Kathleen Hackett

Lots of outdoor/indoor re-purposing. If you're into that deer antler driftwood arranged fruit white paint kind of shit this was aite. I really do respect the book for actually being "use the shit you find in the street and fix it for cheap or free" instead of "commission your interior designer to find shit out in the streets, but not your streets, since your streets are politely emptied and polished by careful hands bi-weekly, unless you're 'slumming it' by pioneering some unsuspecting Brooklyn neighborhood in which case you should still let your interior designer do it for you and then 'style it' at a cost equal or greater to buying something new." i.e. Dwell or Readymade, p.s. Fuck You Dwell and Readymade. Side note: when did my goodreads reviews become unmitigated class rage? Just putting that out there.The most awesome ideas were making a bookcase out of odd salvaged drawers by turning them on their side vertically and fastening them together, and using wooden pallets instead of a boxspring/bedframe to raise a mattress off the floor, and repurposing rusty standing plant stands for little stuff indoors. There, I saved you half an hour.… (more)