Reclaim Your Remodel: The Art of Material Reuse

Reclaimed materials can become the ingredients that add character to a remodel.
Reclaim Your Remodel: The Art of Material Reuse
Eight thousand square feet of Minnesota Timberwolves gym flooring is available for creative reuse. Seventeen-year-old flooring features random marks of character. PlanetReuse
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Eight thousand square feet of Minnesota Timberwolves gym flooring is available for creative reuse. Seventeen-year-old flooring features random marks of character. (PlanetReuse)

Just as the hip kid in school finds cheap ways to piece together thrift store outfits, one homeowner’s building scraps can transform into another’s nest.

Reclaimed materials—which would otherwise end up in a landfill—can become the ingredients that add character to a remodel while under budget constraints.

Besides, reuse is smart, righteous, sexy, and progressive, according to PlanetReuse, out of Kansas City, Missouri.

From simple to zany—antique heart pine to Minnesota Timberwolves’ gym floor, wall brick to bowling alley turned countertop—an assortment of goods are available through PlanetReuse.

Operating as an online posting board of listings and requests, PlanetReuse has tapped into a new, old market, brokering products—in a fun and interesting way. Consumers can hone in on the reclaimed materials they need.

“Waste is piling up around our planet, billions of tons annually…with as much as 40 percent coming from construction projects,” states PlanetReuse.