Category: UpShop’s Projects

Planter boxes

Veggies and volvos

Chickens and cars? Up North from Upshop, there is a veggie garden that was given an upcycling makeover. We found a novel way to create planter boxes using ex-Volvo bins – very sturdy and versatile with steel hinged sides that can be stacked, which allows for a variety of heights. We created boxes with two […]

Re-Engineering the kitchen

Creative upcycling is more than repurposing old objects and giving them a bit of a clean so they look shiny and new.  It fundamentally involves design thinking. The kitchen bench at UpShop is an upcycled engineering bench that was being thrown out by an Engineering department when its workshop closed. To work within our L-shaped […]