Parsimonia {Secondhand With Style}: Sustainable Style: Pallet Projects

Yesterday I got my first issue of ReadyMade magazine, which has been on my "need to subscribe to" list for some time. Their philosophy is to write about "people who make things and the culture of making," and they want to help their readers "tap into the innovator inside all of us."

Needless to say it tapped a lot of innovation in me, because with each turn of the page I was "oohing" and "aahing" at all the projects there for the making. This made the hubs quite nervous and he jokingly said I couldn't ready that magazine anymore. Ha, ha, ha...

The idea that stood out to me the most was in the feature on Edmund Griffin and Lizet Alvarez, who transformed a small home in desert region of Joshua Tree National Park into a amazingly beautiful weekend getaway locale. Griffin is quite handy in woodworking and I positively swooned over the adirondack chairs he made from discarded wooden pallets (pictured above).

This got me wondering what other brilliance has come to fruition from something you see piled behind buildings every day... and what I found could light up Los Angeles. Check it out...