind-blowing designs, so to speak. Their recycled furniture makes good conversation pieces, suitable for those who often entertain guests at home. For personal purposes, it is something we could use for practicality or even to simply stare and muse at while relaxing in our cozy comfortable homes.

Recycled furniture pieces are products we should consider as one of our choices when looking for decors to liven up our homes. The underlying reason for this is that by creating a demand for them, recycled furniture designers become more inspired to use discards and trash. Otherwise, the latter only worsens the country’s landfill problems. Characteristically, recycled furniture may be pricey; but these are modern works of art that were handcrafted and painstakingly attended to, up to the smallest detail.

Below are some examples of recyclable objects with a brief insight on what inspired their designers to come up with creative and artful recycled furniture designs.

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The first in our finds are the recycled furniture collections of designer Mark Russel Lutz of BarnhouseProducts.com. There is an assortment of hand crafted tables and chairs made from reclaimed wine barrels. The designer’s creative eyes saw the staves, heads, and bands of old wine barrels as having more functional use than just planters. He utilizes superior joinery techniques as well as waterproof /weatherproof substances to assemble the furniture and applies tung to enhance the wood’s natural grains. This ensures the furniture pieces, once assembled, are still recognizable as materials coming from reclaimed wine barrels.

In fact, a closer scrutiny of a furniture piece reveals the original handwritings on the wood were retained in order to preserve whatever history the wine barrels carry as wine artifacts. This is just as well, because the recycled furniture pieces are works of art any owner would be proud to show-off and point-out, as something made from wine barrels ready to be discarded or relegated as plant boxes.

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Where do old blemished water skis, snow skis, wakeboards, snowboards, and hockey sticks go when their owners no longer have a use for them? To SkiChairs, a company specializing in recycling this type of sports equipment into handmade ski chairs and benches. They are assembled and created not as novelty items, but as ergonomic seats.

A typical ski chair uses six individual skis, recycled into Adirondack chairs with matching ottoman. They are stylishly designed to provide maximum comfort for outdoor or indoor relaxation. These handmade recycled furniture designs have ergonomically curved back and seat supports while providing extra long and extra wide armrests. Stainless steel fasteners were used to make sure of their integrity as durable furniture for outdoor use.

The Ski Benches, on the other hand, are of 100% recycled origins, consisting of discarded skis, boards, and hockey sticks. The legs are made from recycled milk and soda bottles or what is now known as poly lumbers. Even the boxes used for shipping these items are made from recycled bikes and ski boxes.