Category: Up-cycling

Recycled Timber Path

As you may know, I LOVE collecting and working with rustic timbers. I have previously mentioned the mountain of recycled hardwood timber that we inherited from a local demolition and we have now put it to another fantastic use which will also decrease some of the weeding maintenance that we have to do around the…
Read more

Reusing & Recycling in the name of Olives at Harman Wines

Living Greener assists a local award-winning South Gippsland winery, Harman Wines with their property maintenance. The Harman Wines property is 10 acres with vines, a cellar door, veggie gardens, a fruit and olive orchard, a large paddock with sheep, and a bit of space to mow and brushcut. With the Harman Wines business growing in…
Read more

An old rusty pipe & half a paper towel holder

I’m sure everyone has experienced a loose, falling off or broken toilet roll holder. When ours gave way recently in the kids toilet, I suggested to our 4 & 7-year-old about making our own. I put a challenge to them and took them to the local recycled building materials place to see what goodies we…
Read more

Recycled timber all the way!

When our neighbour rang us up one day and said ‘I’m helping demolish a shed, do you want the hardwood frame for firewood’ ….. he knew all too well that we were going to say ‘ABSOLUTELY!’. Within an hour there was a HUGE load of hardwood dumped in front of our shed. Little did we…
Read more