Recycled Pallet Table Revisited

Hello Fellows Gardeners! Yesterday I was walking by table made of recycled pallets, so much liked by you. No wonder, cos the idea is stunning.

Few months passed and I was thinking that you also probably would be curious how it's doing. So, bam! Here it is.

Everything seems to be fine. No changes and no signs of wearing off. 

Instead, this little cute guys slowly pop out their heads...

I wonder. Anybody planning to make this sort of table this season?

Pallet garden ideas - stunning lil garden!

Last morning, very very early, I was walking down the street to gym and this is what I saw.
Right after fresh spring rain :)

Whats needed? Recycled pallets, great idea and two skilled hands.

Few nails, hammer, few buckets of good dirt and few flowering plants...

The result is stunning...

8 Recycled Christmas Tree Ideas - Projects For Kids

While walking around Silves, lovely city in Portugal, I've noticed great exhibition Christmas recycling project for kids: competition who makes more beautiful Christmas tree using recycled materials.
Look at this great examples of kid's creativity. 

 Plastic bottles: pieced of bottles + caps.

 Coca-cola cans flattened, painted, see on the edges of the tree those little thingies used to open the tin. 

Foreground: used espresso coffee capsules, flattened. 

Background: cut foil. 

 Foreground: CD's + metal wire.

Used latex hand gloves, foil + paper cut in gloves' shape + plastic bottles + coffee capsules. 

 Cut foil.

Bottoms of the plastic bottles, painted.

MERRY & CREATIVE CHRISTMAS!!!

See also: Eco Chrismas Decorations

Oriental Patio Garden Before and After

Making a perfect design means making it perfect not only for the people that will spend  there most of their time, but also decrypting ‘genius loci’ – the spirit of the place. Gray and dull Warsaw calls for colors of different kind.

While searching for the divine inspiration, oriental part of my soul whispered to my ears, and not even realising how I knew that the best would be ‘The Oriental Opulence Spiced a bit with Decadence’. Client loved it! The colorful concept found great space in the client’s heart. And we made it!

Have a look at before and after photos.

If you would like to see more photos click here and hop over to the Oriental Garden portfolio page.

#orientalgarden #orientalgardens #warsaw #warszawapraga  #chillout #orientalchillout #middleeasternstyle #ottomandesign #londongardendesign #patiodesign #terracedesign #urbangarden

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One... two... three... barbed wire laughs with glee...

Barbed wire garden deco would be the last thing I would think of.
This one looks surprisingly nice.
But....
Do YOU think it's safe?

Color frenzy fairytale...

Once… long… long… time ago… when I was young… and you were not born yet… there was a girl who loved gardens. She just started her first own garden… she was so focused on the plants and flowers that any additional element in the garden had to be in brown, so will not disturb admiring another beautiful plant in her newly starting collection.

Every little plant that appeared in the garden was looked after carefully. One day she decided that brown furniture is not elegant enough and she asked fellow bloggers about color in the garden. She was advised that BLUE might be right, because it would look great in the winter, while partly under the snow. She was thinking and thinking, considering the change.

After few weeks or even months she decided that WHITE is the only color she would love in the garden. So she painted the bench white. That’s all for her color courage in the garden so far.

Then one day she spotted color frenzy you can see on the photos! She knew the people who placed it together were right. Yet what could she do? Royal dignity must be maintained and thinking must be processed... What do you think?

Recycled green products new year inspiration

I look and admire the creativity of its creators. Parts that usually go to trash can get new life and not quite look trashy! New life as lamps, tables, stools, pillows...

Few years ago somebody got a great idea and decided to organize one day trade exhibition, where you can see and shop recycled green products which are the result of human creative minds.

Going to such exhibition is great way to find new products and get away from commercial offer – I am really fed up with shops stuffed with all same products manufactured in Asia.

I am more and more searching for new interesting products that can make the surrounding  look modern and more personalized. 

You? 

Remember old vinyl music records? 

 Stool made of triple cardboard and craft paper, no glue, just fittings.

