Tiffany had been planning to eventually overhaul her outdated kitchen anyway, but unexpected flooding caused by burst pipes fast-forwarded the need for renovation. She recruited actor Kat Tingum, a friend and fellow recycling aficionado, to come along on her green makeover adventure. “My job as Chief Design Junkie at TerraCycle fully supports this mentality of reuse and upcycling,” Tiffany told us. “And while my day job (and a lot of my hobbies, too) involve building furniture and accessories, neither Kat nor I had ever done anything involving plumbing, hanging cabinets, or installing large appliances. This was definitely new territory and we both learned a ton!” Tiffany says she tackled her kitchen reno with the same mindset she does for all of her projects, carefully considering how to use as many salvaged materials as possible in an attractive and appealing way. “That’s where pennies, red wagons, old wallpaper, a few buckets of cement, and bucket lids all come into play,” she said. “All of these materials became the building supplies for my new kitchen.” “I am loving my new kitchen and am proud of the fact that it was created from loads of love, sweat, and salvaged materials!” says Tiffany.

Tiffany is a design junkie who gives scrap materials a second life.  She has these darling “Plush Pals: Turn a Tweed Jacket into a Turtle Softie” on the “DIY Network Make + Remade”. Tiffany has a wonderful tutorial and each picture is a template you can enlarge and print out.  She also has a tutorial with patterns for her “Plush Fox”.  Check out her book “ReMake It” with 95 do-it-yourself projects perfect for your favorite trash-connoisseur on her blog. She’s also the head of design at TerraCycle (www.terracycle.net). I want to thank Tiffany for sharing these cuties with us, ENJOY!