Pile of trash or tower of possibilities?

It's Cardboard and it's Cool!

From Freshome.com: "The Internationally acclaimed award-winning furniture designer Reinhard Dienes, is debuting an exclusive line of cardboard furniture with Fashion4Home. The furniture pieces are lightweight, sturdy and 100% recyclable as well as playful."


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Cardboard laptop rack for exercise bike

Cardboard laptop rack for exercise bike
Originally uploaded by CyclotronX

Materials box from Pizza Hut pasta, glue, packing tape. Basically I stuck the box on the bike to use to make template, but the box fit so well I just cut it with scissors and many of the folds just worked out.

Hack a Cardboard Box into a DIY Solar Oven

From Lifehacker: "Eco-friendly weblog The Daily Green details how to turn a cardboard box into a DIY solar oven for a little weekend fun in the sun. All you'll need is the box, some construction paper, tin foil, plastic, and a few other items you're likely to have around the house, and when you're done you'll have a full-fledged cardboard cooker."

[via Daily Green]

Lifehacker has a Flickr photopool from those who have attempted this project.

DIY Recycled Cable Spool

Works great with iPod headphones and cellphone ear pieces!
Have a stack of empty trays from a frozen dinner binge? Turn them into useful cable spools. Each tray can make about 4 cable spools. First I designed my shape in Adobe Illustrator. I pinced the the sides a little and the hole is roughly the diameter of your standard hole-punch. I printed out a sheet of templates. Cut them out. Then used clear packing tape to afix them to the frozen dinner tray. I started the cut ordinary scissors, but paused as I passed a corner to punch the hole. If you cut it all the way out, the tape will nolonger hold the template in place. The last step is to cut a slit to the hole so you can slip the cable in the hole. I haven't determined if angled or straight is best.

Download a PDF of the cable spool templates.

Reuse Those Trays
These trays are great for warming food in the microwave. Some can be used in the oven! Two identical trays make a bottom in a lid. Cover your food, keeping it moist and the microwave clean. You can even use them to keep left over by covering with foil or plastic wrap.

If you don't reuse them, please rinse off and recycle them.

Hot Tray Caddy for Frozen Dinners

Laugh in face of uncomfortable temperatures and cautionary warnings!
Reuse that box your frozen dinner came in as a caddy to carry that hot tray fresh out of the microwave. Trace the top rim of the tray on a side of the box. Then, redraw the oval line about a quarter of an inch inside the trace-line. Note the ends of the oval are square-ish so adjust the inner line accordingly. Use an X-acto knife to cut the shape out. It helps to reseal the end of the box with some packing tape first. It makes the box less flimsy.

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More projects at my blog, Pizza Box Art

Environmentally-Friendly End Table

I had this box sitting around for weeks and I started using it as an end table. So one day I decided why not just transform it into an actual end table!