Table made of triple cardboard and craft paper, no glue, just fittings. 

Pillow made of jute sack, hand printed. 

Lamp made of old telephone.

Table made of old washing machine.

Photos via Natural Atelier, Caco Shop, Eco Corner. 

I recommend further reading Junk Beautiful: Room by Room Makeovers with Junkmarket Style  (yes, this is an affiliate link, but if you like my content, why not to click it? it would be nice "thank you for your work"). 

Eco Christmas Decorations

These recycled Christmas decorations are easy to make, original, eco-friendly and beautiful...
Spotted last week on the exhibition of Christmas decorations in Wilanow Palace Orangery. 

Recommended further reading Christmas Decorations from Williamsburg

So simple, so easy to make...

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Wish you fun while making it! 

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Recommended further reading Christmas Decorations from Williamsburg

Eco friendly, recycled textiles... jute pillows... rooster again...

I always liked jute for its natural and somewhat rough look. Recently on one of the coffee grain sacks I am recycling I've read "Save Amazon, use jute", so I got curious and searched why is it so.

Beside aestetical and pracitcal values, jute plants is very efficent in carbon dioxide (CO2) assimilation and it clean the air by consuming large quantities of CO2. 

One hectare of jute plants consumes about 15 tons of CO2 from atmosphere and release about 11 tons of oxygen in the 100 days of the jute-growing season. Studies also show that the CO2 assimilation rate of jute is several times higher than that of trees.

In contrast with the production of the fastest growing wood plant which needs at least 10 to 14 years from plantation to harvest, and produces only 8 to 12 ton per hectare annually. Because the biological efficiency of jute is much higher than that of wood plants, the use of jute instead of wood to make paper pulp will lower substantially the cost of production of pulp and paper and save forest resources.

In the environment conscious world today, the jute gained the name of Golden Fibre. It is biodegradable and therefore environment friendly, so the products merge with the soil after sustained use. It enriches the soil with organic substance and helps to grow better crops. Its fumes are non-toxic and produce no residue.

This makes me even more happy to work with jute. Now I am working on jute pillows - some designs are still "cooking":) while I just have almost finished new pillow Rooster. The fabric 100% natural jute, pattern is inspired by Polish folk art from Lowicz region.

It needs sewing still... but have a look at the current stage... 

Luxury hand knotted pure linen tablecloth...

Since already some time my hands were itching... my world was in need of better decoration... and I have had an overwhelming feeling of artistic expression of something hidden in me...
I hope you will also like things I will design and produce...

I was planing to start making some home decoration items like designed by me burlap hand printed throw pillows or that tablecloth, maybe also some other items. Possibly Etsy shop will be coming soon, but before that happens you may see available items at NaturalAtelier.blogspot.com

Photos speek for themselves, no narration needed... 

Luxury linen tablecloth, hand knotted lace. Click each photo to enlarge and see details.

Size 110cm x 220cm / 44" x 88".
Only one available now. Brand new. 100% natural pure linen.
These tablecloth is hand knotted - it takes 3-5 weeks to make it. I am not sure when next one will be available.
Very easy to care and maintain - delicate machine or hand washing using color detergents, no ironing needed.
Price: 89 $
Shipment by post mail to anywhere in the world: 20$
Secure payment via Paypal
If you are interested send me an e-mail: ewamariasz (at) gmail.com

Off white... magic

Yesterday I have visited such beautiful place.. I didn't want to leave it.... just have a look - how beautiful it looks in off white and other matching colors. Isn't it top class interior decoration? Lovely, cosy, elegant and little rustic. I feel that all November little worries go away... feeling warmer... beautiful place to live... OK, it is restaurant in a little, artistic village 140 km away from Warsaw... have a look...

This made me double inspired to change something at home. Interior decoration is my new focus after garden doesn't require that much work anymore...

Visit me again, as surprises and more beauty come soon, and in the meantime...

Happy home and patio decoration, while garden goes to sleep!