Remake It Home: The Essential Guide to Resourceful Living [Hardcover]

Henrietta Thompson (Author), Neal Whittington (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 27, 2009

Perfectly suited to the spirit of our times, this book is a spare yet stylish guide to living without wastefulness. It chimes with today’s consumer and design trends toward cost-consciousness and environmental awareness, and shows how to live stylishly by reusing and repurposing rather than buying new. This book aims to inspire a sophisticated audience not yet prepared to sacrifice great design or good style by showing both exceptional designs by leading product designers as well as offering ideas for projects we all could, and perhaps should, create. Remake It Home blends inspiration and hands-on knowledge, containing a wealth of almost-forgotten skills for using found materials, left-overs, and trash. It is organized into six sections illustrated with designs by notable young talents such as Fritz Hansen, Ryan McElhinney, Alabama Chanin, Margaret Cusack, Junk+ion, and Studio Verissimo. Included are designs for furniture, lighting and accessories, storage, tools and appliances, textiles, and cleaning and laundry. Each section highlights resourcefulness in design, drawing on global trends, modern innovations, and traditional practices that are brought together in a harmonious, thrifty, ecologically sound, and life-enriching whole.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"It's nice to see this kind of home-style hacking going mainstream with some decent design instead of the usual blurry photos." ~Wired Magazine

About the Author

Henrietta Thompson is a design writer and curator based in London and Barcelona. She is the author of Simply Contemporary.

Neal Whittington is a freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in Wallpaper and Monocle magazines.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Universe (October 27, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789320568
• ISBN-13: 978-0789320568
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.2 x 8.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #640,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting Book!, January 17, 2010

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Andrea Burrows "elementary teacher" (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This book kept my family entertained for hours over the holidays. We were competing to get hold of it. It features arty furniture and other products made in a more sustainable way but also provides ideas for making your own recycled/repurposed household items. Mostly it is a fun, fun read that stimulates the imagination and helps you look at old stuff and found objects in a new way.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Overpriced Advertising, February 10, 2010

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Cynthia "Book Lover" (Sunnyvale, California United States) - See all my reviews

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This book is mostly pictures of goods and contact information for artists. There are few projects in it, and many of those are fairly obvious, such as using a tea kettle to boil eggs if you are out of other pots. Some of the goods displayed don't appear to be recycled. All in all, this is a lot to spend for what you get.