Home Décor Très Chic AND Green

Straight from the dumpster? Yep. Tammy Roy, dumpster-diver par excellence can make scrap look good like it’s nobody’s business. Thankfully, One Eighty is her re-use design business.

Tammy trained in graphic design but went on a tangent after she realized that she couldn’t shake the dumpster-diving bug she inherited from her mom, also a recycle-based artist. She learned how to weld the reclaimed metal treasures that she found (metal disks, rebar and machinery parts from salvage yard and various waste from steel manufacturers) to design these wonderful and functional objects.

I’m seriously eyeing her Steel Pebble Holder to use indoors or out. I love the multiple possible uses for this piece: as a carrier for drinking glasses, vases for centerpiece arrangements, to place silverware for a buffet style gathering or to hold votive candles.

And, who’s not infatuated with that very modern birdhouse and bowl and door entry organizer? I especially love that these pieces are equally viable in a masculine and girly setting. Great gift idea for the guys who are consistently hard to buy for.

This is upcycling at its most stylish, wouldn’t you say? Oh, and so is the selected music that you will hear immediately as you land on the website. I ended up buying the Louis Prima CD with the Buona Sera track. I imagine I’ll be playing that in my backyard while the candles are glowing in my One Eighty votive holder.