...Share Your Thoughts...

During Ouseburn Festival you will get a chance to express yourself and participate in this art project! Come along and write what's on your mind or in your heart - you can write anything you want on this white painted cabinet @recycleyourfurniture! Have an amazing weekend and enjoy Ouseburn Festival!

No Plans For This Weekend?...

...Why don't you visit Ousburn Valley. Great day out guaranteed. Have a look at Sky News article and video about this Funky Part of Town here: http://tyneandwear.sky.com/news/article/60376/is-the-ouseburn-valley-the-coolest-place-in-newcastle 

Have a great weekend! :-)

PS: Don't forget to click through the photos in the article ;-)

JANUARY SALE!!!

Hello in a New Year 2012! Hope you are all well and ready for the upcoming new events.

As a celebration for the new year and also in wait for new items in our stock, we will be starting JANUARY SALE tomorrow at 12.00 (20.01.2012). Various items from our stock will be discounted differently - 10%, 20% and 40%! SALE will last 10 days, so be quick and as usual if you have any questions, please contact us.
Happy shopping!

That's what we call VINTAGE!!!

Just in time for Christmas, we have got some more of your favorite Retro Vintage items - coffee tables, couple of wardrobes, upholstered dining chairs and... amazing record player and "Murphy" TV.

It's like going back in time and all sooo interesting! Take a peak and don't forget to check our Ebay Store for more photos and details.

Enjoy!!!

Oooohhh Sun is out, Ouseburn is buzzing.. What to do today? Saturday things to do?

Happy Saturday to everyone.

Sun is out up in Newcastle Upon Tyne and we can sense summer on its way.

Why not take a day out this weekend for a relaxing stroll through Jesmond dene and then onto the the Quayside via Ouseburns Arty Valley.

And come visit ourselves and our neighbours in the area, Digital Print, Alison Groves Photogrpahy, Biscuit Factory, Cobalt Studios, Ouseburn Studios, Lime Street, and of course Refunk Your Junk & Recycle Your Furniture.. why not even take a horse ride at Stepney Stables... or stop for a cwaffy in the cluney, Ship or Northern Print??. and im sure there is so much more to try out that we havnt listed.

Viewing is always free sadly the coffee isnt..

And finish it off with a stroll on the quayside.

Enjoy the sun.

January Sale - Recycle Your Furniture, Refunk Your Junk Newcastle Upon Tyne

JANUARY SALE

UNTIL 7th JANUARY 2010

Speceial online 15% discount on selected items

Discounted Delivery on studio purchases over £80

Only £10 delivery for items within 15miles

Studio opening times 2010

Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun ~ 11am - 5pm

http://www.recycleyourfurniture.co.uk/

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

Sideboard recovery

We have received this beautiful retro "Beautility" sideboard thanks to young couple from North Shields. We believe it was used by nice housewife since 1950's, but unfortunately time has left its signs. Scratches and stains all over the sideboard were pretty bad. It would be real shame to throw such a lovely piece away...
As soon as sideboard arrived to our shop, P. spotted its potential and... this way we can tick the box "First furniture restoration" - DONE! :-) Piece like that should stay close to its original version, so P. decided not to go towards refunking it, instead he sanded sideoboard down and brought beautiful wood features out. Bit of wood dyer gave it new darker look and careful waxing created this masterpiece, so other lovely lady can use it again! Well done P.!

Take a look the photos and remember - You can also do it! ;-) Any Feedback?

Sideboard is ready for sale and it's available in our Shop. If you would be interested in this piece, please don't hesitate to drop us an e-mail.

RecycleYourFurniture/RefunkYourJunk

Its been a while.. Studio closed 19th August 2009 open again Thurs

Hello everyone, apologies for not blogging sooner.

Couple of things: we will be closed Wed 19th but will be back open as usual on Thursday 20th, just incase your aiming to call in.

Everything going well in the studio these days, R has taken on a supersized coffee table and is working thorough a very hip and funky design on it, K is finishing off her button back upholstery on her telephone table that has now turned black - and looking very stylish. P has finished off a lovely bureau that has been well detailed, Im currently overcoming another wardrobe design, that is prooving to be rather taxing while still finishing off some upholstered shabby chic chairs. H has brought the beetles int o the studio with a funky unit that you will be able to find on the website.

We have lots of new items coming to the shop next week both 2nd hand items and refunked pieces.

Will add some more pics today of the studio so you all get a bit more of a feel of the place if you havn't managed to get down and visit us yet.

Hope everyone is having fun.. and if your not buying our bits that your considering doing it to your own pieces at home. "Think Green, Be Green, Live Green"

Refunk Your Junk Opening Times, Recycle Your Furniture

Opening: Wednesday, 10th June 2009. ~ 11am - 5pm
Feel free to just turn up and have a mooch around, have a chat or even a coffee.

Studio/Gallery: Opening Hours (Commencing 10/06/09)

Monday ~ Closed
Tuesday ~ Appointment Only / Delivery & Collection Day
Wednesday ~ 11am - 5pm
Thursday ~ 11am - 5pm
Friday ~ Appointment Only / Delivery & Collection Day
Saturday ~ 11am - 5pm
Sunday ~ 11am - 5pm

Don't expect Harrods... Think Brick lane, South Bank, Camden; more so think Ouseburn and all will be good..

In our Studio / Gallery you will find various items from Refunk Your Junk Designers, these may be refreshed, redesigned, may include unique artwork and will generally be refunked furniture, mirrors and possibly a whole host of "Home & Garden" items to follow in the future. All designed items will also be available on our website within the next few weeks.

**Please note Recycle Your Furniture - 2nd hand items runs mainly online and stock is mainly kept within storage, we will be more than happy to arrange viewings of these items but please have a look at our website shop of the items we currently have on offer.

If you would preferably like to have a little look around before the 10th June 2009, please give us a call (07527083720 / 0191 222 0212).

Further extended opening times will come in due course, we are regularly working in the premises so viewings out side of these opening hours can easily be arranged.

Final Note: Just a quick reminder
This venture has been set up and aims to be entirely funded by the sales of recycled refunked furniture and recycled second hand furniture items, if you have any items you wish to donate please give us a call and we will happily arrange for a collection.

We offer FREE furniture removal/collection in Tyne & Wear.

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.