The Reuse Everything eXperiment Reuses Everything... Including the Kitchen Sink!

Oregon-based author and designer Shannon Quimby recently realized her dream of building an entire house "without a dumpster" -- a project she dubbed the "Reuse Everything eXperiment."

By partnering with several leaders in the green-building movement, Quimby completely deconstructed a crumbling wreck of home in Southeast Portland and reused everything - from old lathe and plaster, to a long defunct water heater - to create a gorgeous new ecologically-friendly home.

You can follow this ambitious home recycling project from start to finish by visiting Quimby's daily blog.

Tags: green building, oregon, portland, recycle, reuse, Shannon Quimby, stephanie brown

Charles & Hudson | September 25, 2008 | Comments () |

sellwoodian

No no no. This is a hideous publicity stunt. She does a "reuse" show, one of those "crafty" shows that demonstrates how to make tacky crap out of crap, on one of the design channels. And this house? It's a McMansion that takes up nearly the whole lot and looms over the neighborhood. There's NOTHING green about the size, and taking over the neighborhood with her on-site storage system smacked of hubris. Hers was a dangerous intersection through the whole process. The next-door neighbors had to sell their house because their entire backyard is no longer private or allowed sun. I am appalled that the surface presentation of this makes people giddy; it's superficial marketing, and why people keep blogging about it's "greenness" I just don't get. Quit giving Quimby, destroyer of neighborhoods, the undue attention.

Allison

Wow! Now that's a lot of work! Gotta give her credit for that!

Bugler

Awesome. Anything that combines "cheap" and "green" is bound to be a winner.

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