Re-Creative: 50 Projects for Turning Found Items Into Contemporary Design [Mass Market Paperback]

Steve Dodds (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 22, 2006

Previously Announced. Recycle. Restore. Repurpose.

This unique book inspires art, creation, and environmentalism with 50 projects that transform yesterday's trash into today's stylish and useful objects. Using found, discarded, and cast-off items as a foundation-from old computer cases, soda cans, and record album covers to foam packing-readers can fashion stylish clocks, end tables, frames, and much more.

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About the Author

Steve Dodds is an architect, woodworker, and regular contributor to Readymade magazine, as well as the author of Tools: A Tool-by-Tool Guide to Choosing and Using 150 Home Essentials.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: HP Trade; First Edition edition (November 22, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557885095
• ISBN-13: 978-1557885098
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #580,598 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun & Helpful, August 31, 2007

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K. Johnson (Hilo, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Re-Creative: 50 Projects for Turning Found Items Into Contemporary Design (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was fun and helpful. If anything, it might get some people to think of what to do with found objects. On the other hand, many of the projects in this book would be rather difficult to do without purchasing anything. This would be a better book for someone who just keeps collecting junk and needs something to do with it. If you do not collect junk then you are probably out of luck with this book.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars it's really about recycling trash, February 14, 2009

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DJ (Evington, Vatican City State (Holy See)) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Re-Creative: 50 Projects for Turning Found Items Into Contemporary Design (Paperback)

Okay, so for most things I am pretty open minded and I don't like giving negative reviews but this one is. Some of the things are interesting like the idea of using an old record sleeve for a clock or the nightstand that folds up to become a picture frame. But of the 50 projects here most of the other stuff is just dumb and ugly. There are directions for making a frame from foam packaging. And there are instructions for making a clock from a crushed can and there are several different tables that are just ugly. Like I said there are a few things that are cool, but like someone else said a lot of the stuff is not easily found and other stuff is just trash that I would never want hanging around my house. It's one thing if you want to use objects that you might find at a flea market or antique store, but it's another thing if you are actually using trash to decorate. I would suggest bypassing this for something else that contains instructions for things a little less "trashy" looking and a little more fun.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great ideas!, May 24, 2009

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M. McDermott - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Re-Creative: 50 Projects for Turning Found Items Into Contemporary Design (Mass Market Paperback)

I just moved into a new home and this book gave me so many cool ideas for my new place!! I basically have all of the materials I need to make whatever I want and what I dont can easily be found at any yardsale :) Awesome craft book!! Artsy and retro.