The original 1004 Central was 100 years old, this year. Some folks have expressed concern that we took down a cool, old house. We, too, thought the house was awesome, and our initial hope was to preserve the existing structure. The more we got into it the less feasible this idea became – decades of inoccupancy and neglect [...]

Thurston County has a great online resource to help residents figure out where they can take items for recycle or reuse.

We sat down and brainstormed what we would like to have in this house. This is our general vision for the, cleverly updated from “I Want,” our version for 1222 9th Ave, posted April 2, 2009.

The Native Plant Salvage Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization, formed to support the hands-on educational work of the WSU Native Plant Salvage Project, which includes:

Preserving native vegetation
Protecting water resources & wildlife habitat
Recovering & replanting native plants to restore habitat and promote the benefits of native plants

This morning Luke and I took a field trip to the Washington State Archives. Having never been there, we both found the place pretty exciting.

The goal at Earthwise is to preserve Seattle’s architectural past by salvaging reusable building materials and architectural features that would otherwise be headed for the landfill, and offering them for sale to the community.

Second Use has been reclaiming building materials for reuse in the Puget Sound region since 1994. It is a community business – the materials come from and are used in the local region. The company itself is locally grown; the owners are employees; the employees all together shape the future of the business.

The Building Materials Reuse Association is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to facilitate building deconstruction and the reuse/recycling of recovered building materials.

Deconstructioninstitute.com provides educational materials, tools and techniques, networking, case studies, articles, facts about the environmental impacts of deconstructing, and many other downloadable and interactive modules.

Oopsies! Change O’ Plans! We have been talking for some time now about our plans for a third major remodel project on our home at 1222 9th Ave, hence our initial creation of this blog. We got so far as drafting a lovely set of plans for this project and submitted them to the City [...]