Reestore is an eco-friendly retailer (an e-e-tailer?) that uses a great business model. They seem to steal things from homeless people and then make them into really expensive and awesome furniture. OK so I don't know for sure how they get the trash to make the stuff, but a lot of it does seem like it would fit well in some kind of under-the-freeway shantytown in its original incarnation.

Take "Annie, the shopping trolley chair" for example. In this case they either stole this from a homeless person or just right from a grocery store. It's like $800 and I hope they use a whole heap of those cart-sanitizing wipes before they ship it to you.



Although, is it that much dirtier than this "Gordon" chair made out of a former "barrow" (I'm assuming they mean a wheelbarrow tray) and an office chair? Yesterday it hauled manure, today it's in your living room. This one is pretty good-looking though. Also roughly $800. I have to ask, is there really a huge need to recycle old wheelbarrow parts? Is the proliferation of wheelbarrow tops and office chair bottoms the real cause of global warming? I find that surprising. But I guess every little bit helps.




The winner goes to the "Max" hollowed out bathtub couch. $3000 for this baby. Points for creativity! I'm guessing it's not very good for cuddling up on the couch with a blanket, since, you know, it's all cold and hard and made of cast-iron and used to be a bathtub. Again- I was unaware that cast-iron tubs are the scourge of our eco-crisis, an unsung ozone killer lurking in the mist. But you learn something new every day.



Where else would I have found this but TreeHugger