Slide Show: Everybody’s All-American
Slideshow: Bingo, bonsai, sonic bowls. Homegrown means all kinds of things at the brand new Nube Green.
Everything at Nube Green is made on and from American soil.
Furniture for LEED living; recycled, upcycled, good-looking
This table was made by a design firm that uses salvaged trim from sagging southern porches slated for tear-down. Behind the table, ceramics fired in an oven that burns only scrap wood.
Recycled-cardboard lighting fixtures by Seattle’s Graypants, and table from Meyer Wells, an Interbay design team that sources all materials from within a ten mile radius.
Close up of spalted maple Meyer Wells slab table; the artisans use fallen trees or trees that are cut down due to expansion and construction.
Lots of gift ideas for holiday shoppers
I love these denim dog beds. They made with discarded jeans sourced from the Goodwill outlet, and sewn by a Ukranian seamster that Ruth found through a local refugee center. What’s greener than green? Creating jobs, too. Ruth would someday love to be able to offer custom services; you bring your old jeans in, and her fabricators will create a dog bed with them, thus upcycling your cast offs and creating a bed that Spot loves even more because it smells like you, his best friend.
It’s almost maddening that these weren’t invented in Seattle: men’s neckties made with recycled audio cassette tape.
Those all-American cotton sheets, that salvaged display unit.
