{"id":7569,"date":"2009-09-08T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T16:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=7569"},"modified":"2010-05-27T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:17:09","slug":"salvaged-building-materials-examples-from-phoenix-commotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/renovate\/buildmaterials\/salvaged-building-materials-examples-from-phoenix-commotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvaged Building Materials (Examples from Phoenix Commotion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI know that some salvaged building materials don&#8217;t exactly &#8216;fit&#8217; the look of a modern home, but often times they can add more character to a room than something brand new (plus, you know all about how saving items from the landfill is a good thing, so I won&#8217;t lecture you on that). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/03\/garden\/03recycle.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">NYTimes <\/a>recently featured an arcticle on Dan Phillips and his construction company, Phoenix Commotion, who together build low-income housing out of salvaged items. Not all of the ideas are applicable in your own home, of course, but it might get your brain thinking about alternative materials for your next remodeling project.<\/p>\n<p>photos (all by Michael Stravato for The New York Times), left to right, top to bottom:<\/p>\n<p>Wood-burning stove from an old ship installed in a new home. <br \/>\nWine Bottles function like stained glass in a Dutch Door.<br \/>\nCountertop made from slices of osage orange wood, a local East Texas material.<br \/>\nScrap wood for siding.<br \/>\nOld shingles, arranged by color, reused.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/03\/garden\/03recycle.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">NYTimes.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that some salvaged building materials don&#8217;t exactly &#8216;fit&#8217; the look of a modern home, but often times they can add more character to a room than something brand new (plus, you know all about how saving items from the landfill is a good thing, so I won&#8217;t lecture you on that). NYTimes recently [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[189,190],"tags":[233],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15935,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569\/revisions\/15935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}