Trip to Kenya!

Hi All. Welcome back - well definately for us. We have just returned from amazing trip to Kenya. We have spent fantastic week in very friendly atmosphere of this wonderful country. Beautiful weather, smiley people and African wildlife. This was one in a lifetime experience...

It is worth mentioning, that Kenya has still very alive furniture making trade - most of furniture there is hand-made in small independent shops and original pieces are being sold on the streets... As you drive along outskirts of Mombasa (second biggest city in Kenya), you can spot most original designs of furniture - beautiful beds with amazingly carved headboards, dressing chests with plenty of small little cupboards, bent wicker chairs and many, many more... Due to massive competition, it is very important for all traders to make good quality and strong pieces, as very often they are being contracted by private buyers, but also big hotels...

Another amazing thing we have spotted are craved wooden lamps - they are all different and unique...

Thought we would share couple of photos with you, giving you a little taste of Kenya... and if you get a chance, we highly recommend this amazing country!

Quick Studio Tour - For those of you who have not made it down yet.

To get too our website: http://www.recycleyourfurniture.co.uk

Dont forget many items in storage are not displayed in our studio, for viewing storage items please visit our ebay shop, where you can then either buy direct from us or purchase through ebay.

Holiday Over back to the Grindstone...

Back at the design table at Refunk Your Junk.. Rested and full of inspiration.

For those of you who check back regularly, I thought i would just let you we are now back and open as usual. Wed/Thu/Sat/Sun (11am - 5pm) Collection & Delivery days are still Tue & Fri.

Feel free to ask any questions about our pieces, or even if you need some advice on a piece your doing for yourself we are happy to help out.

Dont forget.. "Dont Tip it Recycle it".

Upholstery Course: 20th October 2009 Read More Here.

Fancy trying something new?,

Upholstery Course in Newcastle Upon Tyne Only £88.

Refunk Your Junk & Recycle Your Furniture have been pushing Newcastle City Learning to put on another Upholstery course. and guess what they are considering it: All we need now are the bums on seats.. If we have enough people attending then the course will go ahead:

Why not start a part time Upholstery course and refunk all of those tired old chairs in your house.

Gosforth High school are looking at running a 1 evening a week course every Tuesday from the 20th October 2009 through until 15th December 2009.

Sadly there seems to be no goverment funding for the course available so the course has to run on full price without any discounts. BUT still for the full course it is only a reasonable £88.

If your interested and possibly want to join some of the Refunk Your Junk designers on the course, then get in touch with Newcastle City Learning: 0191 255 9101 to either book yourself a place or find out more info.

Hope to see some of you there.

Fabrication. Something of interest for you all.

From a recent attendance by a couple of Refunk Your Junk Designers at Bill Quay fabrics workshop on 12th September '09, not only did we find some amazing unique fabrics; we also discovered an exciting new gallery exhibition: Details shown below

Fabrication: Exhibtition & Auction @ The bridge Gallery.
Sat 5th Sept '09 - 18th Sept '09.
Mon - Fri: 12 noon - 6pm
Sat: 10am - 12noon

Auction on 18th September (6pm Viewings / 7pm Auction)

For further details contact Bill Quay Fabrics: 0191 421 1503 or Karolynne Hart: 0191 433 6917

Recyle Your Furniture & Refunk Your Junk

Exciting team based furniture recycling initiative.

We are all relatively new to Blogging, but feel this is possibly the best way to keep yourselves and our team up to date on what is going on, some of us pass like ships in the night only seeing half finished tables, and pots of paint that have been moved since our last studio visit.

We have just refreshed and updated our websites:
http://www.recycleyourfurniture.co.uk; http://www.refunkyourjunk.co.uk

Our main online shop and studio / sales floor is due to be opening up in May 2009 (Fingers crossed.

What are we all about??
We are a furniture recycling project with a personal touch; hopefully with a feel of community spirit, training and involvement adding a bit of artistic creation to your home at very reasonable price. and we do all this this by receiving furniture donations from yourselves, we collect unwanted or even slightly damaged furniture and reintroduce it back to the public, please read our website for more details. www.recycleyourfurniture.co.uk

We really hope you will check back at our blog and our website regularly as we plan to have lots artistic re funked furniture at great prices.

later on in the week i will be adding a bit more about how we have got this far, who is involved and after that we will be keeping you all informed on the project as we go along.