Tag: Kitchens - Page 8
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Electrolux Finalist: Kitchen Works In A Drawer
We have shown a lot of small kitchens but this one, designed by Nojae Park for the annual Electrolux Design Lab Competition, takes (and bakes and stores) the cake. The stove at the top and the fridge at the bottom pull out like drawers
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Kitchen in a Suitcase from Coleman
Coleman stoves have been around forever; the green metal two-burners have been staples of car camping, if a little bit heavy for canoe trips or hiking. Now they have mashed it together with a storage section; when you unfold it you have room for
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Appliances Artistically Spill Their Guts
When it comes to appliances, they don't build them like they used to, to last a long time and to be relatively easy to repair. Now they are built to be thrown away as replacement can often be cheaper than
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Don't Take it for Granite that Your Countertop isn't Radioactive
I have a lot of issues with granite countertops, the cherry on top of the McMansion sundae; they are heavy, expensive and cost a lot to ship. I have heard stories of Brazilian granite being shipped to China for cutting and then to Toronto for
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TreeHugger Tip: Eco-Friendly Way to Kill Fruit Flies
How do you get rid of fruit flies? Recently, I've been suffering from a fruit fly invasion of impressive magnitude. And despite a few attempts at ridding myself of these flies, I haven't been able to get things under control. I'll swat and kill as
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TreeHugger Tip: Tomm Stanley on Refrigerator Efficiency
Tomm Stanley is the author of The Big Tree at George and Charlotte's House and Going Solar and we are happy he has submitted yet another green tip for our TreeHugger Tips project. Tomm's tip helps your refrigerator maintain its normal operating
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Total Furnishing Unit by Joe Columbo
We show a lot of transformer furniture; we love ideas that combine different functions into units that take up less space and let us live more efficiently with less. It is not a new idea; we have previously shown Joe Columbo's Minikitchen, recently
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Italian Kitchen Design Keeps Getting Greener with New Valcucine
Combining sleek design, greener materials and extreme durability (we're talking like "spans the generations" durable), we liked the looks of Valcucine's new kitchen this past week at ICFF. The Italian kitchen designer, whom we've covered before, has
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1957 Frigidaire Dream Kitchen of Tomorrow- in Czech
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New York Times on Recycling Kitchens
The rich are different from you and me; they throw away perfectly good $ 90K kitchens. "Whether in new multimillion-dollar condos or in previously owned homes, they have been
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NYC Rocks ACDC Right Into 2007
TreeHugger has covered the current wars between Edison and Tesla before, Edison did everything to defend his beloved DC, he even made a movie of an "execution" (you can watch it here) which he called being "Westinghoused." The rest is history and we
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Fuez Blends Recycled Materials
Comprising 41 to 77 percent
