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Recycle Old Magazines Into an End Table
Posted by Adam Pash at 2:00 AM on August 24, 2008
Weblog Apartment Therapy Re-Nest shows how to repurpose a pile of old magazines or vintage books into a small table in just about 10 minutes. Pulling it off is a simple matter of tucking every 10 pages or so back into the spine of the magazine—you don't even need glue or any additional supplies. As the post points out, the concept is very similar to cardboard furniture, like previously mentioned Blox, counting on folds and layers for strength. The folks at Apartment Therapy used the magazine tables as a plant holder, but you can put it to use for whatever you need (at the very least they're a cool decoration).
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flatspunk
Posted 2:52 AM 24/8/08
Cool decoration ? What is the emoticon that conveys a scoff? Very shabby, not so chic.
flatspunk
takeoutphoto
Posted 2:47 AM 24/8/08
I'm more of the opinion that stacks of magazines are an eyesore, so magazines-as-furniture...no thanks.
takeoutphoto
johnsmith1234
Posted 2:43 AM 24/8/08
Can we turn it into a laptop stand?
johnsmith1234
JayScooper
Posted 3:49 AM 24/8/08
For some reason the Elvis song "In the ghetto" popped into my head
JayScooper
Registered99
Posted 3:41 AM 24/8/08
It looks goed and it saves newspapers.
Who cares if it doesn't look trendy or "chic"?
Registered99
gregbzh
Posted 3:57 AM 24/8/08
I wonder if this would work with junk mail (of which we get heaps in France)?
gregbzh
alphafactor
Posted 3:56 AM 24/8/08
@johnsmith1234:
You know... that actually sounds like a pretty good idea. It would be an... "original" way of keeping the laptop elevated and relatively cool.
I'm tempted to try it myself a little later.
Well, maybe.
^^;;;;
alphafactor
Jim (The Canuck One)
Posted 5:39 AM 24/8/08
@gregbzh: I prefer to "repurpose" junk mail in a 3 step process.
Step 1 - remove and destroy items containing your personal details.
Step 2 - stuff the remaining junk mail into the business reply envelopes of OTHER junk mail senders.
Step 3 - drop the envelopes in the mail.
Why, in a day or two, the Bank of Montreal credit card dept will open an envelope to find they're being implored to return to Jesus.
Jim (The Canuck One)
Charging_Mooses
Posted 6:26 AM 24/8/08
@Jim (The Canuck One): ingenious!
Charging_Mooses
jupiterthunder
Posted 9:46 AM 24/8/08
Next up: Re-purpose your old pizza boxes as oil paintings.
@Jim, that's great!
jupiterthunder
MyTQuinn
Posted 9:43 AM 24/8/08
@Jim (The Canuck One): I do the same thing. I find that Capital One (bank) is always willing to provide envelopes and postage, enabling me to dispose of the junk mail remnants that remain after shredding anything containing personal information.
If it fits in an envelope and I want to discard it, I'm more than happy to send it to the Capital One recycling center.
MyTQuinn
Duane
Posted 12:10 PM 24/8/08
@johnsmith1234: When you read Lifehacker you quickly learn that almost anything can be turned into a laptop stand.
Duane
PunkMunkey
Posted 2:50 PM 24/8/08
@Duane: I propose a separate Lifehacker blog section dedicated solely to DIY laptop stands. I mean... I'D check it all the time.
PunkMunkey
garbanzo-bean
Posted 3:11 PM 24/8/08
this looks great! until you spill your beer on it, causing the 'table' to wilt away from underneath your plate of nachos, thereby painting a swath of molten yellow cheese food product across the cat who, being not entirely at ease with the cheese, runs screaming across the room and manages to climb half-way up your new recycled-shopping-bag-drapes before pulling the DIY cardboard-toilet-paper-tube-curtain-rod off of your fresh-powdered-milk-painted-wall...
it's just a disaster waiting to happen, i'm afraid. the solution? buy IKEA!
garbanzo-bean
Onewalrus
Posted 9:26 PM 24/8/08
Shucks... no photo of back issues of High-Times table with bong on top.
Onewalrus
danman3459
Posted 2:00 AM 25/8/08
Sweet, I just did this with Ikea catalogs. I knew Ikea was good for furniture.
danman3459
dgrant
Posted 4:52 AM 25/8/08
Who thinks that looks nice? Seriously.
dgrant
craig198
Posted 5:16 AM 25/8/08
@garbanzo-bean:
the funniest post Ive read in a long time! ROFLMAO!! I think lifehacker blogs are crossing the line from being thrifty to becoming a full beer bellied redneck with a house that's mobile and 2 cars out front that aren't. how about the big wheel tire for a garden growing your "herbs"
craig198
zarathustra
Posted 8:44 AM 25/8/08
Adding this to my room I mentioned before, along with the laptop on a wooden box (can substitute "pvc pipe"), wall full of junk peg-board, notebook/phone stand and clothes hanger magazine rack. It is really starting to come together now! More please! Just one more and I might get featured in "Ghetto style" this month!
zarathustra
BarneyRubble
Posted 10:37 AM 25/8/08
Looks like this will ensure continued celibacy.
BarneyRubble
tomanjeri
Posted 3:20 PM 25/8/08
I recall as a kid making Christmas trees out of old magazines. Take each page and fold the upper-right corner down and in towards the binding (making a triangle), glue the outside covers together and fan it out in a tree shape. You then spray paint it green (not all of it, just the outside inch or two, whatever penetrates) and add another quick spray of white paint along the edging.
tomanjeri
kftgr
Posted 4:29 AM 26/8/08
@PunkMunkey: ...can't wait for the day that all laptops come with their own built-in laptop stands
kftgr
ejoy
Posted 4:22 AM 26/8/08
@tomanjeri:
Did this as a kid. (Reader's Digest makes a really full tree!)
Problems was, my tree smelled like green spray paint for a couple of years afterwards.
ejoy
ICEBreaker
Posted 2:02 AM 27/8/08
Seems kind of unstable...
ICEBreaker
MillicentRadashack
Posted 2:01 PM 24/8/08
The thing about traditional furniture is it's not extremely flammable. If it's flammable, it has little mass (like a lampshade), or if massive (like a wooden table) it's slow to start burning. This "table" is kindling. Lots of paper, lots of exposed surface and access to oxygen. Why doesn't one set up a child's playroom with shredded newspaper?
MillicentRadashack