Favorite Things Chest of Drawers!

This is my first chest of drawers, and it actually works! All the drawers are different sizes, shapes and depths.

The wood is found, as are the WWII pins fashioned as knobs.

So now I have a special place to keep all of my little treasures!

Trashy Design is the Featured Project on evolver.net today!!!!!

Go to evolver.net and check it out, and while you're there, see what some other people are up to, get inspired, make connections, and create some good in this world!

i love this drawing by Nick Gazin and wanted it on my wall. so i applied it to a thin piece of found wood and sequined the hell out of it. 

--scarlett

This is my "Back To Nature Storage Unit."  It's made of wood and scrap wood I found in the wood shop.  It's kind of my favorite.  It's good sized, about 3 ft high, and is intended to be functional, I'm putting clothes in it. 

This is a work in progress. I found this beautiful antique table frame without a table top on it, so I painted the frame bright blue and am weaving a table top from yarn.  I'll upload a picture once it's done and I've come up with a really obvious name for it.

I thought I'd post some picture of work I've done.

This is "Princess Chair."  She is currently residing in my room, brightening up my space.

Materials used: found chair (the seat was whicker and had been busted in), plastic bags (as the outer bright material, I'll tell you how to make plastic bag fabric some other time), packing peanuts (found in a dumpster), string I had, and fake white rose petals ( I have like 50 packs of them perfectly sealed, a store in Bronxville had used some for their display window and had a ton left over, so I came to the rescue).

Princess Chair made her debut in the Barbara Walters Gallery, at Sarah Lawrence College, as part of the Summer 2008 Student Work Show.

This is "BeanBag Rocking Chair."  It was big enough to lay down and nap in.  The rocker was built from wood that was kicking around the wood shop, and the bean bag is made from the plastic bag fabric filled with found packing peanuts, just lying on top of the rocker.

It was pretty comfy, kids liked to lounge in it, but Satchel the dog liked it the most, so the bean bag component of the chair was given to him as a dog bed.  I de-constructed the rocker and put the wood back in the wood shop, because I had no space for it, it was kinda huge. 

This is "Fray," and right now I'm sitting on him, for he is the perfect desk chair. I found a rusty old metal lawn chair with chipping paint and a grid like back and seat, so I sprayed the chair frame with sealant so the rust/chipping look could stay without the danger of scrapes, and wove several layers of plastic bags through the grid frame to make it coushy.

Trashy Design is the name of the sustainable design collective that I'm in the process of forming.

The collective is completely open and casual. Basically, I just want to gather people who are into the same things I am, turning trash and found objects/materials into functional objects or artworks.  

I think gathering like minded people is a great way to learn and create.  Anything that could come from this gathering would be positive, whether it be working collaboratively or just bouncing ideas back and forth; the more people involved, the more opportunities that could come to grace us. 

I'll be putting up flyers in Greenpoint and Williamsburg soon. I hope some eco-nerds will come out of their caves and join me in adding some bio-fuel to the eco-revolution!