Painting with a full pallet....................

Another normally wasted product is the wood used to build the pallets on which other materials are shipped. Often the pallets are made of oak.

Here in the foyer/mud room, I've harvested that wood to create a rustic wall veneer.

This is probably not to everyone's taste, but to me it's consistent with the barn-like character of this home.

To the dump...not !

When you go through the phase of installing electrical & plumbing fixtures, there's a great amount of cardboard & plastic waste generated.

If you don't recycle it, those products just sit in the landfill for many, many years.

So I hope that everyone is taking advantage of local recycling centers to give a new life to useful materials, rather than creating more needless waste for generations to come.

In this photo I'm making one of many trips to the local recycling bins.

One of my proudest accomplishments on this build was completing the project without ever needing an on site dumpster.